Celebrities, Politicians, And More Than 300,000 People Show Up To NYC's Climate March
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:
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:
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.