Being affiliated with RIT I applaud president Destlers (and many other university presidents) commitment to improving our global climate. You can catch the signing at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow in the Al Davis Room, Student Alumni Union. Kudos to the RIT Student Environmental Action League for sponsoring the event. The thing I like about this commitment is that it proposes real action. Just take a look at the list. (follow the link)
“We, the undersigned presidents and chancellors of colleges and universities, are deeply concerned about the unprecedented scale and speed of global warming and its potential for large-scale, adverse health, social, economic and ecological effects. We recognize the scientific consensus that global warming is real and is largely being caused by humans. We further recognize the need to reduce the global emission of greenhouse gases by 80% by mid-century at the latest, in order to avert the worst impacts of global warming and to reestablish the more stable climatic conditions that have made human progress over the last 10,000 years possible.” more…
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