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Ep. 699 The Inane Campus Campaign Against Fossil Fuels

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Now the fashionable trend on college campuses involves campaigns for university administrations to divest from investments connected to fossil fuels. Pierre Desrochers blasts this to smithereens.

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Pierre Desrochers is a professor of geography at the University of Toronto.

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Paper Discussed

A Critique of the Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement in Higher Education

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Pierre Desrochers

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