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BOSTON — Days after Republican Donald Trump was sworn-in as president, about 30 student activists at Boston University walked out of class to rally against the incoming administration's approach to climate change and to convince university trustees to divest all fossil fuel holdings from the school's $1.
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A Dartmouth College presidential committee report suggests divesting fossil fuels would be relatively easy since only a sliver of the school's overall endowment is sunk in oil.
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Say something often enough — like "97 percent of climate scientists agree" — and people will tend to believe it. Add the concept of identification, in which like-minded people gravitate toward one another, and a movement, a shared narrative, can be created. The psychological principles of repetition and identification are
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STATE HOUSE — The University of Massachusetts Foundation will divest its $770 million endowment from investments in coal companies, marking a victory for climate change activists looking to bring financial pressures to bear on carbon emitters. The UMass Foundation Board, which manages the five-campus system's charitable contributions and endowment,
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