Student Campaigns for Fossil Fuel Divestment: Will They Make a Difference?

Divestment is the new wave in student environmental activism: urging universities to dispose of their investments in fossil fuel companies.  The idea is to demonstrate that students � and their universities � want nothing to do with the carbon economy.  Students at hundreds of universities have joined the movement.

But is this an effective approach to climate activism?  Will it have a real impact, reducing our emissions of greenhouse gases?  I examine these questions in my most recent blog post at Alternatives Journal.

And as I explain there, I see divestment as only a symbolic action -- merely a distraction from the concrete actions that are necessary to make a real difference on climate change.  But feel free to disagree � I welcome debate on this!