Crises Precipitate Change

Cory Doctorow, at the Chaos Communications Congress:

Now, some of you are probably feeling pretty cynical about this right now. After all, your political leaders have demonstrated decades of ineffectual and incompetent deference to the US, and an inability to act, even when the need was dire. If your leaders couldn’t act decisively on the climate emergency, what hope do we have of them taking this moment seriously?

But crises precipitate change.

HOL UP, did Doctorow just quote Deltron 3030 (and simultaneously make a weather pun)? Seems apropos. He could also be quoting from the source where Del got the sample from too: Nuclear War 1984, but quoting Deltron 3030’s Virus seems to make more sense to me.

Also: something something anticipation of precipitation.