“The green revolution is not about the whales anymore. And
it is not about “our children’s children,” a generation so distant it is really
hard to get energized about it. This is about us. This is about the world we
and our children will inhabit for the rest of our lives and whether we can find
a way to create wealth – because everyone wants to live better – without creating
toxic assets in the financial world or the natural world that overwhelm us. This
is an urgent project, because the way of life we lapsed into recent years
cannot be passed on to another generation without catastrophic consequences. It
is a tall order, a great challenge – one that our children did nothing to
deserve but now can do nothing to escape.
“ [Thomas L. Friedman, Hot, Flat and Crowded – Why we need a green revolution -
And how it can renew America, 2008, page 9]
