400,000 Converge on Manhattan to Demand Climate-Change Action

MoreSee Thousands March for Climate ChangeAt the People’s Climate March in New York City on Sunday, a 4-ft.-tall walking banana was passionately articulating his feelings about wind turbines. MoreThe Rockefellers Are Pulling Their Charity Fund Out of Fossil FuelsSee Thousands March for Climate ChangeKnow Your Solar System: Why Is Mars Red? NBC News'Somebody Knows': What Happened to Missing Student Hannah Graham? NBC NewsISIS: 'You Will Not Feel Secure Even in Your Bedrooms' 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 U.N. 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 past decade. Timed to coincide with the U.N. 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 hundred...
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