Sponsored by sorority sister Laura Dezarn and little sorority sister Annie Rebecca Joyce
Global Warming is a tough topic and I could tell some of the girls were “shell shocked”. Annie Joyce was my helper and she walked back across campus afterward to help carry my things to my car. She even said so that she was shocked by some of the information. Several of the girls asked questions about the food supply and medical issues since they were in food science and nursing. One of the girls father is the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer John B. Hess of Hess Oil and understandably so, she is a global warming denier. When I gave my Kyoto agreement analogy about how each person on the planet gets a set amount of air and water and that’s all the planet can sustain, she spoke up and said, ‘Because of our economy, we need more than other countries.” My pat response is not cuddly when I hear this. My pat response is, “How arrogant.” She was of course taken aback. But I won her and the rest of the girls over by the end of the lecture. The girls asked intelligent and insightful questions. This knowledge is a burden and encourages action. They were especially concerned about the polar bears and we talked about the litigation from the NRDC to get them onto the endangered species list. Since Alpha Delta Pi helps the Ronald MacDonald House as their charity, I asked Annie to see about replacing all their lighting with the new CFC lights. They are going to work toward “greening” the Ronald MacDonald house in Winston-Salem, NC.
