The Nation - On February 20, the student government of one of the largest universities in the United States unanimously passed a first-of-its-kind Green New Deal resolution, calling for sweeping on-campus decarbonization, complete divestment from the fossil fuel industry, and restorative justice for marginalized communities most affected by the climate crisis. You might assume that this happened at one of the recognizably liberal-minded Ivy League schools in the Northeast, or perhaps within the climate-oriented University of California system. You would be wrong. The resolution was passed at the University of Florida, one of the prime targets of Governor Ron DeSantis’s hostile takeover of higher education, where we successfully lobbied 100 elected student senators to call for a Green New Deal. In doing so, we made history. UF has become the first and only public university whose student government has given a direct mandate for a Green New Deal.
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