Entire Unitarian Church Votes to Divest from Fossil Fuels
Published on Sunday, June 29, 2014 by Common Dreams
Entire Unitarian Church Votes to Divest from Fossil Fuels
Church plans to maintain a few shares to engage in shareholder activism for climate movement
- Lauren McCauley, staff writer
Marking a major victory for the climate movement, the assembly of the Unitarian Universalists, representing over 1,000 congregations, voted on Saturday to divest their $175 million endowment from fossil fuel companies.
According to a church spokesperson, the 2,000 delegates in attendance at the General Assembly of the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) meeting in Providence, RI, voted "overwhelmingly" to support a Fossil Fuel Divestment Business Resolution.
We, private citizens and the private and nonprofit sectors, need to take matters into our own hands, and use every strategy we can to convince the government and public at large of our planetary emergency, and that we must act now," said Terry Wiggins, who helped lead the divestment effort.
This is one tactic in an overall strategy in working against overdependence on fossil fuels, Ed Horch, who took part in the vote, told the Providence Journal. Its not going to cause ExxonMobil to go broke, but thats not what its intended to do.
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