How to get your university to divest from fossil fuels
Students are pressuring their universities to divest from fossil fuels. Here s how to do the same.
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2021-04-28 21:40:16 UTC
University of Michigan students know a little something about how difficult it can be to get a resistant administration to stop investing in fossil fuels.
Even convincing the school to greenlight a committee to just explore the issue was a hair-pulling hassle. In 2015, a group of University of Michigan law students tried to do just that but basically got the middle finger from the university, says Jonathan Morris, a University of Michigan Ph.D. student who has long been involved in divestment efforts.