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What Can and Should We Do about Climate Change Now
What Can and Should We Do about Climate Change Now?
Information: Walter Simpson,
Energy educator & activist
Daemen College Instructor
wsimpson@daemen.edu
7:30 p.m., Monday, October 15
Room 336, Duns Scotus Hall
Daemen College
4380 Main Street, Amherst
Free and Open to the Public
Keynote speaker: Ross Gould, Energy & Air Program Director, Environmental Advocates
of New York (www.eany.org).
Panelists
Bob Berger, UB Law Professor (retired)
Samantha Legros, Business Major/Sustainability Minor, Daemen College
Terry Yonker, Chair, Energy & Climate TF, WNY Environmental Alliance
Moderator
Walter Simpson, energy educator & activist, Daemen College Instructor (www.energyreallymatters.com )
Scientists have known for decades that climate change is real and potentially catastrophic yet to a large extent we – as a society - have ignored and denied the problem and done little about it. This panel discussion will present a positive statewide and national climate protection policy and activist agenda. It will also address these questions: Have we waited too long to protect the future for our children and avoid the worst consequences of climate change? Is effective action -- proportionate to the threat we face -- possible given ongoing political conflict in our country and the power for fossil fuel interests? What should those who understand the danger and care about the future be doing now?
This panel discussion is presented as part of the Alternative & Renewable Energy Issues course in Daemen's Global & Sustainability program. For information on this exciting new major and minor, visit www.daemen.edu/sustainability . For more information about the panel discussion, wsimpson@daemen.edu or 839-0062.