In a statement he emailed to multiple news outlets the morning of his death, Buckel explained that his “early death by fossil fuel reflects what we are doing to ourselves.” Other self-immolators include Arnav Gupta, an artist who fatally burned himself in 2019, and Mohamed Alanssi, an FBI informant who survived setting himself on fire in protest of his treatment by the agency in 2004. In 2018, environmental advocate and civil rights lawyer David Buckel set himself on fire in Brooklyn. are rare but not totally unheard of, even in the context of climate change protest. In the letter, which Kanko shared in another Twitter post Sunday, Hanh wrote that “to burn oneself by fire is to prove that what one is saying is of the utmost importance,” praising the act as courageous and sincere.Īcts of self-immolation in the U.S. on the legacy of Vietnamese monks who self-immolated in protest of the war then raging in their country. Hanh was well-known for a 1965 letter he wrote to Dr. In addition, Bruce posted a photo in January to commemorate Thich Nhat Hanh, an antiwar activist and Vietnamese monk who had died that month. On April 2, as Earth Day loomed, he updated the comment once again to list a date: “.”
Last October, Bruce edited it to add a fire emoji.
The comment, originally reading “4-1-1,” was written in April 2021. In between sharing links to news articles and praising activists like Greta Thunberg, Bruce seemed to allude to his plan only once, in a comment underneath a 2020 post on the science behind global warming. In an interview with The New York Times, Kanko clarified that she could not be sure of Bruce’s intentions and added that though “people are being driven to extreme amounts of climate grief and despair,” she didn’t want young people “to start thinking about self-immolation.”Īlthough it does not appear as though Bruce left behind a note or manifesto, a Facebook account identified as his by Kanko to the Times was saturated with concern about climate matters. Kanko, could not immediately be reached for comment by The Daily Beast. Members of his family and multiple people who identified themselves as his friends online, including Dr. “This is a deeply fearless act of compassion to bring attention to climate crisis.” “This act is not suicide,” wrote Kanko, a climate scientist and Zen Buddhist priest. A photographer and devout Buddhist from Boulder, Bruce appeared to have been planning the act for some time, Dr. He was airlifted to a hospital, where he died of his injuries the next day. Wynn Alan Bruce, 50, self-immolated on the court’s plaza around 6:30 p.m. No information on his condition or motive has been released.Īlina Berzins, 17, said she and her family were sightseeing when they saw the man running and covered in flames.A Colorado man who lit himself on fire outside the Supreme Court on Friday was a climate activist staging an apparent protest of political inaction on global warming, according to a friend. The man was taken to a local hospital for treatment, U.S. Then they put the extinguisher on him and put his out and that's it." Just straight, he wasn't running and screaming or anything. "He was just walking like he was a zombie or something. "Like a torch, his whole body was on fire," said witness X. Park Police personnel responded to the scene. Secret Service, National Park Service and U.S. Police say the man lit himself on fire about 12:20 p.m. Passersby expressed alarm on social media after seeing a large plume of smoke billowing from a grassy area at 15th and Constitution Avenue Northwest, near a security checkpoint. No information on his condition or motive has been releasedĪ man set himself ablaze Wednesday on the grounds of the White House Ellipse, the U.S.Passersby expressed alarm on social media after seeing a large plume of smoke.
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