Ann Weeks, the legal director of the Clean Air Task Force, and the mother of Eleanor Lustig, a current senior and staff member of the Log Lunch food prep crew, spoke about the possibility of hope in the fields of environmental law and technology in Trump’s America.
She gave a brief history of the substantial progress achieved by various court cases, and elaborated on a vision for the future. She left students
with the question, instead of the answer: Is there hope in environmental law to “reverse” the human-caused damages wreaked upon the planet for thousands of years? It’s up to you.
—Jane Tekin ’19