Scientists will spend tonight in custody, many of them dear friends. My heart goes out to them.
All they did was block a road in despair to be heard. We are walking towards a climate catastrophe. Governments know this and do NOTHING. Please, listen to the scientists!
Barely slept tonight. If I'm this worried about the scientists currently in custody, I can barely imagine what they're feeling like.
I hope Europe at least sees their sacrifice. I hope those with power see it too, and finally do something concrete to tackle these crises.
Oct 17, 2022 โข 7 tweets โข 3 min read
Yesterday, myself and ~30 scientists were detained by police after ringing the alarm at #WHS2022 where politicians kept lying to the public, claiming everything is fine. It isn't. The climate crisis is a health crisis. We need to #UniteAgainstClimateFailure and act NOW. ๐งต
Everyone knows the science. Climate change is tightly linked with death by heat, zoonotic diseases like covid, malnutrition, etc. And it's only going to get worse. Unless we act. Unless scientists rise up and scream until we're heard. Because they haven't listened. Not really.