Climate change protest blitz targets local action in face of Trump hostility

With little hope of federal action, a series of marches and events in 70 countries will focus on climate change's effects now and the low-income and minority groups bearing the brunt

Climate change activism has always had the stubbornly tough task of mobilizing the public to confront a slow-moving, largely invisible problem while being stymied by a fantastically wealthy fossil fuel industry and an array of sceptics in politics and the media.

Climate campaigners would, therefore, be forgiven a few moments of despair in the era of Donald Trump. Trump's election elicited two large public howls from those concerned about climate change - the People's Climate March and the Science March, held within days of each other in April last year - but any hopes of persuasion have now given way to attritional confrontation and attempts to bypass the administration altogether.