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‘The world my generation left you is a real mess,’ Ford says
Speaking at Arizona State University’s commencement ceremony this month, actor Harrison Ford told graduates to “extend social justice” and fight climate change to prevent “mass extinction.”
“Humanity is a part of nature, not above it,” Ford said. “We have an essential mandate to protect 30% of the world’s land and sea by 2030, to prevent the mass extinction, to slow the warming of our planet.”
“Still, despite new science, new policies, we are still losing nature to profiteering, corruption, conflict — including land that is already protected on paper. These efforts matter, but they’re not enough,” the “Indiana Jones” actor said.
He told students that he stood before them to “represent for nature, the source of life itself.”
He urged students to advance “social justice” and “elevate the Indigenous people that are being marginalized and, in many cases, killed in cold blood.”
Ford added that Indigenous communities understand that natural resources are “not commodities,” but “relatives to be cherished for following generations to embrace and protect.”
“We can all play a role by embracing that wisdom in our day-to-day lives, by loving the planet, by honoring nature’s authority, her generosity, the bounty she affords us, the justice of her example, because the world you’re stepping into, the world my generation left you, is a real mess,” Ford said.
During the ceremony, Ford “received an honorary Doctor of Arts and Humane Letters degree for his work in conservation,” according to Fox News.
At another Arizona college commencement ceremony, a new artificial intelligence system malfunctioned, skipping dozens of names as it announced the graduates, The College Fix reported.
Glendale Community College President Tiffany Hernandez interrupted the ceremony to tell the audience the new AI technology caused the issue. The audience booed in response.
But this wasn’t the only graduation ceremony controversy this year.
Georgetown Law School replaced its originally scheduled Jewish speaker, Morton Schapiro, following protests from anti-Israel students, The College Fix reported.
Schapiro bowed out of the speakership after a petition called on administration to remove him, stating he “holds controversial, Zionist, and harmful opinions.”
Georgetown Law Professor David Cole took the place of the former president of Northwestern University.
A recent College Fix analysis found that Democrats outnumber Republican commencement speakers for at least the fourth year in a row.
Among U.S. News & World Report‘s Top 100 schools, there were only six Republican or Republican-leaning speakers compared to 38 Democrat or Democrat-leaning speakers.
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