Scientists endorse mass civil disobedience to force climate action
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climate-change-scientists-idUSKBN1WS01K?utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&utm_content=5da2ed90594d1700014c3ab0&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR3vFfXZ-5e6NHmZfnV5rL8aulKjI3T6qve03M0UqbwtOCDqY2WNg5y73pgLONDON (Reuters) - Almost 400 scientists have endorsed a civil disobedience campaign aimed at forcing governments to take rapid action to tackle climate change, warning that failure could inflict “incalculable human suffering.”
In a joint declaration, climate scientists, physicists, biologists, engineers and others from at least 20 countries broke with the caution traditionally associated with academia to side with peaceful protesters courting arrest from Amsterdam to Melbourne.
Wearing white laboratory coats to symbolize their research credentials, a group of about 20 of the signatories gathered on Saturday to read out the text outside London’s century-old Science Museum in the city’s upmarket Kensington district.
“We believe that the continued governmental inaction over the climate and ecological crisis now justifies peaceful and non-violent protest and direct action, even if this goes beyond the bounds of the current law,” said Emily Grossman, a science broadcaster with a PhD in molecular biology. She read the declaration on behalf of the group.
“We therefore support those who are rising up peacefully against governments around the world that are failing to act prop to the scale of the crisis,” she said.
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Including myself.
It's not against the law to turn off the main electrical breaker to your residence, or to pour sand in the engine of any cars you own, is it?
Nobody has to fly. Or eat meat. Or have children...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogo_%28comic_strip%29#%22We_have_met_the_enemy_and_he_is_us.%22
"We have met the enemy and he is us."
Human work ethics are destroying our planet. This thing we call "economic productivity" is a direct measure of the damage we are doing to what's left of the earth's natural environment and our own human spirit.
Most of us have shitty jobs that don't make the world a better place.
I think we should be paying people to experiment with lifestyles having very low environmental footprints. We would judge the success of those experiments in terms of happiness and sustainability, nothing else.
Other people might then see it's possible to be happy without buying into high energy industrial consumer lifestyles and decide to live that way themselves.
Instead we are chasing useless crap like wind turbines or electric cars, hoping someone else will magically fix the problem for us.
We are pathetic fossil fuel junkies, the lot of us.
The only way to quit fossil fuels is to quit fossil fuels. It's like quitting smoking. One way or another, you just have to do it.
