Harvard experts discuss climate change fears
.article-badge{display: block; margin:20px 0;}@media only screen and (min-width: 768px){.article-badge{position:absolute; left:36%; top: -175px;margin:0;}}@media only screen and (min-width: 1240px){.article-badge{left:-260px;}} To mark Earth Day’s 50th anniversary, amid the coronavirus pandemic, the Gazette contacted experts on climate change, the environment, and sustainability to ask them about their global-warming fears. Here are their answers. Courtesy of Thomas P. Gloria Thomas P. Gloria Program Director, Sustainability, Harvard Extension School This question presupposes that I am scared about climate change. How dare you ask such a question to a career sustainability professional? Being scared is being afraid, terrified, and at worst, emotional to the point of being catatonic. I demand, no, I respectfully deserve a better question, a positive, uplifting question, especially on the 50th anniversary of Earth Day … I am scared, deeply. We are in a climate crisis. My Rachel Carson moment of being present to the enormity of the challenges that come with global climate disruption happened when I was a...