Sydney Morning Herald: 'Fight fiercely, Harvard', a favorite college's song, doesn't seem to apply to climate change, an alumnus says.
More than 40 years ago, as a Harvard sophomore, I sat in the classroom of Professor Roger Revelle, who was teaching a course on human population. We learned about Malthus, Norman Borlaug and the green revolution. Revelle, in his heavily stained necktie, would entertain us with mental calculations he'd performed while taking a shower earlier in the morning.
Over the course of the semester,...