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From: Brumar89	5/15/2014 6:12:22 PM
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What is behind the drive to get universities to divest energy stock holdings? ... When I heard McKibben speak last fall to a rally at the New School, he made the point powerfully. The aim of the divestment movement isn't divestment per se. The aim is to lay down a long-lasting antipathy to fossil fuel companies in particular and to capitalism in general among today's college students. ........ McKibben is far from the reluctant innocent that he pretends to be in his memoir. We have an earlier memoir by him, Wandering Home (2005) where he frankly describes his association with the environmental saboteurs, Earth First!, in the 1980s, and his subsequent involvement with that organization. ............ The question is really: to what end? The answer is, sadly, self-delusion. No one doubts that Stanford students are smart, but their intelligence is not much of a defense against irrational enthusiasms that can sweep through a community. What the divestment movement has sold to Stanford students is a bit of flummery. ....... - See more at: mindingthecampus.com

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