McGill University Prof Resigning Over School’s Refusal to Divest From Fossil Fuels
“said he also based his decision on what he calls McGill’s antidemocratic governance system”
You have to give the guy credit for such dedication to his beliefs.
Inside Higher Ed reports:
Quitting Over Fossil Fuels
A professor at McGill University is voluntarily leaving his tenured job next month, in protest of the campus governing board’s recent vote against divesting from fossil fuels.
Gregory Mikkelson, the associate professor, is a philosopher and environmental scientist, which puts divestment squarely within the realm of his own research. But in an interview he said he also based his decision on what he calls McGill’s antidemocratic governance system.
“Being in a school environment, you’re immersed in all these facts about the accelerating deterioration of our planet and how urgent it is to take strong measures to try to relieve and reverse these trends,” Mikkelson said, yet “my own institution refuses to take this small step.”
More than that, he continued, “this is the third time in seven years that the board has refused to divest from fossil fuels.” The first two times, Mikkelson said, McGill’s Board of Governors did so against “the strong basis in the natural sciences, social sciences and humanities” for divestment.
Most recently, in a decision announced in December, he continued, the Montreal board did so “in defiance and denial of an overwhelming mandate” from campus groups. Indeed, every employee and student organization that has considered divestment in recent years — including the large, representative University Senate — has voted in favor. Two other professors on the Board of Governors resigned as elected faculty representatives over the fossil fuel issue last year.
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At least he has convictions that he stands behind unless he was quitting anyway and this is just hot air. I’m sure if we checked we’d find that he doesn’t own a car nor does he heat his house with fossil fuels. If he does I demand he divest!
Divesting from fossil fuels is stupid, and the board knows it. What do you heat with in Canada other than fossil fuels? Wood would work except that there is a limited supply of it. Wind and solar would not work. The man is a fool at best.
Well good. Make sure that he will not be purchasing petroleum for a vehicle nor heating oil or gas to warm his sunny little habitat.
There is something very deeply flawed in academe that it attracts such a vast array of moral reprobates, vomiting forth their vile spew before semi-captive audiences.
I hope this starts a trend.
Bye.
Please don’t let the door hit you on the way out☺