Man who died after setting himself on fire outside Supreme Court on Earth Day was climate activist

“This guy was my friend,” tweeted Kritee Kanko, a Zen Buddhist priest in Boulder and a climate scientist at the Environmental Defense Fund. “He meditated with our sangha. This act is not suicide. This is a deeply fearless act of compassion to bring attention to climate crisis. We are piecing together info but he had been planning it for at least one year.”

Source: nydailynews