Essay by Eric Worrall
h/t Breitbart; Boulder climate activist Wynn Bruce has died from self inflicted injuries, after setting fire to himself outside the US Supreme Court in Washington DC.
Boulder climate activist dies after apparent act of protest outside U.S. Supreme Court on Earth Day
Friend of Wynn Bruce says his actions in Washington, D.C., were planned to “bring attention to climate crisis”
By SHELLY BRADBURY | sbradbury@denverpost.com and NEW YORK TIMES | The Denver Post
PUBLISHED: April 24, 2022 at 6:05 p.m. | UPDATED: April 24, 2022 at 6:36 p.m.The Boulder man who set himself on fire in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on Earth Day apparently acted in protest of inaction on climate change.
Wynn Bruce, 50, a climate activist, died Saturday, a day after his actions in front of the nation’s highest court in Washington, D.C. He was airlifted for treatment but did not survive.
Kritee Kanko, who described herself as Bruce’s friend and a Zen Buddhist priest in Boulder, said on Twitter that Bruce’s actions were a planned protest.
“This is a deeply fearless act of compassion to bring attention to climate crisis,” she said in a tweet.
She declined to comment further when reached by The Denver Post on Sunday, saying she needed time to grieve.
However, she told The New York Times she was not completely sure of Bruce’s motivations, the newspaper reported, saying that “people are being driven to extreme amounts of climate grief and despair” and that “what I do not want to happen is that young people start thinking about self-immolation.”
There are indications that Bruce had contemplated this action for some time.
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Read more: https://www.denverpost.com/2022/04/24/wynn-bruce-climate-change-self-immolation/
We at WUWT are saddened by the loss suffered by Wynn Bruce’s family and friends.
We urge anyone who feels extreme emotional distress about climate change or anything else to reach out to friends and family, and seek professional counselling.
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Sad for the friends and family but mental illness is quite common. There are cases of people sterilizing for fear of future climate and also a few suicides, the small number indicates that the vast majority don’t really buy into the propaganda. All the noise comes a few thousand activists.
We the people should demand that the IPCC specifically define what climate change means and how is it measured. When they fail at this exercise perhaps the Alarmists will see the light…..I definitely won’t hold my breath.
The climate change alarmists and their propaganda organ, the Leftwing Media, have been trying as hard as they can to scare us all to death for years over CO2 and the Earth’s climate, and obviously, they are being successful in their efforts to a certain extent.
Meanwhile, there is no evidence CO2 is a danger to anyone or anything.
This poor man who died has been lied into his grave.
Pretty much what you’d expect of a religious zealot. The climate fraud is religion for atheists, Gaia/God, C02/Satan and our personal sacrifice required to reach Heaven/Utopia and avoid a hell on Earth. It hits all the subconscious buttons of early conditioning; and it’s total inversion – the breath of life becomes the gas of death. And what to make of the fact that carbon is 6 protons, 6 neutrons & 6 electrons: the human body is carbon-based – the ‘Number of Man’ and the designers of the eco-tyrannical new world order intend to replace currency with a carbon chip – ie the ‘Number of the Beast’, the dual meaning of prophecy defined. So is it Divine Warning, a lucky coincidence or pure evil genius to control & enslave humanity with a carbon jackboot?
It’s a silicon chip, I think?
The number of the beast is actually 616 according to the early bible manuscripts, not 666. It makes for a slightly different inference, but no less powerful for all that.
All who push the Climate Lies are partly responsible. Hope they’re happy.
Unfortunately, I called this years ago as I saw the eliminationist rhetoric being mainstreamed.
Condolences to his family and true friends, and a curse on anyone in his circle who encouraged this behaviour, in any way.
Did the Denver media contribute to this outcome with doom reporting and false attributions?
Believing the media can be deadly.
Every single person who worked to sell the lie that is climate change/global warming shares the blame for this and many other human tragedies linked to this cult of anti-humanism. They insist we keep poor countries poor by limiting access to cheap reliable energy; they insist that waisting 40% of the US corn crop on ethanol which lowers vehicle mileage, damages engines and consumes more land is ecologically and ethically sound behaviour while it raises food prices for the most vulnerable and will, with certainty, result it the deaths of hundreds of thousands of children from malnutrition; they insist that the great tragedy of the war in Ukraine is that it distracts a malevolent power-hungry dictator from focusing on his nation’s carbon emissions. These people have blood on their hands and there is no washing it off.
“…waisting 40% of the US corn crop…”
Judging from my waist, I’ve consumed more than my share of the corn crop.
” These people have blood on their hands and there is no washing it off.”
Indeed.
And just imagine what would happen if, just for the sake of argument, everyone was to suddenly believe that we must instantly stop all usage of fossil fuels, at all, and then we all stopped using them?
The deaths would be in the billions within months.
Biden just raised the ethanol level from 10% to 15% in order to reduce gasoline prices. Makes sense, just like cancelling Keystone.
No friends or family to reason with him? Obviously mentally ill and needing help. Such a needless, useless death.
His family should sue the media, the UN, the WEF, the NEA, the EPA, etc.
May the Almighty have mercy on his tortured soul.
Five years ago on Earth Day weekend, someone may have been targeting Dr John Christy of UAH.
Luckily, he didn’t succeed & no one else tried to succeed either. It was also a good thing that this
protester wasn’t like-minded- acting to destroy his “enemy”!
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https://www.drroyspencer.com/2017/04/shots-fired-into-the-christyspencer-building-at-uah/
Planned Martyrhood. A wicked solution. Self-abortion for social, redistributive, clinical, and fair weather (e.g. climate stasis) causes.
Talk about dying in vain. There is no climate emergency as we all know. The devil has to be laughing his @ss off at this poor, misguided soul.
There are people across the world dying every day for want of cheap, fossil fuel derived energy.
I can’t summon up any sympathy for this character.
Well there’s someone who finally found a local spot of global warming. Perhaps its was an ethanol accelerant, rather than a high octane carbon polluting fuel.
When there are record snow falls all around the world, and the Antarctic records its coldest temperature ever, the jig is up. People know UHI is forcing up land based temperature measurements, but all the while the planet is actually getting colder.
So with the truth so obvious, the goose green kingdom of greta and gore comes tumbling down. Form up the goose green suicide squads.
Did you see any of the burning pictures? Looks too sooty for ethanol.
I cannot bring myself to look for or at any images of such an act.
I wonder though…did he just sit there?
If so, I would think he must have dosed himself heavily with something.
Because I cannot imagine anyone would not instantly regret setting themselves on fire once they felt what it must have felt like.
Horribly, he ran around waving arms and it was a large blaze.
Oh, man.
That is what I would imagined would happen.
If you could see the flames, it wasn’t ethanol. Unless you’re Greta, who could see the CO2 resulting from the burn [/sarc if I really need it] (so STILL not “carbon neutral!” D’oh!).
See, those NASCAR races we watched as kids did teach us something!
UK Government given go ahead for opening first coal mine in 30 years.
Power stations Other energy Domestic Industry
UK coal consumption 2000-2020
The ultimate in virtue signaling.
“We at WUWT are saddened by the loss suffered by Wynn Bruce’s family and friends.”
Really Eric? Maybe you should read some of the comments here then, because I think “saddened” is a long way from how the commenters feel. But then I suspect you knew that.
I’m saddened that you and people like you drove this guy to suicide, so many people are depressed over this idiocy, kids seeing no point in going to school, etc.
None of us need to look in the mirror. That is for the alarmists.
I continue to point out in social media that parents of kids who off themselves over “climate emergency” need to go find those responsible.
There has to be consequences for actions.
And your problem is?
I shouldn’t have to explain it but…. when someone takes their life, irrespective of why they did it, it is not a time to use their death to make a point. Eric knew the wolves would circle on this one, but he still delivered the message, then coated it with fake sympathy. I say that it pretty low.
Why not? Because it embarrasses the climate cataclysm campaigners? Yes it would be nice if you could hide behind pretend niceties but not a chance. The CAGW crowd has displayed no such deference when it comes to pretending every bad outcome is due to fossil fuels and the CO2 emissions they bring. In fact fetishizing the depression and anxiety of young people because of the false belief in CAGW has become a common talking point for the proponents of this utter nonsense.
And once again, Simon makes the claim that he knows exactly what others are thinking.
It isn’t possible that Eric was expressing what he really felt, because Simon has already concluded that those who oppose him are evil, and evil people simply cannot have good motives.
As to using their death to make a point, that was exactly why the guy killed himself.
I thought even you would be smart enough to figure that out for yourself.
And that’s where you went wrong. 🙂
Low is denying that there is any culpability of those that push the doomsday climate crisis crap! They are lower than the worms at the bottom of the Marianas trench that live off whale dung.
Simon, you should be worshiping this ex-guy.
He was one of yours….. he is a martyr for your cause.
Make a statue of him and bow down…
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Dying for a non-cause.. really quite pathetic, and mentally deranged,wouldn’t you say.
“Dying for a non-cause.. really quite pathetic, and mentally deranged,wouldn’t you say.”
Thank you for so comprehensively making my point.
What cause that induces suffering and death of millions around the world could possibly be considered worthy?
Those are the unwilling martyrs to your cause that you never speak about.
Around 2015 the WHO estimated that by 2050 120,000,000 people in developing nations will die from respiratory illnesses caused by cooking over open, wood fires.
This can be alleviated by providing them access to cheap, reliable, fossil fuel energy. But fanatics like you won’t allow it. That’s 3.5 million people a year dying needlessly, a known problem today, but you’re more worried about what might happen, with no historic evidence whatsoever, in 20 and 30 years time.
It’s utterly revolting.
How is that proving your point? No ridicule, no making fun of the victim. He just told the truth.
He died for a cause that never existed, and any rational person would call that pathetic. And anyone who would kill themselves, especially in a way that painful, definitely mentally unbalanced, to say the least.
As usual, when in a hole, Simon specializes in digging deeper.
It is you and your fellow warmist scaremongers that are totally to blame for this situation
The guy has obvious mental issues, its you and your fellow AGW scammer prey on this sort of illness.
Trying to back out of being the cause, refusing to accept responsibility, only sinks you even further into the moral abyss.
Millions of people die every day, and most of them do not do anything to bring about their own demise.
How many tears do you shed, or thoughts do you give, for all of the people who are murdered every day?
We all know how we are supposed to feel when someone dies, but in truth, how much actual pain does one feel for all the people that die whom we never met and have no connection to?
It is wrong to say that no one here has any sympathy though.
I have as much as I can have for someone who takes their own life pointlessly.
I have horror when I consider how it must be to die by immolation.
I have been at death’s door on multiple occasions, after various accidents.
It is no fun to be in agonizing pain and to think you are gonna die…to know you will die if you do not fight with every bit of your will for every single breathe for hours and hours. Days.
I have sympathy, but the idea that any words we share between ourselves is some sort of ghoulish hatefest is itself a sort of hate.
Life goes on, and the living must make sense of the world we live in, as best as we can.
Some of us also feel a responsibility to think about how such an event may harm others who are vulnerable and misguided or similarly disaffected by what they perceive of the world and in their lives.
I shouldn’t have to explain it but…. when someone takes their life …
as direct result of the self-serving hype that is pedaled by, and defended by, those that the victim misguidedly saw as compatriots, it is past time to point out the evil associated with those that actually guided the victim toward his end.
You Simon, are a very disgusting & evil person.
“You Simon, are a very disgusting & evil person.”
I think you must be looking in the mirror. I know nothing of this man and nor do you. For all we know he may well be suffering from a serous mental illness that has nothing to do with CC. But that doesn’t stop parasites like you salivating at his death because now you can hang him high and make a fool of him and in doing so peddle your cause. Tell me again who the disgusting evil person is?
I’m not in the least sympathetic towards this guy, his cause or his family and friends.
I liken this to so called Islamic terrorism. It’s not Islamic terrorism. People call it that to distance it from what it really is, Muslim terrorism. And within Muslim communities, people know what’s going on, they know who the likely terrorist’s are, the elders and Imams know who these people are, but no one says anything because their faith doesn’t allow it. Indeed, their faith tells them it’s perfectly in order to lie to the Infidels.
Same with this guy. He was clearly obsessed with the impending end of the world. He must have conveyed that obsession to family and friends. No one could be this nutty about a subject and not be seen as obsessed, yet they did nothing about or for him.
The deceit, selfishness and stupidity of this action needs to be called out and exposed for what it is. Sheer violent dishonesty by people like you who are happy to see him martyr himself for your crazy cause. But it’s worse than that, isn’t it? Millions of others around the world, die every day for want of the comfort, prosperity and security fossil fuels offers them. The difference is, he had a choice.
Whilst I’m not religious, I agree entirely with the concept that suicide is a crime against the sanctity of life. Which is why terrorist suicide bombings are not just a crime against humanity and individuals, it displays an evil disregard for precious life by the perpetrators and his/her accomplices.
It also encourages similarly obsessed people to attempt similar actions, or simply give up on life in despair because they are being lied to by people like you.
Life today has never been better for humanity at any time in history, and tomorrow it will be even better, because that is the nature of man. But you peddle the myth that somehow, life will be worse tomorrow than is is today and that’s not just wrong, it’s evil.
The fake sympathy is yours entirely.
Where is your condemnation of this guy’s so-called “friend” who immediately tried to make political capital by saying..
““This is a deeply fearless act of compassion to bring attention to climate crisis””
Not a word, hey. !
You just let this vile and disgusting attempt at propaganda go through, without objection, didn’t you.
We all know where the real “vile” is, and its not us.
Rational, mature people can harbour more than one reaction to an event, Simon.
Sorrow can be accompanied by frustration, despair, even black humour.
All of which is in evidence here.
But most important is what people THINK about the circumstances of this bloke’s demise, and the utter FUTILITY of his actions.
Me, I reckon what was in play here is that same cult mentality that led to the Jonestown Kool-Aid tragedy.
All so stupid and unnecessary.
Well said.
Really Simon? David Buckel in 2019 and now Wynn Bruce – both set themselves on fire to draw attention to ‘climate change’ in an act of sheer self-delusion based on the same rhetoric that you espouse. How you still have the nerve to come on this site after that simply astounds and horrifies me.
Ever notice how leftists and totalitarians have trouble thinking of people as individuals.
If one person thinks one way, then everyone they don’t like must also think that way.
A couple of people have been less than sympathetic, therefore everyone here at WUWT is a heartless cad.
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That’s me!
I am Sparkacus sic.
I’m sympathetic to the poor guy.
Imagine being so gullible that you fall for the AGW scam, and let it destroy your life. !
Rather than try to make Eric responsible for comments at the remarkably open WUWT, Simon should take responsibility for promoting voodoo that causes widespread, and occasionally extreme, harm. Sorry, Simon, you make me feel like I’m glad I don’t know you any better.
The policy prescriptions that Simon and his ilk espouse would eliminate the very means by which 7 billions souls are kept fed and housed and clothed and cared for and from freezing to death.
And they would have us do so precipitously, long before any alternative means have been devised to make sure we can continue on feeding and otherwise keeping alive the vast multitude on the Earth.
Many of them openly call for depopulation, but the fact is that eliminating the sources of energy that maintain our civilization translates in no uncertain terms to deaths on a scale the world has never seen.
This guy seems to have killed himself in an attempt to induce the rest of us to commit civilizational suicide, along with all that entails, including massive numbers of human beings dying badly, in short order.
Simon, I think it likely Wynn Bruce had other problems.
But if it was climate despair alone which drove Wynn to suicide, why wouldn’t I and other contributors be saddened?
I’ve written before about the psychological damage apocalyptic climate scaremongering is inflicting on vulnerable people. Events like this make me want to try harder, to expose the lies.
“Simon, I think it likely Wynn Bruce had other problems.”
Couldn’t agree more, which makes it even more important to keep a distance while family and friends are grieving.
“But if it was climate despair alone which drove Wynn to suicide, why wouldn’t I and other contributors be saddened?”
Saddened? Eric, have you read the vile comments here? Do I need to list them? There is a theme of celebration at the death of someone they despise and the mocking of a man who took his life for a cause he believed in.
Pointing out how someone is mentally disturbed and has a distorted view of reality is not mocking. There is no celebration “theme” here. A sense of waste is being expressed and that loss which is due to stupidity, due to a death cult.
Please protest us and glue your hands to your keyboard or something.
Nah, simple. It’s you we mock.
But it’s hard to despise a speck of dust.
The only vile comments I’ve seen here, were written by you Simon.
I have seen nobody celebrating this death.
Once again Simon has projected his own mental and emotional deficiencies onto those who disagree with him.
BTW, does anyone else get the impression that Simon considers this guy a hero, and what he’s really upset with is that we don’t recognize that.
“The only vile comments I’ve seen here, were written by you Simon.”
I’d say this was pretty vile….
“He died for a cause that never existed, and any rational person would call that pathetic.”
Your turn Mark. Quote a comment I made here on this thread that comes close to your tasteless sentence.
I will be ashamed if you find one.
Poor Simon, the truth is right in his face.. and he still can’t see it.
What a truly irksome, vile creature you are, Simon.
Anything except admit that you and your fellow AGW scammers are mostly to blame for causing this poor guys mental anguish !
In the bowels of Christ, Simon, consider that you might be wrong.
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“…consider that you might be wrong…”
As we all should, I do that constantly.
Not sure what the “Bowels of Christ” has to do with this though?
Nothing vile about statement, it’s the simple unvarnished truth.
Your claims that others are vile because they express opinions that differ from yours is vile, but it’s what we have come to expect from low lifes.
You really are a strange man aren’t you. You think I think others are vile because I don’t agree with them? No Mark, that is not vile, that is life.
I think the merciless tearing apart of a man who has just taken his own life, on a public internet page, by people who are doing it simply because they disagree with his view on climate change, is an utter disgrace and if you had one ounce of decency, you would not be party to it. I’m left shaking my head how you can be so far removed from the reality in this that you call me a low life. Wow….
Still trying to avoid responsibility.
That really is sick !!
I think you think others are vile because they don’t agree with you, because that is what you have said.
Is your memory as bad as your humanity?
Once again, Simon specializes in seeing what he wants to see, not what is actually there.
Declaring that one has died for a cause that never existed is “viciously tearing someone apart”.
I apologize for calling you a low life, you are much, much worse than that.
The vilest comment came from this guy’s so-called friend
““This is a deeply fearless act of compassion to bring attention to climate crisis””
A friend would have tried to stop him, but the cause was too important.. right !
You should be very ashamed to be part of the scam that brought on this situation.. if you had the moral guts to even admit to it.
How would you describe someone who immolated themselves over the equivalent of “The Three Bears” or “Hansel and Greta” or the “Easter Bunny”
Mentally unbalanced, at a minimum.
Big tough guy aren’t you? Hiding behind your keyboard throwing mud at someone unable to answer back. Sad.
All I am seeing is Simon faux outrage. Perhaps Simon could tell us what people should write that would be politically correct?
I think the issue for many on here is the black humor on the choice of his death … something using renewable energy would have been a more in line with beliefs.
“Perhaps Simon could tell us what people should write that would be politically correct?”
Nothin PC here. Basic human manners to not use the suicide of a person to champion your cause. Gutless really.
You still have no answer to your and your fellow AGWers culpability in this guys’ mental trauma, do you.!
In fact you relish it.. Don’t you, vile slug.
All some of the AGW scammers need to do is come out and tell the truth.
Tell the world that it is all based on nothing..
Tell the world that its all part of a scam/agenda….
And all this climate trauma of the gullible and weak-minded, could be cured.
But no, you and yours double down at every chance, spreading more and more of your irksome, vile, fake climate emergency.
Do you wonder how many other gullible, mentally disturbed people might follow your cult down the same path?..
Do you even care ?
“Do you wonder how many other gullible, mentally disturbed people might follow your cult down the same path?..”
At a guess I would say fewer than follow the climate denial train. But that’s a guess
“Maybe you should read some of the comments here then, because I think “saddened” is a long way from how the commenters feel.”
Say’s the proud and strident member of a fearmongering doomsday cult.
The one who should be saddened and ashamed are your good self and your fellow travellers who filled that guys head with lies that drove him to do this. You support the the lies, the blood is on your hands. But then I suspect you knew that.
Mentally unstable – there is no other way to describe this. I hope all climate alarmists will realize that their hyperbole has consequences.
All climate alarmists have similar mental health issues.
Most just want other people to suffer, instead.
During Vietnam War several monks set themselves alight to protest the war. They did it to save lives. This would have the exact opposite effect. His protest was to continue to harm people.
It’s a lie. All a lie and the CAGW crowd is killing people.
(1) The monks were NOT protesting the war. They were demonstrating against the Catholic regime’s anti-Buddhist regulations.
(2) The monks, according to some sources, were full of opium derivatives.
I had forgotten about the people here in the states that also burned themselves for peace.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236700248_They_Who_Burned_Themselves_for_Peace_Quaker_and_Buddhist_Self-Immolators_during_the_Vietnam_War
Waste of life.
And then he ended it.
Unfortunately, his feelings are just the tip of the iceberg. Imagine the millions of children, informed that their world will burn, without question, within years. Add to that two years out of school.
Already, we see young adults convinced that bringing new life into the world is sacrilege. What do they have to life for? There aren’t enough psychologists in the world to address this problem.
People like Al Gore don’t seem to understand that there’s a cost to their religion. They saw this as a form of Pascal’s Wager that mean instant fame and riches. They did not think for one minute about what would happen if billions believed them and realized there was nothing that could be done about it.
Probably 30-40 years from now, people will begin to realize that the whole AGW movement was nonsense. But the damage done… hard to even begin to assess.
Yes, if ever a class movement should be started, it would be Schoolkids For A Positive Future.
And they could be plaintiffs in a $100 billion class action lawsuit against the UN, IPCC, academia, politicians, and all the other child abusers over climate doomsday.
This was one sick, sad, delusional human being. As is his ‘Zen Buddhist priest.’ But then again, they are (were” from Boulder…
The man was indoctrinated and obviously unstable. His name will not be known to many and will be forgotten by many more in a very short time. He accomplished nothing good by his act of “deeply fearless act of compassion to bring attention to climate crisis”.
I hope that Michael Mann and Greta and all the academics, politicians, and press that have been declaring this false “crisis” are proud. Are you proud Griff?
All above mentioned could not care less, else they would not be spreading lies.
What I fear is that there are so many deluded youngsters with life in front of them, who believe in this sort of cr@p and now may think that this is only way out of the non-existing climate change catastrophe.
Yes, it’s quite rational to prefer 1200 degrees to .01 degrees warming.
The Climate Doomsters say the world is going to end in eight years if we don’t reduce CO2 levels.
CO2 levels will NOT be reduced in eight years. That is guaranteed.
The Youngsters should just wait around for eight more years and see if the Climate Alarmists are correct before taking actions that would harm themselves.
Maybe the Climate Alarmists are wrong. They have been wrong for the last 40 years. Don’t do anything rash, kids. You are being lied to by Climate alarmists.
The End of the World is NOT at hand. Not even close. Not from CO2 anyway.
Trash took itself out.