• About
    • Which Energy Mix is this?
  • Climate News Network Archive
  • Contact
The climate news that makes a difference.
No Result
View All Result
The Energy Mix
  • Canada
  • UK & Europe
  • Fossil Fuels
  • Ending Emissions
  • Community Climate Finance
  • Clean Electricity Grid
  • Cities & Communities
SUBSCRIBE
DONATE
  • Canada
  • UK & Europe
  • Fossil Fuels
  • Ending Emissions
  • Community Climate Finance
  • Clean Electricity Grid
  • Cities & Communities
SUBSCRIBE
DONATE
No Result
View All Result
The Energy Mix
No Result
View All Result
  • Canada
  • UK & Europe
  • Fossil Fuels
  • Ending Emissions
  • Community Climate Finance
  • Clean Electricity Grid
  • Cities & Communities
  FEATURED
Biden Approves $8B Oil Extraction Plan in Ecologically Sensitive Alaska March 14, 2023
U.S. Solar Developers Scramble after Silicon Valley Bank Collapse March 14, 2023
$30.9B Price Tag Makes Trans Mountain Pipeline a ‘Catastrophic Boondoggle’ March 14, 2023
UN Buys Tanker, But Funding Gap Could Scuttle Plan to Salvage Oil from ‘Floating Time Bomb’ March 9, 2023
Biden Cuts Fossil Subsidies, But Oil and Gas Still Lines Up for Billions March 9, 2023
Next
Prev

200,000 in DC, Hundreds of Rallies World-Wide, as People’s Climate March Protests Trump Rollbacks

April 30, 2017
Reading time: 4 minutes

jdoughertydc/Flickr

jdoughertydc/Flickr

 

From Edmonton to Vancouver to Toronto, Canadian protesters took to the streets for the second time in a week Saturday, among the hundreds of satellite rallies around the world that took place while an estimated 200,000 gathered in Washington, DC for the People’s Climate March.

The DC march took place on a day of sweltering heat (of course), while Donald Trump retreated to Pennsylvania coal country for a rally to mark his hundredth day in office. “Hang on EPA, the midterms are coming. 2018,” read one sign carried by Kathy Sommer of Stony Brook, NY. (Just 556 sleeps to go—Ed.)

  • Be among the first to read The Energy Mix Weekender
  • A brand new weekly digest containing exclusive and essential climate stories from around the world.
  • The Weekender:The climate news you need.
Subscribe

“The 2017 People’s Climate March was in the works even before Trump was elected,” ThinkProgress notes. But “the march turned into a de facto anti-Trump demonstration, especially in some of its other iterations in 350 cities across the country. In New York, thousands showed up for the ‘100 days of failure’ march.” And many of the marchers in DC connected the climate protest with other big-picture concerns.

“In going big, the march reveals a deeper truth about climate change: nobody is immune from it and we all have a role in solving it,” writes Climate Central Senior Science Editor Brian Kahn. “That’s because climate change touches every aspect of life on earth and the solutions require rethinking the global economy. Everyone has a stake.”

He adds that “bringing together so many groups to march also underscored that a large cross-section of society is clamouring for solutions (or already working on them).” Kahn cites tech and climate writer Robinson Meyer’s observation in The Atlantic that a big-tent approach “succeeds in part because climate change is the second-most-pressing concern for many politically activated progressives, who often have another stake in the fight through some other favored issue.”

“A lot of these issues are intersectional,” said Iraq war veteran Crystal Cravens, noting that she and her fellow veterans were protesting wars being fought due to America’s dependence on fossil fuels. As a black woman, Cravens added that her community is on the front lines of climate change.

“Climate change is directly [related] to the oppression of black and brown people,” she told ThinkProgress. “When the food shortage comes, we are already redlining in our communities, so it is going to hit us hardest.”

InsideClimate News reports a similar focus on climate justice among many of the protesters. “This is a critical time to learn from the mistakes of the past and include front-line communities in resilience planning for climate change and sea level rise,” University of Miami grad student Kilan Ashad-Bishop told a news conference before the march.

Retired environmental educator Jane Eller of Lexington, KY carried a sign that identified her as a “granddaughter of a coal miner, grandmother of the solar generation”. She said she’d spent days lobbying her state’s congressional delegation, urging Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) “to become a leader in this. We asked him, ‘Who should we hold accountable when the climate damage becomes intolerable?’” But she said the Kentucky representatives she met with “are all deniers”, among the 180 currently sitting in Congress.

In Edmonton, about 200 people marched from Churchill Square to the provincial legislature to demand action on climate change and a swift transition to renewable energy. ““The climate crisis, it’s really critical right now. To sit around and do nothing is not really an option,” said protest organizer Hannah Gelderman. “It’s quite scary when you look at the science, to be honest. For me, that’s compelling enough to get out there and be doing stuff and be organizing and doing whatever things I can in whatever way to work towards solutions.”

In Vancouver, dozens of groups brought supporters out to an event that drew hundreds in spite of rainy weather. “I think it’s really important that people in Canada see that there’s a climate justice movement, and that we really have very big concerns with what Justin Trudeau’s doing, as well. It’s not only Trump who’s having policies that are dangerous for the environment,” said organizer Thomas Davies of Climate Convergence.

Hundreds more gathered at Toronto’s Allan Gardens to demand federal action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and invest in renewable energy, CityNews reports.



in Canada, Climate Action / "Blockadia", Environmental Justice, United States

The latest climate news and analysis, direct to your inbox

Subscribe

Related Posts

U.S. Bureau of Land Management/flickr
Oil & Gas

Biden Approves $8B Oil Extraction Plan in Ecologically Sensitive Alaska

March 14, 2023
77
David Dodge, Green Energy Futures/flickr
Community Climate Finance

U.S. Solar Developers Scramble after Silicon Valley Bank Collapse

March 14, 2023
111
EcoAnalytics
Media, Messaging, & Public Opinion

Canadians Want Strong Emissions Cap Regulations, Not More Missed Targets

March 14, 2023
86

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

I agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy.

Trending Stories

Behrat/Wikimedia Commons

Hawaii Firm Turns Home Water Heaters into Grid Batteries

March 14, 2023
347
U.S. National Transportation Safety Board/flickr

$30.9B Price Tag Makes Trans Mountain Pipeline a ‘Catastrophic Boondoggle’

March 14, 2023
163
David Dodge, Green Energy Futures/flickr

U.S. Solar Developers Scramble after Silicon Valley Bank Collapse

March 14, 2023
111
EcoAnalytics

Canadians Want Strong Emissions Cap Regulations, Not More Missed Targets

March 14, 2023
86
U.S. Bureau of Land Management/flickr

Biden Approves $8B Oil Extraction Plan in Ecologically Sensitive Alaska

March 14, 2023
77
Rebecca Bollwitt/flickr

Fossils Stay ‘Oily’, Gibsons Sues Big Oil, U.S. Clean Energy Booms, EU Pushes Fossil Phaseout, and Fukushima Disaster was ‘No Accident’

March 14, 2023
82

Recent Posts

Raysonho/wikimedia commons

Purolator Pledges $1B to Electrify Last-Mile Delivery

March 14, 2023
55
United Nations

UN Buys Tanker, But Funding Gap Could Scuttle Plan to Salvage Oil from ‘Floating Time Bomb’

March 10, 2023
89
Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia Commons

Biden Cuts Fossil Subsidies, But Oil and Gas Still Lines Up for Billions

March 10, 2023
177
jasonwoodhead23/flickr

First Nation Scorches Imperial Oil, Alberta Regulator Over Toxic Leak

March 8, 2023
367
MarcusObal/wikimedia commons

No Climate Risk Targets for Banks, New Guides for Green Finance as 2 Federal Agencies Issue New Rules

March 8, 2023
234
FMSC/Flickr

Millions Face Food Insecurity as Horn of Africa Braces for Worst Drought Ever

March 8, 2023
245
Next Post
Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia Commons

‘Security’ May Be Perry’s Excuse to Pre-Empt State Clean Energy Targets

The Energy Mix - The climate news you need

Copyright 2023 © Energy Mix Productions Inc. All rights reserved.

  • About
  • Contact
  • Privacy Policy and Copyright
  • Cookie Policy

Proudly partnering with…

scf_withtagline
No Result
View All Result
  • Canada
  • UK & Europe
  • Fossil Fuels
  • Ending Emissions
  • Community Climate Finance
  • Clean Electricity Grid
  • Cities & Communities

Copyright 2022 © Smarter Shift Inc. and Energy Mix Productions Inc. All rights reserved.

Manage Cookie Consent
To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behaviour or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.
Functional Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
Manage options Manage services Manage vendors Read more about these purposes
View preferences
{title} {title} {title}