Scientists make a simple proposal for mankind: less war, more peace
An Italian physicist, Carlo Rovelli, has launched an appeal signed by Nobel Prize winners and scientists, together with the Dalai Lama, to shift government funding from defence to planetary emergencies. Our future is at stake:
“It is a very concrete proposal: we are asking to negotiate a balanced reduction in global military spending to be reinvested to tackle the serious problems of our time: global warming, epidemics and poverty”. (Source: Repubblica 13/12)
Photo: Il Riformista
On the road that leads some scientists to engage in civil battles, to commit themselves personally to the defence of human rights, among the signatories we also find the Italian Nobel Prize winners for physics Giorgio Parise and Carlo Rubbia (in 2021 and 1984 respectively) as well as the Japanese Hiroshi Amano (in 2014), the Americans Peter Agre (for chemistry in 2003) and David Baltimore (for medicine in 1975), the physicist of Chinese origin Steve Chu (in 1997), along with many others (the complete list of the 50 Nobel Prize winners can be consulted on the website https://peace-dividend.org).