Boston University’s Advisory Committee on Socially Responsible Investing is currently conducting a five-year consideration of fossil fuel divestment to make a recommendation to the board of trustees, which endorsed a review of policies in 2016.

Large corporations with hefty fossil fuel emissions are often criticized for exacerbating climate change. But now, many businesses are joining the climate movement themselves by prioritizing environmental sustainability. Why the businesses are motivated to do so — and if their actions will be enough — is up for debate.

Besides a few circumstances, jargon is ultimately a tool that oppresses those without power and makes it harder for people to create a more equitable system and escape this cycle.

Goldman Sachs is in part directly responsible for the predatory lending practices that led to millions of people losing their jobs and houses. As college students, we’re intimately familiar with the nightmarish student loans that will take years to pay back. Either way we’re getting screwed over. Would you feel better if your executioner were a woman? I think not.