Climate Scientists As Climate Activists with Aaron Thierry

In this Climate Chat episode, we speak with Aaron Thierry about how climate scientists can play a bigger role in driving action on climate change by becoming more involved in climate activism. Dr. Aaron Thierry has background as an ecological scientist, science communicator and environmental campaigner. Having received his original PhD in ecology from the University of Sheffield, he went on to a position as a postdoc on a project researching climate feedbacks in the Arctic. Aaron subsequently left academia to focus his efforts on environmental activism and become a youth campaign coach working for a leading UK environmental charity. However, he has returned to his studies to commence a new PhD at Cardiff University's School of Social Sciences looking at scientific-activism. Here are some of Aaron's most recent papers on scientific activism: From Publications to Public Actions: The Role of Universities in Facilitating Academic Advocacy and Activism in the Climate and Ecological Emergency https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/sustainability/articles/10.3389/frsus.2021.679019/full “No research on a dead planet”: preserving the socio-ecological conditions for academia https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/education/articles/10.3389/feduc.2023.1237076/full Actions speak louder than words: the case for responsible scientific activism in an era of planetary emergency https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.240411 Civil disobedience by scientists helps press for urgent climate action https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-022-01461-y Follow Aaron on X/Twitter: @ThierryAaron Follow Aaron on Bluesky: @thierryaaron.bsky.social ---------------- Follow Dan Miller on X/Twitter: @danmiller999 Follow Dan Miller on Bluesky: @danmiller999.bsky.social and @climatechat.bsky.social To join the Zoom discussion, visit Dan's Clubhouse room. The Clubhouse link is provided in Dan's Twitter feed. You can also leave a question in the YouTube Live chat. Please begin your question with "Question:" to make it easy for our mods to spot it. For more Climate Chat episodes, see our YouTube home page: https://www.youtube.com/@climatechat For recent YouTube Live programs: https://www.youtube.com/@climatechat/streams