… killed in a car crash in Uganda.
He was much more than a professor, as his charming webpage shows.
Luke Cole, a leading theorist and practitioner of environmental justice law, who battled toxic waste facilities, mega-dairies, mining companies and other pollution threats in poor and minority communities in California and Alaska, died Saturday in a car crash in Uganda. He was 46.
Cole was traveling with his wife on a rural road in western Uganda when a truck hit their vehicle head-on. He died at a clinic a short time later, according to his father, Herbert Cole. His wife, Nancy Shelby, was flown to a hospital in Amsterdam, where she is recovering from her injuries.
… An avid birder, connoisseur of root beer and collector of bobbleheads and miniature spy cameras, Cole had taken off in early March on what was to be a four-month sabbatical. He traveled to South America, Antarctica, Madagascar and South Africa. Uganda, where his brother lives, was one of his last stops…
June 13th, 2009 at 7:29AM
Not to be, uh, insensitive, but… the leading practitioner of environmental justice spent four months flitting from continent to continent with his conveyances belching a gazillion pounds of CO2 and various other emissions?
File under, "Do as I say, not as I do."