Benjamin Franta is a JD-PhD student at Stanford Law School and the Stanford Department of History, where he studies the history of climate science, fossil fuel companies, and climate denial. He has a PhD in applied physics from Harvard University and is a former research fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
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Education of an Activist
In 2012, hardly anyone had heard of fossil fuel divestment. Today, more than a thousand institutions with more than $14 trillion between them have divested in one form or another. The impossible became conceivable, then inevitable. Change can and does happen, with sustained effort.
September 30, 2020
