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...Why? I'm actually genuinely curious why you feel that way, assuming the person is sincere.

• hueving 10y ago
  If you care about climate change, having protects in one of the biggest echo chambers in the US university system is about the least effective thing you can do. It's also completely unrelated to the quality of education you will get so it's stupid to tie your school selection to that. It's like choosing a campus based on one with the most red-colored buildings.
  • SomeStupidPoint 10y ago
    Two points: 1. I parsed the statement slightly differently, in that having a campus full of activism was important, not specifically climate change. 2. Activism requires learning and networking, so it makes sense that if you want to learn that skill and form a network fresh out of high school, you would go somewhere there's an established network to join and many mentors to be found. It's much more like choosing a school because their alumni organization has connections you're interested in or has business ties to an industry you want to get in to or has a famous athletics program or any of the not-strictly-academic reasons that make sense from a career development perspective. If the person seriously wants to be an activist, even in a non-professional capacity, it makes sense to go somewhere they develop that part of you (even if they don't have the best academics). It's nothing like choosing one based on red building count.
• coldtea 10y ago
  For one, because where you go to college and whether the school has some student level "activism" about climate change has zero (or even negative) impact on actual climate change.
  • SomeStupidPoint 10y ago
    Please see my reply to the sibling comment, which addresses what you say here.