'As long as our government fails to ActNow on the ClimateCrisis, disregarding expert advice, licensing more drilling for oil and gas, locking up scientists, we have no choice but to disrupt,' says XRebellionUK.
Additional XR actions are planned in the United Kingdom through Sunday.scientists gluing academic papers and their own hands to the windows of a U.K. government building in London.on a hunger strike Thursday after she was denied bail while awaiting a court hearing on charges stemming from that protest.
XR members on Friday morning gathered outside Charing Cross Police Station, where Smart is being held, to show support for the scientist. "What kind of world do we live in when scientists are forced to put themselves into positions of arrest and hunger strike to be heard?" asked Smart's husband, Andrew Smith, in a statement Friday."And why has she not been released? This was a minor crime with no disruption to the public. Her treatment is disproportionate to her crime."
"Our politicians are aware of the severity of the climate emergency, every decision should be informed by science, not coerced for profit and greed," he added."Emma knows what's at stake if we don't stop fossil fuel investments and she is taking a stand for her nieces' future and all those around the world suffering now from this crisis.
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