LEADERSHIP 

 

Divestment harnesses SPS’s most powerful asset – its reputation – to galvanize a sense of generational mission, fostering a climate change movement unwavering in its demand for bold political action.  

SPS is a leading secondary school powerhouse – an international icon of scientific excellence and technological foresight. Imagine if instead of investing in the fossil fuel industry at the root of global warming, our great school were to lead the charge the other way.

 

Divestment from fossil fuel companies is an opportunity to galvanize a sense of generational mission in an all-too-often apathetic youth who, if energized and unleashed, wield a megaphone to public opinion and an immense capacity to effect change. We can help to build an all-inclusive climate movement that inspires an impassioned electorate unwavering in its demand for an end to ‘business as usual’ leadership and revolutionary commitments to climate change action.

 

SPS has got it right before. We led in the matter of coeducation on boarding school campi. We led in terms of offering a much wider arts program- dance, theater and fine art. We ought to be leading here now.

 

According to a detailed study from the University of Oxford, the fossil fuel divestment campaign is growing faster than any previous divestment campaign. We must get it right this time. Please sign our letter and ask SPS' Trustees to take the lead against climate change.