I publish a weekly listing of Energy (and Other) Events around Cambridge, MA at http://hubevents.blogspot.com and go to as many of them as I can stand. Over the last two days I’ve gone to Harvard Law School to listen to Trip Van Noppen of Earthjustice (earthjustice.org) and, tonight, also at Harvard, Bob Perciasepe of the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (www.c2es.org).
Van Notten told the law students that he had urged the environmental community to start contingency planning for a Trump win in August but they didn’t and he didn’t. Earthjustice, “because the earth needs a good lawyer,” is doing that only now.
Tonight, the Harvard University Center for the Environment sponsored a talk by Bob Perciasepe on “Challenges for the New President.” After the lecture, I was able to tell Perciasepe what Van Noppen had said the day before. He said he, too, advised the same thing back in August. I asked him if his group or any other environmental group he knew of actually did any planning for a possible Trump win.
He grew still. Saying no was superfluous.