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Local Demonstrators Raise Awareness About Climate Change In NY

By Justin Udo

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - On Sunday, just two days before the United Nations Climate Summit in New York, at least 200,000 demonstrators took over the streets of Manhattan urging world leaders to take action on climate change. Local organizations from the Delaware Valley also got involved with the movement.

More than 3,000 people made the trip from Philadelphia to New York to participate in the People's Climate March.

"There are groups coming out for this that have never been interested in environmental stuff before," says group organizer Jen Hombach. "There are labor unions, there are faith groups, there are teachers and nurses."

Hombach says their mission is a simple one:

"A lot of experts agree that we need to really start making changes. we keep increasing how much fossil fuels we're burning instead of going in the opposite direction."

Other cities held similar marches. In London, organizers say 40,000 people came out.

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