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Hundreds of climate change activists stayed in central London on Tuesday during a second day of the Extinction Rebellion's global protests to call for more urgent action to combat global warming.
Determined activists were stuck to the UK Department of Transportation building when the police, working to keep the streets clear, asked demonstrators to move to Trafalgar Square.
Cities in Australia, elsewhere in Europe, and other parts of the world also had protests against climate change for a second day.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday appealed to protesters not to block the streets of London anymore. He called the activists “uncooperative crusts” who should forego their “hemp-smelling bivouacs”.
Mike Gumn, 33, a National Health Service manager with two children, said he used a day of annual leave to attend the demonstration. Bristol-based Gumn was outraged by Johnson's characterization of climate change activists as "hippies."
"I want to make a statement that (the activists) are all different types of people from all walks of life, not just people you would call hippies," he said.
Somehow I don't understand the climate activists when they contribute to climate change through their actions by creating traffic jams and forcing motorists to make long detours and harming other people in the process. I would often like to take part in actions, but not like that.