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May 2, 2019

In Historic First, U.K. Parliament Declares a Climate Emergency
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And in Britain, the House of Commons Wednesday became the first
parliament in the world to declare a climate emergency. This is Labour
Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn.

Jeremy Corbyn: "We have no time to waste. We are living in a climate
crisis that will spiral dangerously out of control unless we take rapid
and dramatic action now. This is no longer about a distant future. We're
talking about nothing less than the irreversible destruction of the
environment within our lifetimes of members of this house."

Wednesday's resolution is largely symbolic. It comes on the heels of
April's Extinction Rebellion uprising in London that saw police arrest
more than 1,000 protesters, many of whom superglued themselves to
buildings, trains and sidewalks in a nonviolent direct action campaign.


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