Profile of Stephen H. Schneider

摘要

In April 1968, Columbia University (New York) was the center of student protests so violent that faculty were assaulted and the entire university ground to a halt for the academic quarter. Hundreds of students were arrested, but Stephen H. Schneider, now a prominent climatologist, watched the riots from the sidelines as he pursued his engineering doctoral work. Yet when desperate administrators and trustees agreed to negotiate with a few elected students, Schneider felt compelled to come forward and make himself heard. As he learned on the fly to mediate between opposing groups, he unknowingly found a training ground for his future role as a controversial climate change spokesman. Here, Schneider says, he first learned that each value system has its own merits, and that some decisions boil down to a simple trade-off between value alternatives.