Environmental Economics

The stock market is so huge that I’d expect their divestment of a probably tiny fraction of that clickbait $18.7 billion endowment total to pass unnoticed.
But since Superior Knowledge demands Doing Something about Carbon Footprint, and since Doing Something without regard to effectiveness is sort of a USA secular-religious tenet, I offer a modest proposal for all concerned:
Cancel Spring Break from the campus schedule – get rid of it once and for all. It very strongly encourages gratuitous, purposeless, fuel-guzzling travel. Indeed, many colleges close their dorms for the week, actively requiring such travel by residents.
As a nice bonus – and unlike divestiture, which has no effect on ultimate-consumer behavior – eliminating Spring Break might even leave some carbon unburned. Most likely, not all of the travel would be shifted to another time; some would be foregone. After all, who in their right mind really would bother to jet off to Florida in June or July, when exiting the airport is like stepping out into a double-boiler?
As an added bonus, we’d find out whether the loud-mouthed “activists” – professors and students alike – would get on board with a change that affected their own behavior. I think the real agenda with this stuff is usually that no sacrifice to the Carbon God is too great for somebody else to make.
That is, they’d scream and moan about such a calendar change. That would make obvious what one can already suspect, namely that their “campaigning” is little more than vacuous juvenile-grade pseudo-anti-corporate pseudo-Marxist twaddle of the sort that is so very fashionable on so many college campuses these days.