Thousands of environmentally conscious citizens converged on the National Mall on Saturday to be part of the Global Citizen Earth Day rally and concert. Performers like Mary J. Blige, Usher, and No Doubt performed to the crowd to highlight global poverty and climate change.
Via USA Today:
Earth Day Network President Kathleen Rogers said eliminating poverty will require solving climate change. So advocates on both issues are collaborating to push for sustainable international development and hope Saturday’s event inspires people to support it. The rally was a cooperative effort with Global Citizen. The actual Earth Day observance is April 22.
“Whether it’s the big migrations we expect to see or soil depletion or emptying the oceans, loss of species, loss of timberland — all these things are creating poverty at the same time that they are also creating climate change issues,” Rogers said.
Unlike the cold and dreary Earth Day rally of 2012 — when none but the most die-hard Gaia worshippers came out — this Earth Day rally was on a beautiful spring day and was well attended. Unfortunately, well-attended events on the left do have a well-known downside…and that downside has a tendency to undercut their “earth-friendly” message.
Forget the “emptying of the oceans.” Someone needs to empty these trash cans.
Via Weasel Zippers:
scenes from the Earth Day concert on the Mall pic.twitter.com/3kKQOe2qax
— Christine Rousselle (@crousselle) April 18, 2015
Crowds here in DC to fight #ClimateChange! (They’re just bahind the piles of trash.) -mao #EarthDay #EcoWarrior pic.twitter.com/GM2RuZzHhw
— The QOTUS (@MEEchelleO) April 18, 2015
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