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Wynn Alan Bruce
Earth Day 2022
Self-immolation of Wynn Bruce
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On April 22, 2022, climate activist Wynn Alan Bruce set himself on fire in the plaza of the United States Supreme Court Building in Washington, D.C. The fatal self-immolation, which took place on Earth Day, was characterized by Bruce's friends and his father as a protest against the climate crisis.
Wynn Bruce
Wynn Alan Bruce was a climate activist from Boulder, Colorado. He grew up in Minnesota, where he participated in varsity cross country running. In the late 1980s, he moved to Florida to live with his mother, attending Hernando High School where he was a member of the science club. He graduated high school in 1989 and planned to join the US Air Force, but an accident in a car driven by one of his friends killed the friend and severely injured Bruce; he suffered a traumatic brain injury as well as damage to one of his legs. He moved to Boulder in the year 2000, and became interested in photojournalism.
Bruce lived alone in Boulder, in a townhouse that was part of the city's affordable housing program. He had a cat. He was a Buddhist, and while living in Boulder he practiced Shambhala Buddhism. He was a photojournalist who ran a portrait photography studio, an active member of Boulder's contact improvisational dance community, and a graduate of Front Range Community College and Community College of Denver. He was additionally a climate activist. According to his father, Douglas Bruce, "concern about the environment and climate issues" was "really heartfelt and central" to Wynn Bruce's identity; it had been a lifelong commitment that began with childhood trips to a family cabin at Lake Superior.
According to some of Bruce's friends and neighbors, he often had difficulty making decisions as a result of his traumatic brain injury; two described him to The Independent as "suggestible". |