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Wikipedia page "List of protests and demonstrations in the United States by size" says the Hands off protests were the third largest protest in US history (i.redd.it)

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[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 13 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

Number 2 was in 1970 for Earth Day, so that had to be the boomers protesting, right?

[–] No_Eponym@lemmy.ca -4 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

And look, they fixed climate change!

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 13 points 4 weeks ago

No generation has fixed climate change. No one is making a dent because it isn't the people who are the biggest perpetrators, it's the corporations and billionaires.

[–] Bleys@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Tbf climate change wasn’t really in the public consciousness at that point in time, it was just being discovered and then was hidden by oil companies for a few decades.

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