Demonstrations at 90 sites are billed as first major action by older activists: ‘It’s not fair to ask 18-year-olds to solve this’
of having children themselves, McKibben said the has found “huge concern” among older people about the climate emergency.
McKibben said he hoped the protests would highlight the link between “cash in the bank and carbon in the air”. Third Act is encouraging people to sign a pledge to quit Chase, Citibank, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America if they don’t stop funding fossil fuels.
Bill McKibben: ‘There is a sense people get more conservative as they age but I’m not sure if that’s true of this group.
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