Demonstrators urge the University of Colorado to divest from fossil fuels during a rally in Boulder on Feb. 13. (Jeremy Papasso, Daily Camera)
Re: “The folly of fossil fuel divestment,” Feb. 15 Vincent Carroll column.
Vincent Carroll writes of the folly of divesting from fossil fuels. Where’s the greater folly? Is it not in our failing to divest from fossil fuels while investing in cleaner, sustainable energy sources, and soon enough preserving life as we know it?
Carroll asked (then answered) the rhetorical question: “Is it a bad thing that 1.6 billion people were introduced to electricity in the 1990s alone, or a good thing that 1 billion people still lack it today? Of course not.”
As a divestment advocate, I certainly agree that electricity is a valued good. Yet, I vigorously oppose expanding fossil-fuel investments in dirty coal to produce that electricity, especially when solar and wind power are now up to the job. That’s why I joined the recent Greenpeace and 350.org rally for coal divestment in downtown Denver.
Ken Connell,Thornton
This letter was published in the Feb. 22 edition.
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