The Only Thing We Have to Fear (About Climate Change) is Fear Itself
By Marc Morano
April 8, 2025
1:24 pm
By Wallace Manheimer
“So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself – nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advances.”
This was the opening statement in Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s inaugural address in 1933. The statement was made at the depths of the great depression, when many people understandably felt they had much to fear. However, FDR counseled that this fear “paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advances.”
We are in a similar situation today. Mankind’s main peacetime objective is to “advance” the spread of prosperity to all humanity, consistent with Judaism’s concept of tikkun olam – repairing the world to improve it. In the West, this was accomplished over several centuries by replacing the energy used since prehistoric times, that of human and animal muscle, solar and wind. This was replaced with coal, oil, natural gas and nuclear.
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