Philly Environmental Group Recruiting People To Go To Anti-Global Warming March In NY

By John Ostapkovich

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Although the idea of climate change remains hugely controversial, there's a call for those who think it is an imminent threat to head to a major march next weekend.

The People's Climate March is next Sunday, September 21st outside the United Nations building in New York, just ahead of a major climate meeting there.

Jonathan Lipman of the grassroots environment group 350 Philadelphia is trying to fill buses to go to the rally and expects this to be a fertile town for recruiting.

"Philadelphians are definitely feeling the effects of global warming and they're feeling it now. If you think about Hurricane Sandy, if that had just come a little more south, hit us straight, it would have been Eastwick and all of South Philly that was suffering severe storm damage and was under water."

Lipman says the solution, past knocking world leaders upside the head, is moving away from fossil fuels to lower the level of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas.

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