Lin See Yan: CEOs must now set emissions reduction targets. I believe the next decade will be critical. Business and investors can and must do more to build a resilient, healthy, fair and zero-carbon economy that’s sustainable.
DURING the ravages of WWII, intellectuals were pessimistic about the future. Among them was George Orwell (of “Animal Farm” fame) who began to write “1984” – he saw the future as “a boot stamping on a human face – forever.”
Events didn’t turn out so bad. Social-democratic capitalism, which dominated the mid-20th century, had evolved into a Liberal form of “Meritocratic Capitalism” (LMC) in US in particular. As a political system, LMC was more egalitarian than classical capitalism; but it inherited a tolerance for inequality as societies got richer.
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