University launches semester-long ‘climate emergency’ campaign to protect ‘Mother Earth’

Western Michigan University is hosting a semester-long “emergency” climate change campaign to encourage students to take action on the “crisis.” It includes an event focused on “climate action” in connection to “Mother Earth.”

Environmental Professor Steve Bertman told The College Fix via email the WMU Climate Change Working Group created the months-long campaign “thinking that a single event is easy to miss or even to ignore.” The group includes faculty, students, staff and community members.

The goal is “to educate people about the threat the climate crisis poses and to build the movement toward urgent and rapid action to head off the worst consequences,” Bertman told The Fix last week.