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Power concedes nothing without a demand.

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Power concedes nothing without a demand.[br]It never did and it never will.

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- Frederick Douglass

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1968

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This is Apollo 8 coming to you live from the moon

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The vast loneliness up here of the moon is[br]awe-inspiring

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And it makes you realize just what you have[br]back there on Earth

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The Earth from here is a grand oasis in the[br]big vastness of space

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- Oh my god look at that picture over there[br]- Wow, is that pretty

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You got a color film Jim?

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Hand me a roll of color film quick. Quick.

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Wow, that's a beautiful shot

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From the crew of Apollo 8 we close with "Good[br]night, good luck, and God bless all of you...

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... all of you on the good Earth"

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We no longer live on that Earth

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The world hasn't ended

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But the world as we know it has

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Can you hear me?

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I have an emergency

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The water is rising very quickly

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We're looking at about five feet of water...

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... and there's about 17 people on the second floor right now

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We're going to need to evacuate - we need to get out of here

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We're trying to get you guys out

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Are you alright? You OK?!

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There is new and dramatic evidence of what's happening to our world

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and tonight we'll look at the impact already being felt

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The red flags about extreme weather we've[br]all endured

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together all across the globe

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We are literally engaged in an unprecedented[br]experiment

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with the one planet that we know of that can support life.

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We will respond to the threat of climate change,[br]knowing that the failure to do so

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would betray our children and future[br]generations

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The big question mark is the future, of[br]course, and a new kind of normal

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Things are gearing up for the UN-hosted[br]climate change summit in New York

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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will[br]host the summit.

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I will convene a climate summit for leaders[br]at the highest level.

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I urge political leaders of the world to prioritize[br]their political energy on climate change.

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We have to get serious about bringing real[br]commitments to the table for that summit.

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If things go "business as usual" we will not[br]live, we will die.

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DISRUPTION

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100 DAYS UNTIL THE MARCH

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[Matt Leonard - Organizer - People's Climate March]

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On September 23rd the United Nations is[br]holding a historic climate summit where

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they've invited world leaders and heads of[br]state from around the world

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We're trying to organize the[br]largest-ever climate rally

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on the streets New York in response to this,[br]hopefully turning the tide

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of what comes out of that summit, and reshaping[br]what the entire climate movement looks like

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going forward.

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Climate tipping points are scary

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but if we stay connected to each other[br]we can build

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the largest climate mobilization in[br]history. We all have power to create

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the movement tipping point on climate[br]change.

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the one that takes our leaders from this place[br]of inaction

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and puts them on a journey towards[br]saving the planet.

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All the big social movements

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in history have had people in the streets.

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Women's voting rights, the civil rights movement[br]-- and even more recently

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[Keya Chatterjee Dir. of Renewable Energy, WWF]

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on climate issues, our big successes have[br]happened when people left their homes

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and went out into the streets.

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This is a bigger fight than in fact has ever[br]been won.

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[Naomi Klein - Author - "This Changes Everything"][br]It's not that we need to save the Earth.

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We need to save the systems that make the[br]Earth compatible

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with human existence and the existence of other[br]life forms.

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This is the fight of our time, but none of[br]us should exactly have to be activists

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about all this. In a rational world, the fact[br]that scientists have said

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the worst thing on Earth is happening[br]now and here's what you can do to stop it

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[Bill McKibben - Co-Founder, 350.org][br]that would have been enough to push our

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systems into action.

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Of all the things that probably[br]get me most upset, it's when people start

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presenting climate change as if it's[br]something new.

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[Dr. Naomi Oreskes - Professor, History of[br]Science, Harvard.]

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The science behind our understanding of[br]man-made climate change

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is very old and very well[br]established. So the task we've taken on

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is documenting this history to help us[br]understand where we are

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how we got here, and how we can change[br]course.

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Scientists have known for more than 150[br]years that carbon dioxide was a greenhouse gas

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Fourier came up with this notion[br]that there were gasses in our atmosphere

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that allowed sunlight to pass through, like[br]a window, but then when sunlight bounced off

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the Earth's surface they trap the heat in.

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[Dr. Heidi Cullen - Chief Scientist, Climate Central]

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So you had now this establishment of what we now call "the greenhouse effect."

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In the 1850's, John Tyndall made laboratory[br]measurements of the absorption of heat radiation

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by carbon dioxide

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[Dr. James Hansen - Former Director, NASA (GISS)]

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And he concluded that if you change the CO₂ in the atmosphere

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it's going to affect the planetary energy balance

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Tyndall was the one who really came along[br]and proved that carbon dioxide

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was a natural thermostat that helped[br]set our planet's temperature

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In the late 1800's, it was the great Swedish chemist Arrhenius who first did the calculations

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about what would happen as we, as he put it, "evaporated our coal mines into the air"

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But people didn't pay much attention [br]to that in the 20th century

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because we were too busy figuring out [br]cool new ways to burn fossil fuel

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It was only in the late 1950's that we[br]even bothered to measure

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to see if it was accumulating in the atmosphere

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That instrument, which one up on the side of[br]Mauna Loa in Hawaii

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is the most important scientific instrument in the world

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Beginning in 1959, it found that there was a steadily accumulating amount of CO₂ in the atmosphere

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the so-called "Keeling Curve"

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The Keeling Curve is one of the most important[br]pieces of scientific work of the 20th century

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that shows us that carbon dioxide [br]has been rising continuously

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and systematically since the[br]industrial revolution

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Keeling didn't just show that there was an increase in carbon dioxide, he also pinpointed the source

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And what Keeling showed so incredibly[br]was that roughly one out of

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every four CO₂ molecules in our atmosphere[br]today was put there by us

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Just a year ago, we passed 400 parts per million [br]of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere

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Now the pre-industrial level was about [br]280 parts per million

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So human society in the industrial era has raised the[br]level of CO₂ in the atmosphere by about 40%,

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[Justin Gillis - Journalist, The New York Times]

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and many people fear that before we're[br]done we're gonna double it or even triple it

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We're pumping CO₂ into the atmosphere

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at a speed which we have never seen [br]before in modern human history

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We're absolutely racing into unchartered territory

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In our lifetimes, human beings left behind[br]the Holocene, this 10,000-year period

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of benign climatic stability that coincides [br]with the rise of human civilization

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We have crossed a great threshold,[br]and we stand on the edge of others

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[Van Jones - Host, CNN Crossfire]

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I remember when The Weather Channel was this[br]kind of nice, sleepy little station

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Now it's like a horror show where [br]the climate is being disrupted

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That's not for next year or a thousand years[br]from now. That's happening right now.

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What all climate scientists will agree on is that

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the entire atmosphere has changed -- all[br]the atmospheric dynamics have changed

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So every event that happens now [br]is in the context of climate change

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is different from how it would have been

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A typhoon slammed into the Philippines [br]with winds of 195 miles per hour

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That's higher than the winds from Hurricanes[br]Sandy and Katrina combined

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The world is mobilizing to help the Philippines,[br]but just a trickle of food and water and medicine

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has reached the victims of Typhoon Haiyan

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A million people were forced to flee their homes.[br]They're now trying to salvage what's left

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Hundreds of thousands are thronging[br]relief centers, desperate for life's necessities

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Many residents have covered their faces to[br]mask the smell of the dead, while they searched

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for relatives in some of the hardest hit areas

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This is one of the top storms ever seen on this planet

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Mister President, your excellency

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What my country is going through as a result [br]of this extreme climate event is madness

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[Yeb Saño - Climate Negotiator, Philippines]

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Super Typhoon Haiyan made landfall [br]in my own family's hometown

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And the devastation . . . is staggering

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I struggle to find words to describe [br]how I feel about the losses

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To anyone outside who continues to deny and [br]ignore the reality that this climate change

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I dare them -- I dare them to get off their ivory towers and away from the comfort of their arm chairs

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I dare them to go to the islands of the Pacific

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We refuse as a nation to accept a future where[br]super typhoons like Haiyan become a way of life

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We refuse to accept that running away[br]from storms, evacuating our families,

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counting our dead become a way of life. [br]We simply refuse to.

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We can fix this. We can stop this madness.

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80 DAYS UNTIL THE MARCH

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People's Climate March Coordinating Committee[br]Organizing Meeting

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Hello, hello. Alright folks we know why we're here

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[Eddie Bautista - Executive Director, NYC-EJA]

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We have 80 days starting tomorrow to pull off [br]the largest climate march in history

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It's really important for folks to remember[br]that although climate change affects everyone

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the impacts are not evenly distributed

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We're asking each one of these breakout groups, [br]prioritize people of color, folks

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because this is real, it's disproportionate,[br]and it's time to bring it

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They need to act on a binding global agreement[br]to reduce greenhouse gases

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[Tomas Gardaño - Organizer, People's Climate March]

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We can do that and create jobs at the same time

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Part of what we're doing is moving people[br]from fossil fuels to the solutions

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[Lee Ziesche - Grassroots Coordinator]

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and also presenting them with economic [br]opportunities around the solutions

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[Armando Chapelliquen - Project Coordinator, NYPIRG][br]The idea of who's going to be leading this march...

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...are the people in this room

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[Rev. Clinton Miller - Brown Memorial, Baptist Church] [br]This environmental issue is the singular issue

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of our time, of our day, that will determine how we live, where we live, and if we live.

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The most important tool that we have is our[br]people power. There are already 325 groups,

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and that list is going to grow every single[br]day. Whatever you're thinking about doing

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to help build this mobilization, rethink it.[br]And make it bigger. Make it bolder.

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Our job is to make sure everybody hears about it.[br]And then they'll get there. They'll get there.

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That's our job

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[Nuclear Disarmament Movement - New York City]

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In 1982, the UN convened a first special section[br]on nuclear disarmament

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and we came together and said when[br]the representatives

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of governments all around the world[br]gather in New York City at the UN

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we need to be on the streets making our voice heard

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New York City's anti-nuclear demonstration[br]turned out to be the biggest

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political demonstration in US history

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It was, and still to this day, is the largest single gathering, if you will, of people in this country

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I think there was one computer in the[br]office. Everything else was by phone

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And this thing we called "the mail" --[br]we now call it "snail mail"

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But there was something about that[br]reality that we didn't have the

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technology that we now have[br]that actually forced people

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to talk directly to each other.

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Until we have real peace, with real justice

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we will not go home and be quiet, we will[br]go home and organize!

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One of the really interesting things about that [br]demonstration is that some 600 local groups

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were formed, and many of those groups[br]lasted for years afterwards

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To me, the real power of that[br]day was the organizing experience that led

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up to it and then the organizing [br]that came out of it

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Some experts are now saying that [br]the whole world is heating up

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because of a "global greenhouse effect"

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[Dr. Naomi Oreskes - Professor, [br]History of Science, Harvard]

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Scientists had been saying for a long[br]time that climate change might occur

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but 1988 is the year when Jim Hansen [br]and his team at NASA

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say both in the scientific peer-reviewed literature, [br]and in public, that it's actually happening

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[Dr. James Hansen - Former Director, NASA (GISS)][br]The changes in atmospheric composition

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that humans were making was going to have [br]a big impact on the Earth's climate

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The greenhouse effect has been detected,[br]and it is changing our climate now

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Hansen's testimony was reported on the[br]front page of The New York Times

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and there was actually a bill introduced[br]into Congress -- the National Energy Policy Act

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to immediately begin to phase out the use of fossil fuels in order to prevent disruptive climate change

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And of course that was supported [br]by the creation of the IPCC --

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the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate[br]Change -- that year

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So there was political momentum, [br]there was some scientific momentum

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there was strong scientific evidence,[br]there was media attention

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and then the whole thing kinda fell apart

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The Earth Summit, a 12-day, 178-nation[br]conference on the environment

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began today in Rio de Janeiro

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Battle lines are already drawn between[br]the haves and the have-nots

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So far, all the agreements are non-binding -- requiring no specific action on the environment

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As time has gone on, the scientific [br]warnings keep intensifying

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and yet there has been no effective political response

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All political efforts to get a handle on this issue

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have essentially failed

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I am the one that is burdened with [br]finding the balance between

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sound environmental practice on the one hand

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and jobs for American families on the other

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The agreement hammered out in Kyoto,[br]Japan requires industrialized nations

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to make substantial cuts in greenhouse gas emissions

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[Justin Gillis - Journalist, The New York Times]

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The United States actually never ratified the Kyoto Protocol which is one reason it didn't work

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President Bush ignited a storm of controversy

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when he decided to abandon the Kyoto Protocol

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which sets caps on the emissions of[br]greenhouse gases in developed nations

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For nearly two weeks, the US delegation[br]had blocked proposal after proposal

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draft after draft

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refusing to even discuss mandatory cuts[br]in greenhouse emissions

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Now we switch to the big climate[br]conference going on in Copenhagen

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Today developing countries made themselves heard

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Led by Africa, 135 nations, including India and China

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staged a five-hour boycott

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angry over what they say are insufficient carbon cuts proposed by the world's rich countries

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If Hollywood had been writing a story,[br]it all would have come right in the end

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and all the nations would have [br]pledged their best effort

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And nothing like that happened -- [br]the thing was a fiasco, a failure

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The frustrations of the last 10 days[br]explode on the streets of Copenhagen

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Outside the Bella Center where negotiators still haven't reached a climate agreement

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2500 protesters tried to storm [br]the hall to make an impact

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[Bill McKibben - Co-founder, 350.org][br]Nothing happened because

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the fossil fuel industry was still strong enough to scare nations into avoiding the issue

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[Naomi Klein - Author, "The Shock Doctrine"][br]What happened in Copenhagen, for a lot of people

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was this realization "no leader was going to save us"

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We have to be strong enough to[br]scare our national leaders

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into doing the right thing in New York City in September

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If we can demonstrate that

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then better things will happen in Paris [br]than happened in Copenhagen

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These things are not separate[br]moments in time

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This is a all part of one string, and[br]what we're fighting towards in Paris

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is highly dependent on what happens in September

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This is going to have to be the fight our lives

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[Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [br](IPCC) - Berlin, Germany]

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Welcome to this press conference to present[br]the report of IPCC Working Group 3

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on mitigation of climate change

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[Dr. Rajendra Pachauri - Chairman, IPCC][br]If we really want to bring about a limitation

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of temperature increase to no more [br]than 2 degrees Celsius

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there is then the need for an[br]unprecedented level of international cooperation

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The way we've approached climate change

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is the scientific community builds the case, it[br]synthesizes the evidence,

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it presents that evidence then to the policymakers

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We've proven beyond a doubt that [br]climate change is real

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that the Earth's temperature is warming

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[Dr. Heidi Cullen - Author, "Weather of the Future"][br]that that warming is predominantly caused by

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the burning of fossil fuels and other human activities, and that that additional warming poses

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a significant threat

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What the policy-making community did was[br]they came up with the definition

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of what they called "dangerous human interference"

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In 2009, the nations in the world agreed on

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a target of 2 degrees Centigrade or 3.6[br]degrees Fahrenheit of maximum warming

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above the pre-industrial level

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That would require emissions[br]worldwide almost entirely stopping

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within a matter of decades

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[Dr. John Sterman - Director, [br]MIT System Dynamics Group]

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A lot of people talk about two degrees as[br]a safe level, well there is no safe level

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two degrees is a round number that would be safer

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but we'll still have substantial climate impacts

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One degree is melting the Arctic and Antarctic. We'd be crazy to find out what two degrees will do

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but we're probably going to find out

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Even if we do everything right at this[br]point, that's about as good an outcome as

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we can hope for

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The other thing the IPCC did was they tied that 2 degrees Celsius, 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit threshold

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to the amount of fossil fuels that[br]we can actually burn

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And they came up with this red line in the sand which was a trillion tons of carbon

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The problem is we're already more than halfway there

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We're approaching 600 million tons already

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and at the rate things are going

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we will have completely exhausted that [br]carbon budget within thirty years

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The same leaders who say they

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want the temperature to go up no more[br]than 2 degrees have put forward

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a series of proposals that when you add them up, leads to the temperature rising 6 degrees

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the point past which most sane[br]scientists think

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civilization on the scale that we now[br]know it will not be possible

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It's almost a kind of refusal to come to[br]grips with reality

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There's just this enormous gap between[br]what country say they want to do and what

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they're actually on track to do

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People call this the emissions gap

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Much of this is about mathematics. We've got[br]to leave 80 percent of fossil fuels in

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the ground

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The fossil fuel industry wants to burn all[br]its reserves, if they do then we get that

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six degrees

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Each day of inaction, of business as usual,[br]puts us closer and closer on this crash course

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58 DAYS UNTIL THE MARCH

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[People's Climate March - Host Committee Meeting, NYC]

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We're two months out from this demo, obviously[br]we all know in this room, a tremendous amount

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of work has happened, is happening every day,[br]getting the word out, mobilizing people

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[Leslie Cagan - Peace & Justice Organizer][br]At this point, every day counts. Every day when

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we miss an opportunity, it's gone.

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It's not just a one-day march, it's our long-term[br]ability to build a strong climate movement

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that we need to invest in

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[Ananda Lee Tan - Climate Justice Alliance][br]So being inclusive to us is really about multiple things

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but recognizing that we live in a society with there is privilege, there are inequities

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and in order to address the climate crisis, we have to first address those inequities

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That will allow us to then bring a movement strong enough to address the global ecological crisis

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If you think for second about this,[br]there is this just layer of stuff under the ground

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Got put their in a specific time in

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a specific way

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and it just captured millennia of solar energy

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[Chris Hayes - Host, All in with Chris Hayes | MSNBC][br]And we just happened upon it

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It's like if you were just walking around, and then put something in the ground

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and there's just millions of dollar bills down there, just pulling them out

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Everything about what we do and who we are[br]and how we live

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is dependent upon the fact that we just[br]found the stuff sitting there

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and that stuff said "Oh, you don't have to

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have everyone working in the fields all[br]the time -- you can have cities, you can have

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cars, you can have iPhones." And the way I[br]view it is, as incredible as that stuff is

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we've been paying this price on it the whole[br]time. And there's this clock running

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The classic market failure is "negative environmental[br]externalities"

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That's just jargon for "you're not paying the full[br]costs for the fossil fuels that you burn"

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The racket that the fossil fuel industry has[br]run is to take costs of its products, and

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export them to the public

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[Keya Chatterjee - Director of [br]Renewable Energy, WWF]

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Think about the litany of impacts: from sea[br]level rise, ocean acidification, the collapse

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of ecosystems that we rely on for food, water[br]availability. These things are really expensive

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-- when you have huge wildfires, it costs[br]a lot of money

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All those costs are being dumped onto us as a society, and not being paid by people who are polluting

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These big massive polluters

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get to dump megatons of carbon in the[br]atmosphere, for free

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You can't pollute for free. If you[br]litter you get a fine.

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That makes coal and oil and other fossil fuels[br]more competitive

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against solar and wind and other sources

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than they deserve to be

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[Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D - RI) Co-Chair, Task Force on Climate Change]

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Behind the environmental problems that carbon[br]pollution causes

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and behind the economic problems is a[br]political problem

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that a very small group of very powerful[br]special interests

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have exerted very rough control over the[br]political establishment

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We're up against the fossil fuel lobby[br]that has complete access to the

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political class and the ability

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to bribe through legal means

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and blackmail through the use of attack ads and so on

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even people who oppose them have trouble opposing them too strongly

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because they are in some ways economically dependent on them

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Right now we have a monopoly controlled by the big carbon polluters

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They grant themselves subsidy after subsidy

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Think about this: how much money does the Pentagon[br]spend

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helping big private oil companies get[br]their for-profit products in the Middle East here?

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About half of the Pentagon's budget is just

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helping Chevron and Shell and Exxon get their[br]for-profit product here

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What if they had to pay for that service -- how[br]how much would gas cost then?

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Plus, they also get all kinds of tax breaks[br]and other kinds of loopholes

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They are a system based on a grow or die ethic, but rather than respond to the climate crisis

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by scaling back

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they're doubling down through fracking, through[br]tar sands oil

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through coal exports, mountain top removal.[br]They have become more brazen.

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It's a rogue industry, it's an industry if whose business[br]plan is followed to the letter will wreck the planet

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Once you know that, then you know that these are now illegitimate business plans

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We have to figure out how to disassociate ourselves with them

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And that is beginning to happen all over the world

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On the Great Lawn of Central Park

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I was up on a stage[br]probably 70 feet in the air looking out

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at that sea of people stretching out farther than the eye could see

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[Denis Hayes - Founder, Earth Day Network][br]The crowd estimates were larger than a million people

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April 22 1970:[br]the grassroots mobilization which we

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recalled as the first Earth Day, 20 million[br]Americans called away from their jobs and

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their classes into the streets in their communities

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When Nixon was looking at television at these huge crowds in city after city, across the country

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he apparently muttered to Ehrlichman,[br]"A lot of those people have got to be Republican"

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And Republicans needed him to do something[br]for them on this issue, he felt

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And it was Nixon, arguably one of the most anti-environmental presidents in American history

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who felt compelled to sign the Clean Air Act

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[Denis Hayes - Chairman, Earth Day April 22][br]I think the things we've been doing to date

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are a reason to give us a little bit of hope[br]we've seen a degree of responsiveness on the

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part of the House of Representatives and on[br]the part of the US Senate

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In a matter of three years, we passed the Clean[br]Air Act, the Clean Water Act

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the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Endangered Species Act, the Marine Mammal Protection Act

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the National Environmental Policy Act, the Environmental Education Act, Superfund

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I'd go so far as to say that with the[br]possible exception of the New Deal it was

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the most fundamental restructuring

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of the ground rules of the American economic system

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the nation has experienced

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50 DAYS UNTIL THE MARCH

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We are 50 days away from the largest climate[br]march in history. Are you all ready?

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[People's Climate March Press Conference - Times Square, NYC]

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This is not just about the environment.[br]It's about the community

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[Eddie Bautista - Executive Director, NYC - EJA] [br]It's about public health, it's about jobs, it's about justice

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[LaTonya Crisp-Sauray - TWU Local 100 Recording Secretary]

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It was labor that got this city up and moving, and it will be labor that continues to move this city

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We are the community. Are we not the community?

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Our people, our people who have[br]been at the front line, not being able to breathe

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[Elizabeth Yeampierre - Executive Director, Uprose][br]suffering from asthma, upper respiratory

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pulmonary diseases, cancer clusters, because of environmental racism

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Climate change exacerbates every [br]kind of social injustice

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[Rev. Fletcher Harper - Executive Director, Greenfaith][br]that faith communities have fought against

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for thousands of years

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And we will not stop marching and praying and acting until we have a strong climate treaty

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We've got a movement, brothers and sisters,[br]and we've got to stay together

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So join us on the 21st to march and send [br]that signal to the United Nations

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[Crowd chants, "The people united will never be defeated"]

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[Bill McKibben - Author, "Eaarth"][br]It's only by accident that we even think

0:29:55.220,0:29:57.600
of climate change as an environmental issue

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You could just as easily think about it as another example of what happens in an unequal society

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The people who have contributed the least to climate change, and who have benefited the least

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from the use of fossil fuel, are the[br]first people to feel the effects

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People in the poorest parts[br]of the world suffer enormously already

0:30:18.140,0:30:22.000
and will suffer enormously more[br]as the century wears on

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Climate disruption is a social justice issue

0:30:25.430,0:30:29.310
[Van Jones - Co-Founder, Rebuild the Dream][br]Who gets hit first and worst every time

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there's one of these weather disasters?

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It's low-income people, people of color,[br]people who can't get out of harm's way

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And people who can't bounce back easily because they[br]don't have the money, or the social standing

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or the political connections

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Our communities are disproportionately impacted

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[Jeanette "Jet" E. Toomer - Community Organizer, NYC-EJA]

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We're all seeing that it's the indigenous[br]people, the people of color

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the low-income people who have historically[br]suffered the burden

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of so many other politically driven crises

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There are so many countries that have been

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systematically plundered over hundreds of years

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And this is often described as an ecological debt, climate debt

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[Naomi Klein - Author, "This Changes Everything"][br]The whole idea that there are disposable places

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was always a racist idea

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The idea of sacrifice zones: just treating people and places like garbage

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The place where it's hardest for it to sink in is in the suburban United States

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We're insulated against the natural world -- that's what the suburbs really are

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a way to make you not notice [br]the natural world very much

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And we're insulated in those places by wealth

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At least we think we are

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Scientists are screaming from the[br]rooftops about us avoiding going over

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a two degree rise in the temperature of the planet

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Why are they so worried about that?

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[Ricken Patel - Founder & Executive Director, Avaaz][br]If we go over that amount of warming

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there are feedback loops in our ecosystems

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-- tipping points that climate change [br]could spin out of control

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And it happens like that

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There are switches that can be tripped[br]where suddenly you are in brand new territory

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and you don't even begin to know what to[br]do about it

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This is not a linear kind of problem that[br]we're dealing with

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This is very much an exponential kind of problem

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Right now we're on the edge of three[br]major tipping points

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The first one is the Arctic ice cap. That ice cap is like a mirror that reflects the sun's light

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off the Earth and keeps it from warming us up

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But as it melts, you get a smaller mirror

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which means a warmer Earth, which means more melting, which means more climate change

0:32:50.330,0:32:56.130
Another example is arctic methane -- we've[br]got a gigantic amount of methane gas

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frozen into the tundra, and it is 50[br]times as toxic as CO₂ is. It's CO₂ on steroids.

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As it warms, and that methane gets[br]released, it then causes global warming to

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get worse, which means it warms more, which[br]means more methane released

0:33:12.750,0:33:17.280
which means worse warming, and that [br]process spins out of control

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Another example of a tipping point is ocean[br]acidification. As you get more CO₂ in the atmosphere

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a lot of it is actually going into our oceans

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And a lot of stuff, like plankton, can't live[br]in that kind of acidified water

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And plankton is the basis of the food chain -- if the plankton die, we lose the whole ocean ecosystem

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These kinds of feedback loops and tipping[br]points are what keep me up at night --

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that we will hit one before we're able to turn[br]things around

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Even if we went "cold turkey" today, because of the time lags in our climate system

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we've already signed up for things that we can't see yet

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We live in a razor-thin livable universe

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Just a few kilometres below [br]my feet, it's too hot to live

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Just a few kilometres above my head, the air is too thin to breathe

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It's not about a few more droughts and a few more storms

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It's about a catastrophic shift in this fragile balance of our biosphere

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that threatens everything we love

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37 DAYS UNTIL THE MARCH

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What we all need to be focused on is[br]turnout, turnout, turnout

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Youth, is there somebody that wants to do[br]an update from youth. Armando?

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[Armando Chapelliquen - Project Coordinator, NYPIRG][br]So just a quick list of things I wanted to go over

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Obviously a lot of folks who are working on the youth stuff are working at

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the Climate Justice Youth Leadership Summit

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There's a lot of organizing going on right[br]now there for the People's Climate March

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So a lot of people who may not have been plugged[br]in already

0:34:46.469,0:34:49.480
are getting informed about it, and[br]the people who are already informed about it

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are getting even more people fired up about it

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[Climate Justice Youth Summit - New York City]

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There's a lot of things that we pay attention[br]to, that we focus on, that are fun -- but

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they are short-lived, and they are not for[br]the betterment of us

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We have to re-prioritize what's important to us

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Our environment isn't[br]just ice caps melting in Antarctica

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We're the ones who face the problems day-to-day --

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if you're breathing in smog[br]or your little brother has asthma

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that's environmental injustice, and those are things[br]that we have the power to push back on

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Imagine being the person who changes the face of climate change

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so that we don't have to deal with [br]those impacts every day

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[Joaquin Brito Jr. - Climate Justice Organizer, Uprose]

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So on September 21st, we're going to march for Climate Justice -- so who's with us? Come on let's hear it!

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OK, alright, yes -- we pull the fossil[br]fuels out of the ground, we put them in the

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incinerator, we put the carbon in the sky,[br]it warms the Earth, lots of bad stuff is going

0:36:03.069,0:36:09.849
to happen -- heat waves, extreme weather,[br]floods. OK, sure. But I mean, really, is that

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the thing I care about most. There's all these[br]other issues in my life that are more pressing

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For someone who is engaged in a struggle for[br]higher minimum wage

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or worries about health care,[br]it's understandable that these molecules

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floating around the air seem invisible[br]and abstract

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Humans have this thing that we call a finite[br]pool of worry. You've got your mortgage you've

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got to pay you've got your kids you've got[br]to take care of -- and they tend to be more immediate

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We respond to things that feel[br]incredibly urgent, like a gun to the head,

0:36:46.829,0:36:52.359
a stampede a wild elephants. Climate change[br]is a completely

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different kind of risk. It plays out[br]over these very long time scales, and it's

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really hard to perceive it as a very urgent threat

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The other thing that happens is that there's something[br]called a "single action bias"

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We have this tendency to see a threat, and we try[br]to fix it with one thing

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it's like the silver bullet solution. When we look at climate change we become overwhelmed by it

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because there's so many different ways that we're[br]going to need to fix it

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25 years we've been talking about climate change. The[br]level of scientific reports becomes higher and higher

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[George Marshall - Author, "Don't Even Think About it"][br]Why has that still not compelled

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the majority of people to action?

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Cognitive psychologists have been mapping[br]the processing systems within our brains

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and they have found that there are two parallel[br]and deeply interlocked processing systems

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The rational side, the analytic side[br]which deals with information, facts, data

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And we have another side which is a much more[br]intuitive and emotionally driven side

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It is that emotional system that moves us into action

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The challenge for climate change is how do[br]we get something that's so based in the science

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to cross over to the side that makes us feel[br]something

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People are reluctant to stand up and take action if they don't see many other people around and taking action

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And that is why it is absolutely critical[br]that there are people who seem to be doing something

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They are creating the breakage

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Climate changes is strangely, [br]maybe uniquely, problematic

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because not only are we all bystanders, we are also perpetrators actively contributing to the thing

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If we recognize a problem, we become morally compelled to take action on it

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There is a fundamental tipping point at which[br]that has to happen

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25 DAYS UNTIL THE MARCH

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[People's Climate Tour - Boston, MA]

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Change doesn't happen because people[br]decide to stay home and click "like" on Facebook

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[Vanessa Rule - Co-Director, Mothers Out Front][br]Change happens because people like you and I

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decide to get involved

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We didn't want to leave it to world leaders -- their track record is not very good in dealing with this question

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[Joe Uehlein - Founder, Labor Network for Sustainability]

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I am a trade unionist and I am an environmentalist[br]and I see no conflict whatsoever in those two things

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It's in our core self-interest as a [br]trade union movement to help build

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the path to a sustainable future and get on[br]the right side of the climate change issue

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sooner rather than later

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Normally it takes a long time to switch energy sources --

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50 or 60 years to go from wood to coal, coal to oil and gas

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We lack 50 or 60 years

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The reason we want to get off of fossil[br]fuels now is because we have to

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to protect our way of life

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We need vision for what the [br]post-carbon economy looks like

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that is inspiring enough and delivers enough

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in terms of jobs, in terms of new opportunities

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in terms of better health

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It has to be exciting

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There are many more jobs available to people[br]who are going to be building wind turbines

0:40:44.009,0:40:47.220
retrofitting houses so they waste less energy

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Solar panels have to be installed by a person[br]-- that person has to go to your home

0:40:51.630,0:40:55.799
There's no way to outsource putting [br]that solar panel onto a roof

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A 100 percent renewable economy is within our grasp --

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it is economically and technologically possible

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It's not something that we need to keep researching because it's always off in the distance

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No, it's here. It's a question[br]of political will

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If you look at the renewable revolution that's[br]happened in Germany, it wasn't about leaving

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the renewable sector to the market, it was[br]about creating different incentives --

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and there was an explosion of[br]innovation and creativity

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Germany is now the number one solar[br]country in the world, even though they had

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the same amount of solar incidence as Alaska

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Can we do it? Can we take the power[br]that has been highly centralized

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and highly focused and controlled by very few hands

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and it is not an accident that very few hands controlling power in the sense of electricity

0:41:43.500,0:41:48.700
leads to very few hands controlling power in the sense of political power

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We are going to try a global experiment [br]that is going to be the most difficult

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thing humans have ever done [br]which is to rip those two apart

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which means we are democratizing[br]power

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in both senses of the word

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The real question is, are we gonna scrape the[br]bottom up the barrel for the last polycarbons

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on Earth, to burn them too. Or can we actually[br]show some restraint

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-- which we ask our children to do ("don't eat the last 17 marshmallows")

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could you just show some restraint and choose a wiser course?

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A Canadian company called TransCanada[br]wants to build the Keystone XL pipeline

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The $13 billion dollar system would carry crude[br]oil

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from the so-called tar sands region in Alberta to Houston, Texas for refining

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The Keystone XL pipeline has become a huge[br]focus of controversy

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Tar sands oil is particularly dirty, it's particularly carbon-intensive

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An estimated 2,000 environmental activists[br]from across the continent plan to gather in

0:42:46.119,0:42:48.890
Washington, D.C. to launch a two-week protest

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It has become a symbol to both sides in[br]this debate where the people who want further

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development of fossil fuels see getting Keystone[br]through as core to their strategy

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And on the other side, the climate activists see[br]it as a symbolic fight that they have to win

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I'm here as a Nebraska citizen and landowner

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I'm on the advisory board of the Center for Health and the Global Environment

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I'm an Evangelical Christian

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I'm a proud member of the Transport Workers Union of America

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You know what's so fascinating about this[br]whole Keystone thing is that that was supposed

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to be a wedge and instead[br]it's been turned upside down

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Now it's actually a base that is lining up

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constituency after constituency

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Today we act. Today we send a message to them,[br]and everybody else

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We are taking back our futures!

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Something extraordinary and unexpected has[br]backfired out of the ambition of the fossil fuel companies

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They've built a movement by mistake

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If you are going to be risking arrest, you're[br]going to be lining up over here

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One of the tools that came into play was

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peaceful civil disobedience to show the moral[br]urgency of these problems

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that this was the crisis of our time

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I saw a story in one of the trade publications of the oil industry not long ago

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And they said, "We're never going[br]to get to build another pipeline in peace again"

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And I hope they're right

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As scientists, we study this out of this fascination,[br]and kind of awe -- this whole system that

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we call "home"

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We are on this planet that[br]is so perfectly built to sustain life

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We got so lucky. And then you begin to think

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what do you do with this knowledge -- this unbearable,[br]incredibly depressing knowledge that the decision

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to burn fossil fuels was a decision that had[br]tremendous downside risks

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that we didn't realize immediately

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When I read a climate science article that talks about[br]mid-century projections, what I read is what

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is going to happen when my kid is 40 -- that's what[br]I see on the page and for me it is absolutely

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my responsibility then to do whatever it takes[br]to protect my child

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Alice Walker says that resistance is the secret[br]of joy -- and I don't know if it's the secret

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of joy, but I know it is definitely the secret[br]of staving off depression

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The reality we're facing is very grave, so[br]how do you not get depressed about it

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Well one way you don't get depressed is by work

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Things change for lots of different reasons

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There's all kinds of dynamics -- but one central element[br]is people being in the streets

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All of us must stand up together and say, "No more!"

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We live in a culture[br]that doesn't tell us our own history

0:45:58.940,0:46:01.779
that doesn't tell us the history of social movement wins

0:46:01.779,0:46:07.279
and the times in our past when masses of people[br]have taken the wheel of history and turned it

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It was only one percent of Americans[br]that ever took part in the civil rights demonstration

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but they were able to change our society[br]enough to stand up to those powers that be

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I think that this march will go down as one[br]of the greatest, if not the greatest

0:46:25.859,0:46:30.190
demonstrations for freedom and human dignity ever held in the United States

0:46:30.860,0:46:35.800
Martin Luther King always said that the victories[br]that had been won so far

0:46:35.860,0:46:41.729
were the ones that were cheapest to the status quo. Giving legal rights and giving voting rights

0:46:41.880,0:46:47.790
doesn't cost the system nearly as much as providing[br]good jobs and infrastructure and good schools

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We as a people will get to the promised land

0:46:51.760,0:46:55.260
Big victories have been won before, [br]but nothing on the scale

0:46:55.420,0:46:58.520
of the economic challenge that really[br]responding to the climate crisis represents

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We have a responsibility to rise to our historical moment

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We are joining around the world to say the time has come

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If we're going to have a movement worthy of[br]the name, solidarity among all these different

0:47:11.859,0:47:14.950
causes needs to be the foremost principle

0:47:14.950,0:47:20.079
It's this broad and powerful spectrum of allies[br]that has the political weight

0:47:20.079,0:47:21.609
to move the dialogue on this

0:47:21.609,0:47:25.589
There's a tipping point coming, where the[br]online movements are going to move offline

0:47:25.589,0:47:31.269
If we can push this to where there's a social[br]tipping point, we really can move forward on this issue

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We will not be stopped

0:47:34.540,0:47:36.540
Take action right now

0:47:36.540,0:47:39.600
This is the issue that I will vote on, this is the issue I will bid money on

0:47:39.600,0:47:42.480
This is the issue I will scream at the top of[br]my lungs into a bullhorn over

0:47:42.700,0:47:45.180
That is what moves politics

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14 DAYS UNTIL THE MARCH

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The People's Climate March is our chance to[br]show the immense power of people in solidarity

0:47:55.500,0:47:59.480
Heads of state are gathering. They need us[br]to say, "We demand action"

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This is the right thing, at the right time,[br]in the right place

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The whole world will be watching

0:48:06.630,0:48:12.119
Nothing moves public opinion, more than seeing[br]large numbers of people gathered

0:48:12.119,0:48:18.299
A march is not an end in itself. It is a tool.[br]In my heart of hearts I know that this

0:48:18.299,0:48:23.329
People's Climate March in September will serve to deepen this movement

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I will be there in New York, September 21st

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There is no replacement, even in the digital[br]age, for human bodies, next to each other,

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standing as one, hearts beating as one, voices raised as one, making a political demand

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If you don't fight for what you want, you[br]deserve what you get

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September 21st, in some ways, is the beginning

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There are teams around the world, organizing[br]marches in Rio, in Delhi, in Berlin, in Paris,

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in London

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People around the world will get together[br]in the largest climate change mobilization in history

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Are you ready to march? Are you ready to march?

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There is a line that divides good from evil,[br]and it runs down the middle

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When we prevail, it won't just be because[br]we defeated the worst instincts in other people

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It will be because we overcame the worst instincts[br]and the worst fears, even within ourselves