The Beginning of the End?: Over 300,000 Gather For People’s Climate March In NYC

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MARCHING SELFIE: Dennis Kucinich, Leo DiCaprio and friends

The People’s Climate March began this morning at 11:30AM, moving east along 59th Street from Columbus Circle. More than 1000 groups from all 50 states and 300 colleges participated along with animal activist Jane Goodall, Al Gore, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, Dennis Kucinich, my local councilman, Corey Johnson, Mark Ruffalo, Leonardo DiCaprio and over 300,000 other concerned citizens.

“I am overwhelmed by such a strong power, energy and voice of people – I hope this voice will be truly reflected to the leaders when they meet on September 23rd. Climate change is [a] defining issue of our time and there is no time to lose. If we do not take action now, we will have to pay much more. They have raised their voice, they have shown their power to change the mind set of people and I hope that this power will help — and the heat will help — cool the global temperature rise within 2 degree Centigrade.” –Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General

Let’s hope this brings much-needed mass awareness to the issue and this really does signal the beginning of the end – of the debate! These shots were taken from friends Twitter and Facebook pages (T/Y to Stephen, Barbara, Kenneth, Jim and others) Note: An updated final count, at this writing, is closer to 400,000, making it the largest climate march in history.