Bryan Alexander has been engaged in a series of posts on the future of higher education and climate change. Posts so far cover campus populations, campus facilities, the academic mission, and campus and the off campus world, wherein he quotes a a Second Nature report (33 page PDF) as saying campuses "can serve as 'hubs' in their local communities for creating, testing, and disseminating knowledge about regional climate projections and adaptation strategies." This is a role they should be serving (but have often ignored) in general. Anyhow, the topic of climate change is obviously timely, and it serves as a helpful reminder that projections of the future of anything need to take into account the wider world and what we're doing to it.
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