I like (hopefully) many of you attended my local march for science yesterday on April 22 and I would love to hear others perspectives from other cities as I only have mine from Salt Lake City. Feel free to share why you marched, what happened at your march and who some of your favourite speakers were.
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Someone had a sign. "I can't believe I have to march in support of facts." That's pretty much where I'm at.
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According to our local news station, ~40k people attended.
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Were you by chance one of them?
Where was your march by chance?
St Paul, MN. Loads of people showed up.
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We had a march here in Bristol, UK. Our university is pretty devastated by Brexit as a large proportion of our funding is EU-based and while there hasn't been any negative backlash yet, we're bracing for the potential to be excluded from future grant proposals.
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Yes. I didnt take pics or anything like that and did not stay long. It got claustrophobic for me.
Marching with people with was fun. And there was lots of different types of people. There was an abundance of old people, college students, office workers, and parents who brought their kids and toddlers.
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I'm sorry for Brexit it seems like many countries are losing grasp on what made Europe so great. I fear I'll be facing a similar reality at universities in my area as trumps proposed budget cuts 5.8 billion from the National Institutes of Health which funds an incredible amount of medical research carried out by universities. As well as 2.6 billion from the EPA and 15.1 Billion from the department of Health and Human Services. It's a bleak road ahead but that is why it is more important now than ever for us to speak out, to stand up for science and most importantly to VOTE.
Can't say I blame you for the claustrophobia 40k people sounds pretty intense, the march here in Salt Lake was more like 3-4k but for a cause like this in Utah, that's a pretty good turnout. Were there any cool speakers at the Chicago march?
Awesome! Were you by chance one of them?
I'm not even that upset about Brexit, though I certainly voted against it as did the majority of the younger voters, because we grew up feeling like a part of something bigger than just Britain or the UK. However, the Conservative party in power at the moment are also committing to relentless cuts as Trump is, only they're targeting the poor and disabled here, as well as attempting to privatise our National Health Service etc. as well as forcing us to undergo a "hard Brexit" rather than realise that half the country voted AGAINST_ Brexit and so to undergo a hard Brexit is just a big "fuck you" to half the country. They're also the ones raising tuition fees when they should be pouring more money into our universities for post-Brexit before our university rankings slip.
I'm sorry, I really wish the older generations of many countries would just fuck off with their conservative bullshit, as a left-leaning citizen in Utah a state that hasn't voted left in over fifty years it's quite frustrating to have the older generations continue to write legislation that many of my generation view as damaging to our future while we are the ones who will have to live with the consequences of those bills.
Let's March for climate change policy to strip away the free market. While at the same time claiming that man is completely at fault.
There is no 100% consensus on how responsible man is for climate change. No one doubts we make an impact. What people doubt is how much of an impact we have.
The only thing that worries me is what these closet commies are trying to do about it by taxing people just for using oil and becoming like China.
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I wouldn't use China as a reference. Their cancer rates are going through the roof and it is directly linked to the massive amounts of pollution they output. Also man made climate change works in several ways. Poisoning water supplies and air are some things that stick out. If someone is doing something that can make me sick or die prematurely I would want them to stop.
Not sure but I have heard that the consensus of people who study climate change is that 97% think we have man made problems. I guess you are right though in your standby then.
I would want to get as far away from a ton of those countries if I was in that situation. Maybe even form a new EU with just Germany and maybe France. That is a hard maybe on France. It seems like you would not want your own economy and security linked to others. It's litteraly why the states broke away from Britain. I hope all goes well for y'all either way. I spent a month in England on leave and it was awesome.
I completely agree destroying soil and water with chemicals is wrong. Climate change is real and happening. What's not happening is polar ice caps disappearing in a few decades and the Earth becoming a barren wasteland.
Where I take offense is fearmongering and knee-jerk regulations that are coming out. China's carbon tax is a great example of how relying on government to fix everything is only going to lead to more problems.
I.e comminism/fascism/socialism and total capitalism.
I'm a fan of a mixed market and I honestly would support a properly implemented socialised energy sector. And you are right it isn't 100% of actively publishing climate scientists claiming humans are responsible it's 87%, an overwhelming majority, and 97% affirm that climate change is happening and it is a serious concern. The icecaps are melting this is common knowledge at this point, one or two years of growth do not cancel out over a decade of damage done to them. I do not think a tax is the way to go, to me the way to go is to completely remove coal and oil from the energy sector.
There may as well be.
"Ninety-seven percent of climate scientists agree that climate-warming trends over the past century are very likely due to human activities, and most of the leading scientific organizations worldwide have issued public statements endorsing this position." -https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/
I was stationed in Asia and the pollution coming out of china was so bad it would show up as a weather pattern. It would take a volcano to get close to the same output of pollution.
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