The students said Solomon, 61, claimed that he did more in a week to help climate change than they would ever do, pointing to his capital accumulation and position of power. He also guessed that the group — all non-male and mostly people of color — all benefited from financial aid, and therefore should feel indebted to endowment they were questioning, according to the letter.
“At one point, he laughed and told us he’d be dead in thirty years, so climate change would be our problem anyway,” the students wrote. They said Solomon indicated fossil-fuel divestment was a stupid movement and that if the students traveled to countries like China, India and Cambodia they could see how the world “really worked” before deciding if they wanted to live like that. Shortly after, in June, Solomon convened a Goldman Sachs board meeting in India.
Personally, I would like more CEOs telling people to visit China to see how they live. At least the west had the sense not to encourage this kind of thing to the Soviet Union because they realised people would either stay there or come back a communist.
This is still too much of a caveat:
Personally, I would like more CEOs telling people to visit China to see how they live. At least the west had the sense not to encourage this kind of thing to the Soviet Union because they realised people would either stay there or come back a communist.