Protesters and lawmakers gathered at the European Union parliament on Tuesday as the bloc prepared a landmark vote on protecting its endangered nature and protecting it from devastating environmental change, a test of the EU's global climate change. Spurred on by climate activist Greta Thunberg, several hundred protesters demanded that the EU push through a bill to boost the restoration of nature in the 27-nation bloc, which has been damaged by decades of industrial expansion. The farmers' counter-demonstration demanded a slower approach that would reduce the impact on their incomes.