10 Creative Climate Demonstrations
Millions of people took to the streets Saturday for the 350 Day of Climate Action, urging world leaders to reduce global warming pollution. Here's a look at some of the most visually creative demonstrations.
By Gloria Dawson
Hollywood, California
Organizers of the 350 Day of Climate Action are calling the over 5,000 rallies and protests in 181 countries "clearly the most widespread day of political action in the planet's history." 350 is the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, measured in parts per million, that some leading scientists say represents a safe level for life as we know it on Earth. "Parts per million CO2 sounds too obscure an idea to attract crowds on six continents, but there were thousands of people in the streets from Togo and Ethiopia and Paraguay to Seattle and London and Sydney," said 350.org co-founder Bill McKibben.
Here, 350 supporters rally beneath the famous Hollywood sign in Los Angeles, California.
Kunar Province, Afghanistan
The photo was taken in the remote Korengal Outpost in the Korengal Valley, Kunar Province, eastern Afghanistan. All the men are part of the 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division based out of Fort Carson, Colorado. The vehicles in the background are no longer in use as the soldiers here walk everywhere when they go on key leader engagement with the local villages elders.
Great Barrier Reef, Australia
Poppy (11) and Jarrah (9) snorkel with a 350 sign at the Great Barrier Reef, Australia.
Johannesburg, South Africa
Bungee jump toward 350 from a retired coal plant in in Johannesburg South Africa.
"People in almost all the nations of the earth are involved," said 350 honorary spokesman Desmond Tutu, the South African Anglican archbishop and Nobel Laureate. "It's the same kind of coalition that helped make the word 'apartheid' known around the world."
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