How scientists can contribute to social movements and climate action

By Aaron Thierry, PhD Candidate, Social Science, Cardiff University
Tristram Wyatt, Senior Research Fellow, Biosciences, University of Oxford

Despite decades of scientists’ warnings about climate and ecological breakdown, record-breaking heat and escalating environmental disasters have become commonplace. Science has been attacked, dismissed and politicised, and the world is accelerating in a terrifying direction.

To scientists this can feel particularly overwhelming. So what can we do?

Scientific knowledge alone hasn’t generated the urgent societal action many scientists expected. Therefore, to protect ourselves, future generations…

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