I've gotta say the approach of the BBC (lots of video with a few text annotations but no news anchors talking over the video or reporters talking to camera on the streets) makes for a much more emotionally powerful approach than how protests are covered in the USA.
My big take away is that, here in the USA, we tend to think of government as the primary barrier to climate change action: If we could just elect the right congress and the right president, things would get done. France is showing us that it would/will be harder than that. Even if the laws change, changing the fundamental way our economy works would/will come with a lot of pain for individuals, and we would/will need to be prepared for that as well.