Posted on 05/25/2015 5:24:54 AM PDT by Libloather
Almost 70 Oxford alumni have symbolically handed back their degrees to criticise the university’s weak policy on fossil fuels investment – which excludes only direct investment in oil sands and coal but fails to address other money invested in unsustainable sources of energy.
Oxford University announced last week it would maintain its position of not having direct investment in high-risk oil sands and coal; it also pledged to follow environmental and social criteria for its investment.
However, many have noted this policy does not go far enough, since it doesn’t rule out investment in all dirty energy sources. As a protest against the decision, some Oxford graduates have symbolically handed back their degrees on Saturday, calling for the school to take serious action against climate change.
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Does that mean it really didn't happen as they drove away in their brand new Lexus?
Well, let’s see: if after obtaining an Ox degree one’s head is still demonstrably useless, giving back the degree isn’t a “protest”, it’s a fair exchange.
But left them on their resume's....
Proving it is just a form of snobbish toilet paper anyway.
that’s exactly right. It only counts if they stop TELLING everyone they went to Oxford.
that’s exactly right. It only counts if they stop TELLING everyone they went to Oxford.
Academia’s most recent low.
If your so shallow and unable to have an objective and unbiased approach to debates and situations to do such a thing then the give-back should be accepted and all records of ever attending the college be purged.
Such an embarrassment to open debate and thinking.
Typical. Luddites are never knowledgeable about science. So called fossil fuels have nothing to do with fossils and everything to do with the structure of the earth. Old oil wells refill. New sources of oil are discovered far in excess of potential use. Known supplies will last 500 years even with substantial increase in use. The return of CO2 to the atmosphere increases plant growth exponentially. There is no downside to the use of petro chemicals other than to aggravate those who believe windmills and solar rocks (panels) are superior energy producers.
If I were the university I would send them letters indicating that their request has been granted and degrees are now null and void. That would shut the idiots up.
Kinda like John K. Heinz throwing someone else's medals over the White House fence.
He wound up being a labor union big shot and sent his kids to Polish "Young Pioneers" camps for the summer.
Then he abandoned his family and he now lives off his fat pension, paid for by the proletariat, and sails his yacht around the world.
Great guy, like most liberals.
If they truly believed in what they are doing they would remove those degrees from their resumes and publicly inform the employers of such,
If you really believe in it, make a real sacrifice, you self-absorbed morons.
Who ever said “fossil fuels” were unsustainable? Partly, it depends on what is meant by “fossil fuels”.
What are commonly called “fossil fuels”, i.e., petroleum, natural gas, coal or some combinatian of all these sources, all have substitutes as their natural supply “diminishes”. Even the most “depleted” petroleum or natural gas well still has vast quantities of what are presently considered to be “unrecoverable” residue, but left for a period of time, the well replenishes, sometimes to the degree of productivity.
“Fossil fuels” are in fact many times from largely abiotic sources. Natural gas and some of the lighter hydrocarbons are formed in the earth’s crust, in a zone called the Mohorovicic discontinuity, a boundary layer between the outer stony mantle of the planet and the deeper molten layers. At the temperatures and pressures there, elements and compounds that abound on the surface of the earth behave quite differently. There is uncombined hydrogen found at that depth, which is combining and dissociating freely from many other compounds, most particularly carbon, which is also largely dissociated. Some of these compounds seep into the stony mantle above, and become the petroleum and natural gas deposits. Some, in fact, work quite close to the surface, or are thrust there by upheavals of the earth’s crust. Coal is largely elemental carbon combined with several varieties of hydrocarbons in varying degrees of mixture.
To be sure, there are some deposits of coal, natural gas and petroleum formed by heat and pressure, from pockets of formerly living organisms, by a process called Thermal Depolymerization, a process that can be duplicated in the laboratory, and has even been scaled up to industrial applications, for the reduction of organic waste streams, such as from slaughterhouses or processing plants. This could even be applied to sewage sludge, which makes a pretty good and clean form of kerogen, the part of crude oil that is refined into the myriad of petroleum-derived products that grace our lives today. (Most of what else is in crude oil are minerals and some saline water.)
In many of the “modern-day” universities, there is more gobbledigook and downright misinformation presented to the prospective graduates than even back in the Middle Ages, when the principle business of universities was to preserve and catalogue the wisdom inherited from the glory days of Greece and Rome.
“Symbolically” means the same thing as bull****.
Or their Rolls Royces to get on their private jets so they can get to their beach houses which has the AC set at 73 degrees.
Exactly what I think.
We can assume they all walked or swam home. Course that would produce evil CO2 so there is only one real solution.
Pray America is waking
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