Colleagues and friends,
My apologies if you received 2 or 3 versions of this post. In addition, apologies for the personal,non-academic, indeed advocacy-related, nature of this post. If you feel it's inappropriate for this list, feel free to stop reading now.
I imagine that some, perhaps many, of you have heard about the People's Climate March in New York City this Sunday, September 21st. If not, you can read about it at
http://peoplesclimate.org/
Organizers are hoping to make it the largest rally ever for the climate, in order to get policy makers and the public to wake up to the immense dangers of climate change and begin to take meaningful action.
In hopes of helping to achieve that my wife and I are driving to NYC in our Prius to join in the march. (I recognize full well the irony of burning 40 extra gallons of gas to protest carbon emissions). I hope that some of you will be there for it, but I know that most of you can't be.
Pam and I plan to carry a banner identifying who we are marching for: our children and grandchildren, the poor of the world who will suffer the most from climate change, and the various species that are threatened by it. We'd also be happy to list on the banner the number of colleagues who would like to be there marching but can't.
So if you'd like to be numbered among those who would like to be there marching, please e-mail me DIRECTLY at
GP-Rands@wiu.edu -- PLEASE DO NOT HIT REPLY OR REPLY TO ALL!! We'll add the number received by Saturday at 5 PM EST to our banner.
I realize this is a little gesture, which may well have no effect. But if we don't try we will surely reap the consequences. I'm old enough to have participated in the original Earth Day in 1970. While it didn't solve environmental problems, it made a huge contribution to increasing awareness and concern that resulted in the passage of laws that brought about immense improvements. Hopefully the People's Climate March and similar actions that follow will have a comparable long term impact.
Thanks for all you do to help your students and colleagues understand the importance of the issues that we deal with in our research and teaching.
Best wishes,
Dr. Gordon Rands
Department of Management & Marketing
Stipes 414G
Western Illinois University
1 University Circle
Macomb, IL 61455 USA
309-298-1395 (office)
309-298-1535 (department)
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