Friends,
There’s a museum that’s already responding to our call to divest -- and they’re really upping the ante. Just hours after we launched a brand new campaign calling on museums to stand up as leaders in the face of climate catastrophe, the California Academy of Sciences made a bold statement:
The California Academy of Sciences is stepping up, big time -- now let’s call on others to do the same. Click here to ask the country's top museums of science and natural history to divest from fossil fuels.
The California Academy of Sciences is the first museum in the U.S. to make such a strong statement on divestment
and cutting all ties to the fossil fuel industry. Not only have they already divested their direct holdings from fossil fuels -- they’re also refusing to accept fossil fuel sponsorships or funding, are phasing out oil, gas, and mineral leases on lands given to them by donors, and more.
There's a clear lesson here: pressure works.
Our message to museums is simple:
the climate crisis calls for leaders that are ready to do more than observe and curate history -- it calls for leaders who are ready to help make it. The California Academy of Sciences has heard our call
and upped the ante. It's rare to see such a quick and bold response from an institution like this, and we're excited that they're stepping up to the plate.
This museum is paving the way for a whole new sector of institutions to take real leadership and divest -- but it's up to us to keep the divestment dominoes falling.
Thank you,
Zoë for the
350.org team & Beka for
The Natural History Museum, a new mobile museum that champions bold climate action
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