EIPAD in the News
Newsweek
December 4, 2024
Map Shows Safest US States to Live During Nuclear War
Christian G. Appy, Director of the Ellsberg Initiative for Peace and Democracy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, told Newsweek: "Even a relatively 'small' nuclear war would cause a nuclear winter famine that would kill at least a billion people."
He said it was "morally repugnant to think about the safest places to survive a nuclear war" because "a major nuclear war would throw so much soot and debris into the stratosphere that it would produce a nuclear winter that would kill all or nearly all of those who survived the blast, firestorms, and radiation of the war."
The Daily Hampshire Gazette
December 3, 2024
Climate activist Bill McKibben’s light in dark times: Solar
For UMass’ third annual Ellsberg Lecture, “Back to the Wall, Face to the Sun” on Monday night, McKibben told a packed audience at the Old Chapel how the world has begun to embrace the most effective tool for displacing fossil fuels and mitigating climate change. He plans to continue the climate fight by championing the growth of renewable energy infrastructure, even under the current dire circumstances.
“I do think that it is a spectacular notion to imagine powering this world on energy from heaven, not from hell,” McKibben said.