THE FUTURE OF MONEY Bernard A. Lietaer - library.uniteddiversity ...

Such a strategy can be initiated as a small-scale Internet-based pilot
project among a core group of multinational corporations. It can be
expanded to include more participants into the Alliance when the
system has proved its operational value, and if the international
monetary conditions warrant it. It would be a significant contribution
that a business initiative can make to make this planet more
prosperous, more stable and more sustainable.
Business and the environment: A business viewpoint
A Global Business Network special report on Sustainability
concluded that:
Industry and environment can no longer be compartmentalised.
The global environment system and the socio-economic system are
now coupled - the fate of one is tied to the fate of the other. If
conventional industrialisation keeps growing, it risks bringing down
the ecosystem; if the ecosystem crashes, it will bring down the
economy.
The industrial system is highly vulnerable if there is a serious
ecological breakdown. Multinational companies are tuned like Grand
Prix racing cars for better and better lap times. They assume the
racetrack will be perfectly smooth, without obstructions. Industrial
installations, buildings, plant, energy transmission lines, are all
designed for a narrow set of climatic and ecosystem assumptions -
conservative maximum wind loading, moderate earthquake
resistance, a steady flow of resources. But we now know, from
studies of such thing as Arctic ice cores, that nature is certainly
capable of far more severe disturbances than the recent, relatively
narrow range of climatic variation has led us to assume. This puts the
operational basis of today's industrial society directly at risk from