What Will You Tell Your Grand-Children?

Thomas Friedman asks the question in this pointed column from today's NYT. He says 2008 was the beginning of "The Great Disruption" when things as they have been in the last 50 or so years started to fall irrevocably apart, requiring major re-thinking of the way the global economy is structured, economically and ecologically.

I think what I will tell my great-nieces and nephews is that my people had been expecting it for a while and that I was glad it came sooner rather than later. The sooner things fall apart, the sooner we can get around to building them back in more sustainable ways.