Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus called on the youths to build themselves as “three-zero persons” to protect the planet from destruction as he delivered keynote speech at BIMSTEC Young Gen Forum on the sidelines of BIMSTEC Summit, reports BSS.
"If we want to provide service, we will have to go to a new civilisation of three zeros - zero carbon emission, zero waste and zero wealth concentration," he on Thursday afternoon told the forum.
Prof Yunus said the world is approaching to a self-destructive civilisation as carbon emission, waste generation and wealth concentration continue applying the old economic models.
Stressing the need for protection of nature, the chief adviser said: "Unless your wealth is shared, you cannot sustain in the society."
Mentioning that human being is not born to work under anybody else but they were born to be entrepreneurs, he asked the young generation to keep entrepreneurship in mind.
Calling the present young generation as the most powerful generation ever in the world, the 2006 Noble Peace Laureate said life is about preservation and protection and that is why the new civilisation of three zeros should be created.
About the importance of three-zero clubs, he said once five persons get together, they can create a three-zero club where they will not personally contribute to carbon emission, waste generation and wealth concentration, and they will be three-zero persons.
"You cannot change the world in a day...if you want to change, start from your village," the chief adviser told youths.
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