Emergency Rationale [by Ervin Laszlo]
What do you do in an emergency? You do all you can to overcome it, save what you can, innovate all you can, and get on with your life. And if you can’t do it by yourself, you call on others to help.
What do you do in a shared emergency? You get together with everyone involved to do all you can, save what you can, innovate what you can-and get on with your life. The operative word that makes all the difference is “together.”
We have reached a state of global emergency and we can only surmount it together. We need to cooperate. But what must we do to get everyone involved?
First of all, we must make sure that everyone realizes that (1) this is a state of emergency, and (2) that it’s a shared, that is, a global emergency.
Second, we must put our heads together to find the cooperative projects that can effectively and creatively cope with the emergency. And do our best to catalyze the will to translate the projects into action.
This, in brief, is the purpose and the agenda of the Global Emergency Consultation initiated by the Club of Budapest. It’s to make clear that we are in a state of emergency, more exactly, in a state of shared, global emergency. And having made it clear, to elicit innovative and effective cooperative projects for coping with it.
We will do our best to get the projects and the need for them known. It will then be up to people of good conscience and good will wherever they live to take action. The Global Emergency Consultation must become a launch-pad for Global Emergency Action.
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