'They tend not to listen to morality, but they do listen to money’ — Here’s how you can keep your money from funding the fossil fuel industry.
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Tara Houska is a Couchiching First Nation citizen, tribal attorney, and founder of Giniw Collective, an Indigenous women, 2-spirit led frontline movement to protect the Earth against gas and oil pipelines like Line 3 and Dakota Access. She says getting financial institutions to divest from fossil fuels is a potent form of climate activism.
Houska says everyday citizens can keep their money from going to fossil fuel investments by carefully choosing where to put their own investments. Another way to make sure your money isn’t going to fossil fuel companies is by investing in clean energy for your home and community. Shifting your bank accounts and credit cards away from institutions that invest in fossil fuels can also be an effective method of getting corporations to divest.
Houska says a large part of the problem with the fossil fuel industry, and in turn, the institutions that invest in said industry, is that they view the land as a resource. Houska often hears from corporations that climate change mitigation practices are expensive and how activists have to ‘think about the economy.’ She says they fail to see the proverbial forest through the trees.
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