‘Climate justice’ Group at Northwestern University Calls for School to Become ‘Fossil Free Campus’
“divest its endowment from fossil fuels and reinvest in the Evanston community and in life-giving institutions”
Student groups really have no business making demands like this. They’ll be gone in a few years.
Campus Reform reports:
‘Climate justice’ group calls on Northwestern University to become ‘fossil free campus’
A radical environmentalist group at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, is pushing the school to adopt an even more radically green agenda.
The group, “Fossil Free Northwestern,” calls itself “a diverse coalition of students that has been fighting for climate justice at Northwestern University for over 10 years.” The group calls on the university to “divest its endowment from fossil fuels and reinvest in the Evanston community and in life-giving institutions.”
The group published its call to Northwestern on Nov. 18 in a guest essay in the Evanston Roundtable.
“Increasingly extreme summer heat waves in Chicago and across the Midwest are proving to be life-threatening, with the most severe impacts on predominantly Black and Brown communities,” the group wrote.
It pointed a finger at Northwestern, claiming: “In Evanston, the No. 1 source of direct greenhouse gas emissions is Northwestern University.”
Though the university has already made its commitment to pursuing a green agenda clear, the green activists asserted that the school is not going far enough, and accused it of “greenwashing”: “Northwestern aims to reach carbon neutrality by 2050, but net zero goals are simply a way to greenwash a lack of action as pollution continues unabated. The university has failed to release detailed emissions and sustainability reports since 2022, despite claiming that they are on track for annual sustainability goals.”
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Northwestern should simply stop using fossil fuels for a week to satisfy these morons who should be in an insane asylum and not in a university. A week without fossil fuels would mean no electricity, no HVAC, no cooked food and no food deliveries. These morons should be subject to the way things were before humans discovered how to control fire.
I noticed you didn’t mention heating during the winter, or gasoline for the cars or mini-bikes or only “renewable resource” electric for their Teslas
and if I may recommend another: rather than a week, how about for the full year
but, please! give these children rachmones: they’ve been brainwashed since kindergarten by simpletons acting as teachers
Cornell’s out-going president announced in her last speech as president (delivered during alumni-reunion week and after loud pro-Hamas demonstrators were ushered out) that Cornell was about to initiate operation of a solar farm in Batavia, NY, that would satisfy all the Ithaca campus’s electricity needs. My classmate sitting next to me and I looked at each other and shook our heads in disbelief. (I grew up 10 miles east of Batavia, and Don grew up 35 miles east, and we both knew that solar array would provide little electricity, given its high latitude and its cloudy and snowy winters). The president had been misinformed: the Batavia facility will be one of SIX solar farms that, together, will be intended to supply 20% of the electricity used by Cornell’s Ithaca campus. These young’uns at Northwestern are also seriously misinformed.
I’m pretty sure there are no fossils worth anything under Northwestern’s dirt, but I guess if these people really want to, they can dig it all up and check.
At first I thought by fossils you mean the old professors who typically hang on long after they have had their last new idea. My bad.
Those are fossil fools. Easy mistake to make.
And I made my comment before reading yours.
A fossil-free campus. H’mm. One way to get rid of tenured professors.
Bless their little dimly lit heads…perched were it is, the campus on the shores of Lake Michigan would become an ice block in a few days. Chicago can go 2-3 weeks without sun in fall and winter. lol
I don’t they could survive until this coming Spring, if they really went fossil free. If Spring came earlier than normal, I’d bet half the students would have transfer applications to other colleges by Summer Break.
{need an edit function on comments] I don’t think they…
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