For 18 days, Angus Rose, 52, is left without food. Every morning he goes to Westminster to sit at the gates of Parliament in a wooden folding chair, with an inflated copy of a letter to the Hands, in the hope that the Secretary will meet him to speak. So far he has lost 9.5 kg (1st 5 pounds) in weight but his hands have not appeared. “I told him I would not continue eating until he arranged a briefing where Sir Patrick Vallance would brief parliament and the cabinet and make the recording available for television broadcast,” Rose said. “So all the pressure is on his shoulders. So he can not escape it. He just can’t go on. He can not escape this pressure. He can not divert it. He is always present. “ Rose has not eaten any calories since March 14. Allows yourself to drink zero-calorie beverages such as water, coffee and green tea, and take vitamin supplements to prevent the worst effects of malnutrition, which can lead to cognitive impairment and heart arrhythmias. He speaks with passion but occasionally stumbles or gets confused because lack of food has affected his ability to concentrate. Hands did not respond to a request for comment. But Rose said she received a response from the minister. “He said, ‘I urge you to reconsider,’” Rose said. “So I answered him and said, ‘Well, thank you very much for worrying about my health. I more or less recognize that government has climate change as one of its top priorities, although I do not recognize that many of these priorities are as high as climate change. “I believe that climate change is the biggest problem.” On January 28, 2020, the Prime Minister received a briefing led by Vallance on the science of climate emergency. Johnson, who has challenged climate scientists in the past, later said it was time for the “road to Damascus” in climate science. He told reporters that government scientists had “gone through everything” and that man-made climate change had proved “very difficult to challenge”. Rose’s action is part of a growing tendency for activists to put pressure on climate policy through hunger strikes. Last October, around the time of the Cop26 climate summit, five young activists went on a hunger strike outside the White House to pressure Joe Biden not to abandon his climate agenda. In December, Emma Smart, of the political disobedience group Insulate Britain, ended a 26-day hunger strike in prison demanding a meeting with Conservative MP Richard Drax. Rose said she was most inspired by Guillermo Fernandez, a Swiss father who won after a 39-day hunger strike, when scientists announced they would meet with Swiss lawmakers to discuss climate science. “His demand was more or less a demand I have. So from there I got it. And so it is really disproportionate: the reasonableness of the demand is completely disproportionate to the level of sacrifice. “ Fernandez had said he did it for his children. Rose says she does it for her five nieces and nephews. The effects of climate change will become “the worst generational injustice imposed from one generation to the next,” he said. “It’s not funny. “My nieces, nephews, their lives depend on the government to act, to protect, the most important duty to the citizens is to protect them from evil, and even more important for the children and the next generations,” he said. Rose.
