On 23 February 2020, The New York Times published a letter to the Editor by Daniel Fernandez ’23 calling on Swarthmore College to divest its endowment of fossil fuel holdings.
I applaud the members of Divest Harvard and Harvard Forward. They are fighting the good fight.
Like Harvard, my own institution, Swarthmore College, where I am a freshman, has remained intransigent in the face of a large student divestment campaign.
Like Harvard, Swarthmore knows that it can divest because it has in the past, from apartheid South Africa, and because numerous institutions have remained unscathed after divesting from fossil fuels.
Like Harvard, Swarthmore claims to care about the climate crisis. It should put its money where its mouth is.
Daniel Abel Fernandez
New York Times, 23 February 2020
Swarthmore, Pa.