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Re "A New Divestment Focus on Campus: Fossil Fuels" (Business Day, Sept. 6):
Divestment from fossil energy holdings strikes some as extreme. If that were true, it would be fitting: we are faced with an extreme problem. Consciously carrying out a destructive and irreversible type of geoengineering on the planet — which is what we are doing with carbon dioxide emissions — strikes me as being more extreme. If divestment changes the political calculus at all for dealing with this problem, it will have been worth it.
The road to divesting our economy of fossil energy will be long and complicated, but eventually we must stop investing in our own collective destruction.
BENJAMIN FRANTA
Cambridge, Mass., Sept. 8, 2013
The writer, a Ph.D. candidate in applied physics at Harvard, is an organizer of Divest Harvard.
To the Editor:
Universities like Harvard claim that divesting from fossil fuel companies will both lower returns and fail to reduce climate change. In failing to reduce climate change, they are right. Their individual actions won't decisively influence companies or stop global warming. No one's will.
Climate change is a collective challenge. But unless individual institutions start committing to clean energy, no momentum will build for collective action.
Divestment may not be the best route to stopping climate change, and it certainly is not the only one. But it is a start. Universities that want to teach students about civic-mindedness and engaging the great issues of the day can divest as both an investment in a livable future and an opportunity to embrace a pedagogical moment.
PAUL WAPNER
Takoma Park, Md., Sept. 6, 2013
The writer is a professor of global environmental politics, American University.
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