Students Demanded Disinvestment From Fossil Fuels, A Professor Offered To Turn Off The Gas Heating

[PeteS in CA]

https://hotair.com/archives/john-s-2/2020/01/31/students-demanded-disinvestment-fossil-fuels-professor-offered-turn-off-heat/

Students Demanded Disinvestment From Fossil Fuels, A Professor Offered To Turn Off The Gas Heating

Professor Andrew Parker of St John’s College at Oxford University is my new favorite person. The Times of London reports that a group of students wrote to Professor Parker to discuss demands being made by student protesters about fossil fuel divestment. His response wasn’t what they were expecting:

Professor Parker responded with a provocative offer. “I am not able to arrange any divestment at short notice,” he wrote. “But I can arrange for the gas central heating in college to be switched off with immediate effect. Please let me know if you support this proposal.”

One of the students wrote back and said he would present the proposal but he didn’t think Parker was being appropriately serious. Professor Parker responded ...

Would that US academics had that much intelligence and courage! And wit!!!

[berdie]

That made me chuckle...and cheer!