Keep it in the ground: five trillion reasons to be happy

The value of investment funds committed to selling off fossil fuel assets has jumped to $5.2tn, doubling in just over a yearFive years ago, the idea that investments in fossil fuel companies were morally or financially problematic was all but unheard of. But an argument started to take shape on US university campuses — that with more coal, oil and gas in existing reserves than can ever be burned while keep climate change under control, it is ethical and economic madness to spend billions l