He said: "It saddens me, but I'm fairly certain that we will leave our children with a much different world than the one we inherited from our parents. There will be more disease, more hunger, more war, more displacement of entire populations and, most of all, more water everywhere. And there will be much less that can be done about any of it. Perhaps the changes coming will be gradual so that they won't be noticed, but instead will be accepted as the way things naturally are; the order of things, the natural order. It would, I think, be easier to accept in that light. The burden would be easier to carry, don't you think?"

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