Describing the young people as the most powerful generation in human history, Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus on Thursday encouraged them to imagine and dream big and turn themselves as ‘three-zero persons’.

"I feel very comfortable when I visit any university campuses. I feel rejuvenated. You are the most powerful generation in human history. I feel this honestly. You are the supermen and superwomen," said Prof Yunus, who created microcredit, invented social business and earned a Nobel Peace Prize for his work in alleviating poverty.

The Chief Adviser visited Qatar University in the morning and delivered an inspirational speech on the topic titled ‘A World of Three Zeros’.

He encouraged the students not to do anything that might contribute to wealth concentration but to dream and imagine creating a new world by getting out of a self-destructive approach.

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At the beginning, Prof Yunus was given an honorary award for his outstanding contributions to global humanity.

Prof Yunus, a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and bestselling author of Banker to the Poor, offered his vision of an emerging new economic system that can save humankind and the planet. "Keep trying to reach the destination. But you must have to dream and imagine. You have to have a dream," the Chief Adviser told the Qatar University students.

"If you imagine, it will help. Don't ignore imagination," he added.

Prof Yunus shared his vision of a world of Three Zeros - Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Net Carbon Emissions.

He described how this generation can become the protector of the environment, getting out of this self-destructive civilization.

Foreign Affairs Adviser Md Touhid Hossain, Energy Adviser Fouzul Kabir Khan, High Representative to Chief Adviser and National Security Adviser Dr Khalilur Rahman, SDGs Affairs Principal Coordinator Lamiya Morshed and Press Secretary Shafiqul Alam were, among others, present.

Youth Leadership in Transforming World

On Wednesday, Prof Yunus attended a "Fireside Chat" titled “In Conversation with Professor Muhammad Yunus: Strengthening Youth Leadership in a Transforming World" at the Summit Village, Barahat Msheireb, Msheireb Downtown.

The event was moderated by Hana Elshehaby, Research Assistant, Middle East Council on Global Affairs and Georgetown University in Qatar Alumna.

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Speaking at the interactive session, the Chief Adviser said the civilization that they have around them is a self-destructive civilization. "We are not fixing it. We are making it worse every day. It's a self-destructive civilization."

In order to survive, he said, they have to create a counter civilization so that they do not create those problems that they do right now and so that they can survive.

Prof Yunus encouraged creating an environment so that they can live on this planet happily with the environment as their friend.  "Don't destroy it, protect it. We will become the protector of the environment," he added.

"We keep talking about the three zeros repeatedly. We have to stop the carbon emission because it will destroy otherwise," Prof Yunus said.

He also talked about other problems that will arise because of AI. "I will not go into it, but I'm saying that's not the path to create a new civilization."

Prof Yunus said the new civilization will be a world of entrepreneurship. "I keep saying every human being is born as an entrepreneur, not as a job seeker."

He said nature has made human beings as entrepreneurs, as creators, as solving things, doing things, using their minds. "Human minds are a fantastic power."

"If you are an entrepreneur continuously searching for ways to improve something, that's what human beings should be as an entrepreneur," Prof Yunus said.