World Scientist Warning to Humanity

When

1992

Who

Written by Henry W. Kendall and signed by about 1,700 leading scientists

Follow up

November 2017: 15,364 scientists signed World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity

November, 2019: more than 11,000 scientists from 153 countries named climate change an “emergency” that would lead to “untold human suffering” if no big shifts in action takes place

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World Scientist Warning to Humanity

Declaration of

Human Duties

Declaration of

Human Duties

Related Duties

Promote effective voluntary family planning in order to regulate world population growth

Avoid energy waste and work for reduction of the use of fossil fuels. Promote the use of inexhaustible energy sources, representing a minimum of environmental and health risks

Protect nature from pollution and abuse, promote conservation of natural resources and the restoration of degraded environments

Respect and preserve the genetic diversity of living organisms and promote constant scrutiny of the application of genetic technologies

Work for mainenance of world peace, condemn war, terrorism and all other hostile activities by calling for decreased military spending in all countries and restriction of the proliferation and dissemination of arms, in particular, weapons of mass destruction