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How Bill McKibben's radical idea of fossil-fuel divestment transformed the climate debate

  • Written by Todd Schifeling, Assistant Professor at the Fox School of Business, Temple University
imageA protest against fossil fuels at a coal mine in 2016.Rikuti, CC BY-SA

“We need to view the fossil-fuel industry in a new light. It has become a rogue industry, reckless like no other force on Earth. It is Public Enemy Number One to the survival of our planetary civilization.”

With these words, environmental activist Bill McKibben...

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