Fossil fuel companies must be sent a clear market signal that they need to start leading and not obstructing and denying in response to climate change.

Princeton should divest from fossil fuels as an urgent first step towards climate justice.

Princeton should divest from fossil fuels as an urgent first step towards climate justice.

Princeton should divest from fossil fuels as an urgent first step towards climate justice.

Princeton should divest from fossil fuels as an urgent first step towards climate justice.

Princeton should divest from fossil fuels as an urgent first step towards climate justice.

Princeton should divest from fossil fuels as an urgent first step towards climate justice.

Princeton should divest from fossil fuels as an urgent first step towards climate justice.

Princeton should divest from fossil fuels as an urgent first step towards climate justice.

Princeton should divest from fossil fuels as an urgent first step towards climate justice.

We are already in the bleak future, and it will only get worse. Climate change is here, causing mass migration and suffering. Technology exists to supply alternative energy. Princeton should be a leader by divesting from fossil fuels and protecting us and future generations.

Princeton should divest from fossil fuels as an urgent first step towards climate justice.

Princeton should divest from fossil fuels as an urgent first step towards climate justice.

Princeton should divest from fossil fuels as an urgent first step towards climate justice.

Princeton should divest from fossil fuels as an urgent first step towards climate justice.

Princeton should divest from fossil fuels as an urgent first step towards climate justice.

Princeton should divest from fossil fuels as an urgent first step towards climate justice.

Princeton should divest from fossil fuels as an urgent first step towards climate justice.

Princeton should divest from fossil fuels as an urgent first step towards climate justice.

Princeton should divest from fossil fuels as an urgent first step towards climate justice.

Princeton should divest from fossil fuels as an urgent first step towards climate justice.

Princeton should divest from fossil fuels as an urgent first step towards climate justice.

Princeton should divest from fossil fuels as an urgent first step towards climate justice.

Princeton should divest from fossil fuels as an urgent first step towards climate justice.

Princeton should divest from fossil fuels as an urgent first step towards climate justice.

Princeton should divest from fossil fuels as an urgent first step towards climate justice.

Princeton should divest from fossil fuels as an urgent first step towards climate justice.

Princeton should divest from fossil fuels as an urgent first step towards climate justice.

Princeton should divest from fossil fuels as an urgent first step towards climate justice.

Princeton should divest from fossil fuels as an urgent first step towards climate justice.

Princeton should divest from fossil fuels as an urgent first step towards climate justice.

Princeton should divest from fossil fuels as an urgent first step towards climate justice.

Princeton should divest from fossil fuels as an urgent first step towards climate justice.

Princeton should divest from fossil fuels as an urgent first step towards climate justice.

Princeton should divest from fossil fuels as an urgent first step towards climate justice.

Lives are lost every day in the climate catastrophe, so we’re beyond the point of do or die. The transition from fossil fuels to green energy cannot happen soon enough, and institutions like ours must lead the way. Princeton has committed to carbon neutrality by 2046—not soon enough—but this plan requires the logically corresponding action of divestment from fossil fuels, rendering the industry as unprofitable as it is unsustainable.

“You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words. And yet I'm one of the lucky ones. People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!” – Greta Thunberg

Princeton should divest from fossil fuels as an urgent first step towards climate justice.

Princeton should divest from fossil fuels as an urgent first step towards climate justice.

Princeton should divest from fossil fuels as an urgent first step towards climate justice.

Princeton should divest from fossil fuels as an urgent first step towards climate justice.

Princeton should divest from fossil fuels as an urgent first step towards climate justice.

It's time for Princeton to join this movement. We can't afford to wait any longer.

Clean energy investments help to stop climate change, save biodiversity, ensure environmental justice, grow and modernize our economy, and allow for energy independence. Fossil fuel investments do the opposite of all these things. Fossil fuels are also a finite resource and dying industry. The long-term ROI for clean energy, a limitless resource, will be astronomical. The science, morality, and finances are clear - we must divest from fossil fuels.

Princeton should divest from fossil fuels as an urgent first step towards climate justice.

Princeton should divest from fossil fuels as an urgent first step towards climate justice.

After a year that has shown us both our major failures and successes in facing a different global challenge, I would strongly hope that Princeton takes the decisive and concrete action of divestment as we face the much larger global climate crisis.

Without a principled and clear commitment to climate justice, all the talk about any other kind of justice will sound insincere and unconvincing at best.

Princeton should divest from fossil fuels as an urgent first step towards climate justice.

Climate change is unleashing a global catastrophe that will impact the planet and the life of our children and students in devastating ways. Fossil fuels are a major factor in this crisis. We need to stop subsidizing oil companies and support alternative green energy now before it is too late.

Princeton should divest from fossil fuels as an urgent first step towards climate justice.

Princeton should divest from fossil fuels as an urgent first step towards climate justice.

Princeton should divest from fossil fuels as an urgent first step towards climate justice.

Future generations will not understand why Princeton, a school with such vast resources, put money over the health of the earth. We can easily do the right thing here and make sure that we are not complicit in any further contribution to climate change.

Climate change has already had devastating effects on communities in some developing nations, and unchecked, it will have catastrophic consequences around the world, including in the US. The University should fight for the future of our students, and of humanity, in every way possible, including divesting the endowment of holdings in fossil fuel companies. Faculty and staff should insist on retirement funds that are divested of fossil fuels. Keep the carbon in the ground!

“I support the movement demanding that all universities, particularly Princeton, as well as other key institutions terminate expeditiously and on a timescale that does not interfere with their central educational mission, their current investments in firms that extract and sell fossil fuels, and avoid all such investments in the future”

It is impossible to reconcile Princeton’s claim to be “In the Nation’s Service and the Service of Humanity” with its refusal to reckon with the systems of exclusion, domination, and appropriation which have enabled its wealth and privileges, such as investing in and profiting from companies whose activities harm people and planet. Divesting from fossil fuels would be one small step in this reckoning and in the service of humanity.

Divestment is ethically urgent and can be done without harming the endowment. Given Princeton's stature, we should be in the ethical vanguard not reluctant followers. The reputational costs of refusing to divest from an anachronistic and immoral industry are growing by the day. Let our actions affirm an emergent world liberating from an industry with a long history of undermining the scientific projections of its own researchers and bankrolling climate denialism. Let's help safeguard the world o

This seems to me like a no-brainer, considering the floods, hurricanes, fires....need I go on?

It appalls me that we're well past risking the future of this planet and our children's life on it for the sake of profit and convenience and out of fear of change. Divesting from fossil fuels is not only ethically necessary but also inescapable. Let's do it now.

“Universities cannot both teach climate science and invest in the oil industry which has promoted our dependence on fossil fuels and caused irreversible damage to our planet. The future of our students and of countless young people across the world should come before financial dividends.”

Given the gravity of our climate crisis and the urgency of acting now rather than later, Princeton has an obligation to present and future generations divest from companies that make the production of fossil fuels a major component of their business.

Princeton should divest from fossil fuels as an urgent first step towards climate justice.

Princeton's scientists and other faculty are among the leaders in modeling climate change and exploring its political and ethical implications. The university should show, by its own actions, in teaching, in its own emissions, and in its investments, that this theoretical understanding has practical consequences.

"Scientists and scholars in Princeton and around the world have catalogued in great detail the present and future impacts of climate change. But, to borrow a thought from Karl Marx, the ultimate point of all this work that the University supports should be to change what is happening. It is past time to change the practice of continuing to invest in fossil fuels."

Princeton should divest from fossil fuels as an urgent first step towards climate justice.

Princeton should divest from fossil fuels as an urgent first step towards climate justice.

Princeton supports diverse and important work on climate in keeping with institutional ideals; the investments that enable it should reflect the same principles.

Princeton should divest from fossil fuels as an urgent first step towards climate justice.

Princeton should divest from fossil fuels as an urgent first step towards climate justice.

Princeton should divest from fossil fuels as an urgent first step towards climate justice.

Princeton should divest from fossil fuels as an urgent first step towards climate justice.

Princeton should divest from fossil fuels as an urgent first step towards climate justice.

Princeton should divest from fossil fuels as an urgent first step towards climate justice.

Princeton should divest from fossil fuels as an urgent first step towards climate justice.

The climate crisis is already upon us. Princeton urgently needs to divest from fossil fuels and invest in a clean energy future.

Princeton should divest from fossil fuels as an urgent first step towards climate justice.

Does anything else matter if we refuse to stop climate change?

Princeton should divest from fossil fuels as an urgent first step towards climate justice.

Princeton should divest from fossil fuels as an urgent first step towards climate justice.

Princeton should divest from fossil fuels as an urgent first step towards climate justice.

Princeton should divest from fossil fuels as an urgent first step towards climate justice.

Princeton should divest from fossil fuels as an urgent first step towards climate justice.

Princeton should divest from fossil fuels as an urgent first step towards climate justice.

Princeton should divest from fossil fuels as an urgent first step towards climate justice.

Lecturer in the Humanities Council and the Program in Linguistics

Princeton should divest from fossil fuels as an urgent first step towards climate justice.

Princeton should divest from fossil fuels as an urgent first step towards climate justice.

Distinguished Curator and Lecturer

Princeton should divest from fossil fuels as an urgent first step towards climate justice.