“AT NEW YORK MARCH, CLARION CALL FOR ACTION ON CLIMATE” (September 22, 2014)
Thus The New York Times today. “The People’s Climate March was a spectacle even for a city known for doing things big, and it was joined, in solidarity, by demonstrations on Sunday across the globe, from Paris to Papua New Guinea,” elaborates the newspaper. Wow! More than half a million people protested in one-hundred and sixty-one countries. But New York City tops them all with more than half of that number. Leonardo DiCaprio marched with Mark Ruffalo, while Ban Ki-moon, secretary general of the United Nations, marched with Al Gore. All the pictures of so many events show people having loads of fun. United by a common cause, they all want action. But the best I have come across is a colorful home-made banner carried by a girl of about ten in London, where some forty-thousand people marched: “Tick tock climate clock—stop climate change now.” That sums up yesterday’s events pretty well. The message to world leaders is perfectly clear, and it comes from an innocent child. I am dying to see what they will do now.