SLU researchers in a debate article on the climate crisis: Enough is enough!

It was frustration over the lack of political action and discussion on the ongoing climate crisis that drove a group of researchers from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and Uppsala University to start writing a debate article in June.

When the text was completed in August and the researchers began to spread it in their networks to see if more people wanted to sign it, it became clear that their frustration was shared by many researchers and teachers at universities and research institutes all over Sweden.

- The signatures literally poured in, says Flora Hajdu, Professor of Rural Development. When we reached 500, we began to realize that we had to ask for help from colleagues to check that all signatures really came from people who were employed at the institutions.

The authors of the article have received an extremely positive response to the initiative.

- Many people have contacted us and expressed their appreciation, says Karin Gerhardt. By the time of publication 1,944 people had signed, most of them researchers and professors from universities and research institutes.

The debate article was published digitally in Aftonbladet on Thursday morning, August 25, including the long list of all the signatures.

Read the article in Swedish here: https://www.aftonbladet.se/debatt/a/KzQgly/nog-nu-politiker-ta-klimatkrisen-pa-allvar

Read a translation into English here: https://www.kth.se/philhist/historia/omoss/nyheter/enough-is-enough-politicians-take-the-climate-crisis-seriously-1.1186574