Lying about which side they are on works for the Cambridge City Council
1. Lovely letter, bizarre reality.
2. Reality.
1. Lovely letter, bizarre reality.
George Despotes forwards the following, quoted without omission since it clearly is intended to be publicly distributed.
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From: cy56@comcast.net
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2013 08:54:11 -0400
Subject: Thanks to City Council for recommending Cambridge divestment of pension fund from fossil fuel industries
CC: president@harvard.edu; harvardsjsf@gmail.com
To: council@cambridgema.gov
Dear Councillor Cheung and the City Council,
Thank you very much for recommending that the retirement board divest from fossil fuels. And thanks to Councillor Cheung for his in-depth, eloquent appeal to the state legislature to also divest.
The precise level of danger we face in the climate crisis may be hard to pinpoint. What is clear is the present catastrophic damage people, animals, and the habitat deals with every year as a result of rapid global warming. And what is also clear from the geological record and from climate modeling is the totally unacceptable level of risk that the fossil fuel industries would put the habitat under if they continue to operate under their current business plan.
Divestment by major institutions has worked in the past to "remove the veneer of respectability" from irresponsible and immoral industries and governments.
I hope that perhaps Harvard University's President Faust and the rest of the Harvard Corporation can be persuaded to act as responsibly as the Cambridge City Council has.
Chris Young
cy56@comcast.net
A. L. B., 1990, Harvard University Extension School
CYInsight, math visualization for education and industry
Follower/friend of:
Arctic Methane Emergency Group
350.org, Mass. Chapter
Boston Ethical Society
First Parish, Cambridge, U.-U.
2. Reality.
I think the most important part of Mr. / Ms. Young’s email reads:
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I hope that perhaps Harvard University's President Faust and the rest of the Harvard Corporation can be persuaded to act as responsibly as the Cambridge City Council has.
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Harvard and the Cambridge City Council have a very important thing in common. They are both environmentally destructive while lying about which side they are on.
“Do as I say. Not as I do.”
A recent report of mine, at http://charlesriverwhitegeeseblog.blogspot.com/2013/10/is-harvard-university-destroying.html goes into reality as far as Harvard’s supposed claims of holiness on the environment goes, with the initiative from a Harvard related individual who appears to be living in reality, in sharp contrast to Mr. / Ms. Young.
I do not have to go far from Harvard to demonstrate a very nasty reality as far as the nine environmentally “reprehensible” members of the Cambridge City Council: the Cambridge Common, which Harvard shows on Harvard maps as Harvard open space.
“Reprehensible” quotes a Superior Court judge commenting on the real attitude of the City of Cambridge with regard to Women’s Rights. That Judge was affirmed by an Appeals Court panel which refused to dignify Cambridge’s appeal with a formal opinion, “ample evidence of . . . outrageous misbehavior.” The independent evaluation of the City of Cambridge is not complimentary.
The real record of the Cambridge City Council is 22 excellent trees on the Cambridge Common being destroyed by the Cambridge City Council. Those trees would not be destroyed without the shared guilt by Harvard University. The ENF spoke about many of the trees blocking the view. Councilor Minka has justified the destruction because Cambridge’s environmentally destructive staff told her to destroy them. Unanimous vote anyway.
But both Harvard and the City of Cambridge love to lie about which side they are on.
And third parties can only be evaluated by bad associations and outrageously false praise.
I know nothing about Mr. / Ms. Young except the stench of the Cambridge Machine.
I have constantly quoted the lying of the Cambridge City Council that they are pro-environment.
Yelling at somebody else about environmental issues which are only peripherally related to their duties is a long standing technique of lying about themselves which is favored by the Cambridge City Council.
