PROVIDENCE – Residents on Cape Cod concerned with the effects of climate change will gather in Provincetown Saturday.
The Cape-Wide Climate rally, which is sponsored by Lower Cape Indivisible, Indivisible Outer Cape and Indivisible Mid Cape, will be held in conjunction with marches in major cities across the world.
The march will step off on Johnson Street at 2 p.m. and proceed down Commercial Street to MacMillan Pier and continuing to Town Hall.
Guest speakers include Provincetown State Representative Sarah Peake, the Executive Director of the Association to Preserve Cape Cod Andrew Gottlieb, Bryan Legare, a coastal biologist with the Center for Coastal Studies, and Chris Powicki with 350 MASS/Cape Cod.
The environmental leaders, scientists and elected officials will discuss the importance of scientific research and its evidence of environmental and economic impacts on Cape Cod and across the world.
“[They will also discuss] what we can actually do in our efforts locally to work in a global sense to combat climate change with our energy choices,” said Rand Burkert, a member of Lower Cape Indivisible.
Burkert said the event is also a push back against the policies of the Trump Administration.
“We see that as a very backwards looking policy which is not good for our economy, not good for the future of our children and certainly not good for the ecology of our region of Cape Cod and the economy of Cape Cod, which is a blue economy,” Burkert said.
Burkert said he hopes many people will attend what he calls a peaceful protest.
“People who are opposed are also welcome to attend,” he said.
By BRIAN MERCHANT, CapeCod.com NewsCenter
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