“The present generation of youth is the first generation that has grown up with the knowledge that it may be the last generation of man,” Lee Loevinger, now a Washington lawyer, said at the final business session of the Texas Daily Newspaper Association’s three-day convention. The Associated Press news service quoted Loevinger delivering the following lament: 1970 February 17, Corsicana Daily Sun, Man’s Survival Linked to Media and Government, Quote, Column 2 and 3,Corsicana, Texas. In February 1970 the degradation of the environment via pollution was a major concern of Lee Loevinger who had been a member of the U.S. If our present younger generation should be another lost generation it may be the last generation.īelow are additional selected citations in chronological order. At the close of the First World War the younger generation was called the lost generation. We are the first generation that can completely destroy ourselves. “The all important question in this atomic age is the question of Hamlet, ‘To be or not to be?’ That has become the most important question for the whole of mankind. Emphasis added to excerpts by QI: 1948 June 11, The News, Diplomas for 63 at Thurmont, Quote, Column 3, Frederick, Maryland. Barnhart, head of the Department of Religion at Hood College, stated the following. In 1948 a commencement speaker at a high school in Maryland issued a warning to students. Quote Investigator: The people of the world became aware of an unprecedented existential risk after the first nuclear bomb was detonated in 1945. The archetypal warning asserts that the first generation to encounter a problem might be the last to exist unless significant changes occur. In the past, I have heard comparably eloquent formulations that call upon humankind to overcome enormous perils. (2) We are the first generation to feel the climate crisis, and the last generation with the ability to avert its worst impacts.
(1) We are the first generation to feel the sting of climate change and we are the last generation who can do something about it. Hair? Brian Fisher?ĭear Quote Investigator: Humanity faces a severe danger according to similar statements from two presidential candidates: Barnhart? Lee Loevinger? Billy Graham? Jay D. Thomas Clement Douglas? Beto O’Rourke? Jay Inslee? Barack Obama? Mike McGinn? W.