My father's generation's crisis was fighting fascism. Ours is fighting climate change. It is much harder because you can't see it, it is not an obvious threat. But the solution is in our hands.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Fascism is a worldwide disease. Its greatest threat to the United States will come after the war, either via Latin America or within the United States itself.
The biggest challenge or biggest crisis knocking on the doors of humankind is fear and intolerance.
We have to face the reality of climate change. It is arguably the biggest threat we are facing today.
Crisis and pressure help foster change - that's why I'm not so pessimistic towards crises.
The biggest potential and actual crises of the 21st century all have a strong, long, slow aspect with a significant lag between cause and effect. We have to train ourselves to be thinking in terms of longer-term results.
Crises are harbingers of evolution.
Climate change is a very real threat right now to our economy, the future of our children, to our way of life.
I have never written that there is a threat of fascism in America. I always considered the idea overwrought. But now I believe there really is such a threat - and it will come draped not in an American flag, but in the name of tolerance and health.
In the case of climate change, the threat is long-term and diffuse and requires broad international action for the benefit of people decades in the future. And in politics, the urgent always trumps the important, and that is what makes it a very difficult and challenging issue.
Times change. Every generation has a new set of problems. Human nature is unmoved.