"...the White House needs to crush and/or humiliate a handful of universities … but only one at a time. In each case it has to be one victim alone, with everyone else cowering in the shadows. Once the point has been made, with a few institutional corpses, no one else will get out of line. That’s the idea. If all the colleges and universities band together, the whole thing falls apart."

#SerengetiStrategy
#ClimateOfFear

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/does-trump-want-out-of-the-harvard-fight

The #SerengetiStrategy has proven effective for climate activists as well:

"The #EACOP pipeline, budgeted at $5 billion, has emerged as a test for the finance industry’s appetite for backing #FossilFuel projects, as protestors target individual firms. Their pressure campaign has already secured numerous victories, with several European #insurers pledging not to finance the #pipeline."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-28/stanchart-says-no-to-financing-5-billion-ugandan-oil-pipeline

"In #Eugene, the natural #gas industry plans to spend millions to defeat the city’s ban on gas in newly built homes. If it succeeds, the industry may take the fight to other U.S. cities and counties."

It's the municipal version of the #SerengetiStrategy that the #FossilFuel industry used on #climate scientists before: Wham a single city with all they've got, then use that as a precedent to make their move on the next city.

They're being #climate bullies.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/04/21/natural-gas-industry-oregon-ban/

In my opinion, this (https://youtu.be/FwFo2Gu3zGU, via @rebeccawatson) is ultimately an attack on the scientific process itself (see https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0253272, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41271-021-00318-6, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5709724/, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0096340214563674).

Full disclosure - I was Dr. Zaatari's co-author on the Open Letter.

I'd encourage you to support @marwazaatari by donating to her GoFundMe page: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-to-cover-legal-costs-of-whistleblower.

#airquality #airchemistry #healthandwellbeing #serengetistrategy #lawsuit

https://youtu.be/FwFo2Gu3zGU