 First, quickly introducing myself, then why our group thinks it needs to do what to do. What we aim to achieve, what methods can be used, the opportunities that we see specifically in the field of non-violent civil disobedience, then scientists rebelling itself, what have we done, what we're going to do, and lastly, what can you do to help out? Well, first, about myself. I'm a security architect and pen tester at STB Group, a large SaaS in healthcare. A very long ago, I was one of the editors at Hectic, so those of a certain age will know. Also a co-seesup of Utopia, the BBS ages, well, creator of Partijgedrag, which is a political conspiracy database, which I've now been doing for about 10 years, longer probably, and which I'd love to get help with, so if you're into politics, let me know. The CTI League, Admin CTI League is a group of CTI specialists which help out specifically healthcare, yeah, in COVID times there was a lot of ransomware attacks and, well, we tried to help out best we could. Scientifically, well, I'm a master of science, artificial intelligence at the University of Amsterdam. I've done, yeah, my father, he was one of the chief scientists at the KNME, that's a meteorological institute, and I actually did a research article with him on using artificial intelligence in meteorology, which was quite a fun thing to do. And, well, I like food notes, I really like things with good sources that you can check for yourself and, well, not social media stuff. So, why do we bother? You probably know, but I'll briefly go into this. Droughts and floods are really happening, yeah, in a very increasing trajectory. The Horn of Africa, the southern part, now has had many droughts in a row and the nomads there actually don't really have their life anymore because the cattle is gone and they need to find a new way of living because the environment has just come too hostile. And I think that's way underreported in Europe, well, in the Western countries. Well, Germany also, see, it's hitting Europe, the likelihood of severe floods has increased by a factor of 1.2, so that's 20%, at least, and 9, so 900%, it's very quickly getting worse. Heatwives are really worldwide, yeah, the norm, well, these graphs, you probably know them. This shows in dark blue, yeah, a bit cooler temperatures and, yeah, the darker red, it gets the hotter. And worldwide, these are all different continents, the temperatures, all the record temperatures are, well, the last decennium. In India, recently, Jacobovac hit 50 centigrade, I mean, this is, we really make parts of the world unlivable. And, yeah, in Europe, we have, yeah, we were quite lucky to be in a relatively cool area, but also there it's getting a lot hotter. I actually made these slides before the heatwaves, that's, well, just have just happened, so, yeah, that's just an encore. Yeah, July 2019, there were 1,435 heat-related deaths in France, which, yeah, of which about 35% can, for certain, be linked to global warming. Yeah, in America and the US, the heatwaves are 150 times more likely, and this is not just some random article, this is from nature. Well, we, as techies, are also already being hit just last week. Google and Oracle had cloud outages because they couldn't take the heat. Yeah, because it's so rapidly increasing. On the other hand, yeah, also due to warming and pollution, coral is dying on a tremendous scale, and coral is really, well, the foundation of underwater life. So, yeah, we've lost about 30 to 50% since 1980, so, well, that you can understand the impact, and it's getting worse. So, yeah, one last thing, because the weather makes the weather, it makes the harvest more unpredictable. You can have suddenly a huge heatwave or suddenly that the field is totally underwater, and then, yeah, the crops are gone. So, yeah, expect more of that. The biodiversity loss is a related problem that's partly due to the heat, but also due to, yeah, the very lots of poisons that we use to try to keep our agriculture ever in the incline. So, yeah, it's not really good. The IPCC, for those who don't know it, it's international community on, yeah, incredible worldwide scale of researchers about any speciality, which together, and that's really unique in the world history, worldwide together, they try to find the consensus on what is happening in the world, and, well, their consensus is we have a brief and rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a livable and sustainable future, very high confidence, well, very high confidence in scientific terms, you don't just throw that around, then you really need to be very certain. So, what needs to be done, and now I'll align with the extinction rebellion demands, which, yeah, I have been very well put together, there are a lot of scientists in extinction rebellion also outside of scientist rebellion, which I'll get to later. Overarching is climate justice, and that's, there is a fair transition enabling everybody around the world to together solve this problem. And currently, well, the western world is here, we are causing most of the pollution, and, yeah, we should invest equal amount in order to solve it. The, yeah, half of the population hardly emits any CO2 compared to us, but, yeah, they are the people who have the most problems with it. Then, the first demand, this previous one was number zero, tell the truth, and that's, that politicians and the media need to honestly tell us what we're facing and not scale it away. Well, here's our two Dutch posts, from recent times, the Rad van Staten, which is a high uredial presence, they say, well, the climate action that the government does is far, is way insufficient. So, yeah, they really should do a lot more. And, well, for the part of the media, if you have a subtitle, 400 extra debt due to heat wave, a lot of 80 pluses have deceased, and then you put a picture of a woman at the beach, then I think as the media, you failed. There's actually a catch 22 here that politicians, journalists, and the general public sort of keep each other from, from action. Politicians are voted away when they do stuff that the general public doesn't want, doesn't enjoy. Journalists, they are not red when they bring bitter news, they, yeah, like to sugarcoat it a bit, if they really bring it harshly, then they just won't get red as much. And the general public, they expect the journalists and the politicians to inform us, and, well, be honest about this, and so they think, in general, if they don't have a scientific background, if they don't really dive into it from, okay, well, it's nice, I mean, I can go to the pool every now and then. And, yeah, so a search, they vote for politicians who don't want all this hard action. In the meantime, we have oil companies and other companies which have a short-term benefit from keeping the status quo, and they have a lot of techniques to keep us from getting active. And they lobby a lot, so they are 10 to 1, the outspends, yeah, organizations like Greenpeace, like Major Defense, etc., which lobby for better climate action. Yeah, the politicians who don't want to move, they say, well, we need more measurements, or, well, it's just too expensive. We can do it. And, yeah, they refer to bad signs in order to, yeah, keep us from moving. And, yeah, portray concerned activists at extremists. Unfortunately, what's happening? And even though it's quite a bargain to solve climate change, the IPCC has calculated how much it would take, and this is from 2018, so the price has gone up a bit, but, yeah, not orders of magnitudes. They need $2.4 trillion, and I think, hey, that's a lot, but it's 2.5 percent of the world's GDP. So if every country on earth yields 2.5 percent of its GDP, and I think with COVID, higher prices were paid, then, and if we use that to wisely invest, then we can at least stay with the 1.5 to 2, yeah, 10 degrees. So, yeah, every year that we don't do anything, an additional 0.3 to 0.9 trillion dollars are actually thrown away. So in action, costs a lot of money because we have to fix it later. In the meantime, yeah, our government is still investing in the fossil sector with about 8 billion a year, which, yeah, it's madness. As Antonio Gutierrez also said, climate activists are sometimes depicted as dangerous radicals, but the truly dangerous radicals are the countries that are increasing the production of fossil fuels. Investing in new fossil fuels infrastructure is moral and economic madness, and then, yeah, also notice the economic world. So even if you would have no morals, it is still very foolish to not act. So it's good to learn from past mistakes. I'd like to remind you of the call energy. In 2016, a new center was opened while many people, many scientists already said, don't do this, this is madness. Some political parties still thought it was a good idea, cheap. And now in 2022, so that's six years after opening, yeah, we have this problem. We actually need to stop it. Well, now we have this problem with gas. So well, now we're opening it. We're starting them again. If we would have invested in alternative energy means we would have fixed several problems in one go. Then now the ministries will want to search for new gas. Well, they have searched. They want to open new gas fields in the North State, which, yeah, completely contradicts IPCC. They say, yeah, they say, coal and gas-fired power plants will likely need to retire about 25 years earlier in the past, yeah, or if you want to stay within 1.5, 30 years earlier. The risks of stranded power plants that you can't use are greatest in countries with newer fossil infrastructure. Well, this fossil fuel infrastructure doesn't even exist yet. And yeah, they want to go there. And it's not that then tomorrow they'll have gas. They hope it's, they sell it like, well, it will be 1 to 3 years. But yeah, I think the 3 years is already a, yeah, quite optimistic timescale. Yeah, normally it's about 5 years plus. And then you're just starting to use this fossil fuel. So what we think is a solution as extinction rebellion is citizens' assembly. This is not, yeah, some strange radical idea. It has been tried and tested in several countries already. You have a cross-section of the public, so really a fair representation of, yeah, all works of life of, yeah, whatever divisions you make. They are informed by several experts. Some, yeah, they may not agree with each other. And that's fine, but they really should be respected people in their fields. Then there are extensive roundtable discussions within this group. And they can ask more expertise. And then in the end, they come to a conclusion, yeah, this is what we should do. And if you do this right, and that is if you give them a mandate, this can work very well to bring changes that otherwise you just couldn't sell to your population. For example, Ireland is a famous case. Their abortion was discussed at length. And, yeah, finally, the country agreed. Of course, there are still people against, but they agreed, yeah, that abortion shouldn't be completely illegal everywhere. And, yeah, this wouldn't have been possible without the citizen assembly. People really thought, okay, my, yeah, persons that I identify with are, yeah, I have said this is a wise choice. And, well, there is transparency, so I can look into why. And, yeah, that works perfectly. On the other hand, there have also been citizens assemblies where, yeah, the group made a recommendation and the government didn't like that and did something else anyway. And that's not a fertile ground for a future, yeah, the future of this process. So in Ireland, France, Germany, UK, Belgium, this has been done for climate change matters and quite, yeah, quite successfully. In France, yeah, most of the recommendations were applied, some not, but, yeah, most were. And it's, it works very well. So, yeah, these are the Extinction Rebellion demands, which are the same for Scientist Rebellion as, well, a sister group. We, yeah, fully support this. So, how can we help make this change? For scientists, yeah, I think you are the science officer. And all the measurements that you see, they show you, well, okay, this, we're heading to this iceberg. And you already feel the boat a bit wobbly. It's, yeah, you think, okay, this is not good. You've sent several notices in, yeah, with more and more exclamation marks, but it's not getting through. The captain is too busy entertaining the guests and, so, he doesn't want any sudden ship moves. So, he's saying, well, okay, let's just carry on and let the engineer think of a magic fix so that, yeah, we can suddenly move this boat 90 degrees starboard. Well, as a science officer, you can write another alert. Well, for climate change, this was the World Scientist warning of climate emergency. It was underwritten by over 11,000 scientists and, yeah, nothing has been done with that. So, yeah, getting a bit fed up. Well, as a person, yeah, you can vote. And absolutely everybody should do this. And, yeah, for parties who have a provable track record of caring for your future. Yeah, with this four-year election cycle, it is a bit difficult that politicians fear being voted away if they do anything rash. There's still limited climate science awareness and, yeah, all these disinformation campaigns that we talked about. So, here you see a list of all kinds of climate protests actions that have been done in the past. These are groupings. There are still a lot, yeah, there are a lot also outside of this, but this is a good catalogue with how many times certain actions were done. And, well, you see petitions, campaign street protests, well, importance of NGOs, yeah, many different things which have been done a lot, but, yeah, with limited success. The green bullets are, yeah, completely legal actions. The blue are civil disobediences and in the case of strikes, well, it can be legal. It is not always the case. The red on the bottom, that is potentially violent actions like, yeah, property damage, sabotage. This is not something that Exchange Rebellion supports, advises. We think it's counterproductive and doesn't yield any benefit. So, yeah, there is a wide range of actions and, yeah, it's hard to quantify exactly which is responsible for what because oftentimes we use several different actions. And we think, well, we know that's also the best to really diversify, to not do one kind of action, to only petition, to only do a lawsuit or do only a non-violent disobedience act, but to combine several types and that's much, much more effective to put pressure from different sides. So, yeah, first I want to talk here about legal actions. There have, yeah, very good work is being done. Ergenda, klimaatzaak, yeah, probably most Dutch people will know it. There was a case against the government because the government did too little to protect its citizens against climate change. That was one. So, the judge said they should immediately do more than the government countersuit because they didn't want to do more, which was also one. So now, grudgingly, they are, yeah, doing more, but, yeah, it's not from the arts. Actually, last week in the UK, a similar case was one, also in high court, because the government didn't really want to do anything. So, in the UK, there's also hope with that. Well, myodifency is also a famous case. They have sued Shell to clean up its act because it is responsible for a huge amount of the pollution worldwide. Other oil companies, same thing, but this was also a test case. If Shell must do it, then, in all likelihood, the other oil companies also should. So, yeah, this is also, yeah, the more cases are being prepared. Then a very fundamental case is ecocide. Well, of course, you know, genocide. Ecocide is, yeah, the nature's equivalent. If you damage a lot of nature, then you should, yeah, it should be able to sue you and keep you responsible for that crime. And, yeah, top lawyers are now working on this, yeah, very slowly to make this happen worldwide. That takes a lot of time, but they're, yeah, they're doing very good things here. So, yeah, this takes a lot, it's vital, but it takes a long time. Then we get to another, more are just non-violent civil disobedience. I'd like to start with some examples. In the past, women's suffrage, women were fed up with not being able to have, to vote. And for a long time, they asked very friendly, please, can we vote? And, well, that didn't really do much for them. So, the suffragette movements came up and, yeah, they tied themselves off two rails in order to, yeah, not be protested, not be removed immediately. Yeah, they are one, yeah, some of the first, yeah, known cases for mass civil disobedience. And, well, it worked for them. And, yeah, we're better for it. Then a lot of civil disobedience is also in the case of systemic discrimination. There are, yeah, a lot of famous cases. Martin Luther King is, of course, a very well-known example. But also, yeah, Cornel West, he's a professor from Princeton, and he has also been several times arrested for, yeah, for protesting against racial discrimination. Yeah, recently also, 31 Harvard professors, that was in 2017, that was against the DACA, which, yeah, was a quite evil legislative piece of work in the US. So, yeah, a lot of professors, a lot of scientists, are hitting the street for these kinds of causes. Vietnam War, another well-known case, yeah, then Nhan Chamsky, a very famous linguist, Howard Xin, also a famous historian. Daniel Ellsberg from the Pentagon Papers, for those who do not know, it's the Pentagon Papers, yeah, actually sort of ended the war in Vietnam because, yeah, he opened up about, yeah, what, yeah, dirty tricks are being done in the Vietnam War, and then, yeah, the people turned against it. Oh, all right, is this better? Not yet? All right, we're back. Okay, well, I hope you read through the slides. Well, yeah, last case, the nuclear arms buildup, Carl Sagan, yeah, which is probably one of the most famous scientists of the last century. Yeah, he was also arrested for, yeah, against this nuclear arms buildup. So, there are a lot of examples of scientists which, yeah, hit the street. Then, yeah, for the climate emergency, we also, yeah, see no alternative to also, yeah, hit the streets because writing more papers, yeah, that apparently doesn't work. So, yeah, Greta is, yeah, she was not a scientist yet, she was just an education, but, yeah, she broke the law with her school strike, and that's, well, set up a whole movement, so that was good. So, yeah, here you see a more recent example, yeah, where actually friends from scientists rebellion are also active, yeah, blocking. Yeah, well, I won't repeat myself, there are a lot of professionals which are really, yeah, don't want to take it any longer, have tried all the normal ways of getting their message across, and, yeah, it just doesn't work. So, then, get the scientist rebellion. I guess most people know extinction rebellion, but I'll very briefly explain the relationship between different organizations. Let me start by Fridays for Future. This is the movement that Greta Thunberg has initiated. It's, yeah, it has an education affinity, they have some civil disobedience, but then only, yeah, only the strikes. Real scientists which have graduated, you have Scientists for Future, which is actually quite big in the Netherlands, and you have scientists rebellion, which is sort of the rebellious sister of scientists for future. We know each other very well, many people are in both organizations and, yeah, we have a very good standing relationship. Scientists for Future doesn't do civil disobedience, scientists rebellion does. Then, now, extinction rebellion, of course, you know, they have been eating the streets quite a lot. They have sister group university rebellion, which is actually students, which have not graduated yet, but, yeah, also, yeah, do civil disobedience at university, and, yeah, besides the educational angle, you have lawyers for extinction rebellion, you have healthcare professionals for extinction rebellion, you have a lot of different subgroups which have all, yeah, different focus, and so we get along together quite well. Scientists rebellion is active in a lot of countries. These are just that I know of, but I may have skipped some. Our actions should be as targeted as possible, just like we have actions at large scale investors in pollution like banks, pension funds, and big companies, which also could do better, and, yeah, at key decision makers, and then, yeah, we get to the government where we do a lot of actions, ministries, and also at other government bodies, and, yeah, we also do public awareness raising mostly at cases, we do, yeah, mostly at places which have a link to either, yeah, one of the previous two groups. Yeah, yeah, this shoot, do you hear me? This is, is it good like this? No, like this? Better? Sorry, top? That's a shame. Okay. Sorry, I don't get, oh, yeah, I can use that. That's easy. Is this working? Okay. All right, well, then we're going to do it like this. Well, this is an example action, this is an example action of scientists rebellion in Berlin where 14 scientists were blocking the Kronplatz in Brücke, which is quite in the center of Berlin. Yeah, too much, a stronger political action. In Madrid, there was also a large group, yeah, which went, sorry, went to the National Congress, and, yeah, they spilled fake, yeah, biodegradable, easily washable blood to show all the needless debts that had been done by not taking actions. Well, for reference, about 37% of the heatwave victims could be, yeah, fix, yeah, needed. Uganda is severely hit by climate change. They have several roadblocks to demand stronger action. Well, this is my group. In Den Haake, we blocked, for example, the Ministry of Economic Affairs. There were seven arrests also for, yeah, requesting more action from the Ministry of Economic Affairs. There are many, many, many more to mention. So, what can you do? Don't be the dog. That's the first. It's good if you, yeah, as far as much as you aren't aware yet, study and share scientific consensus. The IPCC reports have a summary for policymakers, which is very easy to read. So I would say, well, do the working group two and the working group three summaries. They're quite clear. They're quite obvious. Of course, yeah, don't believe social media claims without fact-checking. There's this climate help desk for Dutch people, in which you can really ask an expert, hey, I don't get this. Well, yeah, why is this happening? Yeah, they're very good. Speak up, lead by example, how imperfect it might be. You don't need to be perfect. I mean, do what you can. Use your privilege for good. Yeah, as I already mentioned, voting for a party which has a history of caring for your future and your kid's future or your friend's kid's future should be very easy to determine which do and which don't. Move your money to a company which, yeah, does not invest itself in polluting services. You can use, as a Dutchie, like a health advisor, for example, invest in green companies instead of, well, for example, proof of work coins, have a lot better return on investment. And please lower your emissions. And now Netherlands consumes about 3.6% times what's sustainable. You have this overshoot day which is actually calculating on which day of the year we actually used our carbon credits for the year and for the Netherlands that's in April, I believe. Yeah, please fly less, drive less if you need to drive, yeah, drive electric. That really helps a lot. Eat less or no meat or dairy because they're very polluting, prefer plant-based. Now it's very easy to do. It used to be more difficult but now in 2022 it's very easy. And, yeah, in general, buy less stuff because, yeah, we really are a very consuming country, well, for a continent and that's not good. For example, yeah, here is a pile of clothing, actually mountains of clothing that are in Uganda and also in Chile. And these are clothing that are, yeah, just haven't even made the stores. But in this fast fashion, okay, it's already outdated. It's just thrown away and, well, we don't see it. But it's there and it's ever-growing. So, yeah, try to buy less, recycle. That helps. Then, second thing, connect to peers. Both of these, yeah, do not have a direct nonviolent direct action focus but they're very good to join. Climateaction.tech is, yeah, for techies who want to make a change. It's a community with, yeah, a lot of activity. It's, yeah, join it if you're interested in this topic. Effective altruism is also a very good organization. They focus on high-impact philanthropy and trying to avoid catastrophic risks and they're also very scientific in this and they can also advise on which goals you can't, which funds you can donate to, to have the highest impacts, either for climate or also for other topics. And for students, they have career guidance. So, that's also nice. And then, yeah, my last part. Get off your chair. Yeah, get active in the climate movement. For scientists, scientist rebellion, yeah, I would advise if you also, if nonviolent direct action doesn't scare you. If it does, scientists for future is also a fantastic group. Well, these are the University Rebellion Fridays for Future, other extinction rebellion groups and, well, Greenpeace and Neo-Defensey and others also have, yeah, direct action, not civil disobedience usually but, yeah, they also need volunteers for their actions. This is actually a Banksy which, yeah, supported a extinction rebellion strike. So, yeah, that's it for my presentation. So, thank you. Thank you very much for your talk. So, remember that if you want to ask questions, please come line up by the microphone. We have our first question and I'll give you the mic back. I have a suggestion. Is it working? Yes, sort of. Okay. There are at least three manuals how to start an uprising which have been used in all of society, all over the world. And I can send you the links to that. They are on internet. Alinsky is one for social change. There is a, from dictatorship to democracy is a manual and there's a third one recently published by people in Eastern Europe. If you give me your mail address, I will send it to you. I'll give my mail address. It's, well, here, that's my mail address. But, yeah, we are already a science rebellion quite, yeah, we read a lot of research on this. But, yeah, it's, I'll check whether these are part of, yeah. Hi, Elvin. Thank you very much for this presentation. You gave a very concise overview like a true scientist of what happened so far. And you were telling us with a friendly smile on your face presenting the facts. Why are you not mad as hell? I am mad as hell. I actually, before this talk, I talked with other people on the camp and said, well, I hope that, yeah, my emotion doesn't, yeah, get the better of me that I can't present this. So this is my way of coping. The science I hear about climate usually is physical or environmental and that sort of thing. Are there also scientists from economy or from legal departments who could help citizens say, this economist computed that they have wasted so much of the tax money, I now refuse to pay it. As a citizen, I mean, I think you could get 60 million volunteers for that. Well, in a scientist's rebellion, I don't think we have in, yeah, extinction rebellion, yeah, there are also, yeah, a lot of scientists, yeah, really from about all angles. I'm not sure about, yeah, economic professors because, yeah, that's that's sort of a sensitive topic in XR. But, yeah, lawyers, there are a lot. So that's this climate climate change date for every country, you could say you're only entitled to pay your taxes until April, if you're Dutch. Yeah, I mean, and get legal part department to support that and have 60 million individual lawsuits against 60 million citizens. That might get some people moving. I think it might. And when to check signal in case there are any questions from, no, please do line up. Nope, no questions there. So we have, I think we have time for just one last question here. One last question is, I saw the options for donating as well. But if there would be a fund that would make it possible to donate to buy a lot of tractors for scientists, would that help? Definitely. But would science rebellion be prepared to use them? Well, scientists, we have a global, it is a global organization and we only, we don't have a specific Dutch, but we have overarching donation possibility. And then, yeah, we, it's not earmarked as yet. And also, I must say that, yeah, the different countries are relatively autonomous and some have a slightly different perspective, not about the science, but about the best way to do things. So, yeah, then there should be a specific fund for that. Well, let's, why don't you follow up with him just after? Let's thank Elvin again for incredible talk and some really intense things to be thinking about the rest of the day.