Hello,
Thanks for supporting my hunger strike. Today is day 37. Please email your MP, I hope you'll be able to do this for me today. To help you there's a template email below.
Please write as an individual and not as part of any group or movement, because the hunger strike is a solo action outside of all environmental movements. I really appreciate your help, thank you so much.
Take care,
Angus
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Dear MP
I am writing to express my extreme concern about the hunger striker Angus Rose who is now on the 36th day of his strike. He has lost more than 18% of body weight which is medically considered to be a tipping point after which sudden death or permanent health damage can occur. Urgent action is now required to protect his life.
His simple request is that Cabinet and parliamentarians be given an up to date briefing by Sir Patrick Vallance, the chief scientific officer, on the climate crisis, and that it be made publicly available.
His request is now supported by 79 eminent scientists including Sir David King, who wrote an open letter to Greg Hands, Minister of State for Business, Energy and Clean Growth:
https://angusro.github.io/Scientists%20Letter%20of%20Support%20for%20Angus%20Rose.pdf
and by 29 eminent clinicians whose letter to Boris Johnson was published this week in the British Medical Journal
https://www.bmj.com/content/377/bmj.o987
The clinicians made clear that, although not all of them support the tactic of a hunger strike, they agree that “It is essential that the latest scientific evidence on the climate crisis is officially and openly communicated to the cabinet and members of parliament by the government’s chief scientific adviser, just as was done during the height of the covid-19 crisis. We believe this would help the government take the urgent action required to decarbonise the country at the scale and speed required.”
I completely agree with them and I am asking you, as my representative in parliament, to take this up as a matter of urgency with the Prime Minister.
Please let me know what is the result, I look forward to hearing from you
Yours sincerely