Amount scientist held a demonstration at JP Morgan Chase Bank, Los Angeles, United States. Their actions demanded that banks stop funding fossil energy exploration.
Their action was supported by 1,000 scientists from 25 countries. The scientists who took part in the demonstration included Peter Kalmus, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory data processing researcher.
He, along with a number of associate project scientists at UCLA’s Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science & Engineering, demonstrated outside the bank’s branch office by tying hand chains on the bank’s door.
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“We did civil disobedience at the JP Morgan Chase Bank, which of all the banks in the world, is the bank that finances the most fossil fuel projects,” Kalmus quoted him as saying. UniladThursday (4/8).
According to the demonstrators, the industrial sector that uses fossil energy has increased global temperatures.
“I’m here because scientists aren’t being listened to. I’m willing to take risks for this beautiful planet, for my sons. And we’ve been trying to warn you for decades that we’re headed for a major catastrophe,” Kalmus said.
He further said that the use of fuel will worsen natural conditions. He also invites every community group to care about the environment.
“This is for all the children in the world, all the young people, all the people of the future. This is much bigger than all of us,” he said.
The scientists’ actions were also rejected by the local police. Kalmus was arrested along with a physicist, an engineer and a science teacher for disturbing the order.
Kalmus claims to have expressed this aspiration for the past 16 years, but has always been under pressure from the government.
“I think it’s worth the risk of our careers to try and make the public aware of what’s happening to our planet,” he said.
(can/mik)
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