Scientists for the Future

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The Scientists for Future logo shows Ed Hawkins' " Climate- or Warming Stripes " (" Warming Stripes ")

Scientists for Future is an initiative by scientists to support the school movement Fridays for Future .

history

Group of Scientists for Future on March 15, 2019 ( disability Park , Berlin-Mitte )
At the first Berlin4Future Monday demo, Berlin, Alexanderplatz, July 6, 2020 - with "heat strips"

In March 2019, more than 26,800 scientists from Switzerland, Austria and Germany signed a statement under the heading “The concerns of the young people demonstrating are justified”. The scientists, who have come together under the name Scientists for Future , said that the concerns were justified and well founded. From a scientific point of view, the current measures for climate, species, forest, marine and soil protection are far from sufficient. Several directors of research institutes are among the signatories.

Statement by the Scientists for Future in full text with a list of the first signatories to the protests for climate protection of March 12, 2019

The Scientists for Future were founded on the initiative of Gregor Hagedorn. In June 2019, this statement, supplemented by an analysis of the results and effects of the declaration, was published as a bilingual article in the journal GAIA . The fact that Fridays for Future calls for a faster end to greenhouse gas emissions for Germany than the IPCC globally is justified with climate justice . There are similar initiatives by Dutch and Belgian scientists.

The Berlin professor for regenerative energy systems Volker Quaschning said: “We are the professionals and say: The young generation is right”, the climate researcher Reto Knutti (Zurich) writes: “The commitment of young people calls on us older people to act. As a private person as well as a scientist, I am of the opinion that one should take the climate youth seriously. "

In April 2019, a lead by Gregor Hagedorn appeared in the journal Science , in which the authors of Scientists for Future called on the research community to support the youth protest movement. Those involved included Michael E. Mann , Stefan Rahmstorf , Reto Knutti, Sonia I. Seneviratne and Kevin Anderson , and a 51-page supplement with additional signatories from science was published. The authors stress that youth's concerns are legitimate and supported by the best science available. The "current measures to protect the climate and the biosphere" are "deeply inadequate". It is "of vital importance to begin immediately with a rapid reduction in CO 2 and other greenhouse gas emissions". At the same time, the researchers said they saw it as their "social, ethical and scientific responsibility to explain unequivocally":

"Only if mankind acts quickly and decisively can we limit global warming, stop the ongoing mass extinction of animal and plant species and preserve the natural foundations for the food supply and well-being of present and future generations."

- Gregor Hagedorn et al. : Science 364, No. 6436, 2019

That is what the young people wanted to achieve. Hence, they deserve respect and full support.

In October 2019 Gregor Hagedorn and Scientists for Future were awarded the Federal Sustainability Prize.

An initiative of the same name has existed in the Netherlands since summer 2019, which pursues similar goals and also issued a statement in support of the climate strike on September 27, 2019 in particular . This opinion was signed by around 2000 scientists in the Netherlands.

The physicist and manager Peter Grassmann wrote the comment on his book Tame the Economy! Without civil interference, we will not stop greed with: "These young climate protesters are all we have."

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ed Hawkins (@ed_hawkins) - Twitter .
  2. ↑ Manish Karkera (Institute for Environmental Analytics): Show Your Stripes. Accessed April 25, 2020 (English).
  3. ↑ a b Web presence of the Scientists for Future. In: scientists4future.org
  4. ↑ The concerns of the young climate strike demonstrators are justified and well founded. In: Swiss Academy of Sciences (press release). March 12, 2019, accessed March 12, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Up to 25,000 participants in the demo for climate protection in Berlin. In: Tagesspiegel .de. March 15, 2019, accessed March 15, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Scientists4Future - Scientists support school demos for climate protection .
  7. ↑ Stefan Rahmsdorf: 12,000 scientists stand behind the striking students. In: scilogs.spektrum.de
  8. ↑ Press release on scientists4future.org (as of March 12, 2019) .
  9. ↑ New allies for “Fridays for Future”: Researchers show solidarity. In: taz.de , March 5, 2019
  10. ^ Gregor Hagedorn et al .: The concerns of the young protesters are justified. A statement by Scientists for Future concerning the protests for more climate protection . In: GAIA . tape 28 , no. 2 , 2019, p. 79-87 , doi : 10.14512 / gaia.28.2.3 .
  11. ↑ Sarah Maria Brech: Climate Strikes: Scientists support student protests . March 12, 2019.
  12. ↑ 12,000 scientists support #FridaysforFuture movement. In: br.de , March 15, 2019
  13. ^ "Fridays for Future": Schoolchildren in more than 100 countries demonstrate for more climate protection. In: FAZ.net. March 15, 2019, accessed March 17, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Why we get involved .
  15. ^ A b Gregor Hagedorn et al .: Concerns of young protesters are justified . In: Science . tape 364 , no. 6436 , 2019, pp. 139 f ., doi : 10.1126 / science.aax3807 .
  16. ↑ BVNG press release of October 18, 2019 (PDF; 325.79 kB).
  17. ↑ Scientists4Future NL website
  18. ^ Comment by Peter Grassmann. In: westendverlag.de .