How does one achieve the difficult and complex tasks of balancing environmental and business concerns?
Impossible. Basically, to put it very frankly, business people do business to earn money, to profit. It would be easy to say that by taking away something from the world, the business can do CSR to give back something in return. However, are businesses really giving back what they are taking away? I really feel that the answer is no!
First if all, what the businesses are doing most of the time is to take away an apple and put back an orange which does not solve the root problem of the lack of apple at all.
Secondly, how many businesses in the world can afford to spend money on balancing environmental issues? Some company find it hard to even cover their losses. Some are lucky just to be able to break even. Some that just started to earn small money needs to have enough money to upgrade their business and bring it to the next level. Only a few companies really have grown to the scale where they are able to spend their money on curbing with environmental issues.
Third, even if large companies are spending their money on balancing environmental problems, how influential are they against the world's consumption?
Be it that one day the world knows that earth will be destroyed in 10 years time if we do not do anything to sustain it, i believe that instead of spending money on healing the earth, people will invest and spend more money and resources on technologies that enables them to live in another planet.
First if all, what the businesses are doing most of the time is to take away an apple and put back an orange which does not solve the root problem of the lack of apple at all.
Secondly, how many businesses in the world can afford to spend money on balancing environmental issues? Some company find it hard to even cover their losses. Some are lucky just to be able to break even. Some that just started to earn small money needs to have enough money to upgrade their business and bring it to the next level. Only a few companies really have grown to the scale where they are able to spend their money on curbing with environmental issues.
Third, even if large companies are spending their money on balancing environmental problems, how influential are they against the world's consumption?
Be it that one day the world knows that earth will be destroyed in 10 years time if we do not do anything to sustain it, i believe that instead of spending money on healing the earth, people will invest and spend more money and resources on technologies that enables them to live in another planet.
How optimistic are you with regards to Green Technology for sustainable development?
I certainly believe that people who will profit from Green Technology will continue to create green technology and people who loves the environment or loves new and creative things will go for it. If huge amount of resources can be put into Research&Development of Green Technology, i believe that green technology might be able to provide people with even better standard of living in time to come, at the same time curbing the world's environment issues. However, for everyone to take such huge steps of risk is a challenging tasks to accomplish.
Will you ever accept lab meat farming?
An interesting discussion was made again. Will vegetarians be able to consume meat since it doesn't involved killing life? Quoting our prof, "they would need to trace down to the first cell used". And i agree with the theory of why kill a chicken when all you need is a wing or the thigh? Imagine a future where chicken thighs are grown from a tree? Or even an apple that taste like pizza? I believe that most of us will say "Yuck!" to that, but the future generation will be able to accept them.
Again.. the speed of change of most of these things around us has been so rapid that no one should ignore what is going on. I feel that TWC is a course that everyone in the world should go through so that we are all aware of the reality we are living in.
An interesting discussion was made again. Will vegetarians be able to consume meat since it doesn't involved killing life? Quoting our prof, "they would need to trace down to the first cell used". And i agree with the theory of why kill a chicken when all you need is a wing or the thigh? Imagine a future where chicken thighs are grown from a tree? Or even an apple that taste like pizza? I believe that most of us will say "Yuck!" to that, but the future generation will be able to accept them.
Again.. the speed of change of most of these things around us has been so rapid that no one should ignore what is going on. I feel that TWC is a course that everyone in the world should go through so that we are all aware of the reality we are living in.
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