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Scholars
Academics, including scientists, also aid the efforts of policymakers, NGOs,
and journalists to expose and counter climate obstruction, and the results have
prompted legislative investigations, legal proceedings, newspaper reports, and
social media campaigns. CSSN,91 which includes 800 scholars worldwide,
encourages peer-reviewed research into obstruction. Some academics work
closely with journalists from organizations such as Climate Feedback to expose
and debunk misinformation. University researchers have also participated in
institutional campaigns to convince universities to disclose funding from the
fossil fuel industry, and more recently to “disassociate” from firms and indus-
tries that advance climate misinformation.92 While many of these campaigns
have been led by students, professors have also pressured their home institu-
tions to act. For example, campaigns by faculty at Brown University and the
University of California, San Diego in the United States and the University
Cambridge in the United Kingdom, among others, have sought to dissuade the
schools from engaging with companies that promote climate disinformation
by, for example, refusing their research funding (Chapter 13).
Students
Campuses around the world now face growing pressure to mitigate the risks
from taking industry funding, including its influence over research agendas
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sustainable food policy which ends red meat meals has improved student diets and boosted a university catering service's profits.
The University of Cambridge in England, one of the richest and most famous universities in the world, has ended red meat meals in its outlets.
Beef and lamb are off the menu in its cafes and canteens, to educate staff and students about how to change their diets so as to help avoid dangerous climate change.
At the same time, the university says the decision will go a long way to reducing the carbon footprint of the University Catering Service (UCS) and cutting the amount of land needed to feed the students and administrators.
In a report on its decision to cut out red meat, known also as ruminant meat, the university says it has also greatly improved the variety of meals in its restaurants, particularly of vegetarian and vegan alternatives.
This has lowered the amount of land the UCS needs to grow food by over a quarter and its carbon footprint by over a third, while at the same time increasing profits.
The change of policy by catering managers has also meant that, over the last 12 months, the catering staff have lowered food waste from the university's canteens and eliminated unsustainably harvested fish from their menus.
Andrew Balmford, Cambridge's professor of conservation science, said: "It is hard to imagine any other interventions that could yield such dramatic benefits in so short a span of time."...
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SCL Group calls itself a "global election management agency"[5] known for involvement "in military disinformation campaigns to social media branding and voter targeting".[3] SLC’s involvement in the political world has been primarily in the developing world where it has been used by the military and politicians to study and manipulate public opinion and political will. SCL claims to have been successful to help foment coups.[3]
When SCL Elections formed Cambridge Analytica in 2013 it hired researchers from Cambridge University, hence the name.[6] CA collects data on voters using sources such as demographics, consumer behavior, internet activity, and other public and private sources.According to The Guardian, CA is using psychological data derived from millions of Facebook users, largely without users' permission or knowledge.[6] Another source of information is the "Cruz Crew" mobile app that tracks physical movements and contacts and invades personal data more than any other app of presidential candidates.[7]
"Today in the United States we have somewhere close to four or five thousand data points on every individual. ... So we model the personality of every adult across the United States, some 230 million people."
— Alexander Nix (Chief Executive, Cambridge Analytica), October 2016.[8]
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