Opinion
The Economic Case for Fossil Fuel Divestment
By Henry Labalme, '84, Jessie Saacke '85, Brian Concannon '84, Alex Prud'homme '85, Sarah Buffum Prud'homme '85 and Al Bucknam '83 | December 6, 2018Since the fossil fuel divestment movement was conceived in 2011, in a large part at Middlebury, more than 1,000 universities, corporations, pension funds, cities (New York, London, Paris and Stockholm to name a few) and the entire country of Ireland — have committed to divesting more than $6 trillion ...