FLICKR, CALIFORNIA AIR RESOURCES BOARDDaniel Kammen, a science envoy to the US State Department, took to Twitter to announce his resignation today (August 23). In a page-long letter, the energy researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, criticized President Trump’s “attacks on core values of the United States,” becoming the latest scientist to resign from an advisory role to the Trump administration on partly ethical grounds.
“Acts and words matter,” Kammen writes in his letter. “To continue in my role under your administration would be inconsistent with the principles of the United States Oath of Allegiance to which I adhere.”
Citing the president’s response to events in Charlottesville and the administration’s decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord, Kammen’s letter accuses Trump of harming “the quality of life in the United States, our standing abroad, and the sustainability of the planet.”
Like the resignation letter from members of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities last week, which spelled RESIST with the first letter of each paragraph, Kammen took the opportunity to send his own hidden message with each paragraph’s first letter: IMPEACH.
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