People's Climate March
Some 400,000 people marched through Manhattan in the People’s Climate March on the last Sunday of the hottest summer ever on record. Sen. Bernie Sanders was there and told Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman that Republicans in Congress have blocked action on proposals to deal with the planetary crisis, such as Sanders’ legislation to tax carbon and methane emissions that cause global warming. “The major impediment right now is the Republican Party. We have to call them out on this. We don’t do it enough. These are people who do not even acknowledge the scientific reality because they are beholden to Big Energy money and the Koch brothers.”
Sanders congratulated Bill McKibben, the international environmental activist whose 350.org helped bring 400,000 demonstrators to the march in New York. “Bill understands that the only way we’ll reverse global warming is if millions of people all over the world are prepared to take on the powerful fossil fuel industry and demand change,” Sanders said.
