Letter: The ‘nick of time’ has passed us by

I quote myself from a letter to the editor I wrote in July 2016:“I am 69 years old and have been called a ‘baby boomer’ all of my life. Someone recently asked what was bothering me. I didn’t need to pause for a moment to relate my worries: overpopulation, poverty, war, greed, political corruption, religious intolerance, pollution, gun violence, underfunded education.“It’s true that the sheer numbers of my post-war clan have added to the world’s sorry sta