Peoples Climate March Will Show the World Americans Care about Climate Change

This statement from Earthjustice advocates for participation in the 2017 Peoples Climate March in Washington, D.C., framing it as a necessary expression of solidarity and a demand for climate security and justice in response to the Trump administration's policies.

• The 2014 People’s Climate March is described as the largest climate change mobilization in history, with 400,000 participants in New York City and approximately 200,000 people across 162 other countries.
• The author asserts that public mobilization created the political space for the Obama administration to implement several concrete climate actions, including the Paris climate agreement, the Clean Power Plan, the rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline, a moratorium on federal coal leasing, and the first limits on methane pollution from the oil and gas industry.
• The 2017 march aims to signal that the United States has not abandoned the planet and to demand climate security and justice, specifically seeking to galvanize resistance against the Trump administration's rejection of federal climate action.
• The document emphasizes that climate change is an example of societal inequity, noting that the safety and experience of marching can vary based on skin color and privilege, citing an instance where Reverend Lennox Yearwood Jr. was racially profiled and assaulted by police at the March for Science.

APA

Earthjustice (2017). Peoples Climate March Will Show the World Americans Care about Climate Change. https://earthjustice.org/article/peoples-climate-march-will-show-the-world-americans-care-about-climate-change

Chicago

Earthjustice. Peoples Climate March Will Show the World Americans Care about Climate Change. 2017. https://earthjustice.org/article/peoples-climate-march-will-show-the-world-americans-care-about-climate-change.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@misc{earthjustice2017peoples, author = {{Earthjustice}}, title = {{Peoples Climate March Will Show the World Americans Care about Climate Change}}, publisher = {Earthjustice}, year = {2017}, month = apr, url = {https://earthjustice.org/article/peoples-climate-march-will-show-the-world-americans-care-about-climate-change}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }