Climate activists on Tuesday will protest four banks — Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Citibank and Wells Fargo — that help finance the fossil fuel industry.
One of Tuesday’s biggest protests is expected to draw hundreds of people to the heart of the nation’s capital. A rally downtown will feature remarks by environmental leaders including Ben Jealous, the new executive director of the Sierra Club and former head of the NAACP.“The big banks in the U.S. are really participating in the No. 1 threat to the future of our planet,” Jealous said.
, they say the main point of the protests is to push those banks to change their policies. “The key is to push them in the months ahead to shift — that’s more important than purifying your own wallet!” McKibben said via email.Wendy Benchley, an ocean conservationist and the widow of “Jaws” writer Peter Benchley, has already snipped her card while scuba diving in Key West, Fla., where warming waters have triggered severe“The coral reefs are in terrible trouble,” Benchley said.
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