Doctors call for nonviolent direct action over climate crisis

Governments have abrogated responsibility with woefully inadequate policies, says letter

More than 1,000 doctors including 40 professors, several eminent public health figures and past presidents of royal colleges are calling for widespread nonviolent civil disobedience in the face of the environmental crisis.

In a letter to the Guardian, the doctors say government policies are "woefully inadequate", and call on politicians and the media to face the facts of the unfolding ecological emergency and take action.