University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Scientist Rebellion Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Elife. 2022 Nov 7;11:e83292. doi: 10.7554/eLife.83292.
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.
我们正面临着一个生物圈紧急情况，这对人类和我们所依赖的自然世界都将带来灾难性的后果。生命科学家——包括生物学家、医学科学家、心理学家和公共卫生专家——在记录这一紧急情况的影响方面发挥了关键作用，但他们未能促使政府采取行动，以防止情况恶化。在这里，我们作为“科学家反抗”运动的成员，呼吁生命科学家重新接受倡导和行动主义——这些曾经是学术界的标志——以强调我们社会进行系统性变革的紧迫性和必要性。我们特别强调科学家需要参与非暴力公民抗命，这是一种历史上证明在社会斗争中非常有效的公众参与形式。
