I wonder if they will enjoy their tuition, room and board, etc, going up to offset this if it actually happens?
Student Campaigners at Five Major Universities File Legal Complaints Against Fossil Fuel Investment
Student climate groups at Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Vanderbilt, and MIT have filed complaints with attorneys general in their respective states arguing the schools have violated state law by investing in fossil fuels.
“Universities have a duty to promote the public interest in exchange for their tax-exempt charitable status, and that duty is incompatible with fossil fuel investments,” said Alex Marquardt, a staff attorney at the Climate Defense Project, which assisted the student-led campaigns in preparing the complaints. “The law can be a powerful ally in fighting climate change, but only if people are held accountable for actually following it.”
Each of the five states has passed some version of the Uniform Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act, which requires a university’s investments to be consistent with its “charitable purpose.” In letters signed by student groups, alumni, faculty, and climate scientists, activists argue that the hundreds of millions of dollars universities have invested in fossil fuels are at odds with universities’ charitable status.
So, for the most part, fancy pants high earner students. Here’s an idea: turn off the heating and cooling systems in the dorms and classrooms, in the faculty rooms and offices, which are most likely powered by fossil fueled. End school travel that uses fossil fuels. Allow no private, fossil fueled vehicles on school property. Make the climate cultists practice what they preach.
“Our universities are amongst the world’s wealthiest and most prestigious institutions of higher education, and their investments in the fossil fuel industry — an industry whose actions place the health and future of students and the entire planet at risk — amount to nothing less than complicity in the climate crisis,” said Princeton alumna Anna Liebowitz. “Thus, our campaigns are coming together and collectively calling for an end to fossil fuel investments in higher education and the world at large.”
It’s a cult.
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