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Civil disobedience by scientists helps press for urgent climate action

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  • Stuart Capstick

    (Cardiff University
    Cardiff University)

  • Aaron Thierry

    (Cardiff University)

  • Emily Cox

    (Cardiff University
    University of Oxford)

  • Oscar Berglund

    (University of Bristol)

  • Steve Westlake

    (Cardiff University)

  • Julia K. Steinberger

    (Université de Lausanne)

Abstract

Time is short to secure a liveable and sustainable future; yet, inaction from governments, industry and civil society is setting the course for 3.2 °C of warming, with all the cascading and catastrophic consequences that this implies. In this context, when does civil disobedience by scientists become justified?

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  • Stuart Capstick & Aaron Thierry & Emily Cox & Oscar Berglund & Steve Westlake & Julia K. Steinberger, 2022. "Civil disobedience by scientists helps press for urgent climate action," Nature Climate Change, Nature, vol. 12(9), pages 773-774, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcli:v:12:y:2022:i:9:d:10.1038_s41558-022-01461-y
    DOI: 10.1038/s41558-022-01461-y
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    1. Tiffany H. Morrison & W. Neil Adger & Arun Agrawal & Katrina Brown & Matthew J. Hornsey & Terry P. Hughes & Meha Jain & Maria Carmen Lemos & Lucy Holmes McHugh & Saffron O’Neill & Derek Berkel, 2022. "Radical interventions for climate-impacted systems," Nature Climate Change, Nature, vol. 12(12), pages 1100-1106, December.
    2. Friederike Hartz, 2024. "“We are not droids”– IPCC participants’ senses of responsibility and affective experiences across the production, assessment, communication and enactment of climate science," Climatic Change, Springer, vol. 177(6), pages 1-21, June.

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