Putting the Big Squeeze on Big Oil, Coal, & Gas

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Jan/Feb 2013

Putting the Big Squeeze on Big Oil, Coal, & Gas

In the 1980s, the financial industry said that divesting from companies doing business in South Africa was unreasonable. But people of conscience who didn't want to profit from oppression divested anyway. Fast forward to 2013. We have another issue of global impact where government is failing to lead, and where people of conscience may choose to divest -- the climate crisis.