When universities accept money from the fossil fuel industry, they demonstrate a complete lack of regard for their students' futures.
Today, high school students are showing that we have way more power in taking climate action than might have been imagined a mere decade ago. We're taking to the streets in global climate strikes on the scale of millions, but outside of the strikes, we need to keep up the pressure for sustainable change from all of our institutions. For my peers and me, that can and must include institutions of higher education.
We should not have to attend schools that associate with the powers that leach away the planet's lifespan with every passing day. As a high school sophomore who will soon be applying to college, I cannot help but be concerned with the hold that the fossil fuel industry has over so many schools. Stanford, for instance, recently approved the construction of a
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