Cornell on Fire Weekly 3/27
Dear all,
The Cornell Trustees have departed after a highly-protested visit to campus. We learned three lessons:
1. The trustees know who we are and are not yet keen on conversing with us.
2. Nonetheless, there are meditative ways of putting CLIMATE on the Board of Trustees' agenda, if only briefly. (See here.)
3. A not-insignificant number of Trustees fly on private jets, supported by a broad flank of commercial jet colleagues. This is our latest research project and it's attracting a surprising amount of attention. Evidently, private jet emissions stand out among emissions categories as uniquely captivating to the public. (And uniquely fun to research. Let us know if you can help.)
Those of us watching the courageous activists involved in the Coalition for Mutual Liberation learned another lesson: The Trustees are prepared to watch student activists get arrested rather than stand up for their right to peaceful protest.
Join us to discuss these lessons at our weekly meeting tomorrow, Thursday, from 6:30-8:00p. We'll also be on Ho Plaza this Friday from 11-12:30p.
The Trustees are gone for now, but their jet pollution will live on for centuries, contributing to climate chaos that rewrites the atmosphere as well as our brains. We have no time to lose. The Head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies is "sounding the alarm" that Earth heated at unprecedented and unexplained rates in 2023.
Next time, the Trustees will be greeted with a more direct request for action. We will need you.
In trust,
Cornell on Fire
