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November 18, 2013
Dear Bank of America,
We disrupted your recruitment session today because the jobs you offer to us make a mockery of our generation. Our generation will not work for companies that threaten to destroy our future by funding climate chaos.
We simply want jobs that do not poison the water we drink and the air we breathe. We simply want jobs that do not create droughts that wipe out our food supplies or strengthen the hurricanes that threaten our homes. Bank of America will never meet these criteria while it invests in coal, the worst driver of the climate crisis, and mountaintop removal mining, a method of extraction that is particularly dangerous for local communities.
We wish to work for an intelligent and forward-thinking institution, not a company that invests in a doomed industry like coal. 80% of the reserves of fossil fuel companies must remain underground if we are going to remain under the “red line” of 2C warming. Bank of America makes a foolish decision by investing in this carbon bubble.
According to the International Energy Agency, companies are building so much new fossil fuel infrastructure that our generation will be locked into climate disaster by 2017. Bank of America has the power to change this by shifting its coal investments into clean energy financing.
But while Bank of America continues its massive coal investments*, we might as well accept a job digging our own graves.
Sincerely,
Gabriel Bayard ‘15
Alli Welton ‘15
*Bank of America is the largest coal funder among all US banks.