Divestment provides us with a powerful way to crop our ties with this destructive industry and start moving in a novel directionAfter Trump’s decision to exit the Paris climate agreement,many of us are looking for a way to fight back. One of the simplest and most powerful things we can conclude right now is to divest from fossil fuels. What we saw in the Rose Garden on Thursday was Trump and his advisors making a bet. A bet that the scientists have got it all wrong, that climate change is a hoax, and climate action nothing but a globalist scheme to pain the American economy. For most of us,this sort of denial and paranoia is mind-boggling. But every time we invest another dollar in a coal company like Peabody Energy or an oil giant like Exxon, we’re taking the exact same gamble. Related: Donald Trump has ditched the world in favor of mountainous Oil's titans | Jill Abramson Related: Giant Antarctic iceberg 'hanging by a thread', and say scientists Continue reading...
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