While I'm not against thinking about the future, I think it inadvisable for socialists to portray an emergency in the future tense. To paraphrase Walter Benjamin, "The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the 'state of emergency' in which we may live is not the exception but the rule." Even a cursory examination of the past & present, from a Marxist point of view, should give us an enough sense of urgency. Speaking of disasters, what of lack of access to clean water for the poor majority of the world? Wars, malnutrition, deaths caused by preventable diseases? Declines of living standards in Africa, reversal of life expectancy in Russia, etc.? "It" has happened, and "it" is happening now.
Yoshie