Point of View: The biospheric emergency calls for scientists to change tactics
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Point of View: The biospheric emergency calls for scientists to change tactics. / Racimo, Fernando; Valentini, Elia; Rijo De León, Gaston; Santos, Teresa L.; Norberg, Anna; Atmore, Lane M.; Murray, Myranda; Hakala, Sanja M.; Appel Olsen, Frederik; Gardner, Charlie; Halder, Julia B.
I: eLife, Bind 11, e83292, 2022.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Point of View: The biospheric emergency calls for scientists to change tactics
AU - Racimo, Fernando
AU - Valentini, Elia
AU - Rijo De León, Gaston
AU - Santos, Teresa L.
AU - Norberg, Anna
AU - Atmore, Lane M.
AU - Murray, Myranda
AU - Hakala, Sanja M.
AU - Appel Olsen, Frederik
AU - Gardner, Charlie
AU - Halder, Julia B.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Our current economic and political structures have an increasingly devastating impact on the Earth’s climate and ecosystems: we are facing a biospheric emergency, with catastrophic consequences for both humans and the natural world on which we depend. Life scientists – including biologists, medical scientists, psychologists and public health experts – have had a crucial role in documenting the impacts of this emergency, but they have failed to drive governments to take action in order to prevent the situation from getting worse. Here we, as members of the movement Scientist Rebellion, call on life scientists to re-embrace advocacy and activism – which were once hallmarks of academia – in order to highlight the urgency and necessity of systemic change across our societies. We particularly emphasise the need for scientists to engage in nonviolent civil resistance, a form of public engagement which has proven to be highly effective in social struggles throughout history.
AB - Our current economic and political structures have an increasingly devastating impact on the Earth’s climate and ecosystems: we are facing a biospheric emergency, with catastrophic consequences for both humans and the natural world on which we depend. Life scientists – including biologists, medical scientists, psychologists and public health experts – have had a crucial role in documenting the impacts of this emergency, but they have failed to drive governments to take action in order to prevent the situation from getting worse. Here we, as members of the movement Scientist Rebellion, call on life scientists to re-embrace advocacy and activism – which were once hallmarks of academia – in order to highlight the urgency and necessity of systemic change across our societies. We particularly emphasise the need for scientists to engage in nonviolent civil resistance, a form of public engagement which has proven to be highly effective in social struggles throughout history.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - Klima
KW - Life Sciences
KW - Aktivisme
KW - kriser
KW - videnskab
KW - forskeraktivisme
KW - Biosphere
U2 - 10.7554/eLife.83292
DO - 10.7554/eLife.83292
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 36342018
VL - 11
JO - eLife
JF - eLife
SN - 2050-084X
M1 - e83292
ER -
ID: 325465515