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Yahoo!While most of Isla Vista will resemble a ghost town during UCSB’s spring break next week, a dedicated group of students and environmental organizations will be sticking around for the first Global Warming Alternative Spring Break. Beginning Monday, March 24, the week long conference will include training sessions, workshops, and talks centered on the goal of solving the planet’s climate crisis.
The conference will be held at UCSB’s Bren School of Environmental Science and Management and attended by students from across the country. One might wonder why students would give up their spring break to attend such a conference. UCSB Environmental Studies and Political Science double major, and Campus Progress Student Advisory Board member, Chrissy Elles, said she thinks “the event will really help the students become more effective advocates for sustainability, and send the message that students have the passion and ability to confront the challenge of climate change.” Campus Progress, the event’s main organizer, reiterates Elles’s sentiment on it’s website proclaiming, “Party later, save the world now.”
Campus Progress is an organization that operates mainly at universities and is dedicated to helping students voice their opinions and ideas on a variety of issues. In addition to the Global Warming Spring Alternative Break, they are also organizing a conference in Austin, TX about capital punishment, and another in Philadelphia, PA about the ongoing war in Iraq.
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An environmentalist, I am, a fool, I AM NOT!!!
Climate change is a hoax, and it is distracting humanity from the important issues of the long-term effects of releasing toxic substances into our atmosphere, water supply and environment.
CO2 is not bad for the environment. In fact, trees love CO2. By focusing our energies on CO2 reduction, we are not focusing on the real problem. Please lookup Global Warming: Doomsday Called Off on google video or youtube and see for yourself.
What we need is sustainable living environments and green technologies without the toxic byproducts of our current living conditions. The major energy companies pushing global warming are invested heavily in Nuclear Energy. Nuclear Energy is clean in the short-term since the waste can be contained, but it can have devastating and long lasting effects in the long-term.
loonpt (anonymous profile)
March 24, 2008 at 9:04 a.m. (Suggest removal)
It just amazes me that -- with all the scientists and all the proof -- people still call global warming a hoax. You can't say climate change is a hoax just because you want it to be.
And your "trees love CO2" comment shows your lack of understanding for this important subject. The issue is not that CO2 is bad; the issue is that "too much" CO2 is bad.
Trekking_Left (anonymous profile)
March 24, 2008 at 7:20 p.m. (Suggest removal)
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