Academics have demanded career breaks so they can save the planet from climate change as they warn that “humanity is on a precipice.”
Over 700 British professors and lecturers have signed an open letter to vice-Chancellors and research funding chiefs warning that “the very future of life on earth is in question” (sic!) if “climate breakdown” is not addressed.
Since universities are the “bastions of wisdom and knowledge”, the academics say that their services are urgently needed to combat the “climate crisis.”
The letter, published by the Times Higher Education magazine, is signed by academics from the country’s leading institutions including Oxford, Cambridge, Durham, Bristol universities as well as those from the London School of Economics and Imperial College London.
They use the letter to urge university leaders to “support scientists, academics and students to help address the climate emergency through a series of new programs, fellowships, sabbaticals, and voluntary placements to help the critical efforts needed to save all life on our planet.”
Its publication comes amid increasing concerns from some in the psychological community about the dangers of so-called “eco-anxiety”, although many contest the existence of the phenomenon.
Earlier this month, academics argued that climate scientists should be “allowed to cry” to help deal with the “grief” of documenting environmental decline.
Writing in the journal Science, British researchers likened the field of climate science to military service or law enforcement and called on universities to adopt similar strategies to deal with emotional distress.
Quoting Charles Darwin, they argued that scientists who are not encouraged to process their “emotional trauma” risk losing their critical faculties.
h/t GWPF
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Help! The #ClimateCrackpots are getting more stupid that at first thought.
They are the ones who will ruin our lives, with their scaremongering scamming lies!
Sort of, semi commitment.
More cake, please.
Give up your “chair” and go to war, you wankers. Throw yourselves on that Climate Grenade, save the world.
Their not real Professors their Scam Artists and Con Men they don’t represent any real scientists their just all polticly motivated using lies and junk science their just like the so called Union of Concerned ed Scientists their as authentic as a 3 dollar bill and put politics and money ahead of any real scientific advances
We obviously have to redefine “smart”. I honestly think that these days a “college professor” is a definition of “stupid”.
Am I correct in reading this as “give us more money”?
Forget the wasted money ,is it fair to send kids to these brain wash facilities ?
I would give the the hypocritical bed wetters 2 years of unpaid leave and a one way ticket to Antarctica .
500 scientists just wrote the UN IPCC and advised among other things ‘there is no climate emergency ” .
You can’t debate a cult .
Want to know where the UK is at ..just watch the chimps in parliament .
You can’t debate a cult. You can’t argue with a sick mind, either.
The Left has gone ‘pedal to the metal’ down the global warming rabbit hole. Renaming it hasn’t changed anything. It’s all gone wrong. They’re flailing.
“scientists who are not encouraged to process their “emotional trauma” risk losing their critical faculties.” They lost their “critical faculties” when they bought into the climate change fraud. With the climate models running four times hotter than real world data, extreme weather events not increasing and if anything decreasing, and no correlation between carbon dioxide levels and the earth’s average temperature history, how can anyone who calls themselves a scientist and buys into man made climate change have any critical faculties? The universities should improve their staff and let these people go so they can spend all of their time on their fairytale cause.
In other words
“MO’ MONEY!”
They want to get paid to protest. Go ahead and quit if they feel so strongly. They don’t do much work as it is and the Universities could save money.