A TIME FOR SOLIDARITY

STATEMENT OF THE WORLD ACADEMY OF ART & SCIENCE The World Academy of Art and Science condemns the Russian military invasion of Ukraine. Russia's acts of war will burden Ukraine with an enormous cost in human suffering, stimulate a massive crackdown on the civil liberties of Russians who respect international law and peace, expand the conflict, and even place the entire world at risk of elevation to a nuclear exchange. Every nation today needs to cooperate in addressing many pressing issues such as climate change, eliminating poverty, protecting the health of all species and the oceans, curtailing and eliminating the pandemic, and fulfilling the Sustainable Development Goals.