When we first spoke in September 2019, Aidan Mock told me that he had no illusions about the scale of what he was trying to achieve with Fossil Free Yale-NUS, a campaign urging the liberal arts college Yale-NUS to divest from fossil fuels. “The fossil fuel industry is a big part of Singapore’s economy, so it’s not an easy task,” he said. “It’s not as simple as flicking off a switch and saying like, ‘Okay, you know what, tomorrow we’re going to stop or remove Jurong Island entirely.’”
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