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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.00,0:00:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A number of protests are being held today at the climate change conference
Dialogue: 0,0:00:04.13,0:00:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to protest the failure of world leaders
Dialogue: 0,0:00:07.01,0:00:10.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to agree to immediately agree to a deal of binding emissions cuts.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.37,0:00:17.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Earlier today, Anjali Appadurai, a student at the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.76,0:00:20.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,addressed the conference on behalf of youth delegates.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.18,0:00:27.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I’d now like to give the floor to Miss Anjali Appadurai with College of the Atlantic,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.39,0:00:31.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who will speak on behalf of youth non-governmental organizations.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.59,0:00:34.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Miss Appadurai, you have the floor.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.22,0:00:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I speak for more than half the world’s population.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.04,0:00:40.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are the silent majority.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.88,0:00:43.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You’ve given us a seat in this hall,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.09,0:00:45.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but our interests are not on the table.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.53,0:00:48.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What does it take to get a stake in this game?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.12,0:00:51.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lobbyists? Corporate influence? Money?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.20,0:00:54.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You’ve been negotiating all my life.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.06,0:00:56.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In that time, you’ve failed to meet pledges,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.83,0:00:59.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you’ve missed targets, and you’ve broken promises.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.48,0:01:01.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you’ve heard this all before.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.63,0:01:06.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We’re in Africa, home to communities on the front line of climate change.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.39,0:01:10.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The world’s poorest countries need funding for adaptation now.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.89,0:01:16.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Horn of Africa and those nearby in KwaMashu needed it yesterday.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.91,0:01:21.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But as 2012 dawns, our Green Climate Fund remains empty.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.24,0:01:24.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The International Energy Agency tells us
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.50,0:01:29.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we have five years until the window to avoid irreversible climate change closes.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.79,0:01:33.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The science tells us that we have five years maximum.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.52,0:01:36.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You’re saying, "Give us 10."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.00,0:01:40.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The most stark betrayal of your generation’s responsibility to ours
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.87,0:01:43.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that you call this "ambition."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.80,0:01:46.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where is the courage in these rooms?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.84,0:01:50.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now is not the time for incremental action.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.52,0:01:54.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the long run, these will be seen as the defining moments of an era
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.31,0:01:57.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in which narrow self-interest prevailed
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.89,0:02:01.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,over science, reason and common compassion.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.39,0:02:04.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is real ambition in this room,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.48,0:02:09.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it’s been dismissed as radical, deemed not politically possible.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.13,0:02:12.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Stand with Africa.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.18,0:02:15.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Long-term thinking is not radical.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.10,0:02:18.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What’s radical is to completely alter the planet’s climate,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.62,0:02:20.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to betray the future of my generation,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.50,0:02:24.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to condemn millions to death by climate change.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.56,0:02:29.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What’s radical is to write off the fact that change is within our reach.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.97,0:02:35.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,2011 was the year in which the silent majority found their voice,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.04,0:02:37.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the year when the bottom shook the top.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.17,0:02:41.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,2011 was the year when the radical became reality.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.05,0:02:45.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Common, but differentiated, and historical responsibility are not up for debate.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.08,0:02:50.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Respect the foundational principles of this convention.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.44,0:02:53.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Respect the integral values of humanity.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:53.81,0:02:56.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Respect the future of your descendants.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.72,0:02:58.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mandela said,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:58.37,0:03:01.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"It always seems impossible, until it’s done."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:01.44,0:03:06.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, distinguished delegates and governments around the world,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.07,0:03:09.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,governments of the developed world:
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.23,0:03:11.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Deep cuts now !
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.70,0:03:13.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Get it done !
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.24,0:03:20.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mic check!
Dialogue: 0,0:03:20.05,0:03:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Equity now!
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.00,0:03:29.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Equity now!
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.20,0:03:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You’ve run out of excuses!
Dialogue: 0,0:03:34.50,0:03:37.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We’re running out of time!
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.00,0:03:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Get it done!
Dialogue: 0,0:03:41.00,0:03:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Get it done!
Dialogue: 0,0:03:57.52,0:04:00.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you, Miss Appadurai,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.17,0:04:05.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who was speaking on behalf of half of the world’s population,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:05.14,0:04:08.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think she said at the beginning.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:10.00,0:04:14.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And on a purely personal note,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:14.80,0:04:19.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wonder why we let not speak half of the world’s population
Dialogue: 0,0:04:19.82,0:04:24.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,first in this conference, but only last.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:30.69,0:04:36.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That was a speech by Anjali Appadurai here in Durban at the U.N. climate change talks.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:36.67,0:04:41.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just after her speech, as you heard, she led a mic check from the stage,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.23,0:04:46.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a move inspired by the Occupy Wall Street protests around the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:46.15,0:04:52.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:52.44,0:04:56.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I’m Amy Goodman, as we broadcast live from Durban, South Africa. Back in a moment.