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Doug Baird

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The Secret Cornell

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It’s not surprising that a world-class university like Cornell and the uber-powerful agricultural lobby can combine to thoroughly crush the most marginalized and unrepresented sector of New York State’s population. It’s also not surprising that no one is willing to stand up for us.
When Cornell’s rural policy planner publicly stated that no one but farmers “deserved to live there,” she helped lay the groundwork for Tompkins County’s most recent “vision of the future”: one in which the present rural community no longer exists.
With an elitist policymaking that has closer ties to the Khmer Rouge than the Constitution, Tompkins County is a college destination with the sort of moral compass that lands people a spot on American Greed.
What is The Secret Cornell?
It’s a betrayal of trust that makes the College Admissions Scandal seem like throat-clearing at a political rally.

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If someone were to ask you to do something; if there were even the smallest chance of it injuring your child – you would say; “No, I won’t gamble with the life of my child.” But when technologies inherently risk all life on earth – you are willing to take that small chance; for a small benefit. If words like “Extinction,” and “Apocalypse” are written too big for anything but videogames and movies: you need to step back a bit. We now have the power to do incalculable things — and we have authorities who are eager to use that power. Government isn’t impersonal; it’s personal. It’s a matter of life and death. . . January 15, 2022.
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Agriculture is the biggest contributor to climate changing Methane emissions; and the only sector that is still increasing these emissions. The 2021 White House U.S. Methane Emissions Reduction Plan removes “Agriculture” from the featured Methane Emission by Source pie chart – and moves it down to number four in the Reduction Plan list: replacing regulations with “Incentive Based and Voluntary Partnership Efforts.” When you have that sort of power; and apply it to a powerless rural community — welcome to rural Lansing, NY.

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The Secret Cornell

You’re the NYSDEC.
You’re responsible for a program to clean up nutrient pollution in Cayuga Lake.
Your own documents show that Agriculture is responsible for more than four times the phosphorous pollution of all the other sources combined.
You need to establish a TDML: the maximum amount of a pollutant that a waterbody can accept and still meet the state's Water Quality Standards.
You give the only Land Grant University with a College of Agriculture in the state: Cornell — the authority “to fund and manage a monitoring and modeling program with NYSDEC oversight.”
So how well did this work?
Press Release: “DEC Proposes New Phosphorus Limits to Protect Cayuga Lake Water Quality”
“Phosphorus comes from facilities that include wastewater treatment plants, municipal separate storm sewer systems, agricultural runoff, and other sources.”
Since the NYSDEC mentions Agriculture last — it’s not too hard to figure out.
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Doug Baird

The Secret Cornell

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The Secret Cornell

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