Jen Rowe
I am not sure how long I will be able to fast for due to my academic work load and other projects in which I am involved. However, I have decided to shoot for a week long fast right before Copenhagen. I am also organizing a rotating fast at my college that will last from November 6th through Copenhagen whereby each member would fast for a day and then pass the fast on (along with a symbolic shirt) to the next faster.
I am a junior studying Environmental Science at Williams College in Western Massachusetts. I grew up as the oldest of four children in Bangor, Maine, a small city of 35,000 and was blessed with a comfortable and loving home environment. My mother, who was a dermatologist, decided to stop practicing and devote her life to giving us as nurturing and supportive a childhood as her parents had given her. My father is a cardiologist and environmentalist who was always looking for small ways to decrease our family's impact. Somewhere along the way I stopped begruding our obligatory compost pile duties and became concerned about the environment and particularly about climate change. My mother died from non-smokers' lung cancer a year ago, which made me appreciate as I had never fully done before the amazing gift she had given my siblings and I. I am participating in the Climate Justice Fast because I, too, would like to give my children and all future generations the chance to begin life in an environment as healthy, nurturing, and free from worry as my parents gave me.
