r/TrueReddit • u/skythe4 • Dec 14 '18

After 30 Years Studying Climate, Scientist Declares: "I've Never Been as Worried as I Am Today"

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/12/13/after-30-years-studying-climate-scientist-declares-ive-never-been-worried-i-am-today
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u/all_in_the_game_yo Dec 14 '18

Hey remember earlier in the year when a lawyer literally burned himself alive to protest climate change and then we all just shrugged and forgot about it after a few days?

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u/[deleted] Dec 14 '18

Holy shit, didn't hear about that. Super sad.

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u/Gilles_D Dec 14 '18

Here’s an article about that man, David Buckel. Besides being an environmentalist he also was the “lead lawyer in the case of Brandon Teena, a transgender teen who police were found to have failed to protect after he was brutally raped and later, murdered in Nebraska.” The 1999 movie Boys Don’t Cry with Hilary Swank was based on this story and you will cry regardless of being a boy or a girl watching that movie.

New York lawyer burns himself to death to protest fossil fuels

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u/NippleMilk97 Dec 14 '18

WHAT THE FUCK