ABOVE: Activists block a road in Sweden on November 17, 2018.
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Almost 1,000 scientists have signed a declaration supporting civil disobedience protests that urge government action on climate change.
“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,” Emily Grossman, the first signatory of the declaration and a science broadcaster with a PhD in molecular biology, announced during a protest on Saturday (October 12), according to Reuters. Grossman, accompanied by other signatories, read the declaration outside London’s Science Museum in Kensington.
“We therefore support those who are rising up peacefully against governments around the world that are failing to act proportionately to the scale of the crisis,” she said.
Grossman and the others who drafted the declaration support the Extinction Rebellion, a non-violent environmental pressure ...
