ST GALLEN, Switzerland - Making decisions on Singapore’s land use and infrastructure is a balancing act between the needs of today’s generation and future generations, Minister for National Development Desmond Lee said to an international audience on Thursday. Responding to a question from a British audience member at the 52nd St Gallen Symposium held in Switzerland, Mr Lee explained that...
There are hard trade-offs in Singapore in trying to balance the needs of today's generations and future ones, said Minister of National Development Desmond Lee.ST GALLEN, Switzerland - Making decisions on Singapore’s land use and infrastructure is a balancing act between the needs of today’s generation and future generations, Minister for National Development Desmond Lee said to an international audience on Thursday.
Mr Lee was speaking at a plenary session at the St Gallen University on thinking long term in an age of “perma crisis”, following the opening ceremony of the symposium that brings together leaders from business, politics and science. “Sometimes it means making difficult decisions – whether it’s land use, and land use versus housing, land use versus conservation, land use versus healthcare, making people upset sometimes, because it is in the interest of some other group or another generation,” he said.
Mr Lee recalled incidents during the pandemic when life-or-death decisions were made, saying: “There were many occasions where it was not the logic or the instruction, it was the sense that we were fighting this together.”
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