Roadmap - The Most Urgent Issue Facing Mankind - Climate Change and Energy from The Financial Times

The following introduction:

"Climate change – and its wider impact – is incontestably the most important issue facing mankind today – and tomorrow, too. It affects all people, regardless of nationality, faith or colour. In the first of a three part series Financial Times looks at the science of climate change-link html. "

was first posted on my "Conversations-on-Innovations" original blog on Thursday, June 05, 2008.

This declaration from a "Financial World Leader" comforted my earlier decision (June 2006) to put the "Climate Change & Energy themes" to the forefront of my blogging activity while struggling to integrate this with my professional interest in metallurgy, materials science - processes and product applications! When I think back it is a logical almost ineluctable progressing rooted in a deep felt interest in nature, understanding nature through science. Could this be the subconscious reason to my blog title and personal reminder:

"This-above all, to thine own self be true"?

and provided the driving force to return into declared realms of leadership, management , typical Scottish "canniness" or prudence through an avowed attempt to overview and comment upon the Foresight approaches in the present blog. "This-above all".

Three or Four other remarks maybe worth making:

1. It is not surprising that The Financial Times echos, what is almost entirely credited to the UK Economist, Stern, ex-director at the World Bank and Chairman-co-ordinator of famous Stern report.

2. This foresight on the looming economic and financial crises was insufficient to hive off the current "recessionary trends." There could be an alternative title for this blog "When will we ever learn?" as a famous song by three apostles-saints, Peter, Paul, Mary, goes.

3. To quote, roughly from memory (yesterday 081116 on french radio) the "best President France has never had", Michel Rocard, ex-Prime Minister and true statesman the current french Left-wing appear to have ignored:

"The present crises is an economic one compounded by the currently absurd financial system."

NB. a personal remark - the cynicism of "some" top managers" lets say those in the news ( The Bankers) appears to have no limits. Not only are tax payer bail-outs not to be squandered on end of year bonuses but that we are expecting the "evil gains of much of the last 8 to ten years maybe more" to be put more important good use - in a transparent way.

"Gentlemen show you are true leaders, ones we may be proud of " !

Sources:

Climate Change 3 part series from FT-Financial Times-"No getting away from it" Follow-up from OCDE Forum 2008?

The Financial Times


climate change series from The Financial Times

Historical note on my blog experience and evolution

"This above all -to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night, the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man."

My web-logs began with a website-8 personal pages, offered by Orange.fr. Then followed my 1st Blog effort, thanks to Google's Blogger. Initially I had little idea as to the proper focus to bring to my blog. Sustainable development, climate change, my professional evolution, as a process metallurgist in high temperature physical-chemistry a very masculine notion of one's self had taken me far from another facet of one's "self." My natural but mixed instinct for nature, ingrained by my countryish, small industrial, seaside- town, birth place. A visit to my daughter in the French Antilles-Guadeloupe consolidated my already; ecological, environmental, christian-social-conscience, tendency. I chose two intimately related "World Changing" concepts: Firstly Conversations" & secondly it's Scientific, Technical and Engineering corollary "Innovation." The width of ad hoc themes which crop-up, within such a self-imposed, but extremely open mandate led me to set-up various more dedicated blogs, sites, or pages and what have you. In these first two sites although references to management, economy, leadership are often implied, they tend to take second place to my more scientific (invention motor) and technical inclinations. Herein, I shall make some attempt to correct previous bias. As the reader may have seen, I started these pages with my first motivating posts copied from my "Conversations" blog. I shall reproduce my paper, first published on ChemWeb, on the Job seeker seen as a Project Manager and I shall reference the last few posts strongly management related, on climate change from the Financial Times, The Economist, Nature, and one of the Big Five Management Services-Accountancy firms, KPMG. Hopefully I shall remain focused and relevant, without being overly pedantic, retaining humour and perhaps some typically human zany creativity!

If there are bounds to any man

For more on the theme "If there are bounds to any man."
the title of a poem by H. MacDiarmid in Scots-English with a translation to French, by the chap in the photo, please click and visit Poems by H.MacDiarmid-Bilingual English-French

You will find a host of other subjects raised by Little Big Mac-Diarmid to comment upon via the above link.




Personal Motto: "To thine own self be true..."
Shakespeare, Hamlet.

when expanded begins in a very weblog controversial manner in Polonius' advice to his son:



"Give thy thoughts no tongue,
nor any unproproportioned thought his act"
...
and terminates:
"And this above all "To thine own self be true..."
And it must follow as the night follows the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man."

Futures Quotes - The future has several names_G8_2005

ref. from my very 1st web-log

Saturday, July 02, 2005

"The future has several names. For the weak, it is the impossible. For the faint-hearted, it is the unknown. For the thoughtful and valiant, it is the ideal."

by Victor Hugo (ref. Quote of the Day, 2 July 2005, from Arcamax_com)

Unfortunately the Super Scooter, my wife Françoise & I used to visit the Isles "Les Saintes" Guadeloupe, (Gwada for short) French Antilles, is not a fully life-cycle accredited electric & photovoltaic job. But this will be coming soon. Our journey to "audit" Teaching Staff & living conditions there was entirely paid by our Carbon Credits. We "walked the talk." as an X-ray of my knees can testify, a biometrical id witness.

Towards Clean Energy Ideals - Towards Clean Energy Ideals - Towards Clean Energy Ideals
To be added to the Human Rights Chart -The Arbroath Amendment.?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/scottishhistory/independence/features_independence_arbroath.shtml

G8 Gleneagles Scotland best known for Golf Courses & Greens. Could be worth some thought?

Web logged:
From an ex-caddy at the Scottish Amateur Golf Championship at Western Gailes perhaps the most beautiful course in South West of Scotland at the time, around 1960. Two rounds caddied, 18 holes each, my first consultancy job! With only 2 months school holiday playing experience, loaned clubs of a varied nature & quality, on the local public course (Irvine-Municipal) I was terrorised throughout at the idea of giving bad advice. Was I glad "we" lost that second round. I remember because I needed spectacles to read the school blackboard the following September, or the one after. In spite of moving to sit at the front of the class I still couldn't read the board, but learned early (not as early as some) that it can be comfortable to sit below a teachers gaze!