An Inconvenient Truthiness
Comic by Patrick McDonnell
[via my supercool sister-in-law]
There are those who would say that the problem is too big and we can’t solve it. There are many people who go from denial to despair without pausing on the intermediate step of actually solving the problem. To those who say it’s too big for us, I say that we have accepted and successfully met such challenges in the past. We declared our liberty, and then won it. We designed a country that respected and safeguarded the freedom of individuals. We freed the slaves. We gave women the right to vote. We took on Jim Crow and segregation. We cured great diseases, we have landed on the moon, we have won two wars in the Pacific and the Atlantic simultaneously.
We brought down communism, we brought down apartheid, we have even solved a global environmental crisis before—the hole in the stratospheric ozone layer—because we had leadership and because we had vision and because people who exercise moral authority in their local communities empowered our nation’s government “of the people by the people and for the people” to take ethical actions even thought they were difficult.
This is another such time. This is your moment. This is the time for those who see and understand and care and are willing to work to say, “This time the warnings will not be ignored. This time we will prepare. This time we will rise to the occasion. And we will prevail.
Jeff said,
February 7, 2007 at 11:11 pm
Oh, how I wish Al would run.