Posted by David Katz
This past Sunday, SGA President Sam Harris addressed the entire student body in an email informing the Skidmore community of the school's developing divestment campaign. What is divestment anyway and why is the SGA president blasting out an email to the whole student body about it?
The story began in the fall of 2012 when journalist and activist Bill McKibben authored a seminal piece in Rolling Stone magazine articulating the severity of the climate crisis. McKibben illuminated the two most crucial numbers pertaining to greenhouse gas pollution: 565, the number of gigatons of carbon dioxide that humans can emit in global emissions and still stay below 2