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93 Harvard Faculty Members Call On the University To Divest From Fossil Fuels

Daniel_Stuckey writes: "One hundred faculty members at one of the nation's most renowned university have signed an open letter calling on Harvard to divest its holdings in fossil fuel companies. Harvard's is the largest university endowment in the world. For the last few years, a national movement has called on on universities, foundations, and municipalities to divest from fossil fuels. Led by students, as well as organized groups like 350.org, it has seen a number of significant victories — at least nine colleges and over a dozen cities have pulled their investments in companies that extract or burn fossil fuels like coal and oil."

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  1. Especially solar cells and carbon fiber windmills. by tlambert · · Score: 0, Troll

    Especially solar cells and carbon fiber windmills. All that nasty fossil silicon and fossil carbon from previous supernova. It's clearly a limited resource, in any case.

  2. RE: 93 Harvard Faculty Members Call... by SpankiMonki · · Score: 0, Troll


    93 Harvard faculty call
    For 93 faculty to steer
    The investments that aren't sound
    Cuz they take stuff from the ground
    93 Harvard faculty that don't know shit about about how everything in our economy has a huge oil component and divestiture of petro stocks is a stupid idea ta da.