I'm Bill Moyers. It's good to have your ear. Thanks for joining us. Two leading activists say there's a way to cool the earth by raising the heat on the big polluters. Their movement is doing just that.

It is time to make a catalytic change to a new energy economy. And we can do it.

And the innovation will unleash wonderful changes in our society.

It'll bring profit to those that are investing in the future energy sources

and addressing the energy access for the world's poor.

Like we did under Kennedy to go to the moon, we need to spur the same innovation to create

a sustainable economy that's based on the energy of the future, not on the energy of the past.

Thanks for joining us.

For growing numbers of people, the reality of global warming is so urgent.

They've given up waiting for governments to act, and they've decided its folly to

expect the coal, oil, and gas companies ever to admit their products are burning up the earth.

So these aroused citizens are going for the jugular.

They're directing their efforts directly

at the one place held sacred by the industry, the bottom line. It's called divestment, a campaign

to persuade investors to take their money out of fossil fuel companies. Foundations, faith groups,

pension funds, cities and universities are being urged

to take the lead to sell their shares in polluting industries and go fossil-free. On more

than 300 college campuses, from Middlebury in Vermont to Berkeley and California, students

are calling on their schools to divest. Sometimes

they are rebuffed, as happened recently at Harvard, which at over $32 billion has the

largest university endowment in the country. Last fall, the school's president said divestature

was neither warranted or wise. But this month, nearly 100 faculty members sided with the students.

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