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The University of California
invests millions of dollars in the fossil fuel industry. By investing,
the University of California not only takes partial responsibility for
but also supports fossil fuels. Yet climate change is accelerating. The
National Academies of Science affirmed that anthropogenic climate change
represents a crucial challenge to the future of humanity, with a
current 150,000 annual deaths and $1.2 trillion in annual economic
losses. The extraction and burning of fossil fuels have been shown time
and again to not only be linked to climate change, but also to
pollution, environmental degradation, public health crisis, and natural
disasters. The science is clear: we cannot safely burn fossil fuels
without continuing to increase the global temperature and emit dangerous
levels of carbon dioxide.