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In France, Dam Is the Catalyst for a Flood of Young Peoples Anger
2014-11-01 20:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The protests began a year ago in this quiet corner of southwestern France, as a small and peaceful gathering of hippies, environmental activists and utopians of all types set up tents to oppose the construction of a nearby dam. In August, after local authorities sent diggers and then crushing machines to level the soil and destroy trees, clashes erupted between protesters and the police, turning this vast stretch of woodland into what many here called a war zone. More than a hundred protesters,...
Maybe you can change people's minds about climate change after all
2014-10-28 19:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: It's no secret that certain political worldviews prevent people from accepting the science of global warming. And it's not just that conservative and pro-free market beliefs are strongly correlated with dismissal of climate science. Get this: Conservatives who are more scientifically literate, or better at math, are even less likely than their ideological compatriots to accept global warming. That's how powerful ideology can be -- and such findings have often been used to call into question whether...
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People's Climate March Leaves Trail Of Trash
2014-09-23 22:13:00| Waste Age
<a href="http://gothamist.com/">Gothamist.com</a> Around 400,000 people marched through Manhattan on Saturday to send a message to world leaders regarding the dire consequences of climate change, and the urgent, desperate necessity of enacting sweeping reforms to stop it. It appears at least 150,000 of those people tossed away their paper Starbucks cups. Content Classification: Curated read more
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How the Peoples Climate March Became Corporate PR Campaign
2014-09-23 02:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AlterNet: ve never been to a protest march that advertised in the New York City subway. That spent $220,000 on posters inviting Wall Street bankers to join a march to save the planet, according to one source. That claims you can change world history in an afternoon after walking the dog and eating brunch. Welcome to the Peoples Climate March set for [today], Sept. 21 in New York City. Its timed to take place before world leaders hold a Climate Summit at the United Nations two days later. Organizers are...
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People's March in photos
2014-09-22 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Slate: With crowd estimates for the People's Climate March in New York City today coming in at more than 300,000 people, it's more than worthwhile to take a look at the different groups participating and the various messages they brought to the streets. This of course doesn't represent all of them, but it does capture a selection that ranges from the poignant to the picturesque.
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