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Money and Morality

Why Divestment From Fossil Fuels is Our Best Bet
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Money and Morality

Why Divestment From Fossil Fuels is Our Best Bet
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Climate Change Math

  • 350 parts per million
  • 2 degrees celcius
  • Fossil fuel reserves=~2000 gtns
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Fossil Fuel Business Model

  • $271 billion
  • 2012 profits for Oil, Gas & Coal Companies Operating in the U.S. and Canada
  • If this figure represented a country’s GDP, it would rank 36th in the world, between Singapore and Chile.
  • In this 112th Congress alone, oil, gas and coal interests have given over $20 million of this “dirty energy monehelf to drilling.
  • y” to our Senators and Representatives, to inflpuence their votes around industry-friendly measures from dismantling the power of regulatory bodies like the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), to approving the Keystone pipeline, to opening up the outer-continental s
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If it's Wrong to Wreck the Planet then it's wrong to profit from the wrecka

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Why Divest?

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How Do We Divest?

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Resources

  • Profits for Oil, Gas & Coal Companies Operating in the U.S. and Canada$271 billion the world, between Singapore and Chile.
  • If this figure represented a country’s GDP, it would rank 36th in
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Is the Carbon Bubble ReaL?

  • World Bank warrior spearheading the fight against climate change (Nov 6) The Guardian
  • Could Norway's sovereign wealth fund join coal divestment trend? (Nov 6, 2013) Green Times
  • 'Unburnable' carbon fuels investment concerns (nov 7, 2013) the guardian
  • Swedish pension funds urged to dump fossil fuel holdings (Sept 2013) Financial Times
  • Oil majors under pressure to curb spending (Nov 5) Financial Times

Getting carbon out of your portfolio is tricky
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/getting-carbon-out-of-your-portfolio...

11 Reasons to Divest from the Fossil Fuel Industry
A future without oil, coal, and gas companies is being forged by individual, institutional and religious investorshttps://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/23-7

Socially Responsible Funds
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socially_responsible_investing
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Getting carbon out of your portfolio is tricky
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/getting-carbon-out-of-your-portfolio...

11 Reasons to Divest from the Fossil Fuel Industry
A future without oil, coal, and gas companies is being forged by individual, institutional and religious investorshttps://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/23-7

Socially Responsible Funds
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socially_responsible_investing
Photo by Philippe 2009

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