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Why act now?
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The best time to act was yesterday.
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The second best time is today.
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Every year that we don't reduce emissions
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represents another 55 gigatons
of greenhouse gases
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that future generations
will have to scrub out of the air.
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That would cost 8 trillion dollars a year,
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almost half the entire US economy today.
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And that price doesn't include
the cost of people forced to move,
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the natural world transformed
and lives lost.
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It's much cheaper
to develop new technologies
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that don't emit carbon dioxide
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than to capture carbon dioxide
that we've already emitted.
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Every ton of carbon dioxide we emit now
imposes a burden on us and the planet,
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but also a debt that would
have to be paid by our children
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and untold generations to come.
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The sooner we start fixing this,
the easier it'll be.
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So do what you can where you can.
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Vote, change your diet and your commute,
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organize, plant trees, advocate for ideas,
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advocate for science
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and most importantly,
advocate for action today.
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