STEM Ed Announcement: Robert Repetto speaks at UMass

["Mort Sternheim" <mort@k12s.phast.umass.edu>]

This is not a STEM Ed. Program.
 Contact Information Is Below.
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 Friday, May 6 at 1:30 pm
 PERI's Environmental Working Group presents
 America's Climate Problem: The Way Forward
 Robert Repetto
 3rd floor conference room, Gordon Hall, 418 N. Pleasant St.,
 UMass-Amherst
 
 What America does--or fails to do--in the next few years to solve the
 problem of climate change will largely determine the fate of the earth
 and humanity for centuries to come. Despite the efforts by some
 states, local governments and individual citizens to respond,
 controversy still embroils national efforts to come up with a
 solution.
 
 Robert Repetto, a leading environmental economist, will discuss his
 new book America's Climate Problem: The Way Forward. The book explains
 in clear, accessible language how a sensible national policy to reduce
 greenhouse gas emissions can bring about a transition to clean energy
 sources while preserving healthy economic growth and high standards of
 living. It shows where the pitfalls are in developing a climate
 solution, how they can be avoided, and how to bring resistant interest
 groups on board. America cannot act alone but other nations will not
 take action if the United States does not lead, and this book explains
 how America can successfully promote international cooperation on
 climate solutions.
 
 Dr. Robert Repetto taught environmental economics at the Yale School
 of Forestry and Environmental Studies and served as vice president of
 the World Resources Institute.
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 Addie Rose Holland
 Climate System Research Center
 Department of Geosciences
 University of Massachusetts Amherst
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