400,000 Converge on Manhattan to Demand Climate Change Action

At the People’s Climate March in New York Sunday, a four-foot-tall walking banana passionately articulating his feelings about wind turbines. MoreNew York City Climate Change March Could Be Largest of Its KindSee the Worst Place to Breathe in AmericaTrooper Slay Suspect Likely Planned for Months: Cops NBC News'Who Saw Hannah?': Missing Student's Parents Speak Out NBC NewsFire to Flooding: Can California's Economy Survive Nature's Fury? NBC News“They can make things run just by the wind,” said 9-year old Danny Haemmerle, who dressed up as the yellow fruit to attend the march with his family. “And my parents don’t have to pay as much,” added his brother Eddie Haemmerle, 11, sporting a lime green wig. Popular Among Subscribers The Tragic Risks of American Football Subscribe U2’s Mission to Save MusicRules of the GameThe Haemmerles were joined by an estimated 400,000-strong crowd that flooded the streets of Manhattan to demand UN action on global warming–a showing that quadrupled expected attendance and made the march the largest climate protest in history and largest social demonstration of the last decade. Timed to coincide with the UN Summit on climate change, which meets this week to discuss an international carbon emissions agreement, the demonstration was an international effort with 2,646 events in more than 150 countries, attended by hundreds of thousands more people. Coalesced by seve...
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