If we are successful in modernizing our economy and greening our infrastructure, and if we do this in a way that expands opportunity, then New York City should seamlessly regain its symbolic and actual place in our economy and in our consciousness.

The presence of a competent national government capable of investment in the future will enable environmentally sustainable economic growth.

Following four years of Trump’s climate denial, the Biden administration has gone all in and is starting to articulate a comprehensive climate policy.

While the struggle is difficult and at times discouraging it is always worth the effort and I believe in my heart, that we “shall overcome someday.” We can never give up or surrender.

The next four years should undo the damage of the past four years and put America back on the path of effective environmental policy.

Our human need for social interaction will influence our calculus and my hope is that when normal life resumes, we never again take it for granted.

Over 70% of the American public favors Biden’s stimulus plan and I suspect a similar number will support an infrastructure bill that will rebuild our roads and restore employment.

While we need to mitigate climate change and will need government-driven public policy to do that, we must also adapt to the climate change that is already underway.

We should be able to find it in our hearts to help children, dreamers and refugees, and our new president gives me hope we can do just that.

Human technology and ingenuity have created a world of comfort, curiosity and creativity. But we have failed to account for their impacts on the systems that sustain the planet and in turn sustain human life.