The forests have been described 
as the most creative laboratories on earth, providing over half the pharmaceutical products used by humankind. Yet we destroy them. The great apes of the world could become extinct in the wilds within a single chimpanzee’s lifetime, which is about fifty years. The world’s oceans are being depleted. Industrial fishing has wiped out perhaps as much as 90% of large predatory fish species such as the biggest types of tuna. Right now the fate of the whales, big cats, elephants and many other species are increasingly becoming bargaining chips on the gaming board of global economics and international pawn-playing politics.
And because of social factors such as stress, feelings of worthlessness and loneliness of spirit, we are now, quite literally, killing ourselves. Suicides amongst our teenagers, the loudest cry for help of them all, have reached almost epidemic proportions in today’s world. All these tragic things are happening. I feel strongly though and embrace, the stirrings of discontentment within civil society today, and the collective demand for social and ecological sense to prevail. We the world over, have simply had enough. This is the dawning of an age of change from within our human hearts. Never before have we as individuals, or as a collective group, had such an opportunity to demand that our voices be heard strongly, forcefully. Politicians and big business of an outdated order are now skating on the flimsy ice of their own making. Our platform, in contrast is solid though. Simply because our very survival depends on it...
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as the most creative laboratories on earth, providing over half the pharmaceutical products used by humankind. Yet we destroy them. The great apes of the world could become extinct in the wilds within a single chimpanzee’s lifetime, which is about fifty years. The world’s oceans are being depleted. Industrial fishing has wiped out perhaps as much as 90% of large predatory fish species such as the biggest types of tuna. Right now the fate of the whales, big cats, elephants and many other species are increasingly becoming bargaining chips on the gaming board of global economics and international pawn-playing politics.And because of social factors such as stress, feelings of worthlessness and loneliness of spirit, we are now, quite literally, killing ourselves. Suicides amongst our teenagers, the loudest cry for help of them all, have reached almost epidemic proportions in today’s world. All these tragic things are happening. I feel strongly though and embrace, the stirrings of discontentment within civil society today, and the collective demand for social and ecological sense to prevail. We the world over, have simply had enough. This is the dawning of an age of change from within our human hearts. Never before have we as individuals, or as a collective group, had such an opportunity to demand that our voices be heard strongly, forcefully. Politicians and big business of an outdated order are now skating on the flimsy ice of their own making. Our platform, in contrast is solid though. Simply because our very survival depends on it...
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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2007
An IIPM and Professor Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist) Initiative
