Experts have argued that climate scientists around the world should leave their laboratories and take to the streets to join acts of civil disobedience to draw attention to an impending climate disaster.
In an article for Nature Climate Change, a group of five climate scientists and a political scientist specializing in the study of civil disobedience blamed “inaction by governments, industry and civil society” for the potential looming disaster, warning : it’s time to secure the future. . short.” livable and sustainable.
The group praised such tactics for their “ability to overcome the complexities and multiple confusions surrounding the climate crisis” and their “effectiveness as an action”, noting that “people who want to express their feelings ruthlessly concern” can turn into civil disobedience. communication.” The co-authors also mention young climate activist Greta Thunberg, who once urged her followers to “pretend to be in a crisis.”
Five British scientists and one Swiss scientist admitted that they “acted and supported civil disobedience groups to push for climate action”.
The six academics dismissed possible criticism that they or their colleagues would abandon their neutrality by participating in such protests. They argued that “traditional forms of research and communication” do not meet the needs of modern times, adding that there is a “widespread world opinion that “a rational presentation of evidence to those in power is best served in the interest of humanity”, not from a “neutral point of view in itself”, but from an allegedly naive attitude” to the status quo. reinforces.
“Meanwhile, we have long since arrived at the point where civil disobedience has been legitimized by scientists,” the authors write. Western countries and the UK in particular have been seeing civil disobedience in the name of climate protection for some time now, and Extinction Rebellion (XR) is one of the groups using such visible tactics.
Although XR claims to be a non-violent organization, it has often been accused of sabotage and has clashed with the police on several occasions. One of its founders, Gail Bradbrook, was arrested on suspicion of fraud in the UK last year after her move called for a “debt mismatch”.
Source: RT
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