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Economic and Social Sustainability | Nick Robson | TEDxUCCI

784 views · Published 18 May 2016 · 19:21 · Indexed 22 September 2026

Channel: TEDx Talks · 2016 · Nonprofits & Activism

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The next four decades are going to be extremely challenging in many ways. They will be challenging not only economically and socially, these islands will also be challenged by a changing climate, exposing us to much higher levels of risk, as well as exposed politically to violent winds of change. There are also the issues of energy security and sea level rise that will have to be addressed.
The current leadership of these islands have time and again proved themselves incapable of visualizing and planning for the future, and the concomitant issues that we are going to faced with in the medium and long-term. 
To survive and prosper these islands need need a plan, and I suggest that our best plan would be to emulate Singapore. We do not need, nor do we have the time, to undertake a lengthy planning exercise. Singapore functions thanks to many years of guidance by Lee Kuan Yew, the first Prime Minister of the country. 

Nick Robson has a rich background in the non-governmental (NGO) sector. He received his MA in Peace Studies from the University of Bradford. Nick has consulted for the British Red Cross in Disaster Management and is the founder of the Climate War Room and the Cayman Institute, a think tank doing policy research in areas such as global warming and climate change, energy security and economic sustainability for small island states. Nick also has a background in security and law enforcement. His geographical areas of interest are Central and South Asia and the Middle East as well as Small Island Developing States. He is also the Chief Coordinator of the South Asian Strategic Stability Institute (SASSI)  whose aims are to make a leading contribution to regional and international academic and policy-orientated research discourses about South Asian security. His publications include Cayman Islands Energy Policy: Background Advisory Report and Sea Level Rise and Its Implications for Cayman.

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