Become A “Developed” Country. Support AGW And Socialize Your Business
December 8, 2009
I find it remarkable actually how humans of this generation have taken it upon themselves to be the “regulators” of the rest of the planet. There once was a day when freedom meant being an individual or I might say having the opportunity to be an individual; someone who can think for themselves, make decisions in their life based on their own ideals and prioritizing them. These same people could also live and die by the decisions they make in owning and operating their own businesses.
Not so anymore. Someone, anyone, can now step up to the microphone and begin dictating to others how to live. If it so happens this person has any power to wield, you and I can become quickly and negatively affected. The same holds true when we talk about nations around our globe.
Over the past couple of weeks, I have spent a great deal of time researching, investigating and writing about Climategate. For those living in a vacuum or who limit their base of information and knowledge gathering to only the Mainstream Media, Climategate is the result of what has happened since emails and other documents used at the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia (UEA), in the U.K., were made available to the rest of the world. This information has resulted in the finding of bad science, fraud, conspiracy, along with a real effort to conceal data and prohibit peer review of climate data, among other things. This data and the conclusions made at the CRU at UEA, has been the basis of all global warming statements and policies promoted by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC).
Today I came across an editorial in the Jerusalem Post written by Ivri Verbin, CEO of Goodvision, an Israeli CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) consulting firm. Verbin is encouraging, if that be the best way to describe it, the State of Israel to become a “developed” country by 1). espousing to the theory of man-made global warming and attending the Copenhagen climate summit, promising to join the rest of the “developed” countries to work toward reducing CO2 emissions. 2). To become a participant in Corporate Social Responsibility.
It appears by Verbin’s standards of what defines a “developed” country from an “undeveloped” or “developing” country, that Israel needs to make this giant leap forward to join Copenhagen and socialize it’s public and private sector businesses.
Compared with other countries, Israel is proving to be behind. As a participant in the corporate social responsibility (CSR) forum held in Jordan last month, I was impressed to find a high level of cooperation between the Arab private and public sectors. These sectors understand very clearly that collaboration on CSR in the Middle East will improve the competitiveness of the region in general by attracting foreign investments as well as improving national and regional economic performance, a lesson Israel could stand to learn from.
What is CSR? Well, according to Wikipedia, for whatever that is worth, CSR is:
a form of corporate self-regulation integrated into a business model. Ideally, CSR policy would function as a built-in, self-regulating mechanism whereby business would monitor and ensure its adherence to law, ethical standards, and international norms. Business would embrace responsibility for the impact of their activities on the environment, consumers, employees, communities, stakeholders and all other members of the public sphere. Furthermore, business would proactively promote the public interest by encouraging community growth and development, and voluntarily eliminating practices that harm the public sphere, regardless of legality. Essentially, CSR is the deliberate inclusion of public interest into corporate decision-making, and the honoring of a triple bottom line: People, Planet, Profit.
When anyone invokes the idea that private business should honor a “triple bottom line” of “people, planet and profit”, you know it is more than likely governed by environmentalism, the same as the efforts of promoting global warming as a result of the influence of man and in particular man’s efforts to advance economically in a global market.
We know how corrupt the religion of Anthropogenic Global Warming has become and no “developing” country in their right mind would climb on board that wagon, especially in light of Climategate. If these are the standards and/or requirements for Israel to become a “developed” nation, they would do themselves and huge favor and look after their own business and let the others sink with the sickness of environmentalism.
Tom Remington
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