Last updated on 04/06/2016
Jane Cramer and John Davidson have an Op-Ed in the RG, here:
The resolution calls on the UO Foundation to:
Sell its current investments in fossil fuel extraction companies.
Refrain from any future investment in fossil fuel extraction companies.
Create a process for groups to put policy proposals to the foundation board.
Create new transparency and accountability mechanisms.
Include students and faculty in setting foundation policy.
The resolution also calls on the UO president to support these requests to the foundation.
If the Senate and university community as a whole are seriously concerned about climate change than UO should divest from every major CO2 contributor (energy, resource extraction, heavy industry, transportation, etc.)
Here’s a critique of divestment: https://energyathaas.wordpress.com/2013/12/16/is-demonizing-big-carbon-a-strategy-or-a-copout/
Thx, poster,. of course, But why should professors bother to think beneath the surface and then wonder why opinions are ignored?