Actual quote from an NPR story on divestment: "Kirkland's major is environmental studies, so she knows a lot about climate change"

College Divestment Campaigns Creating Passionate Environmentalists : NPR

Kirkland's major is environmental studies, so she knows a lot about climate change. But she says she never felt moved to activism until recently.

"It was always something that felt abstract and academic until this year when I started to witness the heat wave in the northeast last winter, the wildfires in the west, the drought, Hurricane Sandy," she says. "It has started to feel like an emergency happening in slow motion and it started to feel really, really personal."