“…we must be bold.”

Where is this resolve today?  We face a challenge far more daunting yet our courage, will and resolve are failing.  Let's remind ourselves that we are capable of accomplishing great tasks.

September 12, 1962, Rice University in Houston, Texas.

 "…If I were to say, my fellow citizens, that we shall send to the moon, 240,000 miles away from the control station in Houston, a giant rocket more than 300 feet tall, the length of this football field, made of new metal alloys, some of which have not yet been invented, capable of standing heat and stresses several times more than have ever been experienced, fitted together with a precision better than the finest watch, carrying all the equipment needed for propulsion, guidance, control, communications, food and survival, on an untried mission, to an unknown celestial body, and then return it safely to earth, re-entering the atmosphere at speeds of over 25,000 miles per hour, causing heat about half that of the temperature of the sun--almost as hot as it is here today--and do all this, and do it right, and do it first before this decade is out--then we must be bold."  -  John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States

 July 20, 1969  - Tranquillity Base, The Moon

 "Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed."   -  Neil A. Armstrong, Commander Apollo 11

As we face the challenge of global climate change, we need to remember President Kennedy’s words  -  “we must be bold.”  Our children’s future depends on it.