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...fact, leaders have had no problem taking the long view on climate change; G-8 nations have agreed to reduce global emissions 50% by 2050. But as India's Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh told reporters, "It's the height of dishonesty to have a target for 2050 because none of us will be around to be held accountable." What the world really needs is for its leaders to think short term, to make the hard pledges that are required to start bringing global carbon emissions down. They can start at Copenhagen. And they should remember the words of Mohamed Nasheed...
...problem is that identifying those limits is a fuzzy science - and even trickier to translate into policy. Rockstrom's atmospheric-carbon target of 350 p.p.m. has scientific support, but the truth is that scientists still aren't certain as to how sensitive the climate will be to warming over the long-term - it's possible that the atmosphere will be able to handle more carbon or that catastrophe could be triggered at lower levels. And by setting a boundary, it might make policymakers believe that we can pollute up to that limit and still be safe. That...
...said University Professor Gary King, who heads the Institute for Quantitative Social Science, where Gorodentsev once served as executive director. “That makes it easier for her to figure out what they are about and develop different organizational structures, reporting lines, or communication strategies to solve the problem.”NOT JUST KEEPING THE SEAT WARMPrior to her July appointment as interim dean, Gorodentsev served as chief of staff to former Executive Vice President Edward C. Forst ’82, who left in August. Gorodentsev—who has worked at the University for more than...
When I applied to Harvard, my application must have been compelling, considering I got in. The only problem was, it was far from complete. I failed to mention something about myself that is a big part of my life: I really, really like cars.Maybe it’s best I didn’t mention that. Being a car enthusiast at Harvard is an alienating experience, and certainly isn’t satisfied by the physical and social environment. I’ve spent more of my undergraduate career than is healthy scheming about...
...course the Harvard Book Store’s “Espresso Book Machine” is an easy thing to criticize. After all, is it a solution to the print media crisis or to the problem of reading in the information age? Hardly—no matter how innovative the machine may be, its novelty must not distract us from the goal of making more texts available online. Isn’t it flawed? Absolutely—it would be nice if arrangements could be made with authors and publishers to include copyrighted materials in its catalogue...