Keep it in the ground.
System change not climate change.

Fossil fuel divestment is the removal of investments from companies involved in extracting fossil fuels, in an attempt to reduce global warming by tackling its main cause.

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  • We see this as both a moral imperative and an economic opportunity.
    • Stephen Heintz, president of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, on divesting from fossil fuels, 30 September 2014. Cited in Tim Flannery, Atmosphere of Hope, 2015, pages 117 (ISBN 9780141981048).
  • I think this is part of a process of delegitimising this sector and saying these are odious profits, this is not a legitimate business model.
  • This Agreement [...] aims to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change, [...] including by [...] Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C and [...] Making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate-resilient development.
  • It is clear the transition to a clean energy future is inevitable, beneficial and well underway, and that investors have a key role to play.
  • Reasonably, all these investments are financial dead-ends or ecological disasters.
    • Jacques Dubochet, Parcours, Éditions Rosso, 2018, page 145 (ISBN 9782940560097).
  • We need to rapidly shift away from our dependence on fossil fuels. [...] Nothing less than our future and the fate of humankind depends on how we rise to the climate challenge.

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