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Man Lights Himself On Fire To Bring Awareness To Climate Change
There was a NY Times headline, eventually:
Climate Activist Dies After Setting Himself on Fire at Supreme Court
A friend described the actions of Wynn Bruce, of Boulder, Colo., as “a deeply fearless act of compassion to bring attention to climate crisis.”
A Colorado man who lit himself on fire outside the Supreme Court on Friday was a climate activist staging an apparent protest of political inaction on global warming, according to a friend.
He was very concerned with climate change like we all should be:
Although it does not appear as though Bruce left behind a note or manifesto, a Facebook account identified as his by Kanko to the Times was saturated with concern about climate matters. In between sharing links to news articles and praising activists like Greta Thunberg, Bruce seemed to allude to his plan only once, in a comment underneath a 2020 post on the science behind global warming. The comment, originally reading “4–1–1,” was written in April 2021. Last October, Bruce edited it to add a fire emoji. On April 2, as Earth Day loomed, he updated the comment once again to list a date: “4/22/2022.”
