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Bread and Circuses (@breadandcircuses) · 11/2022 · Tröts: 4.383 · Folger: 9.626
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Excerpts below from two articles on the same subject: the huge and damaging effect Big Oil's big money has on climate research at universities.
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Oil companies have long influenced universities to focus on climate efforts that would enshrine a future for fossil fuels, despite experts’ repeated warnings that the world must stop burning coal, oil, and gas to avert the worst climate impacts.
“The science has been telling us that fossil fuel phase-out is the No 1 thing that we need to focus on, but within our universities, there’s very little research on how to do fossil fuel phase-out,” said Jennie Stephens, a climate justice professor at Maynooth University in Ireland. “This provides some explanation for why society has been so ineffective and inadequate in our responses to the climate crisis.”
An analysis from the think tank Data for Progress found that Exxon Mobil, BP, Chevron, Shell Oil, ConocoPhillips, and Koch Industries donated at least $677 million to 27 U.S. universities from 2010 to 2020. The largest recipients identified were the University of California, Berkeley; the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; and George Mason University.
Fossil fuel industry executives sit on schools’ governing boards, sponsor scholarships and conferences, and seek to influence courses and curricula. By forging partnerships with universities, oil companies gain credibility, chances to recruit future employees, and a way to subtly guide the conversation about how to address climate change toward their preferred solutions.
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This is a travesty.
Either we end capitalism, or capitalism will end us.
ARTICLE 1 ➡️ https://grist.org/accountability/fossil-fuel-funding-influence-university-climate-research/
ARTICLE 2 ➡️ https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/sep/05/universities-fossil-fuel-funding-green-energy
#Science #Education #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #Capitalism
Screenshot from top of article 1. Headline says: "How Big Oil's big money influences climate research. A new study offers the first comprehensive look at the ties between fossil fuel companies and universities." Below this is a photo of an oil pumping rig.
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