recovery

Twelve of the 14 members of the Board of Directors of Royal Dutch Shell, the company with approval to drill for gas at the pristine Ningaloo Reef, a recently listed World Heritage site, are men. 16 of the 20 members of the Cabinet of the (Australian) government, which gave approval to Royal Dutch Shell to drill for gas at Ningaloo Reef, are men. 19 of the 20 members of the Board of Directors of the Tokyo Electric Power Company, responsible for the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, are men. 21 of the 22 members of the Board of Directors and Executive Management of BP Global, the company responsible for the oil catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, are men. 17 of the 18 members of the Board of Directors and Executive Management of Woodside Petroleum, the company seeking to destroy the pristine coastal environment at James Price Point in the Kimberley to build a gas hub, are men. All eleven members of the Board of Directors of Fortescue Metals Group Ltd, Andrew Forrest's company which has rejected a fair and equitable agreement with the Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation to mine Yindjibarndi lands, are men. All 17 members of the Board of Directors and Executive Leadership of Dart Energy, a company focused on the extraction of coal bed methane in eastern Australia and elsewhere with the fracking method, which can leave significant amounts of hazardous contaminants in water, are men. 16 of the 17 members of the Board of Directors of News Corporation, the standard bearer for corporate governance, are men.

An imbalance of male power is destroying Earth.

The finance industry at cause of the Global Financial Crisis was so saturated with men the US Congress enacted fair inclusion laws to include women. The Australian Stock Exchange has flagged it will soon impose quotas for the fair inclusion of women on Boards of Directors of companies under its control, including News Corp, Woodside, Fortescue and Dart, or suspend offending companies from trading. Sustainable prosperity is occurring contemporaneously with the empowerment of women, overturning policies imposed by men.

Recovery will ultimately be achieved with governance by agreement between women's and men's legislatures, courts and corporate committees.

21 July, 2011

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