December 17, 2012
Harvard Needs Remedial Energy Math
Wind and solar power cannot possibly meet the world's growing need for more electricity.
By ROBERT BRYCE
Investing
in and using fossil fuels is so wrong it should be seen as the
equivalent of support for apartheid. That is the message being promoted
by 350.org
, the organization headed by environmental activist Bill McKibben.
Over
the past month or so, Mr. McKibben and a rotating cast of activists
have held rallies in 21 U.S. cities encouraging students to campaign for
ridding their university endowments of investments in coal, oil and
natural gas. The effort is modeled on the 1980s effort to get
universities to shed investments in companies that did business in
apartheid-era South Africa. A few small schools, including Unity College
in Maine and Hampshire College in Massachusetts, have responded to the
pressure and agreed to rid their portfolios of fossil-fuel stocks.
One of the slogans used in 350.org
's divestment campaign is "Do the math." OK. Let's.
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