We can all do better

Tom — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 20:57:04 +0000

There is a significant challenge in our world to be more resilient in the face of change and disruption. Whether the change comes externally from disaster, political unrest, terrorism, economic upheavals or personal matters, we are all in the similar profile as human beings that essentials for living such as air, water, food and shelter are humanitarian imperatives. Free market mentalities have crept into policies that create moral hazards in humanitarian positions arguing for a harsh Darwinian selection of the fittest over a mission of collective survival. Interestingly enough, these kinds of rationales are not equally applied to other areas of effort.

But have we lost a collective instinct to care for one another and has that been reduced to responding and abdicating responsibilities for smarter preparedness? I don’t want to believe so. But we are quickly running out of resources and an outcome could be just so no matter how short sighted and counterproductive. Economic forces self protect better than humans.

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