A man who died on Saturday after setting himself on fire in front of the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, was a climate activist, according to social media posts from various people who claim to know him.
Wynn Alan Bruce, 50, from Boulder, Colorado, who self-immolated on Friday -- when the world marked Earth Day -- suffered critical injuries and was airlifted to hospital, where he died, a police spokesperson said.Those who knew Bruce, who had managed a portrait photo studio in Boulder, say he was protesting against inaction on the climate crisis.
In an email Buckel sent to the media before he died, he wrote,"Most humans on the planet now breathe air made unhealthy by fossil fuels, and many die early deaths as a result -- my early death by fossil fuel reflects what we are doing to ourselves.
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