[Editors] Please announce lecture by noted environmental policy expert

[Nancy Stauffer]

Hello, Editors,

The LFEE is presenting the inaugural Environmental Fellows 
Invitational Lecture, and we'd like your help in publicizing it.

The speaker is James Gustave Speth, Dean, Yale School of Forestry and 
Environmental Studies, and author, Red Sky at Morning:  America and 
the Crisis of the Global Environment (2004). Dean Speth was the 
founder of the World Resources Institute, co-founder of the Natural 
Resources Defense Council, and an adviser to Presidents Carter and 
Clinton.

The title of his lecture is:

Some Say By Fire:  Climate Change and the American Response

The lecture will be held on Wednesday, April 6, at 3:00 PM in the 
Wong Auditorium.


If possible, please list the lecture on your website, with the 
following link: 
http://lfee.mit.edu/calendar/item?scope=public&calendar%5fid=466 .


Dean Speth's abstract of his lecture is as follows:

MIT's Jule Charney chaired the first National Academy of Sciences 
panel on the climate change threat in 1979.  Now, a quarter century 
has passed by and the United States has yet to face up to this most 
serious of all environmental challenges, despite the fact that most 
of the research that has led the rest of the advanced nations to act 
has been done here.  How could this happen?  And now that it has, and 
now that we have elected leaders in the Presidency and the Congress 
who prefer to ignore the threat, what are we to do? 
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