As humanity comes to know itself
    as an emerging planetary species
  May you play your part in the epic drama
          to improve the improvements

  Faster�
    than the worsening of the problems

  For we are the winners, after all
          from an unbroken survival chain
          connecting the big bang
  To your dreams of tomorrow.

    Happy New Year!

            Jerry, Ted, Elizabeth, Kawthar, Hayato, and John