Hundreds of demonstrators marched on Wall Street Monday morning in the second day of climate change protests in New York City.
Sunday’s event drew more than 300,000 marchers.
The fate of the Gulf Coast ecosystem was on the mind of some of those gathered at the event. Mike Jonak carried a sign that read, “Gulf Coast Resistance - Stop Tar Sands”
Jonak is from Minnesota, but wanted to show solidarity with people further down his favorite river.
“When we started at the beginning they had a bunch of different signs; since we’re at the other end of the Mississippi we thought we’d carry this one for New Orleans." Jonak said.
Another marcher, Francesca Reanin of Long Island, also threw her support behind Louisiana. She represents an environmental organization called Restore the Earth. She says her non-profit is looking to plant a million trees around the Mississippi river region.
“The first project they’ve done is 10,000 acres of reforestation in the Gulf Coast, in Louisiana,” Reanin says.
The United Nations is kicking off a week-long summit on climate change Tuesday. The meeting comes on the heels of a report released last week by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that shows this summer, 2014, was the hottest ever on record.
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