Inside Divestment: The Illiberal Movement to Turn a Generation against Fossil Fuels

Autor/in	Peterson, Rachelle
Institution	National Association of Scholars (NAS)
Titel	Inside Divestment: The Illiberal Movement to Turn a Generation against Fossil Fuels
Quelle	(2015), (300 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	College Students; Investment; Activism; Fuels; Universities; Conservation (Environment); College Faculty; Freedom of Speech; Geographic Regions; Politics; Educational Attainment; Institutional Characteristics; Achievement Rating; Religion; Endowment Funds; Costs; Risk; Trustees; Ethics + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Collegestudent; Investments; Geldanlage; Investiton; Aktivismus; Politischer Protest; Treibstoff; University; Universität; Conservation; Environment; Konservierung; Bewahung; Umwelt; Fakultät; Redefreiheit; Politik; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Achievement; Rating; Leistung; Beurteilung; Leistungsbeurteilung; Stiftungsvermögen; Cost; Kosten; Risiko; Treuhandanstalt; Ethik
Abstract	This report offers a history and analysis of the fossil fuel divestment movement, concentrating on American colleges and universities. The campaign began at a small college near Philadelphia. Early divestors were colleges and universities in the northeastern United States. The vast majority of the educational institutions that have taken divestment pledges are in the United States. Even as the campaign has grown to other institutions in other parts of the world, its advocates remain dominated by students. The report offers a perspective that sees through the oversized projections the divestment movement has cast of itself. It also offers the most extensive encyclopedia of college fossil fuel divestment campaigns published to date. The end of the report provides short essays from scholars and thinkers who have a variety of ideas worth considering. These include Bill McKibben, the architect of the fossil fuel divestment movement; Viscount Matt Ridley, a scientist and popular science writer; Willie Soon, an astrophysicist, and Lord Christopher Monckton, an environmental policy expert; Alex Epstein, author of "The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels"; and William M. Briggs, a statistician. [Additional support for this project was provided by the Weiler Foundation.] (ERIC).
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Update	2020/1/01