Showing posts with label divestment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label divestment. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 23, 2014

So the Upshot of the Marches and Demonstrations is Divestment?






Hm.

Interesting.

As surely everyone on earth knows by now, there has been a vast outpouring of climate change activism in recent days, hundreds of thousands taking to the streets in New York alone, perhaps millions all over the world, showing solidarity with one another and demonstrating the breadth and depth of interest in doing something about the imminent peril represented by the specter of Climate Change.

And Behold: Our Betters have heard our cries.

There will be some changes made, starting with the divestment of dozens of investment funds and foundations (150 of them? More?) from fossil fuels.



http://www.democracynow.org/2014/9/22/heirs_of_billionaire_oil_tycoon_john
That's a pretty big deal.

It seems to have come suddenly after decades of disinterest and denial by the high and the mighty regarding the constantly worsening climate chaos that has engulfed the world and already wiped out any number of species and plenty of the Rabble. Why now?

Perhaps they've been told forcefully enough for them to listen that there is nowhere to run, nowhere to hide, and they had better get right with their minds or it's all over for them too?

Hm.

Could be.

We'll see.

Meanwhile, Free the Polar Bear! Now!