In 2018, an environmentalist set himself on fire as an act of protest against environmental devastation. A photo book documents the grim landmark.
stood on a berm of grass in Prospect Park, doused himself in gasoline, and set himself on fire. Minutes before, he had e-mailed prominent media outlets a lengthy cri de coeur against the environmental devastation we are daily wreaking on the Earth. “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,” he wrote.
Buckel’s death succeeded in provoking a brief flurry of press coverage. But then the media cycle moved on. Unlike other famous self-immolation protests, such as that of the Vietnamese monk Thich Quang Duc, in 1963, or the Tunisian produce vender Mohamed Bouazizi, in 2010, Buckel’s death was not photographed, and thus the grisly scene did not sear itself into the public consciousness.
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