Julie Norman of University College London described 2019 as historically notable because of "the degree of mobilization," Michael Safi of "The Guardian" described the protests in late October 2019 as "protests raging today and in the past months on the streets of cities around the world [that] have varying triggers [and] fuel [that] is similar", "Le Monde" defined the 2019 protests as "a wave of popular protest [shaking] the world" and Elise Lambert of France Télévisions defined the 2019 protests as "a burst of uprisings [that] has engulfed the planet over the past several months."