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This is not a drill.

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My name is Greta Thunberg.

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We are living in the beginning 
of a mass extinction.

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Our climate is breaking down.

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Children like me are giving up 
their education to protest.

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But we can still fix this.

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You can still fix this.

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To survive, we need to stop burning fossil fuels

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But this alone will not be enough.

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Lots of solutions are talked about.

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But what about the solution 
that is right in front of us?

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I’ll let my friend George explain.

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There is a magic machine 
that sucks carbon out of the air

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costs very little, and builds itself.

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It’s called...

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a tree.

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A tree is an example 
of a natural climate solution.

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Mangroves, peatbogs, jungles, 
marshes, seabeds,

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kelp forests, swamps, coral reefs

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they take carbon out of the air 
and lock it away.

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Nature is a tool we can use 
to repair our broken climate.

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These natural climate solutions 
could make a massive difference.

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Pre y cool, right?

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But only if we also leave fossil fuels 
in the ground.

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Here’s the crazy part

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right now we are ignoring them.

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We spend 1000 times more 
on global fossil fuels subsidies

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than natural based solutions.

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Natural climate solutions get just 2%

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of all the money used on tackling climate breakdown.

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This is your money.

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It is your taxes and your savings.

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Even more crazy

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right now when we need nature the most,

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we’re destroying it faster than ever.

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Up to 200 species are going extinct 
every single day.

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Much of the arctic ice is gone.

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Most of our wild animals have gone.

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Much of our soil has gone.

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So what should we do?

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What should YOU do?

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It’s simple...

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We need to

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PROTECT

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RESTORE

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and FUND.

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Protect.

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Tropical forests are being cut down

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at the rate of 30 football pitches a minute.

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Where Nature is doing something vital

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we must protect it.

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Restore.

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Much of our planet has been damaged.

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But Nature can regenerate

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and we can help ecosystems bounce back.

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Fund.

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We need to stop funding things that destroy Nature

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and pay for things that help it.

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It is that simple

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Protect

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Restore

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Fund.

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This can happen everywhere;

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Many people have already begun 
using natural climate solutions.

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We need to do it on a massive scale.

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You can be part of this.

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VOTE for people who defend nature.

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SHARE this video.

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Talk about this.

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All around the world there are amazing movements.

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Fighting for Nature.

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JOIN them.

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Everything counts.

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What you do, counts.