The European Union recently put its car manufacturers in front of their own choice to a draft of legally binding limits of CO2 emissions of cars with 2012 at a level of 120g per driven kilometer. This step of the EU is founded within the observation that it seems improbable to the EU that european carmakers will achieve its voluntarily chosen goal to cut CO2 emissions on new manufactured cars.
Very interesting to observe is the reaction of the by that relevant organisations, sourcing from their top management levels. Now there arrive written outcries about the security of workplaces. This reaction is for me in evidence of the human activity of earliest learning. That seems to depend upon the reoccurring experience as child that to cry for leads to an improvement of the situation. Be it so that some unpleasant condition is corrected or that boredom is eliminated by someone coming along and picking one up.
This finding on earliest learning emanates from Constructivism, to be found at Ernst von Glasersfeld, and is for me some exakt re-presentation of the behaviour of top management of previously addressed car manufacturers. Some akward situation, which is meet with the experience of earliest learning. Or in other words: What is the personal level of maturity on which these management levels of organizations are on?
Furthermore I recognize, from the media coverage known to me, that the car manufacturing industry is left with its own choice. Between achieving its voluntarily defined objectives or the definition of the objective from outside. For these objectives are identical. Consequently this is supporting my theory on the previously described behaviour of a learning pattern that is applied to this situation as a reaction out of earliest human learning. However where organizations in that require organizational learning to actually do achieve the objective.
Or as Ernst von Glasersfeld already wrote in 1995: “Considerung todays world, one can barely withdraw from the conclusion that the mindset of not only giving advance to rivalry and conflict, but to support the entire deliberation to adjustment and cooperation maybe will be the only possibility to save the human life on this planet.”
For that change is required, change to which the car manufactures did already commit themselves to. And change the EU is again affirming. Supportive to this is here now the acceptance of the objective and the understanding that some objective is only achievable through a process. And in view of the already us showing climate change in our habitat i can only pose the following question: When do we begin?