This is an act of disobedience

I am a postdoc researcher at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. I work for the Stardust-R project (European Commission, Marie Slodowska-Curie Actions), which is focused on training young scientists like me in the study of space debris and asteroids.

During 2021 I started to get involved in climate activism with Extinction Rebellion and Scientist Rebellion. When I realized the severity of the climate crisis, my whole life changed. The overshoot of our world is leading us inevitably to the collapse of our civilization and the climate system. We really need to face this, turn our eco-anxiety into eco-anger and act, it is our moral duty. Everyone of us should be in emergency mode, fighting to prevent the most dramatic consequences and building a society that puts life at the center of all.

This is why, in the following open letter, I abandon my research obligations in order to raise awareness on the climate and ecosocial emergency and to mobilize people.