As scientists who recognize the consequences of our own carbon footprints, we have a moral obligation to set the example and rethink how we do our research, and how we communicate and share it, without disproportionately contributing to the very problem itself. I would love to see more of the world, but I’m not willing to put my name on the carbon associated with all that travel. Not anymore.
I am a plant pathologist who focuses on diseases of trees of the forest, and also the quantification of carbon loss associated with internal decay in living trees, a nearly ubiquitous process invisible to the naked eye.