“We’ve Been Trying To Warn You For So Many Decades, “ Says NASA Scientist Break Down In Tears While Protesting
“We’re going to lose everything and we’re not joking, we’re not lying, we’re not exaggerating,” said Kalmus while crying.
Los Angeles: NASA climate scientist Kalmus implored people to listen to his emotional speech while speaking about the peril of upcoming climate change affects.
While delivering his speech Kalmus cried and said, “We’re going to lose everything and we’re not joking, we’re not lying, we’re not exaggerating.”
Dr. Kalmus is a climate scientist in NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California and was participating in a protest organized by Scientist Rebellion as a part of a global day of action by scientists around the world. The protest was organized in Los Angeles and scientists from round the globe participated in it.
The protest was showcased by chaining the scientists to the doors of JPMorgan Chase building.
Dr. Kalmus said, “I’m here because scientists are not being listened to. I’m willing to take a risk for this gorgeous planet. For my sons, this is for all of the kids of the world, all of the young people, all of the future people.”
He further said while crying, “This is so much bigger than any of us.”
Dr. Kalmus tweeted the next day and said that he and other protestors had been arrested. He then linked an essay that was penned for The Guardian news media firm about the urgency to address the climate crisis.
Dr. Kalmus said in a video, “It’s time for all of us to stand up, and take risks, and make sacrifices for this beautiful planet that gives us life, that gives us everything.”
“The protest occurred at Chase in protest of the bank’s fossil fuel financing,” said the Scientist Rebellion group.
“JPMorgan Chase was the world’s largest financer of fossil fuels of any bank in the world from 2016 through 2021, providing $382 billion over that six-year period,” according to a report from a consortium of NGOs.
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The group describes themselves as “activists from a variety of scientific backgrounds,” and states that they “work within the framework of Extinction Rebellion… but adopt some new forms of organising and mobilising”.