And yet despite that urgency, the atmosphere at the march was pleasant, even fun. There was no sense of anger and little sense that lives—let alone the survival of our species—was at stake. That could be down to the broad coalition of interests and demands that protestors brought with them.
A chemistry researcher I spoke to ticked off a litany of complaints, which ranged from the conspiracy-adjacent (that data centers emitted infrasound below the threshold of human hearing, inducing paranoia in…
