Sunday, October 19, 2014
Foundations Shouldn’t Shrink From Supporting Marches to Curb Climate Change
"Easy" is a word rarely used to describe street protests. But as such things go, last month’s march in New York City, which attracted some 400,000 people to promote policies that curb climate change, was just that.
Unlike civil-rights protests, which required real physical and moral courage, or issues of fierce contention like war, that daylong walk was about as uncontroversial as a walk to cure cancer.
Oddly, this wasn’t obvious to one important group: philanthropists....