Professors answers students’ demand divesting from fossil fuels

From Legal Insurrection

“Two students at St John’s College wrote to Andrew Parker, the principal bursar, this week requesting a meeting to discuss the protesters’ demands, which are that the college ‘declares a climate emergency and immediately divests from fossil fuels.’ They say that the college, the richest in Oxford, has £8 million of its £551 million endowment fund invested in BP and Shell.

“Professor Parker responded with a provocative offer. ‘I am not able to arrange any divestment at short notice,’ he wrote. ‘But I can arrange for the gas central heating in college to be switched off with immediate effect. Please let me know if you support this proposal.’”

The school newspaper says “Oxford students have been occupying St. John’s College since Wednesday in protest of the school’s investments in fossil fuels. Dozens of students have reportedly set up camp in the front quad with signs and banners, vowing to remain until their demands are met.”

https://legalinsurrection.com/2020/02/professor-offers-to-turn-off-the-heat-after-students-protest-fossil-fuels/