{"id":2662,"date":"2020-03-11T20:23:38","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T23:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=2662"},"modified":"2020-03-11T21:24:30","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T00:24:30","slug":"when-can-we-divest-from-the-divestment-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2020\/03\/11\/when-can-we-divest-from-the-divestment-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"When can we \u201cdivest\u201d from the divestment movement?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/EnoughDivestment-1024x369.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2663\" width=\"485\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/EnoughDivestment-1024x369.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/EnoughDivestment-300x108.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/EnoughDivestment-768x277.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/EnoughDivestment-1200x432.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 485px) 85vw, 485px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Bambi would like to weigh in on an article by Ms. Zoe Hunter recently published in the<em> Argosy<\/em> (Mount Allison University&#8217;s student newspaper), which is entitled \u201cDivest holds protest during open house\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-the-argosy\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"59kfJweMyd\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.since1872.ca\/active-sections\/1-news\/divest-holds-protest-during-open-house\/\">Divest holds protest during open house<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe title=\"&#8220;Divest holds protest during open house&#8221; &#8212; The Argosy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" src=\"http:\/\/www.since1872.ca\/active-sections\/1-news\/divest-holds-protest-during-open-house\/embed\/#?secret=59kfJweMyd\" data-secret=\"59kfJweMyd\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>To begin with, Bambi has already written on this story on February 28, 2020: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-bambi-039-s-afkar\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"LdEvzV4s7N\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2020\/02\/29\/climate-change-mantra-in-sackville-resonating-in-bambis-mind-whilst-reading-dr-freemans-obituary\/\">Climate change mantra in Sackville resonating in Bambi\u2019s mind whilst reading Dr. Freeman Dyson\u2019s obituary<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe title=\"&#8220;Climate change mantra in Sackville resonating in Bambi\u2019s mind whilst reading Dr. Freeman Dyson\u2019s obituary&#8221; &#8212; Bambi&#039;s Afkar\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" src=\"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2020\/02\/29\/climate-change-mantra-in-sackville-resonating-in-bambis-mind-whilst-reading-dr-freemans-obituary\/embed\/#?secret=LdEvzV4s7N\" data-secret=\"LdEvzV4s7N\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Now,  she would like to comment on the above article and perhaps even more specifically on the picture below. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"714\" src=\"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/EnoughDivestmentPic-1024x714.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2664\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/EnoughDivestmentPic-1024x714.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/EnoughDivestmentPic-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/EnoughDivestmentPic-768x535.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/EnoughDivestmentPic-1200x836.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption>A picture published in the Argosy on March 5, 2020<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>A quick question to students with signs like \u201cDivest from colonial violence\u201d: What is more violent: blocking railways and hijacking the economy of a whole country OR proceeding with a project that got the approval of 20 First Nations AND that would allow many Wet&#8217;suwet&#8217;en Nation members to earn a decent living? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why can\u2019t the Wet&#8217;suwet&#8217;en Nation be prosperous? Doesn\u2019t it deserve this like the rest of the world?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another question\nspecifically to Ms. Helen Yao who said: \u201cDivestment is the beginning to a\nsustainable future\u2026 It entails shifting our economy and our lifestyle towards a\nliving one, towards one focused on sustainability, not profit\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bambi\u2019s question is as\nfollows: How is divestment the start of a sustainable future? How would you\nhave a future if you do not have an economy anymore? In an ideal utopic world,\nit would be nice to dream of a sustainable future with a renewable form of energy\nbut this is not realistically possible yet. All what we would be shifting is\nthe source of that fossil fuel, either a Canadian product or a product bought\nfrom Saudi Arabia, Iran, or other. Period. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plus, what about\nsustainable profitability? In other terms, can\u2019t sustainability co-exist with\nprofitability? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the <em>Argosy <\/em>article, Ms. Yao added: \u201cWe need dramatic and radical change because we only have 10 years to address the climate crisis before we reach a point that we don\u2019t want to think about,\u201d said Yao, referencing the UN\u2019s warning in 2018 that in order to keep global warming from rising to a dangerous point (a maximum temperature increase of 2 C), immediate action must be taken within 12 years\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> This is where Ms. Yao completely lost Bambi who does not buy this apocalyptic view\/prediction. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To conclude this post, thanks to Ms. Hunter and to the <em>Argosy<\/em> for keeping us informed. Please keep up the good work (Bambi is a faithful reader :))!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&nbsp;<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bambi would like to weigh in on an article by Ms. Zoe Hunter recently published in the Argosy (Mount Allison University&#8217;s student newspaper), which is entitled \u201cDivest holds protest during open house\u201d. To begin with, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2662"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2671,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662\/revisions\/2671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}