Their operations are accelerating the ecological emergency, wrecking the climate, polluting the water and permanently destroying landscapes.

They are displacing people from their homes and lands, destroying livelihoods, demolishing sacred indigenous sites and leaving workers and communities with severe health problems.

In 2018, after a 4 year student-led campaign, the University of Sussex agreed to move its investments out of the fossil fuel industry. However, they still have no similar policy that covers recruitment.

There is no future for jobs in these oil, gas, or mining industry: they are dead end jobs for students and graduates. Even the most conservative science states we need to dramatically scale down resource extraction if we are to avoid the worst impacts of the climate and ecological crisis.

The University of Sussex careers department needs to stop putting new workers into oil, gas and mining industries, and take responsibility for building the sustainable, ethical workforce we need to transition to a just and equitable energy system and low-carbon economy.