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<h1>John Fullerton: What If We Thought About Fossil Fuels the Way We Thought About Slavery?</h1>
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<p><span style="height: 1.7em;"><a href="http://grittv.org">GRITtv</a> talks to John Fullerton, Founder and President of The </span><a href="http://www.capitalinstitute.org/" style="height: 1.7em;">Capital Institute</a><span style="height: 1.7em;"> about the fossil fuel divestment campaign, largely led by students, that has taken off on campuses across the country. </span></p>&#13;
<p><span style="height: 1.7em;">Fullerton says, "If we substitute, for example, the word fossil fuel perhaps with the word slavery we would be aghast at how we thought about this issue."</span></p>&#13;
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