In These Times: Divestment goes beyond simply sounding the alarm about climate change to naming a culprit: the fossil fuel industry. The goal is not to hurt companies bottom lines--which a loss of shareholders wont readily accomplish--but to shift popular opinion against the fossil fuel industry and, ultimately, remove its social license to operate.
"Push back. Use social media, use the Internet.'
That was the advice on climate change that former Vice President Al Gore gave to a packed auditorium at South...