Business Success Action Group

Powerful innovations arise when societies focus on addressing their toughest problems. Our most recent and dramatic example was Operation Warp Speed, which helped accelerate the development of the Moderna vaccine and gave the United States a significant global advantage over the COVID-19 pandemic. Other examples of societies that benefit greatly from innovation from chronic problems are Japan's investment in robotics to cope with the shrinking workforce and India's development of inexpensive generics for a still largely low-income population. Southern California can take inspiration from these inspirational examples and focus much of its innovation and investment on addressing its chronic problem of harmful air pollution. Just this week, the American Lung Association released its annual State of the Air report, finding that the Los Angeles metropolitan area is the worst in the nation in terms of smog pollution. Counties of San Bernardino, Riverside, and Los Angeles were

Powerful innovations arise when societies focus on addressing their toughest problems. Our most recent and dramatic example was Operation Warp Speed, which helped accelerate the development of the Moderna vaccine and gave the United States a significant global advantage over the COVID-19 pandemic. Other examples of societies that benefit greatly from innovation from chronic problems are Japan's investment in robotics to cope with the shrinking workforce and India's development of inexpensive generics for a still largely low-income population. Southern California can take inspiration from these inspirational examples and focus much of its innovation and investment on addressing its chronic problem of harmful air pollution. Just this week, the American Lung Association released its annual State of the Air report, finding that the Los Angeles metropolitan area is the worst in the nation in terms of smog pollution. Counties of San Bernardino, Riverside, and Los Angeles were