New Yorkers are flooding Wall Street today protesting the corporate role in the climate crisis.
"Two years ago, Superstorm Sandy literally flooded New York's Financial District, but it didn't faze Wall Street and their drive for the short-term profits that flow from the cooking of the planet," Naomi Klein, a climate change activist, said in a statement today. "Which is why we're going to flood them again."
About 1,000 protesters dressed in blue are literally flooding the streets in the protest that began at Battery Park this morning. The protesters are marching toward the Financial District in lower Manhattan, reports CBS New York.
The organizers of the event have roots in the Occupy Wall Street movement in 2011, according to Reuters.
More than 200 protesters told Reuters today they feel so strongly about corporate effects on climate change that they would risk getting arrested for the cause.
"I think arrests in particular are a very good way of conveying the gravity of an issue," protester Jenna DeBoisblanc, an environmental activist from New Orleans, told CBS New York today. "If you're willing to risk arrest it certainly demonstrates that it's something very urgent."
The Flood Wall Street walk took to Manhattan just one day after the Climate Change March in the city Sunday.
The Climate Change March event was believed to be the largest climate-change demonstration in history, according to Reuters. Organizers said the Climate Change March drew more than 310,000 participants.
New York is getting serious about protesting the corporate world's effect on climate change as Tuesday's United Nations climate-change summit is approaching, where world leaders will discuss an international carbon emissions agreement.
The new White House budget director, Shaun Donovan, announced in a speech yesterday that if nothing is done about climate control it could cost the U.S. billions.
