Oil, gas, and mining industries cause immense environmental and social harm.

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.

However, despite making a fossil fuel divestment commitment back in 2015, the University of Sheffield still invites big polluters to come and recruit students. In February 2022 Sheffield Student's Union passed a Fossil Free Careers motion boycotting all fossil fuel industry recruitment, and calling upon the university to do the same.

There is no future for jobs in the oil, gas, and mining industries: 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.

Sheffield university 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.