Judith Rodin, President of the Rockefeller Foundation Remarks as Delivered Philanthropy’s Role:
Supporting a Bold, 21st Century Infrastructure Agenda America 2050 Forum Bicentennial of the Gallatin Plan
The Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington
So, today, we must again dare to think and act boldly, but in a different way, because we live in a very different time. First, the demography of our national community is changing. Accelerating, unplanned urbanization is creating new risks along with new opportunities. Second, the economic security of our workforce is deteriorating as markets globalize – as we talked about this morning. Third, our overreliance on automobiles is dramatically worsening the build-up of greenhouse gasses that are warming our world. Transportation-infrastructure policy is intertwined with all of these critical issues.