Answering

Harvard President Drew Faust’s excuses,

Tim DeChristopher, who

went to jail for directly opposing gas and oil drilling
and is now

a student at Harvard Divinity School,

To seriously suggest that any research will solve the climate crisis
while we continue to allow the fossil fuel industry to maintain a
stranglehold on our democracy is profoundly naive.

Wen Stephenson
wrote for the Nation 4 October 2013,

Tim DeChristopher: There Is No ‘Neutral’ in the Climate Fight,
including DeChristopher’s statement:

Drew Faust seeks a position of neutrality in a struggle where the
powerful only ask that people like her remain neutral. She says that
Harvard’s endowment shouldn’t take a political position, and yet it
invests in an industry that spends countless millions on corrupting
our political system. In a world of corporate personhood, if she
doesn’t want that money to be political, she should put it under her
mattress. She has clearly forgotten the words of Paolo Freire:
“Washing one’s hands of the conflict between the powerful and
powerless means to side with the powerful, not to remain
neutral.”
Or as Howard Zinn put succinctly, “You can’t
be neutral on a moving train.”

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