Author Information: Mal Williams is the CEO of Cylch – Wales Community Recycling Network. He wrote Cleanstream – Total Resource Recovery Systems for Wales in 1998-1999 as a basis for the Community Recycling Sector’s strategy in Wales. He is passionate about the social economy’s role in community economic regeneration around re-use and recycling.
Taking the jacket off means trying to suspend professional posturing, budget and power augmentation and returning to being just one humble human being on an overcrowded planet.
A planet that is rumbling and grumbling beneath our feet.
You don’t have to be Al Gore to admit that you are just a wee bit concerned that something might be amiss – maybe the fact that 95% of the world’s leading academic experts seem to agree that Climate change is a major priority should suffice.
If 95% of doctors of medicine advised me that my symptoms indicate that I’d contracted cancer or heart disease – I’d tend to believe them.
So what can be more important than trying to do something to help mitigate the effects of climate change.
– Fighting over a piece of land – when it is soon to be submerged?
– Fighting over what god to believe in – for the sake of a better afterlife?
– Trying to maximise profits at whatever cost to the planet?
– Trying to own the last stream of unpolluted fresh water?
– Trying to own the last tract of rainforest, or arable land?
– Telling your children and grand children that they have a bright and interesting future ahead?
Sustainability
Five years notice for chartered accountants to wise up – we need to introduce carbon as a currency that influences all decisions in the material world in the same way that financial profit influences all commercial decisions now.
Stop abusing the word “sustainability” – we need to move from sustainability meaning profitable to sustainability meaning more-than-profit. All tender documents to specify “triple-bottom-line” assessment and accountability.
All Company reports to have three sets of accounts – by law.
1. Financial
2. Social
3. Environmental
Accountancy to expand its remit to cover these challenges – right now.
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