Thankfully the massive storm we are enduring at the moment didn't happen yesterday. In case you missed it, tons of people came out across the city and at 1,400 locations all over the United States to bring awareness for climate change. There was a fair at Grand Central Station where people could meet environmentally friendly companis and organizations. There were various issue groups uptown, downtown and in the village. The biggest event was in the financial district, where an assortment of folks formed a human chain to represent where the coastline is going to be in Lower Manhattan when the sea begins to rise.
From The New York Times:
Hundreds of people formed a human shoreline at the rim of Lower Manhattan yesterday, warning of the dangers of rising sea levels from global warming as part of a national day of environmental demonstrations.The roughly U-shaped line, a few blocks inland, was a sometimes-comical, sometimes-serious attempt to show what the tip of the island might look like if the sea level rose several feet from the melting of Greenland’s ice sheets.
Throughout the line, packed in some stretches and spread thin in others, were men, women and children dressed more for a maritime adventure than a windy spring day in New York City. They wore wet suits, scuba-diving flippers and blue sheets with hand-painted waves. Some tossed around beach balls. One man tried to make his way through the narrow streets with a long canoe hitched to his bicycle.
Environmentally conscious people tend to have good amounts of creativity and it was not in short supply yesterday. Of course it is all for a good cause, the survival of our planet should be described that way, even though there are a few greedy bastards left who try to deny it. It always amazes me that those who profit from the destruction of Earth really don't give a shit about what will happen to future generations. Okay, enough venting for this post. Congrats to all those that got out there and showed their Earth-friendly spirit here in the city and across the country.
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