Sumber: Impian Umum
Over two dozen scientists on Wednesday glued scientific papers and their own hands to the windows of a U.K. government building in London to demand an end to fossil fuels.
“Releasing reports is no longer enough. We must take actions they cannot ignore.”
Démo éta bagian tina gelombang Pemberontakan Punah (XR) ancoan yen dibuka last weekend and are scheduled through Sunday—a protest series that follows a worldwide mobilisasi élmuwan minggu kamari, salaku Panel Antarpamaréntah ngeunaan Robah Iklim (IPCC) dileupaskeun laporan panganyarna ngeunaan éta.
With his left hand glued to the U.K. Department for Business, Energy, & Industrial Strategy (BEIS), ecologist Aaron Thierry dipedar Tuesday that “I’m having to do this because our government is basically ignoring all the evidence and we have tried all the rational, normal, evidence-based policy approaches and they’re just not acting according to it.”
"Pamaréntah teu waras, sareng kuring henteu terang naon anu kedah dilakukeun, lian ti ngalakukeun ieu, sareng nyobian sareng nampi perhatian yén urang kedah ngahudangkeun masarakat pikeun ngartos yén pamaréntahanana ngalaksanakeun lengkep dina dua rupa," anjeunna nuluykeun dina video dibagikeun ku nu Guardian‘s Damien Gayle. “Like, the one hand they’re saying, ‘Oh, we’re taking climate change seriously, we declared an emergency,’ and then on the other hand they invest in fossil fuels.”
“I’m terrified by what’s going on on this planet,” Thierry, who’s studied climate in the Arctic, added in an XR video. “We are really running out of time. The new IPCC report has said that… it is now or never if we’re to meet our climate targets, so we really need everybody to get out on the streets—rise up—because this government is taking all of us to hell and it’s avoidable.”
Gayle nunjukkeun dina liputanna ngeunaan aksi Pemberontakan Élmuwan pikeun Punah yén éta "sumping saminggu saatos pamaréntahan nyebarkeun strategi énergi énggal anu jangji pikeun neraskeun eksploitasi minyak sareng gas Laut Kalér, gagal netepkeun target angin darat, sareng masihan. nuklir mangrupa peran sentral".
Ahli mikrobiologi Abi Perrin nyarioskeun rupa-rupa poster anu diterapkeun ku para ilmuwan anu protés dina gedong BEIS, nyatakeun yén "aranjeunna sadayana literatur ilmiah anu sacara jelas ngajelaskeun kabutuhan urang pikeun ngirangan émisi ayeuna."
Glancing at one nearby poster, Perrin said that “this one’s about the number and types of fossil fuels that we could extract to expect a liveable future for young people alive now and it basically says no more new extraction.”
Pananjung éta, anjeunna nyatakeun, langsung bertentangan sareng strategi énergi énggal pamaréntahan, "anu masih badé ningkat ékstraksi minyak sareng gas Laut Kalér."
Élmuwan di BEIS ngayakeun spanduk anu nyatakeun "Tungtung Bahan Bakar Fosil Ayeuna" sareng nganggo jas lab bodas anu dihias ku "Minyak & Gas Anyar = Maot," anu Élmuwan pikeun XR. disebut "Persamaan saderhana anu nyababkeun tindakan urang ayeuna."
The action at BEIS led to some arrests—including Colin Davis, a cognitive psychologist at the University of Bristol, who spray-painted the XR symbol on the building and explained that “I’m doing this because our government is lying to us.”
"Kami terang yén urang teu tiasa gaduh minyak sareng gas énggal sareng kami dibéjakeun minggu kamari ku Panel Antarpamaréntah ngeunaan Perubahan Iklim yén éta ayeuna atanapi henteu pernah," saur Davis salaku perwira nangkep anjeunna. "Para élmuwan di dieu dinten ayeuna nyarios yén pamaréntah kedah ngadangukeun élmu sareng henteu ngancurkeun masa depan urang sabab aya dina panangan industri bahan bakar fosil. Kami gaduh solusina. ”
Charlie Gardner, élmuwan konservasi di Universitas Kent, ngawartoskeun nu Guardian "Dina tingkat kabijakan domestik sareng internasional aya aktor anu kuat pisan anu henteu hoyong masarakat urang decarbonize."
"Aya jalma anu jegud pisan sareng kuat tina cara dunya diatur ayeuna sareng aranjeunna henteu hoyong éta robih, aranjeunna henteu hoyong decarbonize sabab éta bakal ngabatesan kasempetan pikeun ngahasilkeun artos tina bahan bakar fosil. ” ceuk Gardner.
"Akibatna urang ngagaduhan departemén pamaréntahan anu nyandak kaputusan anu bakal ngakibatkeun urang kana musibah," saur anjeunna, "sareng salaku élmuwan, kuring terang naon dampak ieu, kuring tiasa ningali yén datang, sareng kuring henteu tiasa pasip, kuring tiasa. 't ngan ngantep éta lumangsung. Abdi peryogi akting.”
Koran éta nyatakeun yén juru bicara BEIS nyarios yén "kami laun-laun ngirangan paménta pikeun minyak sareng gas, tapi urang henteu tiasa gaduh gawir ku mareuman sumber domestik sapeuting."
"Lakukeun kitu bakal nempatkeun kaamanan énergi urang, padamelan Inggris, sareng industri dina résiko sareng ngan saukur ningkatkeun impor asing, henteu ngirangan paménta," saur juru carios. "Strategi kaamanan énergi Inggris kami netepkeun rencana jangka panjang pikeun ningkatkeun bahan bakar anu murah nalika urang ngajauhan bahan bakar fosil anu mahal."
Kwasi Kwarteng, sekretaris nagara Inggris pikeun bisnis, tanaga, sareng strategi industri, nyarioskeun pesen éta dina tweet anu diarahkeun ka para ilmuwan XR.
Ngabales dina Twitter, Élmuwan pikeun Pemberontakan Punah ngawartoskeun sekretaris Tory yén aranjeunna di luar jabatanna sabab pamaréntah Inggris "ngaku janten pamimpin global ngeunaan perubahan iklim" tapi "sanggeus laporan IPCC panganyarna ...
"Ieu mangrupikeun kagilaan moral sareng ékonomi," kelompok éta nyatakeun, nyatakeun Sekretaris Jenderal PBB António Guterres pidato about the IPCC report—during which he also said that “climate activists are sometimes depicted as dangerous radicals. But the truly dangerous radicals are the countries that are increasing the production of fossil fuels.”
Salian tindakan para ilmuwan nargétkeun BEIS, anggota XR Rebo nempatan markas raksasa minyak Shell di London pikeun nungtut rapat sareng CEO Ben van Beurden. Sababaraha aktivis nempelkeun diri ka meja resepsi sareng lawang gedong, numutkeun grup éta.
“The U.N. secretary-general has openly called out politicians and business leaders as liars,” said XR’s Tim Jones in a statement. “Shell is one of those liars. Rather than rapidly transitioning to renewables as it claims, it is continuing to make unspeakable profits from oil and gas—$19.3 billion last year.”
"Kuring di dieu pikeun menta karyawan pausahaan ieu, anu kuring yakin anu alus, jalma miara, pikeun katingal dina naon maranéhna ngalakukeun, pikeun katingal dina mesin ieu aranjeunna bagian tina, sarta mertimbangkeun naon nu kudu robah,"Jones. ditambahkeun. "Punten, sadayana, sumping sareng kami: Leumpang tina perusahaan anu nyababkeun kami kabinasaan. Teu kasép.”
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