{"id":175,"date":"2015-12-06T14:02:43","date_gmt":"2015-12-06T14:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop21\/?p=175"},"modified":"2022-03-09T21:39:20","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T21:39:20","slug":"passing-the-torch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/2015\/12\/06\/passing-the-torch\/","title":{"rendered":"Passing the torch"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_176\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-176\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saxoprint.fr\/creativeawards2015\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-176\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop21\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_1559_DxO-1024x716.jpg\" alt=\"Image by Pierre Gaudouin\" width=\"660\" height=\"461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_1559_DxO-1024x716.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_1559_DxO-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-176\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image by Pierre Gaudouin, Gran Prix winner of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saxoprint.fr\/creativeawards2015\">2015 Creative Awards<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Indy and Dakota have done a great job of summarizing the current situation in <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop21\/2015\/12\/05\/where-does-the-us-delegation-stand-at-the-cop21-by-dakota-and-indy\/\">their latest post<\/a>, so I encourage you to read that.\u00a0 Now that I&#8217;m back at home, I just wanted to add my voice in welcoming our Swarthmore colleagues Prof. Ayse Kaya, Anita Desai, Stephen O&#8217;Hanlon, and Nathaniel Graf, who are arriving in France this weekend.\u00a0 I look forward to their news and insights over the coming week.<\/p>\n<p>And this week promises to be exciting.\u00a0 To use the phrase that I heard several times in the past few days, this week &#8220;the ministers arrive,&#8221; the higher-level officials with more power to make meaningful concessions and hammer out the final agreement.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve really appreciated the chance to share my experiences with you this past week, and I may yet have a post or two to share as I continue to reflect and take in the events of this coming week.\u00a0 I remain optimistic about the outcome.\u00a0\u00a0 I had the good fortune of hearing former Vice President Al Gore speak on Friday, and he expressed his optimism with a quote from one of my favorite poets.\u00a0 It really resonated with me, so I&#8217;ll let Wallace Stevens have the last word:<\/p>\n<p><em>After the final no there comes a yes<\/em><br \/>\n<em> And on that yes the future world depends.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indy and Dakota have done a great job of summarizing the current situation in their latest post, so I encourage you to read that.\u00a0 Now that I&#8217;m back at home, I just wanted to add my voice in welcoming our Swarthmore colleagues Prof. Ayse Kaya, Anita Desai, Stephen O&#8217;Hanlon, and Nathaniel Graf, who are arriving &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/2015\/12\/06\/passing-the-torch\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Passing the torch<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions\/178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}