From four years ago... https://eelegal.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Rockefeller-Way-Report-Final.pdf
...Along with Coll, as a bastion of climate activists, the Columbia Journalism School was likely an eager participant in the plot to smear Exxon. At least seven CJS professors are directly connected to green activist billionaire George Soros, receiving either awards or significant amounts of money from the socialist philanthropist. Moreover, several CJS alumni board members are prominent climate change advocates, including Scott Dodd, and Thomas Watkins.
This report proposes that the assault on ExxonMobil was neither the idea of Eric Schneiderman, nor the Columbia Journalism School. Instead, the Rockefellers, with the help of other billionaires and prominent climate activists, carefully orchestrated both the legal and media investigations into ExxonMobil in an effort to achieve their goal of collapsing the fossil fuel industry to gain control over the energy sector
... Now some might wonder why the elite would be interested in controlling the energy sector but most would remember the elite have long been concerned about population control.
Turn off the heat in the winter, the AC in the summer and the respirators whenever covid rears it's political expedient head again. Bingo! Useless eaters down the drain by the thousands. They are outta here! Except for any vital fluids or parts that might be useful for making lamp shades or other robot produced goods.
Many players and dynamics. Add in UN Agenda 21.
I do know Columbia University has been America’s Marxist socialist HQ, after Frankfurt School alumni immigrated to America in the 1940’s and targeted teaching colleges.
U Mich played a big part, too, as PBS/NPR incubator. Other universities swung left as the progressive infection spread.