ArticleeLife2022
The biospheric emergency calls for scientists to change tactics.
Article in eLife, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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12 citing papers in PubMed.
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- How scientists can contribute to the social movements essential to protecting climate and nature.npj climate action · 2025Article
- Protists and protistology in the Anthropocene: challenges for a climate and ecological crisis.BMC biology · 2024Review
- Actions speak louder than words: the case for responsible scientific activism in an era of planetary emergency.Royal Society open science · 2024Article
- Deciphering the relationship between temperature and immunity.Discovery immunology · 2024Review
- "No one talks about it": using emotional methodologies to overcome climate silence and inertia in Higher Education.Frontiers in sociology · 2024Article
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- Rethinking academia in a time of climate crisis.eLife · 2023Article
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Abstract
Our current economic and political structures have an increasingly devastating impact on the Earth's climate and ecosystems: we are facing a biospheric emergency, with catastrophic consequences for both humans and the natural world on which we depend. Life scientists - including biologists, medical scientists, psychologists and public health experts - have had a crucial role in documenting the impacts of this emergency, but they have failed to drive governments to take action in order to prevent the situation from getting worse. Here we, as members of the movement Scientist Rebellion, call on life scientists to re-embrace advocacy and activism - which were once hallmarks of academia - in order to highlight the urgency and necessity of systemic change across our societies. We particularly emphasise the need for scientists to engage in nonviolent civil resistance, a form of public engagement which has proven to be highly effective in social struggles throughout history.
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