Hospitable climate: PFW's Conservation Conversation will focus on adapting to change

While a vast majority of Americans accept as fact that climate change is happening and is caused by us, we also now have executive initiatives forbidding monitoring of the phenomenon, including defunding operation of a perfectly functional satellite, cessation of monitoring air pollution from point sources such as factories, and vacating the endangerment finding underpinning policies regarding carbon dioxide.

This may be a business-friendly approach to environmental “protection” in the short term, but is not human friendly in the long run.

Climate change is the topic of this year’s Conservation Conversation. The conversation is hosted annually by the Environmental Resources Center at Purdue University Fort Wayne.

This year’s is happening Thursday in the International Ballroom on the Purdue University Fort Wayne campus. 

Read an op-ed by Bruce Kingsbury, professor of biology and director of the Environmental Resources Center, in The Journal Gazette (subscription required.)