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Science and Activism
Does campaigning for social change have a place in the scientific identity?
Joel Jean’s “climate selfie.” [Climate Selfie Project/Zoe Sheinkopf]
Last September, I was one of 400,000 participants in the People’s Climate March in New York City. It was the largest march I had ever attended, though it wasn’t my first foray into activism. For more than two years I’d been working with students, university faculty and others to build the fossil fuel divestment campaign at Harvard University.
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