Flying into JFK prompts many questons about many things, including climate change

The late U.S. president, John
F. Kennedy - his question about
what can you do for your
country seems even more
relevant today.

Flying to New York and JFK this past week I started to think about John Fitzgerald Kennedy. I thought about how it takes a conscious effort to overcome the automatic use of the acronym and not forget the great man who said at his inauguration "ask not what your country will do for you, ask what you will do for your country".

And of course it was another great US President, Franklin D Roosevelt, who said "The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself".

“The top 1 per cent of people need to quickly realise that their fate and wealth is bound up by how the other 99 per cent live”

So as we filed off the plane from an Australian summer into snow covered NY I realised that change, fear and the need for personal responsibility were what this visit was about.

Read Harold Mitchell’s opinion piece in today’s Age - “Inequality is no recipe for prosperity.”