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...statement on Friday that Gore is “probably the single individual who has done most to create greater worldwide understanding of the measures that need to be adopted.” Earlier this year, Gore’s documentary on global warming, “An Inconvenient Truth?? won two Academy Awards and sparked an international debate. He has since traveled extensively to lecture about climate change. To one Harvard professor involved in the IPCC since the 1980s, the prize came as a pleasant surprise. “This Nobel Peace Prize is an interesting statement...
...Gore,” we all have the right to be suspicious.But fears that “This Moment on Earth,” the new book by Senator John Kerry and his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, will be a carbon copy of “An Inconvenient Truth?? and its ilk prove to be unfounded. The book is quite different from that famed multimedia presentation of Al Gore ’69, albeit far less authoritative. It features an excellent outline of myriad environmental challenges while making a scatter-shot attempt at solutions that relies more...
...volume that claimed bullshit is abundant in all parts of our culture. With a variety of sources, Frankfurt attempted to formulate a theory of how the process of bullshitting functions. He ultimately decided that bullshit is a dangerous evil that can cause our society to lose sight of the truth??s value.But sometimes these situations are difficult to escape. I recently ran into a friend on Dunster Street, who asked me if I’d finished reading his copy of Philip Roth’s classic, “American Pastoral.”Suddenly ambushed...
...going to try and have a raffle for gift certificates from various environmentally aware businesses,” she says. Kuhn calls undergraduate environmental consciousness “really encouraging.” She sees the filling of three auditoriums for a screening of “An Inconvenient Truth?? as a sign of this “increased awareness” and hopes the festival can contribute to that effect. Wilson sees the true significance of Earth Day as a day “to celebrate the earth and realize that it’s an amazing...
Reduce, reuse, recycle: obviously, right? Nein. From little blue bins in Fortune 500 office buildings to handmade signs in pre-school, this lesson is passed down as an absolute truth??but not everyone is buying it. Even in the midst of Harvard’s new environmental initiatives, such as Green Allston, the Green Cup, and other eco-friendly programs, not everybody is gung-ho about the environment. Reasons for anti-Green and Green-neutral thinking abound, starting with plain and simple dendrophobia. “I hate trees,” Frances I. Martel...