Thousands Rally for Action on Climate Change in Australia

Thousands of protesters gathered Friday in Melbourne, Australia, at the start of a day of worldwide demonstrations calling for action on climate change ahead of a United Nations summit next week in New York. Demonstrators called for their nation, which is the world’s largest exporter of coal and liquid natural gas, to take more drastic action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Some of the first rallies, in what is being billed as a “global climate strike,“ kicked off in Australia. The Global Strike 4 Clima