As Southern cities go, Fayetteville possesses a dim collective long-term memory and an equally dim aura of civic pride, a likely syndrome in a military town where transients outnumber deep-dyed natives.
"Translating the 2°C goal into subordinate targets, including a clear, collective long-term emissions goal, would provide greater ease and certainty," the report says.
"Our collective long-term objective must be to create a truly global approach that stitches together actions by all countries into a tapestry of national and international cooperation," she told the conference.
Institutional investors have a fiduciary duty, which means their investment strategies must serve the collective long-term interests of their beneficiaries or customers.
Their collective long-term plan for the venue is to become a creative hub for musicians and artists and tap into the maker-culture of DIY Brooklyn with arts, music, food, and community life.
OUR financial catastrophe, like Bernard Madoff's pyramid scheme, required all sorts of important, plugged-in people to sacrifice our collective long-term interests for short-term gain.
The problem is that your brain is not hardwired to focus simultaneously on specific, day-to-day activities and more collective, long-term objectives.
He argued that when a resource is held jointly, it is in individuals' self-interest to deplete it, so people will tend to undermine their collective long-term interest by over-exploiting rather than protecting that asset.
"The United Nations has run up against governments and leaders of industry who have until now put short-term economic and political goals ahead of our collective long-term survival," writes Tutu.
