Understanding the demands and impacts of the eight-day McMaster Divest hunger strike The McMaster Divest hunger strike, which has garnered national media attention over its eight-day duration, has come to an end, and McMaster University has not made any further pledges to divest from fossil fuel .
interests trying to water down the language, trying to negotiate on some of the science. but the science is absolutely clear. we need to get out of coal, oil and gas as soon as possible. there is no get out ofjail free cards, we have to be careful about false solutions that are sometimes pushed, ways of capturing and storing carbon underground, which we can t do at anything like the scale required. we have to get beyond the fossil fuel vested interests and the views of countries that have tried to hold this back. we need to make as much progress as we can now, this year, through the 2020s. as you mentioned, australia is one of the most vulnerable developed countries in the world. what is the most crucial problem facing its climate crisis? well, we did a recent survey that indicated 80% of australians have experienced some form of extreme weather disaster in recent years. devastating floods, fires, heat waves. we also see tremendous damage to our critical ecosystems
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On Mar. 8, McMaster Divest announced in an Instagram post that at least six students will be hunger striking, in order to put pressure on the university to meet their demands.