I have just discovered it is Blog Action Day – a day when bloggers all post on a particular subject to raise backlinks awareness of an issue. Joking aside I genuinely like this idea – the power of over 9,000 voices all expressing their opinions, prejudices, and passions has great potential. This year the subject is one which certainly does attract opinons, prejudices, and pasions – Climate Change.
It is fact that our climate is changing, what attracts the column inches of polemic and rhetoric is whether this is caused by our own doing or not. I am not going to get into that here, suffice to say that in my opinion there is no good reason not to try and minimize our impact going forward, whether you believe our historic comparability or just want to make sure you have something to run your Jeep on in 30 years time.
One of the biggest driver to any success we may have, will be our productivity. We have scarce resources – be that oil, natural gas or even the ‘renewables’ we are currently using. The best way to make these last until we have found a long-term solution is to increase how productive we are at using them. Hybrid cars that use less gas, solar panels that transfer heat more efficiencly, and most importantly ensure that the research into alternatives is given the investment in needs to at its most productive.
Productivity is all about getting important actions, done well, as quickly as possible – and nothing less than that is need to ensure that we as a global nation are best placed to ensure Al Gore isn’t right.
But nothing will happen until all our most powerful motors are pushing in the right direction – and they will only do that if it in their interests to do so. It is a key lesson you will find in our esteemed personal development tombs – from Dale Carnegie, thorough Daniel Goleman and Steve Palvina, to the current crop of influencing influencers. How does the world get what it needs? By showing its key participants that it is in their interest to need that too.
I mean China, India and the USA. Shell Oil, BP, and OPEC. GE, GM, and the Aerospace industry. Governments, the Inteligentsia, and most of the rest of us. The big polluting nations need to be reminded how their economies rest on the whims of foreign states, the oil producers that their black gold has only decades to run, heavy industry that there is money to be made, and the institutions of the world that talk is cheap, but action is nothing less than a panacea.
