b'Suggestions of systemic change are not infrequent these days. Inboxes are full of messages about the opportunities and learning that lurk within the current crisis. There is talk from political leaders of economic transformation. The Secretary General of the United Nations calls for a new economic paradigm. Bloggers write of imaginal cells beginning to hatch a new cultural vision. The poetry of an Italian priest is recited during a CNN Coronavirus Town Hall. The words sacred and songs have been spotted swimming in schools towards the tributaries of hope.Something else happened in 1970. Americans in hundreds of communities took to the streets on the occasion of the first Earth Day. Estimates put the national number at around 20 million. Systemic change was what we were after, then, too. It remained elusive in many of the ways that count.9'