Posted on 01/31/2020 6:00:56 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Dozens of young people staged a dramatic march from the Capitol to the headquarters of California’s teacher pension fund on Thursday, imploring CalSTRS to withdraw its investments from oil and gas companies.
The children, some drenched in mock oil, participated in a “die-in” at CalSTRS headquarters in West Sacramento, where they said their generation would suffer from the effects of climate change.
“We’re the ones that are vulnerable,” Sophia Jacobs, 12, of Berkeley said.
Their protest marked the latest effort by environmental advocacy groups to press California’s public pension funds to divest from fossil fuel industries.
The California State Teachers’ Retirement System with a $250 billion portfolio and the California Public Employees’ Retirement System with $400 billion in assets generally oppose divesting from legal industries, and each has an environmental sustainability strategy that acknowledges the risks of climate change.
Nonetheless, each fund is facing pressure to do more.
The students outside CalSTRS want the fund to move quickly. They mostly came from Sacramento and the Bay area, with support from a variety of environmental advocacy groups such as Sunrise Movement and Youth vs Apocalypse.
They carried a parade float shaped like an oil tanker down Capitol Mall. Others hoisted a giant skeleton puppet.
Among those attending Thursday’s rally were 14-year-old Elliot Ingle of Berkeley and 12-year-old Amira Lezin of Oakland.
“We really need to be taking action now,” Lezin said.
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I’ve always thought the Left had a childish view of the world. But lately the Left seems to want to emphasize just how childish they are.
Little commies practicing to be big commies.
I saw the word “Bee” and I thought this was satire.
You mean this story is real?
Imagine the hilarity if somebody added black dye to the fake oil, so that the white kids would look like they were wearing blackface.
Even when I was 12, I was smart enough to not be brainwashed or used as a pawn. These useful idiots have zero future as they are completely incapable of independent thought.
Get up off the ground, you dummies!
Too bad the picture above Goebbels wasn’t real.
They need to do a mass suicide to cut down their carbon imprints.
Good point..........
Yes. If the left truly cares about Earf, they need to off themselves en masse. We’ll remember them fondly.
When I was their age, I played sports and video games, and gave zero ***** about politics.
The parents and schools baby. ...parents and schools. ...
What about the teens!? Won’t someone please think of the teens!?
Oh the humanity!
Civilization really doesn’t seem like it’s going to advance much further at this point.
I thought this was a Babylon Bee story.
lol
That song scared me :)
Hall-Bopp comet comes to mind.
Jim Jones too. ..
There’s a good version with the song set to our military blowing shit up.
It’s not impossible for someone to convince these dopes to.
It’s their god, the cause. Some would kill themselves for it in a statement.
psychos
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