UO students know why fighting the climate crisis and transitioning to renewable energy is important: The alternative is increasing drought, increasing wildfire, increasing global instability, more wars for oil and gas and fossil fuel infrastructure. It’s not a future that we can believe in.
Presenter: Climate action activists biked to the boilers March 13, and KEPW’s Curtis Blankinship was there. Speakers highlighted the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the city of Eugene—the University of Oregon heating system. From the Climate Justice League, Jack Dodson:
Jack Dodson (Climate Justice League): Why are we here today? Unfortunately, the University of Oregon is the largest source of climate-heating greenhouse gas emissions in all of Eugene. In fact, the heating system for campus is the largest stationary emitter within city limits. (Boo! Shame!)
Anyway, I’m going to give some background on why this is the case and how students have been pushing for action…