Politicians Rally Against Climate Change Inaction

By Shruthi Sriram Assoc. Newton Editor

A crowd of activists, students, and residents brought signs and petitions to Newton Centre Green for a rally in support of climate action during the Newton Democratic City Committee’s Earth Day event on Saturday.

“What I find inspiring about Earth Day is that it translates anxiety into action,” Rep. Jake Auchincloss, who represents Massachusetts’ 4th Congressional District, said at the event.

“It is so easy to be paralyzed by concerns about future generations, about 1.5, 1.7 degrees Celsius, by the overlapping, cascading challenges that we can face, but this is a day that takes that anxiety and it turns it into meaningful action. And that is what we need.”

The speaker portion of the event began with speeches from two students from Newton South High School, who spoke about what the climate crisis meant to them and