Jonathan Busch has been a researcher at the Sustainability Research Institute at Leeds since 2011 and his research focuses on transitions to a low carbon and resource efficient economy.
Your Money or your Morals: Capitalism and Fossil Fuel Divestment
The fossil fuel divestment campaign has become one of the most rapidly growing divestment movements in history and has unified an impressive diversity of supporters—from liberal Californian universities to the Rockefeller’s family trust. But the contradictions between divestment and the logic of neoliberalism are enduring, and arguments between campaigners and their opponents are typically framed by questions relating to efficiency, feasibility, and the ethics of using fossil fuels.
October 18, 2017