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Harry Katz, professor of collective bargaining, says “The power balance has shifted in favor of workers.”

Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, professor of Africana studies, says “It is unbelievable that the same people who deride colonialism think that they are better off putting themselves in the care of another who poses a serious threat to their sovereignties.”

Robert Howarth, professor of ecology and environmental biology, comments on a new study that suggests methane levels in the air are now 2.6 times higher than in pre-industrial times. 

George Hay, professor of law, says “Most of the time the remedies are 'don't do this anymore.' So, for example, in the early Google case, a lot turned on contracts between Google and Apple and other producers. And clearly what's going to happen, at the very least is, those contracts are going to have to be unwound.”

Article discusses research led by Charles Lynch, assistant professor of neuroscience in psychiatry, and Conor Liston, professor of psychiatry, at Weill Cornell Medicine.

Daniele Visioni, professor of earth and atmospheric sciences, says that as climate catastrophes continue “people’s perceptions of how the climate is changing the urgency of the situation is mounting.”