Fossil Free Careers
Category: University Petition
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We call upon the university careers department to:
- Refuse all new relationships with oil, gas, mining, or arms companies
- Decline to renew any current relationships with oil, gas, mining, and arms companies after the contractually obligated period ends
- Adopt a publicly available Ethical Careers Policy that explicitly excludes oil, gas and mining companies from recruitment opportunities
Oil, gas, mining, and arms industries cause immense environmental and social harm.
Their operations are accelerating the ecological emergency, wrecking the climate, polluting the water and permanently destroying landscapes.
They are displacing people from their homes and lands, destroying livelihoods, demolishing sacred indigenous sites and leaving workers and communities with severe health problems.
There is no future for jobs in these industries: they are dead end jobs for students and graduates. Even the most conservative science states we need to dramatically scale down resource extraction if we are to avoid the worst impacts of the climate and ecological crisis.
We ask for the univesity to remain giving non-biased advice to all students no matter there career path or company they wish to pursue, but to stop promoting careers in harmful industries.
Our university careers department needs to stop putting new workers into oil, gas and mining industries, and take responsibility for building the sustainable, ethical workforce we need to transition to a just and equitable energy system and low-carbon economy.
Comments
Good luck!
Alice
Molly
Only signed for free donut
Surely if you buy signatures with donuts, the petition loses all credibility
Next time get the caramel ones please :)
Thank you!
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Thanks for your feedback. We use incentives, such as donuts, to attract attention and start a conversation. It is a way for us to engage people on the topic that might ordinarily not be willing to stop and talk. There is no pressure to sign the petition but we hope that by speaking to people and explaining that they make that decision based on the information we share with them. We'd welcome any ideas you have on other ways we could engage students on this topic. Feel free to send them here, or come along to the Climate Action Networking meeting on 30th May: https://www.liverpoolguild.org/events/climate-action-network-meeting-105d
In full support of this!
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