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As a freshman at MIT in the 1980’s, I was impressed to hear the announcement that the MIT Group Against Smoking had just disbanded. They had accomplished everyt
by yodon 9y ago
As a freshman at MIT in the 1980’s, I was impressed to hear the announcement that the MIT Group Against Smoking had just disbanded. They had accomplished everything they set out to do and felt their were better places for them to invest their time.
And yes, I vividly recall the only time in my tenure at MIT I saw a student light a cigarette. It was in 10-250, the person was sitting audience right side of the lecture hall, about 1/3 of the way back in the room. She did so once, on her first day of class as a transfer student.
So yes, change can happen, and be recognized, and the activists move on.
- LifeLiverTransp 9y agoWell my hat off to that. I just have a very negative counter-example here though: It was a radio-interview with a green-peace activist on ITER. And they would go to great length, to put the nuclear waste problem of fusion into the same category as the nuclear waste dilema of fission- although the fusion byproducts decay down to zero in 300 years- which is near nothing next to fission. I really rooted for greenpeace once, but such intellectual dishonesty- with a fundamentalistic approach, expecting humanity to give up civilisation as we know it, instead of working with the humanity they got- lead to a deep distrust to everything they publish.