I've recently been writing
about the fossil fuel divestment movement which, according to some accounts, is «sweeping» US college campuses.
Often, when I write
about fossil fuel divestment, someone will pipe up that divestment is useless — someone else will buy those stocks, and they'll be less motivated to engage the fossil fuel companies in mending their ways.
Not exact matches
• Conceits
about «
fossil fuel»
divestment aside, what comes through loud and clear is moral self - congratulation.
Vermont's governor and state treasurer have different ideas
about the subcommittee being formed to investigate
fossil -
fuel divestment for the state's $ 4 billion retirement fund.
Toronto
About Blog Milan Ilnyckyj is conducting research on pipeline resistance in the United States and Canada and writing his PhD dissertation on campus
fossil fuel divestment campaigns in Canada.
Toronto
About Blog Milan Ilnyckyj is conducting research on pipeline resistance in the United States and Canada and writing his PhD dissertation on campus
fossil fuel divestment campaigns in Canada.
The
fossil free
divestment movement has been successful because it knows that fighting for climate justice is
about changing the power dynamics of our political system and standing up to the
fossil fuel industry.
Nuclear weapons, nuclear power and
fossil fuels are inextricably linked, so if we're going to talk
about divestment lets have a complete picture and not a partial and inaccurate one.
He'll talk
about building on our work to #StopAdani, the push for
fossil fuel divestment and the groundbreaking NYC legal case against five of the world's biggest oil companies, and ensure climate change is the number one issue on any election agenda.
350 Massachusetts and Better Future Project have just announced that on June 17th they will be presenting to Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management Board (PRIM)
about the case for
fossil fuel divestment.
3) The
divestment movement has always been as much
about symbolism as it has finances — by tarnishing the image of
fossil fuels, we undermine their moral license to operate.
When I wrote
about the
fossil fuel industry looking worried, some commenters questioned my focus on
divestment.
Toronto
About Blog Milan Ilnyckyj is conducting research on pipeline resistance in the United States and Canada and writing his PhD dissertation on campus
fossil fuel divestment campaigns in Canada.