To the Editor:
The basic problem with Oliver Hudson’s essay (“A lump of coal isn’t so bad,” March 19) is that he entirely misses the urgency of climate change. He doesn’t get the latest government report that ends, “Scientists say hopes of limiting warming to 2 degrees are fading away to almost nothing.” At this pace in your lifetime, Mr. Hudson, you will likely see runaway global warming and the unimaginable misery our lives will be subjected to. At that point, Mr. Hudson and other deniers like him will finally understand the desperate strategy behind Brown Divest Coal that leads four of his fellow students to be arrested or risk arrest. By then it may be too late.
Tom Bale ’63
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