“I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy…
I hope we don’t have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.”
~ Thomas Edison
Are you keeping up with the fast pace of fossil fuel divestment progress? Below is your monthly news and tools roundup, along with some inspiring thoughts from your fellow signatories.
Divest-Invest Individual Voices
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Generations at Risk
“I have four grown children, and a number of grand nieces and nephews. If they were in immediate physical danger, I would do anything to protect them. I cannot imagine standing by, when I know the dangers they will face if we continue to drag our heels on addressing carbon emissions and their consequent impact on the climate. We must stop pretending that this will somehow just ‘go away.’ This is not someone else’s problem.”
~ Pledge signatory Ray Gormley in Canada
From Deep Roots to Big Picture
“I want to stop funding climate change! I cannot, in good conscience, be a strong advocate for addressing climate change while continuing to profit from fossil fuel companies. Divestment is about questioning the economic roots of the climate crisis. We cannot continue to invest in financial and business models that undermine climate stability when there are viable alternatives.”
~ Pledge signatory Laura Hamilton in Canada
“By accident of birth, I am one of the human beings in the Global North, living in a society with huge wealth and infrastructure created through extraction … the nations (and rich corporations) of the Global North must pay our climate debt and our debt from colonial extraction in general. For me, taking the personal wealth I have accumulated out of any investments in the fossil fuel industry is but a first step in setting things right. Together, North and South, we must all figure out how to bend this wealth to the purposes of international cooperation and solidarity.”
~ Pledge signatory Mira Brown in Massachusetts