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...only reinforce the pressure for divestment on the Corporation but emphasize the seriousness of their moral commitment and invite the Corporation (and the rest of us) to do the same. Hopefully, President Bok and the Fellows of the University will not sit in stubborn silence and watch the opportunity pass by. To quote one group of tenured professors who have thrown their support behind the fasters. “We will forever be ashamed of a Harvard that defines its self-interest so callously that it is incapable of matching the moral thrust of divestiture fasters...
...student of climate change could tell you that the solution to global warming is to mitigate global greenhouse gas emissions, and fast. But the political difficulties of mitigation aside (the first major federal cap-and-trade legislation will be up soon in the Senate, and isn't expected to pass), the problem is that the sheer amount of greenhouse gases we've already pumped into the atmosphere has irreversibly bound us to a certain amount of warming over the next several decades - no matter what we do, we'll have to adapt...
...original City Council proposal, introduced by former Councillor Walter J. Sullivan, urged the body to ban trick or treating. The remaining eight council members, however, did not vote to pass the resolution until it was scaled back to just encourage “parents to closely supervise their children.” The Boston City Council had passed a similar resolution earlier that week...
...also extremely unlikely to pass. More than a dozen key Senators, including several Democrats, have yet to announce whether they will back Warner-Lieberman, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who does support the bill, isn't pushing particularly hard. Some key Senators won't even make Monday's vote, including Republican presidential nominee John McCain, who is skipping the debate despite having made strong action on climate change a key part of his pitch to Independents. (Let's not single out McCain - reportedly Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton may miss the vote as well.) The bill, as climate...
...general, like North Carolina's Duke Energy, are lobbying against the act, claiming it would hit coal-dependent utilities too hard. Some green groups like Friends of the Earth (FoE) also oppose it, arguing the bill's emission-reduction goals are too timid. They want to wait to pass legislation until 2009, when a new President and Congress will presumably be more open to a stronger measure. "It is a wholly inadequate response to the greatest environmental crisis of our time," said FoE president Brent Blackwelder...