Save the planet, save the world
(03/21/07 4:00am)
With yet another Spring Break gone, Duke students are once more left to wonder where the time went. For many if not most of us, one place it didn't go was to performing volunteer work in the environmental field, even in a time when such work is desperately needed. As detailed in the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, our planet stands on the precipice of an unprecedented natural experiment. Additionally, headline-grabbing events such as the Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina have served as blunt instruments to remind us of our reliance on a sometimes cruel, sometimes kindly Mother Nature. In spite of these facts, Duke students remain largely absent from the broader environmental community.