Vancouver Climate March Draws Thousands On Eve Of Global Summit In Paris

Source: http://ift.tt/tvAe1u - Sunday, November 29, 2015
VANCOUVER - Demonstrators in Vancouver are adding their voices to a crescendo around the world demanding swift and concrete climate-change action from world leaders gathered in Paris for the United Nations climate talks. Thousands of people packed the shaded square outside the Vancouver Art Gallery on a sunny Sunday afternoon before marching through the city's downtown core. The gathering coincided with what organizers said were more than 2,000 similar events taking place around the world on the eve of the 21st UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, which is scheduled to run from Nov. 30 to Dec. 11. "What you're seeing here today is a massive display of community spirit," said Ruth Walmsley on Sunday, a Vancouver Quaker and one of the event's organizers. "We're here to send a very loud and clear message that we need immediate and meaningful action to be taken to address the climate crisis.'' Those demands include an end to subsidies for fossil fuels and large-scale investment in renewable energy, she said. "This is the 21st conference of the climate summits and we have yet to see the kind of action that we really need to address the crisis that we're in," Walmsley added. "Honestly, I think that the only way that change is going to happen is if enough people take to the streets and demand it." The event attracted an assortment of attendees advocating a smorgasbord of different causes, from combating open-pen fish farms to endo

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