The letter is addressed to institutions in the United States and the UK and the signatories include former President Mary Robinson, multiple IPCC authors, Nobel Peace Prize recipients, a former Archbishop of Canterbury, and university chancellors.
It calls for an end to partnering with the fossil fuel industry for research aimed at addressing the climate crisis which it argues the industry created and continues to perpetuate. "For climate research to be truly in the public good, it must be free from the ties of the special interest groups that put us here in the first place," said signatory Dr Jacquelyn Gill, Associate Professor of Paleoecology and Plant Ecology at the University of Maine, in the US.
The letter alleges that university research partnerships with fossil fuel companies play a key role in greenwashing these companies’ reputations, providing them with much-needed scientific and cultural legitimacy.
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Hie about Universities stop taking funding from China ?
Mary Robinson? ‘Nuff said 🤷♂️
Any more great ideas by these (academia) government funded zombies ?🤮🤮
Why should we discard fossil fuels... we have no sustainable replacement at the minute!! Would you discard a ham sandwich when starving in the hope that a beef one appears
Time to cut magic money tree DB pensions for academics.
Sure it’s easy to call for. We can call for lots of things. I wonder how many universities receive money from that industry and if they will give that up.
But aren’t we all tied to the fossil fuel industry until we stop using oil based plastics, electricity from fossil fuels, etc etc. Demonising an industry that we all still rely on is a bit weird x
Universities are hotbeds of woke greed.
Without fertilizer made using fossil fuel 3 billion people would not have enought to eat......