Students and Alumni Push Boston College to Divest From Fossil Fuels
“filed a complaint with the Massachusetts attorney general’s office”
This is a reminder that Catholic institutions are not immune to climate change activism.
Inside Higher Ed reports:
Fossil Fuel Fight Escalates to State Attorney General
Students and alumni at Boston College have pushed the Roman Catholic institution to divest from fossil fuels for nearly a decade. On Tuesday, they took their fight into the legal arena.
A group including Boston College alumni, politicians and scientists filed a complaint with the Massachusetts attorney general’s office, arguing that Boston College trustees have violated their fiduciary duty by refusing to divest college endowment funds from fossil fuel companies.
“The Trustees of Boston College have failed to consider the charitable purposes of the institution and the purposes of the institutional fund by financially supporting the degradation of the climate, widespread damage to ecological and human health, and massive injuries to environmental and social equity,” the complaint said.
The complaint follows years of conflict between students and Boston College administrators over climate change issues and fossil fuel investments. Student activists say they’ve faced immense pressure from administrators to drop the issue and have been threatened with academic probation for speaking out against the college’s fossil fuel investments. Boston College maintains a position it has held for years: divestment from fossil fuel companies is not an effective means of addressing climate change.
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They could start by turning off the heat, hot water, and electricity in the dorms and classrooms. That way they are not using fossil fuels.
Cover the football field with solar panels. So much sun in that part of the country…
Better yet, tear them down and give the wood to the poor for fuel.
They can burn beaver, deer, and coyote poop in the dorm rooms. Gun-free, trap-free Massachusetts has a surplus of all those. And they’ll never run short of Democratic bu*hit.
Again with the fossil fuel nonsense. It’s like going to see Bachman Turner Overdrive and all they play is Takin’ Care of Business.
Easy fix……Increase the Course Fees by 25% (cash up front) and bury the Uni property in cheap Chinese Solar Panels and Windmills which will need replacement every 3 years via a cash levy on each student.