Students demanded divestment from fossil fuels, a professor offered to turn off the gas heating

Students demanded divestment from fossil fuels, a professor offered to turn off the gas heating
"Professor Andrew Parker of St John’s College at Oxford University is my new favorite person. 
The Times of London reports that a group of students wrote to Professor Parker to discuss demands being made by student protesters about fossil fuel divestment. 
His response wasn’t what they were expecting:

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Two students at St John’s College wrote to Andrew Parker, the principal bursar, this week requesting a meeting to discuss the protesters’ demands, which are that the college “declares a climate emergency and immediately divests from fossil fuels”. They say that the college, the richest in Oxford, has £8 million of its £551 million endowment fund invested in BP and Shell.

Professor Parker responded with a provocative offer. “I am not able to arrange any divestment at short notice,” he wrote. “But I can arrange for the gas central heating in college to be switched off with immediate effect. Please let me know if you support this proposal.”...

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