Partly, this is because I believe that an approach adopted in one country is normally valid everywhere else. But there is a more difficult question. The implicit suggestion is that the pace of development in some countries needs to be checked. All I want to emphasise is that this question falls beyond the competence of business to resolve. Governments and their peoples must decide where to draw the line between satisfying material wants as quickly as possible, and other considerations.
Business can help determine how to achieve goals.
But certain goals can only be set by governments. But that still leaves business with an enormous responsibility. As I said earlier we welcome this symposium. And to come to my final point, the organisation of which I am chairman, WICE, was set up by forward thinking business leaders precisely because we recognised the need to contribute to the debate and help find the answers. Industry may operate at site level but in many respects national borders are passing features.