{"id":40058,"date":"2018-11-02T06:46:29","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T11:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40058"},"modified":"2018-11-02T06:46:29","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T11:46:29","slug":"rebellious-scientists-issue-urgent-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40058","title":{"rendered":"Rebellious Scientists Issue Urgent Appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rebellious Scientists Issue Urgent Appeal<\/a><\/h3>\n
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On October 31st a select group of UK scientists launched a Declaration of Rebellion against the UK government at the Houses of Parliament: \u201cFor criminal inaction in the face of climate change catastrophe and ecological collapse.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the scientists, now is the time to act as a planetary emergency is already upon us.<\/p>\n

Nearly 100 British scientists, academics, and writers are willing to go to jail to make their point that anthropogenic (human-caused) climate change is a surefire provocateur that\u2019s already starting to decimate ecosystems.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is almost a cry of desperation,\u201d says Andrew Simms of the New Weather Institute (Source: Alex Kirby, UK Scientists Risk Prison to Urge Action, Climate News Network, Oct. 31, 2018).<\/p>\n

Additionally, effective October 31, ExtinctionRebellion<\/em> launched an international movement that will use mass civil disobedience to force governments to immediately establish a WWII-type effort to fight climate change.<\/p>\n

Yes, civil disobedience is the way forward, as the group promises: \u201cRepeated acts of disruptive, non-violent civil disobedience\u201d if the government does not respond seriously to demands, and they anticipate \u201cthere will be mass arrests.\u201d<\/p>\n

Similar in tone to early American rebels like \u2018Give me Liberty or Give me Death\u201d Patrick Henry of American Revolution circa late 18th century, these rebel scientists are willing to make personal sacrifices, to be arrested, to go to prison, as they firmly believe its proper to start a planetary emergency global effort in the UK where the industrial revolution commenced. Essentially, full circle back to the beginnings of the fossil fuel era.<\/p>\n

According to ExtinctionRebellion the sixth mass extinction is already strutting its mettle in spunky fashion, for example, a recent Worldwide Fund for Nature report claims a wipeout of 60% of animal populations has already occurred over the past 50 years alone.<\/p>\n

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