Thousands of activists marched in several major cities across Australia on Friday, calling on the government to act on the climate crisis and do more to stop the bushfires that continue to ravage large swathes of the country.
The protests, organized by national student organization Uni Students for Climate Justice, were set to take place in nine cities including Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Perth, indicating widespread public discontent after months of increasingly deadly fires.New South Wales police told CNN more than 30,000 people attended the climate change protest in Sydney. Organizers put the number between 50,000 and 60,000 people.
Animals badly burnt by Australian wildfires euthanized 02:54Climate policies under scrutinyMorrison has also been accused of not doing enough to address the climate crisis, which experts say is making natural disasters like fires go from bad to worse. Summers in Australia are always hot and dry -- but fire seasons have been arriving earlier and spreading with greater intensity."The science is telling us ...
See the Australian fires from the sky 03:05Extreme weather returnsThe protests come as wildfires across Australia's southern states were expected to worsen on Friday, as hot, dry winds gust into the area, New South Wales Rural Fire Service Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons said in a press conference.There were 137 fires burning in New South Wales as around 3,300 firefighters battled conditions that the fire service described as"difficult and erratic.
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