When spineless politicians fail to comprehend or even address pressing issues, it comes as no surprise that numerous members of the scientific community opt to support civil disobedience groups:
Not only endorsing it but as argued by Gardner from the University of Kent and Wordley from the University of Cambridge a few weeks ago:
“scientists should join civil disobedience movements to fight these unprecedented crisis.”
Update on October 2021 - The scientists who have abandoned the cowardly Ivory Tower rhetoric https://pacheco-torgal.blogspot.com/2021/10/the-scientists-who-have-abandon.html