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Yeah. MIT also refused to divest fossil fuel holdings: https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/10/21/mit-won-divest-from-fossil-fuel-firms/zYM81QyxErUl5YsPoU8ewL
by dumbfoundded 7y ago
Yeah. MIT also refused to divest fossil fuel holdings: https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/10/21/mit-won-divest-from-fossil-fuel-firms/zYM81QyxErUl5YsPoU8ewL/story.html https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/10/21/mit-won-divest-...
Totally coincidentally, the Koch Cancer Research Center was wrapping up construction around the same time (https://ki.mit.edu/ https://ki.mit.edu/).
It turns out MIT isn't a morally guided institution (well maybe the professors and students are). It's run by a bunch of former investment bankers trying to maximize returns on a $16.5B endowment. There's a corporation and a university.