The Guardian’s “Keep it in the Ground” campaign, which launched last month in partnership with 350.org’s Fossil Free, is gaining momentum. With 176,000 signatures and counting, it received this week the support of Academics Stand Against Poverty (Asap), an international association focused on helping researchers and teachers enhance their impact on poverty. The group pointedly urges all universities to follow the lead of institutions like Stanford, Syracuse and Glasgow that have committed to divest from fossil fuel holdings. “What does it mean for universities to seek to educate youth and produce leading research in order to better the future, while simultaneously investing in and profiting from the destruction of said future? This position is neither tenable nor ethical,” they wrote. Well put, to say the least.
Top academics demand that universities around the world divest from fossil fuels
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