Celebrities, Politicians, And More Than 300,000 People Show Up To NYC's Climate March
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More than 310,000 people showed up to the march, according to the official twitter account. Those people included celebrities like Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo, Politicians like Bill DeBlasio and Al Gore, and Primatologist Jane Goodall.
Here's a few pictures rounded up from twitter:
Look who's at the #PeoplesClimate March! @algore pic.twitter.com/8IMZC12aEf
- Erik Bottcher (@ebottcher) September 21, 2014
Folks still waiting to march at 83rd. #PeoplesClimate #PeoplesClimateMarch @MathaiWanjira @kuminaidoo pic.twitter.com/H1pRZXJfaM
- cynthia ryan (@cynryan) September 21, 2014
We found a roof #PeoplesCIimate pic.twitter.com/uDoxHzeDAg
- Christopher Robbins (@ChristRobbins) September 21, 2014
Leonardo DiCaprio joins the march. #PeoplesClimateMarch #PeoplesCIimate pic.twitter.com/rjEhBlnnCZ
- Natasha Madov (@sulfurica) September 21, 2014
Mayor De Blasio marching w/ Al Gore & a ton of NYPD, including Asst Chief Thomas Galati of NYPD Intel #PeoplesCIimate pic.twitter.com/xhLbFpkx0O
- Christopher Robbins (@ChristRobbins) September 21, 2014
#PeoplesClimate March 72nd and Central Park pic.twitter.com/FVfV80KdJl
- N Friedman-Rudovsky (@NoahFR) September 21, 2014
The march was born shortly after it was announced that this year's UN Climate Summit- a gathering of international leaders to discuss actions and solutions to the problem of global climate change - would occur in New York City, said spokesperson Maryam Adrangi. The movement was spearheaded by local organizations hoping to express their concern over climate change during the week leading up to the summit.
All of that organization seems to have paid off. The crowd was huge:
The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon joined the march as well, in the blue hat next to Goodall in this image:
It's on #Climate2014 March with #UNSG Ban Ki-moon @BilldeBlasio, people power and world leaders #climatemarch pic.twitter.com/q2MDXWVR1t
- UN Spokesperson (@UN_Spokesperson) September 21, 2014
But with climate change threatening just about every aspect of life on earth, from our shrinking shorelines to our vanishing biodiversity, it's a problem far bigger than the confines of New York City - and participation in the People's Climate March has grown to reflect this fact. In the months since its inception, it's become an international project.
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