The Y2K Problem Challenges All of Us

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We must be citizens of the world and participate in setting global priorities--identifying and attending to those Y2K-related risks that threaten us with global disruption and massive damage to public health and the natural world. At the top of the list should be nuclear power plants and other ultra-hazardous processes such as toxic chemicals and weapons systems.

Obviously, no individual or group can solve the Y2K challenge alone. Each of us must take responsibility, individually and collectively. The Y2K crisis requires collaboration among neighborhoods, communities, cities,states, and governments across the traditional boundaries of competition and national borders. In working together to meet this formidable challenge we can affirm our interconnectedness and common humanity.

Charles R. Halpern is president and chief executive officer of the Nathan Cummings Foundation, a national grantmaking organization that supports the arts, environment, Jewish Life and democratic values. During the past six months, he has convened a number of foundation meetings on Y2K. He is a pioneer of the public interest law movement and served as founding dean of the City University of New York Law School at Queens College.

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