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Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b
You know, I don't understand why big business isn't chomping at the bit about global climate change and green energy. Ever since the first civilizations appeared, every problem mankind has ever faced has come with a business opportunity. There's a lot of money to be made from the solution to this crisis, especially in the green energy field. It doesn't make sense to me -- business and people don't respond well to dire warnings, but they do generally respond to being able to make a buck.
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Not that sure anymore. Actually yes but they are now looking at short term gains. In addition they are all getting too old and way too few go in retirement. A few month ago, when one of the french bank director was fired (he was 65), the board president came on TV: he was about 80 and could barely walk. I don't expect most of these people to encourage creativity.
A few month before the crisis (whatever you call it), one of these guys came up to me stating that I should understand two things: Money is the engine of the world and the only goal you should have is to make money. I didn't say a word (he could have had a heart seasure) but I don't agree. Human Creativity is the engine, money is only the fuel (therefore, I consider it fine to make money as long as you invest it to fuel the creativity). You can switch fuel almost with ease but don't go very far without engine. IMO, if we can switch from profit to benefit, we might stand a chance.
If the same kind of people had been in power a century ago we would still be riding on horseback. We had a discussion on inventions a few time ago. Targan was the only one that could come up with one thing invented after 1970. Everything else we could thought of had been invented before that date and often developped only recently.