How to escape your silo (spoiler: friendship helps)
Tom Osborn (left), Eve Driver, and Ari Kohn. Veasey Conway/Harvard Staff Photographer Campus & Community How to escape your silo (spoiler: friendship helps) Co-authors of ‘What We Can’t Burn’ formed lasting bond even as they argued about best way to fight climate change Christy DeSmith Harvard Staff Writer March 12, 2025 5 min read Eve Driver and Tom Osborn agreed that the world urgently needed to ditch fossil fuels. But the Harvard College classmates, both engaged with campus conversations on climate change, saw very different ways of getting there. Driver viewed the push for carbon-free energy sources as a historical analog to the Civil Rights Movement. “But Tom was like, ‘No, this is much more akin to when we switched from horses and buggies to cars,’” Driver recalled. Each slowly came to see the wisdom in the other’s perspective, with direct, and often difficult, conversations, proving the building blocks of a lasting bond. Driver and Osborn went on to publish “What...