今年早些时候，前美国副总统戈尔在哈佛演讲时赞扬了一个学生团体，这个团体要求哈佛大学卖出其在化石燃料公司的投资。 戈尔将他们的行动与20世纪80年代撤除投资促使南非结束种族隔离政策的行动相提并论。
Speaking at Harvard earlier this year, former US Vice President Al Gore praised a student group that was pushing the university to sell its investments in fossil-fuel companies, and compared their activities to the divestment campaign in the 1980’s that helped to end South Africa’s racist apartheid policy.