1994 Series 1 Number 11 Page 1
Walter Lichem, Austrian Ambassador to Canada, gave a lunchtime talk to CACOR in May 1994, which was the basis for this article. He pointed out that there was a large amount of information about our global environmental crisis but that there was an intellectual gap between intellectual analysis and public policy. We knew what the problems were, but we were not acting to solve them. He saw this as resulting from four major challenges: globalisation, verticality, intersectoral complexities, and variable and extended temporal reach. He delved into the characteristics of modern democracy, pointing out that it has the capacity to adapt. However, our grand challenge was to learn quickly enough to change/adapt to deal with emerging risks.
Leave a Reply