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Tipping The Balance
The Sunday’s New York Times of the last week in November highlighted a front-page story about the dismal future of New York City: a huge photo of the Statue of Liberty – under water – with the caption, 50-100-200 years. The storm, questions about the capacity of our cities’ infrastructures to take care of us, and an increasingly fragile and volatile eco-system have created a new undercurrent of anxiety. Add to that the elections, Israel’s vulnerability and the violence in the Middle East – and it seems like there is an unending list of important things hanging in the balance.