{"id":383482,"date":"2018-11-03T09:13:37","date_gmt":"2018-11-03T08:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/rebellious-scientists-issue-urgent-appeal\/"},"modified":"2018-11-03T09:13:37","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T08:13:37","slug":"rebellious-scientists-issue-urgent-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/rebellious-scientists-issue-urgent-appeal\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebellious Scientists Issue Urgent Appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>On October 31st a select group of UK scientists launched a <a href=\"https:\/\/climatenewsnetwork.net\/uk-scientists-risk-prison-to-urge-action\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Declaration of Rebellion<\/a> against the UK government at the Houses of Parliament: \u201cFor criminal inaction in the face of climate change catastrophe and ecological collapse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the scientists, now is the time to act as a planetary emergency is already upon us.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 100 British scientists, academics, and writers are willing to go to jail to make their point that anthropogenic (human-caused) climate change is a surefire provocateur that\u2019s already starting to decimate ecosystems.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is almost a cry of desperation,\u201d says Andrew Simms of the New Weather Institute.<sup><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Additionally, effective October 31,<em> ExtinctionRebellion<\/em> launched an international movement that will use mass civil disobedience to force governments to immediately establish a WWII-type effort to fight climate change.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, civil disobedience is the way forward, as the group promises: \u201cRepeated acts of disruptive, non-violent civil disobedience\u201d if the government does not respond seriously to demands, and they anticipate \u201cthere will be mass arrests.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Similar in tone to early American rebels like \u201cGive me Liberty or Give me Death\u201d Patric Henry of American Revolution circa late 18th century, these rebel scientists are willing to make personal sacrifices, to be arrested, to go to prison, as they firmly believe it\u2019s proper to start a planetary emergency global effort in the UK where the industrial revolution commenced&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/11\/rebellious-scientists-issue-urgent-appeal\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 31st a select group of UK scientists launched a Declaration of Rebellion against the UK government at the Houses of Parliament: \u201cFor criminal inaction in the face of climate change catastrophe and ecological collapse.\u201d According to the scientists, now is the time to act as a planetary emergency is already upon us. Nearly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-383482","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}