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Leadership Challenges for
Sustainable Development
     25 Years of WCED
                                Anupam Saraph, PhD
                                          Future Designer




  Dedicated to all those anonymous humans striving to leave the world better than they found it
The Challenges

 to check exponential growth
 to focus on life, on whole systems and their purposes, not
  on symptoms and quick fixes that fail
 to assume the leadership of systems, not just the
  organizations that they are a part of
“My dear, here we must run as fast as we can,
just to stay in place.
And if you wish to go anywhere
you must run twice as fast as that.”

― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
We Live in an Exponential Era




                                Source: Alan Atkisson and Junko Edahiro, Life Beyond Growth, ISIS Academy 2012
“You talk very little about life,
you talk too much about survival.
It is very important to remember that
when the possibilities for life are over,
the possibilities for survival start.”

― Speaker from the floor
WCED Public Hearing Sao Paulo, 26-29 Oct 1985
Focus on symptoms has kept us in survival mode
 We pay no heed to building unbounded cities and economies.
 We continue to seek solution in supply, not demand management.
 We fail to address the rapid pace of deterioration in renewable
  resources - surface and ground water, forests and fisheries.
 We forget the life giving natural endowments in small streams and
  rivers.
 We completely miss land and income reforms or the promotion of
  local and diverse economies and life-styles that bring life to
  everyone, not just survival.
 Instead of yielding to enduring solutions we find ourselves addicted
  to quick fixes that leave us in worse crisis than when we began.
“All things are connected like the blood which unites
one family.
Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth.
Man did not weave the web of life;
he is merely a strand in it.
Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.”

― Chief Seattle
The Leadership Challenges for Sustainable Development

 to check exponential growth
 to focus on life, on whole systems and their purposes, not
  on symptoms and quick fixes that fail
 to assume the leadership of systems, not just the
  organizations that they are a part of

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Leadership Challenges for Sustainable Development

  • 1. Leadership Challenges for Sustainable Development 25 Years of WCED Anupam Saraph, PhD Future Designer Dedicated to all those anonymous humans striving to leave the world better than they found it
  • 2. The Challenges  to check exponential growth  to focus on life, on whole systems and their purposes, not on symptoms and quick fixes that fail  to assume the leadership of systems, not just the organizations that they are a part of
  • 3. “My dear, here we must run as fast as we can, just to stay in place. And if you wish to go anywhere you must run twice as fast as that.” ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
  • 4. We Live in an Exponential Era Source: Alan Atkisson and Junko Edahiro, Life Beyond Growth, ISIS Academy 2012
  • 5.
  • 6.
  • 7.
  • 8. “You talk very little about life, you talk too much about survival. It is very important to remember that when the possibilities for life are over, the possibilities for survival start.” ― Speaker from the floor WCED Public Hearing Sao Paulo, 26-29 Oct 1985
  • 9. Focus on symptoms has kept us in survival mode  We pay no heed to building unbounded cities and economies.  We continue to seek solution in supply, not demand management.  We fail to address the rapid pace of deterioration in renewable resources - surface and ground water, forests and fisheries.  We forget the life giving natural endowments in small streams and rivers.  We completely miss land and income reforms or the promotion of local and diverse economies and life-styles that bring life to everyone, not just survival.  Instead of yielding to enduring solutions we find ourselves addicted to quick fixes that leave us in worse crisis than when we began.
  • 10. “All things are connected like the blood which unites one family. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.” ― Chief Seattle
  • 11.
  • 12. The Leadership Challenges for Sustainable Development  to check exponential growth  to focus on life, on whole systems and their purposes, not on symptoms and quick fixes that fail  to assume the leadership of systems, not just the organizations that they are a part of