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夺取可持续发展的胜利

Feb 5, 2012 Jacob Zuma , Tarja Halonen

赫尔辛基/约翰内斯堡—世界正走在一条不可持续的道路上，必须尽快制定新方向，在经济主流中嵌入公平和环境的考量。为了达到这一目标，我们必须从现在开始实践可持续发展——不是说要顶着经济危机的压力如此，而是说正因为经济危机才要如此。

如今，我们面临着众多挑战。经济在动摇，生态系统岌岌可危，不平等性——不管是各国国内还是各国之间——显著增加。总而言之，这些症状有一个共同的根源，即狭隘的投机性利益压倒了共同利益、共同责任和常识。

作为联合国秘书长全球可持续性发展高级别小组联值主席，潘基文秘书长要求我们和全世界20为主要领导人一起，探索解决这些问题的办法。我们的任务很明确：找出如何为更多的人提供更好的机会，同时减少对地球的冲击。

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Jacob Zuma

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Jacob Zuma is President of the Republic of South Africa, and a Co-Chair of the UN Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on Global Sustainability.

Tarja Halonen

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Tarja Halonen is President of the Republic of Finland and a Co-Chair of the UN Secretary-General’s High-level Panel on Global Sustainability.

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Gabriel Nagy Feb 16, 2012

On the way towards achieving some sort of “sustainable” development -a concept that is commonplace nowadays, many forget how we got here and that not all countries, regions and cities are at the same level in the development process.
There is more at stake in evolution than just preserving the world’s economic growth and the ‘developed’ world privileges (accumulated through hundreds of years of exploitation and colonization). If we are to preserve life, which is what at the end matters, it is necessary to continue evolving, learning from the experience and adapting accordingly. Challenges remain the same: survival, equity, opportunity -within our means, respects for others and reverence for the environment. There is no master plan, Holy Grail, or Nirvana. Time, experience and geography shape the world’s regions, nations and cities making them different and unique. Only a detailed study of history, fact finding research and a sound analysis could provide some light for adaptation but no expert panel has all the answers.
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Procyon Mukherjee Feb 10, 2012

I cannot agree more on the pricing of opportunities that must have a fair deal for the community at large and not be priced based on market forces only that distort reality as a core strategy; it may seem utopian but utopia got the better off stark reality that brought the semblance of balance in an otherwise partisan terrain that brought the moral divide between distortion of reality and that which is common good. For common good to triumph we must end the nexus between seekers of market distortion and those who provide all forms of credit to them.

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Zsolt Hermann Feb 6, 2012

I agree with all the suggestions.

There is only one thing missing: motivation.

Our inherent nature revolves around ourselves, we always think about our own well being, our own health, our own profit first, and then if we still have some surplus we might share it with others.

There is nothing we can blame here this is how we are born.

So if this is the case why would those who still has much, and now fear they might not have that much later on start sharing with others?

This would go against human nature!

Until we truly understand what it means living in a global world, that we are in such an integral interdependent system that I cannot succeed, cannot prosper, cannot survive unless the whole network is healthy, and that for any calculation and action I have to take the whole system into consideration before my own needs simply because otherwise I do not get my fulfillment, we will not change.

Then we will just continue with the superficial adjustment within the same box, within the same paradigm no achieving anything but exhausting our last resources.

We need to start such a global, integral education program that could make it absolutely clear to each and every human being that unless we work together, in complete mutuality and equality none of us will be able to create a sustainable future for ourselves, and we risk extinction not in some faraway future but within our lifetime.

If Humanity starts working as a single, united organism, like cells and organs of a healthy body we have unlimited potential and we can truly control reality, if we behave like cancer cells like today, we will destroy everything.
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