A Heated Oxford EducationProtesting students get a personal lesson about fossil fuels. By The Editorial BoardFeb. 2, 2020 4:49 pm ETA Heated Oxford Education
Protesting students get a personal lesson about fossil fuels.
By The Editorial BoardFeb. 2, 2020 4:49 pm ET
… The students want the college to sell the more than $10 million of its endowment now invested in Shell and BP, and they want it now.
The Times of London reports that bursar Andrew Parker made them a counteroffer. “I am not able to arrange any divestment at short notice,” he wrote. “But I can arrange for the gas central heating in college to be switched off with immediate effect. Please let me know if you support this proposal.”
The idea that the students themselves make a fossil-fuel sacrifice did not go over well. …
Read more: https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-heated-oxford-education-11580680180
… The students want the college to sell the more than $10 million of its endowment now invested in Shell and BP, and they want it now.
The Times of London reports that bursar Andrew Parker made them a counteroffer. “I am not able to arrange any divestment at short notice,” he wrote. “But I can arrange for the gas central heating in college to be switched off with immediate effect. Please let me know if you support this proposal.”
The idea that the students themselves make a fossil-fuel sacrifice did not go over well. …Read more: https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-heated-oxford-education-11580680180
If only Greta had been there to encourage the students to stand their ground, this pathetic double standards attempt by students to cling to the fossil fuel comforts they would deny to others might have ended with a little less embarrassment for the students
