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Bill George, professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School, discusses the idea of global cooperation in order to solve the problems that affect the entire world.

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Big think Globalization Global Cooperation If you look at the rapid growth of people in the Muslim faith, look at the rapid growth of the Asian and African population, and the difficulty many of those societies face, and what are we in the develop so called develop nations the world doing about that. We seem to be rather complaisant, rather concerned with our own welfare, our good, our own wealth that certainly true in the United States, it is equally true in Europe. Great nation like Japan is like not doing nearly as much as it could. And I think there needs to become the idea of the global leader, the global citizen that is comfortable operating in any environment whether they are business in government and not profit organization but they are really concerned about the global problems of the world. If the Chinese are putting out, dirty coal to produced electricity to run their plants, that pollution comes into the United States. If we run out of energy and no one is replacing that that is a problem that affects all of us. And so, we need to address those. There is no way we can address problems of global warming unless people come together as one to address them. There is no way we can address problems of say AIDS in Africa, unless we come together as one body to address those. www.bigthink.com