Tag / divestment
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Demystifying Divestment
The national movement for fossil fuel divestment has reached Washington University, and several groups on campus have begun an effort to publicize the cause. Divestment is a complex economic and political strategy to address important social issues, and there has already been some debate and confusion over what exactly “divestment” means. The basic idea behind…
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Divestmentgate, Ctd.
This may be the first time Perlblog has inspired real ire on campus, and the heat is coming from the left (which is ironic if you’ve read most of the other items in this space). To backtrack, earlier this week I wrote a post about how Wash U’s nascent “divestment” movement — which seeks to…
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In Response to Perlblog: Why Divestment is the Real Activism Through Capitalism
[This op-ed is written in response to Steven Perlberg’s article, No, Wash U Shouldn’t Divest From Fossil Fuels — Yet] First, let’s get our facts straight. Contrary to what Steven Perlberg’s article suggests, the divestment campaign does not mandate investments in renewable energy, such as a “rural Oregon algae factory,” as he so colorfully puts…
