Who says cancel culture is dead?
With a reported 30% of MIT’s faculty now feeding at Washington’s climate hysteria trough, does it compromise the performative virtue cosmetics to allow wicked fossil fuel companies to chip in to fund MIT’s signature Climate Project?
Deciding whether corporations that raised our standard of living to unprecedented levels should be cast into the dustbin of history is the charge of MIT’s new ad hoc committee on climate-industry engagements. Launched with great fanfare by interim VP for climate Richard Lester, the committee will include faculty, students, and staff members.
Let the auto-da-fé begin!
The timing couldn’t be better. When woke Hamas and Hezbollah supporters thwarted MIT’s efforts to conduct its annual career fair without disruptions, fellow travelers and useful idiots applauded their campaign to drive Lockheed-Martin from the premises while harassing Chevron for its crimes against humanity. You can expect students like this to be well represented on the new kangaroo committee.
As climate paganism descends on the world’s leading STEM university, the Beaver was heartened to learn that the MIT Free Speech Alliance will be hosting The MIT Great Climate Policy Debate on the evening of November 14th. Leading climate scientists and economists will argue the proposition – RESOLVED: The total cost of global net-zero decarbonization by the latter half of this century is well worth the projected global benefits.
Stay tuned for details, including where you can watch the debate livestream on YouTube.