On April 6, 2022, Peter Kalmus, a climate scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, got a ride into downtown Los Angeles, where he was about to handcuff himself to the door of a JPMorgan Chase bank alongside three fellow scientists.
There was a moment, he says of the decision to engage in civil disobedience when he realised that he just had to do it, to find that courage.
Joining a global day of action in 2022 to ban private jets, Peter Kalmus and local activists chain the doors of a private airport in Charlotte, North Carolina, to underscore the disproportionately high impact the wealthy have in terms of carbon emissions.
With what he sees as half the country being in denial of the urgency of the climate crisis, Kalmus says he didn't know what else to do; this was the next logical step and one he admits has been the most effective.
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