{"entry":{"title":"What Fossil Fuel Divestment Can and Can't Do","date":"Sat, 03 May 2014 04:00:00 +0000","author":"Neil Bhatiya, The Century Foundation","description":"
In his cover story for\u00a0<\/span>The Nation<\/em>\u00a0(\u201c<\/span>The New Abolitionism<\/a>\u201d), editor-at-large and\u00a0<\/span>MSNBC host Christopher Hayes<\/a>\u00a0wrote an engaging and passionate argument for radical action to fight climate change, endorsing the efforts of\u00a0<\/span>environmentalist Bill McKibben and others to block the Keystone XL pipeline<\/a>\u00a0and to pressure investors to divest from fossil fuels, all toward the ultimate goal of leaving these resources in the ground, unburned. While a laudable goal, divestment is not an optimal one; definitive climate action requires further steps, and the reasons why are worth further exploration.<\/span><\/p>","original_link":"http:\/\/tcf.org\/blog\/detail\/what-fossil-fuel-divestment-can-and-cant-do"}}