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The People's Climate March in London in pictures
2014-09-21 19:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Emma Thompson, Vivienne Westwood and Peter Gabriel joined campaigners and UK flood victims at one of 2,000 events taking place in 150 countries before next weeks UN summit in New York. An estimated 40,000 people were there.
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Tens of thousands join London climate march
2014-09-21 17:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Tens of thousands of people in London joined a global day of protest Sunday to demand action on climate change, among them British actress Emma Thompson who said the challenge to save the planet was like tackling a Martian invasion. An estimated 40,000 people marched through the British capital, according to the Avaaz campaign group, which said the turnout "massively exceeded our expectations". Police would not give an official figure. The protest was one of thousands across the globe aimed at...
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Meet Bill McKibben, man behind massive 'People's Climate March' rally
2014-09-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
NBC: Bill McKibben wrote the first big book about global warming, a work he hoped would startle the world like a fire alarm. But the planet just kept on hurtling toward an overheated doom, he noticed. So twenty-five years later, hes come up with a shriller, more literal strategy for reform: actual alarms. At 1 p.m. on Sunday, after a scene-setting moment of silence, more than 100,000 activists are expected to use phones, whistles, horns, speakers and anything else with a decibel-level to make as much...
Climate March could be the Occupy Movements most noble progeny
2014-09-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Star-Ledger: Given the growing challenges to life on this planet and the concomitant need for policy change and political courage -- notably from climate change deniers, whether they are governed by profit or political cowardice -- one yearns for leadership. It`s wanting. But is it in demand? Do we have what it takes to face the challenges of climate change seriously? The answer may arrive at the People`s Climate March in New York City Sunday morning, when we learn whether we are ready to move beyond willful...
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People's Climate march: 'Act now on climate change'
2014-09-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: It promises to be an unparalleled demonstration of the worlds fury at its leaders continued failure to tackle climate change: an unprecedented statement by hundreds of thousands of people. Today, and for the next two days, before a key meeting on climate change at the UN in New York, protesters will take to the streets, from Papua New Guinea to central London. Campaigners say the cost of climate change estimated at 650 million people affected, 112,000 lives lost, hundreds of billions of...
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