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Is there a point at which we hit a tipping point and all of this economic, cultural and moral trouble sends us into a death spiral we can't get out of?

I think its time to change and balance the environment and growth. If we don't do that, we're going to suffer a hard landing one day very soon.

If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going.

We have made great strides, but somehow we've got to create a climate so that everybody can do well, not just some.

We have the potential to help people out of poverty, out of disease, out of slavery and out of conflict. Too often, we turn the other way because we think there's nothing we can do.

We're at peak oil, peak water, peak resources, and so either we figure it out and let science lead or we head down a very bad, dark trail to where a lot of people aren't going to make it.

At times, we were forced to go through a history of dependence, unable to determine our own destiny. But today, we are at the threshold of a new turning point.

It seems like we are moving towards something, some kind of point and it is probably going to be an important point in our development or dissolution. That is what everybody seems to be thinking.

Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.