our defining moment

It looks like we're missing our window and the climate change situation is as bad as we feared.

IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri said at the time, "If there's no action before 2012, that's too late. What we do in the next two to three years will determine our future. This is the defining moment." You can read the official story here.

With the economy, the wars, and the health care debate raging, there's little chance that there will be adequate attention or action to avert disaster.

One in four (25%) of American mortgage borrowers are under water now, but in a geologic blink of an eye there will be a lot more people with their homes under some very real water and billions will have almost no water at all.

Can We Survive? It's a question I think of often and now I'm wondering why the authors chose to state that the skills we need are on the verge of extinction....
"Part of the solution is to create and deploy what we have called “first-round survival technologies.” However, our current system of technology development discourages this; moreover, the entire category of skills required to create such multidisciplinary innovations is on the verge of extinction. "