[Script Info] Title: [Events] Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text Dialogue: 0,0:00:03.28,0:00:08.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Power concedes nothing without a demand. Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.04,0:00:12.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Power concedes nothing without a demand.\NIt never did and it never will. Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.14,0:00:17.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Frederick Douglass Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.08,0:00:32.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,1968 Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.16,0:00:43.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is Apollo 8 coming to you live from the moon Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.88,0:00:51.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The vast loneliness up here of the moon is\Nawe-inspiring Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.22,0:00:54.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it makes you realize just what you have\Nback there on Earth Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.62,0:01:00.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Earth from here is a grand oasis in the\Nbig vastness of space Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.06,0:01:09.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Oh my god look at that picture over there\N- Wow, is that pretty Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.68,0:01:12.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You got a color film Jim? Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.50,0:01:15.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hand me a roll of color film quick. Quick. Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.42,0:01:20.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wow, that's a beautiful shot Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.56,0:01:33.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From the crew of Apollo 8 we close with "Good\Nnight, good luck, and God bless all of you... Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.58,0:01:37.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,... all of you on the good Earth" Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.74,0:01:48.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We no longer live on that Earth Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.40,0:02:01.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The world hasn't ended Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.98,0:02:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the world as we know it has Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.54,0:02:10.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can you hear me? Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.64,0:02:13.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have an emergency Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.98,0:02:15.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The water is rising very quickly Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.76,0:02:19.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're looking at about five feet of water... Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.96,0:02:22.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,... and there's about 17 people on the second floor right now Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.02,0:02:23.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're going to need to evacuate - we need to get out of here Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.44,0:02:25.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're trying to get you guys out Dialogue: 0,0:02:28.48,0:02:31.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Are you alright? You OK?! Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.08,0:02:34.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is new and dramatic evidence of what's happening to our world Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.94,0:02:37.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and tonight we'll look at the impact already being felt Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.66,0:02:40.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The red flags about extreme weather we've\Nall endured Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.81,0:02:44.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,together all across the globe Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.79,0:02:47.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are literally engaged in an unprecedented\Nexperiment Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.98,0:02:51.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the one planet that we know of that can support life. Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.72,0:02:59.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We will respond to the threat of climate change,\Nknowing that the failure to do so Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.07,0:03:03.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would betray our children and future\Ngenerations Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.46,0:03:08.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The big question mark is the future, of\Ncourse, and a new kind of normal Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.48,0:03:22.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Things are gearing up for the UN-hosted\Nclimate change summit in New York Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.34,0:03:26.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will\Nhost the summit. Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.33,0:03:30.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I will convene a climate summit for leaders\Nat the highest level. Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.41,0:03:37.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I urge political leaders of the world to prioritize\Ntheir political energy on climate change. Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.88,0:03:44.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have to get serious about bringing real\Ncommitments to the table for that summit. Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.42,0:03:53.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If things go "business as usual" we will not\Nlive, we will die. Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.08,0:04:05.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,DISRUPTION Dialogue: 0,0:04:17.42,0:04:20.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,100 DAYS UNTIL THE MARCH Dialogue: 0,0:04:20.86,0:04:22.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Matt Leonard - Organizer - People's Climate March] Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.59,0:04:26.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On September 23rd the United Nations is\Nholding a historic climate summit where Dialogue: 0,0:04:26.78,0:04:29.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they've invited world leaders and heads of\Nstate from around the world Dialogue: 0,0:04:30.09,0:04:32.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're trying to organize the\Nlargest-ever climate rally Dialogue: 0,0:04:32.81,0:04:35.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the streets New York in response to this,\Nhopefully turning the tide Dialogue: 0,0:04:35.68,0:04:39.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of what comes out of that summit, and reshaping\Nwhat the entire climate movement looks like Dialogue: 0,0:04:39.53,0:04:42.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,going forward. Dialogue: 0,0:04:42.03,0:04:43.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Climate tipping points are scary Dialogue: 0,0:04:43.85,0:04:47.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but if we stay connected to each other\Nwe can build Dialogue: 0,0:04:47.68,0:04:53.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the largest climate mobilization in\Nhistory. We all have power to create Dialogue: 0,0:04:53.03,0:04:56.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the movement tipping point on climate\Nchange. Dialogue: 0,0:04:56.28,0:04:59.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the one that takes our leaders from this place\Nof inaction Dialogue: 0,0:04:59.38,0:05:03.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and puts them on a journey towards\Nsaving the planet. Dialogue: 0,0:05:05.36,0:05:08.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All the big social movements Dialogue: 0,0:05:08.45,0:05:11.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in history have had people in the streets. Dialogue: 0,0:05:11.75,0:05:14.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Women's voting rights, the civil rights movement\N-- and even more recently Dialogue: 0,0:05:14.67,0:05:16.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Keya Chatterjee Dir. of Renewable Energy, WWF] Dialogue: 0,0:05:16.10,0:05:20.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on climate issues, our big successes have\Nhappened when people left their homes Dialogue: 0,0:05:20.67,0:05:23.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and went out into the streets. Dialogue: 0,0:05:23.35,0:05:26.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a bigger fight than in fact has ever\Nbeen won. Dialogue: 0,0:05:26.43,0:05:28.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Naomi Klein - Author - "This Changes Everything"]\NIt's not that we need to save the Earth. Dialogue: 0,0:05:28.94,0:05:33.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need to save the systems that make the\NEarth compatible Dialogue: 0,0:05:33.60,0:05:36.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with human existence and the existence of other\Nlife forms. Dialogue: 0,0:05:36.82,0:05:41.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the fight of our time, but none of\Nus should exactly have to be activists Dialogue: 0,0:05:41.06,0:05:45.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about all this. In a rational world, the fact\Nthat scientists have said Dialogue: 0,0:05:45.22,0:05:49.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the worst thing on Earth is happening\Nnow and here's what you can do to stop it Dialogue: 0,0:05:49.54,0:05:51.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Bill McKibben - Co-Founder, 350.org]\Nthat would have been enough to push our Dialogue: 0,0:05:51.22,0:05:54.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,systems into action. Dialogue: 0,0:05:56.19,0:05:59.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of all the things that probably\Nget me most upset, it's when people start Dialogue: 0,0:05:59.46,0:06:01.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,presenting climate change as if it's\Nsomething new. Dialogue: 0,0:06:01.40,0:06:03.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Dr. Naomi Oreskes - Professor, History of\NScience, Harvard.] Dialogue: 0,0:06:03.20,0:06:05.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The science behind our understanding of\Nman-made climate change Dialogue: 0,0:06:05.03,0:06:08.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is very old and very well\Nestablished. So the task we've taken on Dialogue: 0,0:06:08.69,0:06:12.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is documenting this history to help us\Nunderstand where we are Dialogue: 0,0:06:12.62,0:06:16.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how we got here, and how we can change\Ncourse. Dialogue: 0,0:06:16.58,0:06:20.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Scientists have known for more than 150\Nyears that carbon dioxide was a greenhouse gas Dialogue: 0,0:06:21.58,0:06:25.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fourier came up with this notion\Nthat there were gasses in our atmosphere Dialogue: 0,0:06:25.58,0:06:30.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that allowed sunlight to pass through, like\Na window, but then when sunlight bounced off Dialogue: 0,0:06:30.88,0:06:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Earth's surface they trap the heat in. Dialogue: 0,0:06:33.06,0:06:35.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Dr. Heidi Cullen - Chief Scientist, Climate Central] Dialogue: 0,0:06:35.32,0:06:38.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you had now this establishment of what we now call "the greenhouse effect." Dialogue: 0,0:06:38.53,0:06:45.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the 1850's, John Tyndall made laboratory\Nmeasurements of the absorption of heat radiation Dialogue: 0,0:06:45.66,0:06:47.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by carbon dioxide Dialogue: 0,0:06:47.98,0:06:49.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Dr. James Hansen - Former Director, NASA (GISS)] Dialogue: 0,0:06:49.98,0:06:52.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he concluded that if you change the CO₂ in the atmosphere Dialogue: 0,0:06:52.42,0:06:55.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's going to affect the planetary energy balance Dialogue: 0,0:06:55.75,0:07:00.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tyndall was the one who really came along\Nand proved that carbon dioxide Dialogue: 0,0:07:00.77,0:07:03.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was a natural thermostat that helped\Nset our planet's temperature Dialogue: 0,0:07:03.76,0:07:08.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the late 1800's, it was the great Swedish chemist Arrhenius who first did the calculations Dialogue: 0,0:07:08.91,0:07:13.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about what would happen as we, as he put it, "evaporated our coal mines into the air" Dialogue: 0,0:07:14.80,0:07:18.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But people didn't pay much attention \Nto that in the 20th century Dialogue: 0,0:07:19.00,0:07:21.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because we were too busy figuring out \Ncool new ways to burn fossil fuel Dialogue: 0,0:07:21.95,0:07:25.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was only in the late 1950's that we\Neven bothered to measure Dialogue: 0,0:07:26.00,0:07:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to see if it was accumulating in the atmosphere Dialogue: 0,0:07:28.66,0:07:32.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That instrument, which one up on the side of\NMauna Loa in Hawaii Dialogue: 0,0:07:32.31,0:07:34.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is the most important scientific instrument in the world Dialogue: 0,0:07:34.30,0:07:40.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Beginning in 1959, it found that there was a steadily accumulating amount of CO₂ in the atmosphere Dialogue: 0,0:07:40.52,0:07:43.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the so-called "Keeling Curve" Dialogue: 0,0:07:43.28,0:07:47.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Keeling Curve is one of the most important\Npieces of scientific work of the 20th century Dialogue: 0,0:07:47.55,0:07:52.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that shows us that carbon dioxide \Nhas been rising continuously Dialogue: 0,0:07:52.71,0:07:55.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and systematically since the\Nindustrial revolution Dialogue: 0,0:07:55.62,0:08:01.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Keeling didn't just show that there was an increase in carbon dioxide, he also pinpointed the source Dialogue: 0,0:08:02.12,0:08:07.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what Keeling showed so incredibly\Nwas that roughly one out of Dialogue: 0,0:08:07.68,0:08:13.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,every four CO₂ molecules in our atmosphere\Ntoday was put there by us Dialogue: 0,0:08:18.64,0:08:24.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just a year ago, we passed 400 parts per million \Nof carbon dioxide in the atmosphere Dialogue: 0,0:08:24.45,0:08:29.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now the pre-industrial level was about \N280 parts per million Dialogue: 0,0:08:29.78,0:08:35.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So human society in the industrial era has raised the\Nlevel of CO₂ in the atmosphere by about 40%, Dialogue: 0,0:08:35.92,0:08:37.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Justin Gillis - Journalist, The New York Times] Dialogue: 0,0:08:38.10,0:08:42.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and many people fear that before we're\Ndone we're gonna double it or even triple it Dialogue: 0,0:08:42.64,0:08:45.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're pumping CO₂ into the atmosphere Dialogue: 0,0:08:46.32,0:08:50.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at a speed which we have never seen \Nbefore in modern human history Dialogue: 0,0:08:50.50,0:08:53.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're absolutely racing into unchartered territory Dialogue: 0,0:08:54.01,0:08:59.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In our lifetimes, human beings left behind\Nthe Holocene, this 10,000-year period Dialogue: 0,0:08:59.30,0:09:05.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of benign climatic stability that coincides \Nwith the rise of human civilization Dialogue: 0,0:09:06.02,0:09:12.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have crossed a great threshold,\Nand we stand on the edge of others Dialogue: 0,0:09:14.28,0:09:16.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Van Jones - Host, CNN Crossfire] Dialogue: 0,0:09:16.42,0:09:19.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I remember when The Weather Channel was this\Nkind of nice, sleepy little station Dialogue: 0,0:09:20.12,0:09:23.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now it's like a horror show where \Nthe climate is being disrupted Dialogue: 0,0:09:23.71,0:09:29.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's not for next year or a thousand years\Nfrom now. That's happening right now. Dialogue: 0,0:09:29.12,0:09:31.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What all climate scientists will agree on is that Dialogue: 0,0:09:31.19,0:09:35.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the entire atmosphere has changed -- all\Nthe atmospheric dynamics have changed Dialogue: 0,0:09:35.15,0:09:38.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So every event that happens now \Nis in the context of climate change Dialogue: 0,0:09:38.62,0:09:40.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is different from how it would have been Dialogue: 0,0:09:56.10,0:09:59.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A typhoon slammed into the Philippines \Nwith winds of 195 miles per hour Dialogue: 0,0:09:59.90,0:10:03.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's higher than the winds from Hurricanes\NSandy and Katrina combined Dialogue: 0,0:10:04.25,0:10:10.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The world is mobilizing to help the Philippines,\Nbut just a trickle of food and water and medicine Dialogue: 0,0:10:10.83,0:10:13.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has reached the victims of Typhoon Haiyan Dialogue: 0,0:10:13.54,0:10:18.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A million people were forced to flee their homes.\NThey're now trying to salvage what's left Dialogue: 0,0:10:18.50,0:10:22.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hundreds of thousands are thronging\Nrelief centers, desperate for life's necessities Dialogue: 0,0:10:22.72,0:10:27.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many residents have covered their faces to\Nmask the smell of the dead, while they searched Dialogue: 0,0:10:27.55,0:10:30.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for relatives in some of the hardest hit areas Dialogue: 0,0:10:31.06,0:10:34.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is one of the top storms ever seen on this planet Dialogue: 0,0:10:39.66,0:10:41.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mister President, your excellency Dialogue: 0,0:10:42.00,0:10:47.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What my country is going through as a result \Nof this extreme climate event is madness Dialogue: 0,0:10:48.00,0:10:50.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Yeb Saño - Climate Negotiator, Philippines] Dialogue: 0,0:10:51.94,0:10:57.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Super Typhoon Haiyan made landfall \Nin my own family's hometown Dialogue: 0,0:11:02.02,0:11:07.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the devastation . . . is staggering Dialogue: 0,0:11:09.86,0:11:16.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I struggle to find words to describe \Nhow I feel about the losses Dialogue: 0,0:11:17.72,0:11:22.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To anyone outside who continues to deny and \Nignore the reality that this climate change Dialogue: 0,0:11:22.82,0:11:29.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I dare them -- I dare them to get off their ivory towers and away from the comfort of their arm chairs Dialogue: 0,0:11:29.78,0:11:33.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I dare them to go to the islands of the Pacific Dialogue: 0,0:11:33.28,0:11:38.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We refuse as a nation to accept a future where\Nsuper typhoons like Haiyan become a way of life Dialogue: 0,0:11:38.46,0:11:43.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We refuse to accept that running away\Nfrom storms, evacuating our families, Dialogue: 0,0:11:43.48,0:11:49.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,counting our dead become a way of life. \NWe simply refuse to. Dialogue: 0,0:11:52.03,0:11:55.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can fix this. We can stop this madness. Dialogue: 0,0:12:08.92,0:12:11.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,80 DAYS UNTIL THE MARCH Dialogue: 0,0:12:12.00,0:12:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People's Climate March Coordinating Committee\NOrganizing Meeting Dialogue: 0,0:12:14.52,0:12:17.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hello, hello. Alright folks we know why we're here Dialogue: 0,0:12:17.98,0:12:19.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Eddie Bautista - Executive Director, NYC-EJA] Dialogue: 0,0:12:20.10,0:12:23.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have 80 days starting tomorrow to pull off \Nthe largest climate march in history Dialogue: 0,0:12:23.78,0:12:27.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's really important for folks to remember\Nthat although climate change affects everyone Dialogue: 0,0:12:27.100,0:12:30.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the impacts are not evenly distributed Dialogue: 0,0:12:30.52,0:12:35.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're asking each one of these breakout groups, \Nprioritize people of color, folks Dialogue: 0,0:12:35.52,0:12:39.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because this is real, it's disproportionate,\Nand it's time to bring it Dialogue: 0,0:12:40.68,0:12:44.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They need to act on a binding global agreement\Nto reduce greenhouse gases Dialogue: 0,0:12:44.60,0:12:46.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Tomas Gardaño - Organizer, People's Climate March] Dialogue: 0,0:12:46.85,0:12:48.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can do that and create jobs at the same time Dialogue: 0,0:12:49.54,0:12:53.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Part of what we're doing is moving people\Nfrom fossil fuels to the solutions Dialogue: 0,0:12:53.56,0:12:55.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Lee Ziesche - Grassroots Coordinator] Dialogue: 0,0:12:55.50,0:12:58.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and also presenting them with economic \Nopportunities around the solutions Dialogue: 0,0:12:58.68,0:13:01.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Armando Chapelliquen - Project Coordinator, NYPIRG]\NThe idea of who's going to be leading this march... Dialogue: 0,0:13:01.54,0:13:02.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...are the people in this room Dialogue: 0,0:13:03.34,0:13:07.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Rev. Clinton Miller - Brown Memorial, Baptist Church] \NThis environmental issue is the singular issue Dialogue: 0,0:13:08.24,0:13:13.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of our time, of our day, that will determine how we live, where we live, and if we live. Dialogue: 0,0:13:13.83,0:13:20.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The most important tool that we have is our\Npeople power. There are already 325 groups, Dialogue: 0,0:13:21.95,0:13:25.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that list is going to grow every single\Nday. Whatever you're thinking about doing Dialogue: 0,0:13:25.100,0:13:32.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to help build this mobilization, rethink it.\NAnd make it bigger. Make it bolder. Dialogue: 0,0:13:33.54,0:13:39.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our job is to make sure everybody hears about it.\NAnd then they'll get there. They'll get there. Dialogue: 0,0:13:39.82,0:13:41.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's our job Dialogue: 0,0:13:49.96,0:13:52.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Nuclear Disarmament Movement - New York City] Dialogue: 0,0:13:53.56,0:14:00.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 1982, the UN convened a first special section\Non nuclear disarmament Dialogue: 0,0:14:01.28,0:14:05.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we came together and said when\Nthe representatives Dialogue: 0,0:14:05.50,0:14:09.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of governments all around the world\Ngather in New York City at the UN Dialogue: 0,0:14:09.67,0:14:12.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we need to be on the streets making our voice heard Dialogue: 0,0:14:12.78,0:14:16.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,New York City's anti-nuclear demonstration\Nturned out to be the biggest Dialogue: 0,0:14:16.64,0:14:19.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,political demonstration in US history Dialogue: 0,0:14:19.01,0:14:25.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was, and still to this day, is the largest single gathering, if you will, of people in this country Dialogue: 0,0:14:27.16,0:14:32.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think there was one computer in the\Noffice. Everything else was by phone Dialogue: 0,0:14:32.78,0:14:36.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this thing we called "the mail" --\Nwe now call it "snail mail" Dialogue: 0,0:14:36.43,0:14:39.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But there was something about that\Nreality that we didn't have the Dialogue: 0,0:14:39.70,0:14:43.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,technology that we now have\Nthat actually forced people Dialogue: 0,0:14:43.11,0:14:44.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to talk directly to each other. Dialogue: 0,0:14:44.97,0:14:50.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Until we have real peace, with real justice Dialogue: 0,0:14:50.14,0:14:54.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we will not go home and be quiet, we will\Ngo home and organize! Dialogue: 0,0:14:54.81,0:14:59.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of the really interesting things about that \Ndemonstration is that some 600 local groups Dialogue: 0,0:15:01.06,0:15:05.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were formed, and many of those groups\Nlasted for years afterwards Dialogue: 0,0:15:05.64,0:15:11.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To me, the real power of that\Nday was the organizing experience that led Dialogue: 0,0:15:11.19,0:15:15.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,up to it and then the organizing \Nthat came out of it Dialogue: 0,0:15:19.62,0:15:23.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some experts are now saying that \Nthe whole world is heating up Dialogue: 0,0:15:24.06,0:15:26.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because of a "global greenhouse effect" Dialogue: 0,0:15:26.30,0:15:28.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Dr. Naomi Oreskes - Professor, \NHistory of Science, Harvard] Dialogue: 0,0:15:28.40,0:15:32.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Scientists had been saying for a long\Ntime that climate change might occur Dialogue: 0,0:15:32.60,0:15:36.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but 1988 is the year when Jim Hansen \Nand his team at NASA Dialogue: 0,0:15:36.58,0:15:39.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,say both in the scientific peer-reviewed literature, \Nand in public, that it's actually happening Dialogue: 0,0:15:39.58,0:15:42.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Dr. James Hansen - Former Director, NASA (GISS)]\NThe changes in atmospheric composition Dialogue: 0,0:15:42.50,0:15:46.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that humans were making was going to have \Na big impact on the Earth's climate Dialogue: 0,0:15:46.66,0:15:51.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The greenhouse effect has been detected,\Nand it is changing our climate now Dialogue: 0,0:15:51.42,0:15:54.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hansen's testimony was reported on the\Nfront page of The New York Times Dialogue: 0,0:15:54.50,0:15:58.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and there was actually a bill introduced\Ninto Congress -- the National Energy Policy Act Dialogue: 0,0:15:58.85,0:16:03.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to immediately begin to phase out the use of fossil fuels in order to prevent disruptive climate change Dialogue: 0,0:16:03.98,0:16:06.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And of course that was supported \Nby the creation of the IPCC -- Dialogue: 0,0:16:06.37,0:16:09.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate\NChange -- that year Dialogue: 0,0:16:10.22,0:16:12.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So there was political momentum, \Nthere was some scientific momentum Dialogue: 0,0:16:12.49,0:16:16.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there was strong scientific evidence,\Nthere was media attention Dialogue: 0,0:16:16.51,0:16:18.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then the whole thing kinda fell apart Dialogue: 0,0:16:20.31,0:16:24.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Earth Summit, a 12-day, 178-nation\Nconference on the environment Dialogue: 0,0:16:24.50,0:16:26.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,began today in Rio de Janeiro Dialogue: 0,0:16:26.37,0:16:30.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Battle lines are already drawn between\Nthe haves and the have-nots Dialogue: 0,0:16:30.21,0:16:35.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So far, all the agreements are non-binding -- requiring no specific action on the environment Dialogue: 0,0:16:36.12,0:16:40.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As time has gone on, the scientific \Nwarnings keep intensifying Dialogue: 0,0:16:40.92,0:16:44.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and yet there has been no effective political response Dialogue: 0,0:16:44.60,0:16:46.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All political efforts to get a handle on this issue Dialogue: 0,0:16:46.52,0:16:49.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have essentially failed Dialogue: 0,0:16:49.16,0:16:50.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am the one that is burdened with \Nfinding the balance between Dialogue: 0,0:16:51.11,0:16:54.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sound environmental practice on the one hand Dialogue: 0,0:16:54.19,0:16:56.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and jobs for American families on the other Dialogue: 0,0:16:59.49,0:17:03.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The agreement hammered out in Kyoto,\NJapan requires industrialized nations Dialogue: 0,0:17:03.48,0:17:06.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to make substantial cuts in greenhouse gas emissions Dialogue: 0,0:17:07.50,0:17:09.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Justin Gillis - Journalist, The New York Times] Dialogue: 0,0:17:09.42,0:17:12.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The United States actually never ratified the Kyoto Protocol which is one reason it didn't work Dialogue: 0,0:17:13.01,0:17:16.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,President Bush ignited a storm of controversy Dialogue: 0,0:17:16.29,0:17:17.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when he decided to abandon the Kyoto Protocol Dialogue: 0,0:17:17.61,0:17:21.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which sets caps on the emissions of\Ngreenhouse gases in developed nations Dialogue: 0,0:17:21.62,0:17:25.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For nearly two weeks, the US delegation\Nhad blocked proposal after proposal Dialogue: 0,0:17:25.91,0:17:27.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,draft after draft Dialogue: 0,0:17:27.10,0:17:31.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,refusing to even discuss mandatory cuts\Nin greenhouse emissions Dialogue: 0,0:17:31.95,0:17:35.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now we switch to the big climate\Nconference going on in Copenhagen Dialogue: 0,0:17:35.96,0:17:40.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today developing countries made themselves heard Dialogue: 0,0:17:40.27,0:17:44.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Led by Africa, 135 nations, including India and China Dialogue: 0,0:17:44.29,0:17:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,staged a five-hour boycott Dialogue: 0,0:17:46.00,0:17:52.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,angry over what they say are insufficient carbon cuts proposed by the world's rich countries Dialogue: 0,0:17:52.47,0:17:55.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If Hollywood had been writing a story,\Nit all would have come right in the end Dialogue: 0,0:17:55.61,0:17:59.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and all the nations would have \Npledged their best effort Dialogue: 0,0:17:59.54,0:18:02.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And nothing like that happened -- \Nthe thing was a fiasco, a failure Dialogue: 0,0:18:02.86,0:18:08.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The frustrations of the last 10 days\Nexplode on the streets of Copenhagen Dialogue: 0,0:18:08.36,0:18:11.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Outside the Bella Center where negotiators still haven't reached a climate agreement Dialogue: 0,0:18:12.26,0:18:16.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,2500 protesters tried to storm \Nthe hall to make an impact Dialogue: 0,0:18:16.63,0:18:19.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Bill McKibben - Co-founder, 350.org]\NNothing happened because Dialogue: 0,0:18:19.99,0:18:23.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the fossil fuel industry was still strong enough to scare nations into avoiding the issue Dialogue: 0,0:18:23.84,0:18:27.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Naomi Klein - Author, "The Shock Doctrine"]\NWhat happened in Copenhagen, for a lot of people Dialogue: 0,0:18:27.80,0:18:29.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was this realization "no leader was going to save us" Dialogue: 0,0:18:31.47,0:18:35.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have to be strong enough to\Nscare our national leaders Dialogue: 0,0:18:35.14,0:18:38.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into doing the right thing in New York City in September Dialogue: 0,0:18:38.16,0:18:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we can demonstrate that Dialogue: 0,0:18:40.00,0:18:44.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then better things will happen in Paris \Nthan happened in Copenhagen Dialogue: 0,0:18:45.50,0:18:48.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These things are not separate\Nmoments in time Dialogue: 0,0:18:48.85,0:18:53.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a all part of one string, and\Nwhat we're fighting towards in Paris Dialogue: 0,0:18:53.60,0:18:57.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is highly dependent on what happens in September Dialogue: 0,0:18:57.60,0:19:00.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is going to have to be the fight our lives Dialogue: 0,0:19:01.60,0:19:05.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change \N(IPCC) - Berlin, Germany] Dialogue: 0,0:19:05.68,0:19:12.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Welcome to this press conference to present\Nthe report of IPCC Working Group 3 Dialogue: 0,0:19:12.62,0:19:14.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on mitigation of climate change Dialogue: 0,0:19:14.70,0:19:16.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Dr. Rajendra Pachauri - Chairman, IPCC]\NIf we really want to bring about a limitation Dialogue: 0,0:19:17.89,0:19:22.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of temperature increase to no more \Nthan 2 degrees Celsius Dialogue: 0,0:19:22.82,0:19:28.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there is then the need for an\Nunprecedented level of international cooperation Dialogue: 0,0:19:28.08,0:19:29.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The way we've approached climate change Dialogue: 0,0:19:29.87,0:19:33.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is the scientific community builds the case, it\Nsynthesizes the evidence, Dialogue: 0,0:19:33.55,0:19:35.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it presents that evidence then to the policymakers Dialogue: 0,0:19:35.50,0:19:38.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've proven beyond a doubt that \Nclimate change is real Dialogue: 0,0:19:38.71,0:19:40.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the Earth's temperature is warming Dialogue: 0,0:19:40.84,0:19:46.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Dr. Heidi Cullen - Author, "Weather of the Future"]\Nthat that warming is predominantly caused by Dialogue: 0,0:19:46.28,0:19:50.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the burning of fossil fuels and other human activities, and that that additional warming poses Dialogue: 0,0:19:50.24,0:19:53.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a significant threat Dialogue: 0,0:19:53.40,0:19:56.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What the policy-making community did was\Nthey came up with the definition Dialogue: 0,0:19:56.92,0:19:59.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of what they called "dangerous human interference" Dialogue: 0,0:20:00.52,0:20:04.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 2009, the nations in the world agreed on Dialogue: 0,0:20:04.51,0:20:10.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a target of 2 degrees Centigrade or 3.6\Ndegrees Fahrenheit of maximum warming Dialogue: 0,0:20:10.54,0:20:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,above the pre-industrial level Dialogue: 0,0:20:13.00,0:20:17.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That would require emissions\Nworldwide almost entirely stopping Dialogue: 0,0:20:17.78,0:20:19.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,within a matter of decades Dialogue: 0,0:20:19.82,0:20:21.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Dr. John Sterman - Director, \NMIT System Dynamics Group] Dialogue: 0,0:20:21.80,0:20:25.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A lot of people talk about two degrees as\Na safe level, well there is no safe level Dialogue: 0,0:20:25.25,0:20:29.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,two degrees is a round number that would be safer Dialogue: 0,0:20:29.98,0:20:34.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but we'll still have substantial climate impacts Dialogue: 0,0:20:34.41,0:20:38.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One degree is melting the Arctic and Antarctic. We'd be crazy to find out what two degrees will do Dialogue: 0,0:20:38.49,0:20:40.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but we're probably going to find out Dialogue: 0,0:20:40.97,0:20:45.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even if we do everything right at this\Npoint, that's about as good an outcome as Dialogue: 0,0:20:45.45,0:20:46.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we can hope for Dialogue: 0,0:20:47.80,0:20:53.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The other thing the IPCC did was they tied that 2 degrees Celsius, 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit threshold Dialogue: 0,0:20:53.68,0:20:57.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the amount of fossil fuels that\Nwe can actually burn Dialogue: 0,0:20:57.93,0:21:04.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they came up with this red line in the sand which was a trillion tons of carbon Dialogue: 0,0:21:05.80,0:21:08.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The problem is we're already more than halfway there Dialogue: 0,0:21:08.14,0:21:09.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're approaching 600 million tons already Dialogue: 0,0:21:09.66,0:21:12.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and at the rate things are going Dialogue: 0,0:21:12.59,0:21:16.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we will have completely exhausted that \Ncarbon budget within thirty years Dialogue: 0,0:21:17.72,0:21:19.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The same leaders who say they Dialogue: 0,0:21:19.76,0:21:23.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,want the temperature to go up no more\Nthan 2 degrees have put forward Dialogue: 0,0:21:23.70,0:21:28.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a series of proposals that when you add them up, leads to the temperature rising 6 degrees Dialogue: 0,0:21:28.83,0:21:33.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the point past which most sane\Nscientists think Dialogue: 0,0:21:33.06,0:21:38.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,civilization on the scale that we now\Nknow it will not be possible Dialogue: 0,0:21:38.64,0:21:43.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's almost a kind of refusal to come to\Ngrips with reality Dialogue: 0,0:21:43.32,0:21:46.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's just this enormous gap between\Nwhat country say they want to do and what Dialogue: 0,0:21:46.63,0:21:48.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they're actually on track to do Dialogue: 0,0:21:48.15,0:21:51.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People call this the emissions gap Dialogue: 0,0:21:51.89,0:21:57.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Much of this is about mathematics. We've got\Nto leave 80 percent of fossil fuels in Dialogue: 0,0:21:57.39,0:21:59.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the ground Dialogue: 0,0:21:59.46,0:22:04.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The fossil fuel industry wants to burn all\Nits reserves, if they do then we get that Dialogue: 0,0:22:04.07,0:22:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,six degrees Dialogue: 0,0:22:06.00,0:22:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Each day of inaction, of business as usual,\Nputs us closer and closer on this crash course Dialogue: 0,0:22:17.02,0:22:19.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,58 DAYS UNTIL THE MARCH Dialogue: 0,0:22:19.02,0:22:20.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[People's Climate March - Host Committee Meeting, NYC] Dialogue: 0,0:22:21.08,0:22:26.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're two months out from this demo, obviously\Nwe all know in this room, a tremendous amount Dialogue: 0,0:22:26.32,0:22:31.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of work has happened, is happening every day,\Ngetting the word out, mobilizing people Dialogue: 0,0:22:31.65,0:22:35.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Leslie Cagan - Peace & Justice Organizer]\NAt this point, every day counts. Every day when Dialogue: 0,0:22:35.52,0:22:37.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we miss an opportunity, it's gone. Dialogue: 0,0:22:37.27,0:22:42.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not just a one-day march, it's our long-term\Nability to build a strong climate movement Dialogue: 0,0:22:42.61,0:22:45.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we need to invest in Dialogue: 0,0:22:45.08,0:22:49.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Ananda Lee Tan - Climate Justice Alliance]\NSo being inclusive to us is really about multiple things Dialogue: 0,0:22:49.12,0:22:53.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but recognizing that we live in a society with there is privilege, there are inequities Dialogue: 0,0:22:53.35,0:22:57.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in order to address the climate crisis, we have to first address those inequities Dialogue: 0,0:22:57.92,0:23:02.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That will allow us to then bring a movement strong enough to address the global ecological crisis Dialogue: 0,0:23:05.19,0:23:09.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you think for second about this,\Nthere is this just layer of stuff under the ground Dialogue: 0,0:23:09.68,0:23:11.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Got put their in a specific time in Dialogue: 0,0:23:11.65,0:23:12.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a specific way Dialogue: 0,0:23:12.79,0:23:15.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it just captured millennia of solar energy Dialogue: 0,0:23:16.06,0:23:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Chris Hayes - Host, All in with Chris Hayes | MSNBC]\NAnd we just happened upon it Dialogue: 0,0:23:20.00,0:23:24.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's like if you were just walking around, and then put something in the ground Dialogue: 0,0:23:24.00,0:23:27.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and there's just millions of dollar bills down there, just pulling them out Dialogue: 0,0:23:27.71,0:23:30.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everything about what we do and who we are\Nand how we live Dialogue: 0,0:23:30.29,0:23:35.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is dependent upon the fact that we just\Nfound the stuff sitting there Dialogue: 0,0:23:35.06,0:23:38.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that stuff said "Oh, you don't have to Dialogue: 0,0:23:38.42,0:23:42.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have everyone working in the fields all\Nthe time -- you can have cities, you can have Dialogue: 0,0:23:42.58,0:23:48.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cars, you can have iPhones." And the way I\Nview it is, as incredible as that stuff is Dialogue: 0,0:23:48.06,0:23:55.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we've been paying this price on it the whole\Ntime. And there's this clock running Dialogue: 0,0:23:57.56,0:24:02.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The classic market failure is "negative environmental\Nexternalities" Dialogue: 0,0:24:02.84,0:24:08.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's just jargon for "you're not paying the full\Ncosts for the fossil fuels that you burn" Dialogue: 0,0:24:08.61,0:24:16.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The racket that the fossil fuel industry has\Nrun is to take costs of its products, and Dialogue: 0,0:24:16.17,0:24:18.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,export them to the public Dialogue: 0,0:24:18.84,0:24:20.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Keya Chatterjee - Director of \NRenewable Energy, WWF] Dialogue: 0,0:24:20.92,0:24:24.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Think about the litany of impacts: from sea\Nlevel rise, ocean acidification, the collapse Dialogue: 0,0:24:24.40,0:24:30.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of ecosystems that we rely on for food, water\Navailability. These things are really expensive Dialogue: 0,0:24:31.02,0:24:35.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,-- when you have huge wildfires, it costs\Na lot of money Dialogue: 0,0:24:35.85,0:24:39.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All those costs are being dumped onto us as a society, and not being paid by people who are polluting Dialogue: 0,0:24:39.53,0:24:42.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These big massive polluters Dialogue: 0,0:24:42.68,0:24:46.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,get to dump megatons of carbon in the\Natmosphere, for free Dialogue: 0,0:24:46.35,0:24:50.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can't pollute for free. If you\Nlitter you get a fine. Dialogue: 0,0:24:50.17,0:24:54.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That makes coal and oil and other fossil fuels\Nmore competitive Dialogue: 0,0:24:54.14,0:24:57.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,against solar and wind and other sources Dialogue: 0,0:24:57.52,0:24:59.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than they deserve to be Dialogue: 0,0:24:59.50,0:25:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D - RI) Co-Chair, Task Force on Climate Change] Dialogue: 0,0:25:02.01,0:25:05.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Behind the environmental problems that carbon\Npollution causes Dialogue: 0,0:25:05.36,0:25:09.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and behind the economic problems is a\Npolitical problem Dialogue: 0,0:25:09.22,0:25:12.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that a very small group of very powerful\Nspecial interests Dialogue: 0,0:25:13.15,0:25:17.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have exerted very rough control over the\Npolitical establishment Dialogue: 0,0:25:17.64,0:25:22.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're up against the fossil fuel lobby\Nthat has complete access to the Dialogue: 0,0:25:22.17,0:25:23.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,political class and the ability Dialogue: 0,0:25:23.88,0:25:25.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to bribe through legal means Dialogue: 0,0:25:25.92,0:25:29.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and blackmail through the use of attack ads and so on Dialogue: 0,0:25:30.06,0:25:34.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even people who oppose them have trouble opposing them too strongly Dialogue: 0,0:25:34.24,0:25:37.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because they are in some ways economically dependent on them Dialogue: 0,0:25:37.98,0:25:40.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Right now we have a monopoly controlled by the big carbon polluters Dialogue: 0,0:25:40.90,0:25:43.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They grant themselves subsidy after subsidy Dialogue: 0,0:25:44.42,0:25:48.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Think about this: how much money does the Pentagon\Nspend Dialogue: 0,0:25:48.63,0:25:53.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,helping big private oil companies get\Ntheir for-profit products in the Middle East here? Dialogue: 0,0:25:53.61,0:25:56.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,About half of the Pentagon's budget is just Dialogue: 0,0:25:56.23,0:26:01.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,helping Chevron and Shell and Exxon get their\Nfor-profit product here Dialogue: 0,0:26:01.24,0:26:04.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What if they had to pay for that service -- how\Nhow much would gas cost then? Dialogue: 0,0:26:04.98,0:26:09.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Plus, they also get all kinds of tax breaks\Nand other kinds of loopholes Dialogue: 0,0:26:09.07,0:26:13.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are a system based on a grow or die ethic, but rather than respond to the climate crisis Dialogue: 0,0:26:13.29,0:26:13.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by scaling back Dialogue: 0,0:26:13.65,0:26:17.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they're doubling down through fracking, through\Ntar sands oil Dialogue: 0,0:26:17.90,0:26:23.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through coal exports, mountain top removal.\NThey have become more brazen. Dialogue: 0,0:26:23.30,0:26:30.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a rogue industry, it's an industry if whose business\Nplan is followed to the letter will wreck the planet Dialogue: 0,0:26:32.43,0:26:37.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Once you know that, then you know that these are now illegitimate business plans Dialogue: 0,0:26:37.86,0:26:42.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have to figure out how to disassociate ourselves with them Dialogue: 0,0:26:42.38,0:26:46.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that is beginning to happen all over the world Dialogue: 0,0:26:59.28,0:27:00.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On the Great Lawn of Central Park Dialogue: 0,0:27:00.23,0:27:05.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was up on a stage\Nprobably 70 feet in the air looking out Dialogue: 0,0:27:05.88,0:27:09.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at that sea of people stretching out farther than the eye could see Dialogue: 0,0:27:09.22,0:27:12.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Denis Hayes - Founder, Earth Day Network]\NThe crowd estimates were larger than a million people Dialogue: 0,0:27:13.36,0:27:18.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,April 22 1970:\Nthe grassroots mobilization which we Dialogue: 0,0:27:18.40,0:27:23.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,recalled as the first Earth Day, 20 million\NAmericans called away from their jobs and Dialogue: 0,0:27:23.33,0:27:27.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their classes into the streets in their communities Dialogue: 0,0:27:27.56,0:27:32.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When Nixon was looking at television at these huge crowds in city after city, across the country Dialogue: 0,0:27:32.58,0:27:36.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he apparently muttered to Ehrlichman,\N"A lot of those people have got to be Republican" Dialogue: 0,0:27:36.72,0:27:41.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Republicans needed him to do something\Nfor them on this issue, he felt Dialogue: 0,0:27:41.72,0:27:46.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it was Nixon, arguably one of the most anti-environmental presidents in American history Dialogue: 0,0:27:46.60,0:27:50.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who felt compelled to sign the Clean Air Act Dialogue: 0,0:27:50.74,0:27:53.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Denis Hayes - Chairman, Earth Day April 22]\NI think the things we've been doing to date Dialogue: 0,0:27:54.33,0:27:58.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are a reason to give us a little bit of hope\Nwe've seen a degree of responsiveness on the Dialogue: 0,0:27:58.06,0:28:01.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,part of the House of Representatives and on\Nthe part of the US Senate Dialogue: 0,0:28:02.12,0:28:06.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In a matter of three years, we passed the Clean\NAir Act, the Clean Water Act Dialogue: 0,0:28:06.10,0:28:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Endangered Species Act, the Marine Mammal Protection Act Dialogue: 0,0:28:10.00,0:28:17.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the National Environmental Policy Act, the Environmental Education Act, Superfund Dialogue: 0,0:28:17.23,0:28:22.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'd go so far as to say that with the\Npossible exception of the New Deal it was Dialogue: 0,0:28:22.25,0:28:24.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the most fundamental restructuring Dialogue: 0,0:28:24.20,0:28:27.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the ground rules of the American economic system Dialogue: 0,0:28:27.18,0:28:29.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the nation has experienced Dialogue: 0,0:28:36.16,0:28:38.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,50 DAYS UNTIL THE MARCH Dialogue: 0,0:28:38.16,0:28:42.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are 50 days away from the largest climate\Nmarch in history. Are you all ready? Dialogue: 0,0:28:42.10,0:28:44.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[People's Climate March Press Conference - Times Square, NYC] Dialogue: 0,0:28:44.10,0:28:48.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is not just about the environment.\NIt's about the community Dialogue: 0,0:28:48.10,0:28:53.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Eddie Bautista - Executive Director, NYC - EJA] \NIt's about public health, it's about jobs, it's about justice Dialogue: 0,0:28:53.84,0:28:55.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[LaTonya Crisp-Sauray - TWU Local 100 Recording Secretary] Dialogue: 0,0:28:55.84,0:28:59.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was labor that got this city up and moving, and it will be labor that continues to move this city Dialogue: 0,0:29:00.44,0:29:02.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are the community. Are we not the community? Dialogue: 0,0:29:05.66,0:29:09.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our people, our people who have\Nbeen at the front line, not being able to breathe Dialogue: 0,0:29:09.56,0:29:13.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Elizabeth Yeampierre - Executive Director, Uprose]\Nsuffering from asthma, upper respiratory Dialogue: 0,0:29:13.14,0:29:16.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pulmonary diseases, cancer clusters, because of environmental racism Dialogue: 0,0:29:16.50,0:29:20.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Climate change exacerbates every \Nkind of social injustice Dialogue: 0,0:29:20.92,0:29:24.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Rev. Fletcher Harper - Executive Director, Greenfaith]\Nthat faith communities have fought against Dialogue: 0,0:29:24.92,0:29:26.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for thousands of years Dialogue: 0,0:29:26.34,0:29:32.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we will not stop marching and praying and acting until we have a strong climate treaty Dialogue: 0,0:29:32.56,0:29:37.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've got a movement, brothers and sisters,\Nand we've got to stay together Dialogue: 0,0:29:37.01,0:29:42.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So join us on the 21st to march and send \Nthat signal to the United Nations Dialogue: 0,0:29:43.06,0:29:46.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Crowd chants, "The people united will never be defeated"] Dialogue: 0,0:29:52.54,0:29:55.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Bill McKibben - Author, "Eaarth"]\NIt's only by accident that we even think Dialogue: 0,0:29:55.22,0:29:57.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of climate change as an environmental issue Dialogue: 0,0:29:58.62,0:30:04.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You could just as easily think about it as another example of what happens in an unequal society Dialogue: 0,0:30:04.56,0:30:10.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The people who have contributed the least to climate change, and who have benefited the least Dialogue: 0,0:30:10.26,0:30:14.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the use of fossil fuel, are the\Nfirst people to feel the effects Dialogue: 0,0:30:14.22,0:30:18.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People in the poorest parts\Nof the world suffer enormously already Dialogue: 0,0:30:18.14,0:30:22.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and will suffer enormously more\Nas the century wears on Dialogue: 0,0:30:22.26,0:30:25.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Climate disruption is a social justice issue Dialogue: 0,0:30:25.43,0:30:29.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Van Jones - Co-Founder, Rebuild the Dream]\NWho gets hit first and worst every time Dialogue: 0,0:30:29.31,0:30:30.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's one of these weather disasters? Dialogue: 0,0:30:30.89,0:30:34.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's low-income people, people of color,\Npeople who can't get out of harm's way Dialogue: 0,0:30:34.95,0:30:39.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And people who can't bounce back easily because they\Ndon't have the money, or the social standing Dialogue: 0,0:30:39.15,0:30:41.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or the political connections Dialogue: 0,0:30:41.47,0:30:43.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our communities are disproportionately impacted Dialogue: 0,0:30:43.40,0:30:46.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Jeanette "Jet" E. Toomer - Community Organizer, NYC-EJA] Dialogue: 0,0:30:46.92,0:30:49.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're all seeing that it's the indigenous\Npeople, the people of color Dialogue: 0,0:30:49.49,0:30:52.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the low-income people who have historically\Nsuffered the burden Dialogue: 0,0:30:52.88,0:30:55.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of so many other politically driven crises Dialogue: 0,0:30:55.84,0:30:57.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are so many countries that have been Dialogue: 0,0:30:57.52,0:31:01.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,systematically plundered over hundreds of years Dialogue: 0,0:31:01.22,0:31:04.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is often described as an ecological debt, climate debt Dialogue: 0,0:31:04.52,0:31:08.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Naomi Klein - Author, "This Changes Everything"]\NThe whole idea that there are disposable places Dialogue: 0,0:31:08.82,0:31:10.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was always a racist idea Dialogue: 0,0:31:10.82,0:31:16.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The idea of sacrifice zones: just treating people and places like garbage Dialogue: 0,0:31:19.98,0:31:24.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The place where it's hardest for it to sink in is in the suburban United States Dialogue: 0,0:31:24.54,0:31:28.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're insulated against the natural world -- that's what the suburbs really are Dialogue: 0,0:31:28.48,0:31:34.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a way to make you not notice \Nthe natural world very much Dialogue: 0,0:31:34.66,0:31:37.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we're insulated in those places by wealth Dialogue: 0,0:31:38.30,0:31:40.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At least we think we are Dialogue: 0,0:31:49.02,0:31:52.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Scientists are screaming from the\Nrooftops about us avoiding going over Dialogue: 0,0:31:52.64,0:31:55.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a two degree rise in the temperature of the planet Dialogue: 0,0:31:55.11,0:31:58.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why are they so worried about that? Dialogue: 0,0:31:58.81,0:32:00.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Ricken Patel - Founder & Executive Director, Avaaz]\NIf we go over that amount of warming Dialogue: 0,0:32:00.77,0:32:04.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there are feedback loops in our ecosystems Dialogue: 0,0:32:04.51,0:32:07.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,-- tipping points that climate change \Ncould spin out of control Dialogue: 0,0:32:07.32,0:32:09.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it happens like that Dialogue: 0,0:32:13.23,0:32:17.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are switches that can be tripped\Nwhere suddenly you are in brand new territory Dialogue: 0,0:32:17.34,0:32:23.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you don't even begin to know what to\Ndo about it Dialogue: 0,0:32:23.10,0:32:26.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is not a linear kind of problem that\Nwe're dealing with Dialogue: 0,0:32:26.82,0:32:29.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is very much an exponential kind of problem Dialogue: 0,0:32:30.36,0:32:34.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Right now we're on the edge of three\Nmajor tipping points Dialogue: 0,0:32:35.10,0:32:41.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The first one is the Arctic ice cap. That ice cap is like a mirror that reflects the sun's light Dialogue: 0,0:32:41.28,0:32:43.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,off the Earth and keeps it from warming us up Dialogue: 0,0:32:43.50,0:32:46.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But as it melts, you get a smaller mirror Dialogue: 0,0:32:46.20,0:32:50.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which means a warmer Earth, which means more melting, which means more climate change Dialogue: 0,0:32:50.33,0:32:56.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Another example is arctic methane -- we've\Ngot a gigantic amount of methane gas Dialogue: 0,0:32:56.13,0:33:03.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,frozen into the tundra, and it is 50\Ntimes as toxic as CO₂ is. It's CO₂ on steroids. Dialogue: 0,0:33:03.64,0:33:08.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As it warms, and that methane gets\Nreleased, it then causes global warming to Dialogue: 0,0:33:08.05,0:33:12.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,get worse, which means it warms more, which\Nmeans more methane released Dialogue: 0,0:33:12.75,0:33:17.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which means worse warming, and that \Nprocess spins out of control Dialogue: 0,0:33:17.28,0:33:21.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Another example of a tipping point is ocean\Nacidification. As you get more CO₂ in the atmosphere Dialogue: 0,0:33:21.76,0:33:24.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a lot of it is actually going into our oceans Dialogue: 0,0:33:24.56,0:33:30.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And a lot of stuff, like plankton, can't live\Nin that kind of acidified water Dialogue: 0,0:33:30.20,0:33:35.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And plankton is the basis of the food chain -- if the plankton die, we lose the whole ocean ecosystem Dialogue: 0,0:33:35.94,0:33:41.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These kinds of feedback loops and tipping\Npoints are what keep me up at night -- Dialogue: 0,0:33:41.42,0:33:47.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we will hit one before we're able to turn\Nthings around Dialogue: 0,0:33:47.26,0:33:52.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even if we went "cold turkey" today, because of the time lags in our climate system Dialogue: 0,0:33:53.00,0:33:56.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we've already signed up for things that we can't see yet Dialogue: 0,0:33:56.51,0:34:00.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We live in a razor-thin livable universe Dialogue: 0,0:34:00.98,0:34:05.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just a few kilometres below \Nmy feet, it's too hot to live Dialogue: 0,0:34:05.04,0:34:09.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just a few kilometres above my head, the air is too thin to breathe Dialogue: 0,0:34:09.92,0:34:12.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not about a few more droughts and a few more storms Dialogue: 0,0:34:13.00,0:34:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's about a catastrophic shift in this fragile balance of our biosphere Dialogue: 0,0:34:17.00,0:34:19.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that threatens everything we love Dialogue: 0,0:34:24.10,0:34:26.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,37 DAYS UNTIL THE MARCH Dialogue: 0,0:34:26.40,0:34:28.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What we all need to be focused on is\Nturnout, turnout, turnout Dialogue: 0,0:34:29.76,0:34:33.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Youth, is there somebody that wants to do\Nan update from youth. Armando? Dialogue: 0,0:34:33.64,0:34:37.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Armando Chapelliquen - Project Coordinator, NYPIRG]\NSo just a quick list of things I wanted to go over Dialogue: 0,0:34:37.69,0:34:39.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Obviously a lot of folks who are working on the youth stuff are working at Dialogue: 0,0:34:39.60,0:34:41.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Climate Justice Youth Leadership Summit Dialogue: 0,0:34:41.42,0:34:45.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a lot of organizing going on right\Nnow there for the People's Climate March Dialogue: 0,0:34:45.05,0:34:46.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So a lot of people who may not have been plugged\Nin already Dialogue: 0,0:34:46.47,0:34:49.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are getting informed about it, and\Nthe people who are already informed about it Dialogue: 0,0:34:49.48,0:34:51.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are getting even more people fired up about it Dialogue: 0,0:34:52.08,0:34:54.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Climate Justice Youth Summit - New York City] Dialogue: 0,0:34:54.62,0:34:59.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a lot of things that we pay attention\Nto, that we focus on, that are fun -- but Dialogue: 0,0:35:00.46,0:35:04.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they are short-lived, and they are not for\Nthe betterment of us Dialogue: 0,0:35:05.25,0:35:08.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have to re-prioritize what's important to us Dialogue: 0,0:35:08.88,0:35:12.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our environment isn't\Njust ice caps melting in Antarctica Dialogue: 0,0:35:13.21,0:35:14.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're the ones who face the problems day-to-day -- Dialogue: 0,0:35:14.66,0:35:18.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you're breathing in smog\Nor your little brother has asthma Dialogue: 0,0:35:18.97,0:35:22.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's environmental injustice, and those are things\Nthat we have the power to push back on Dialogue: 0,0:35:22.68,0:35:27.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Imagine being the person who changes the face of climate change Dialogue: 0,0:35:27.34,0:35:30.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that we don't have to deal with \Nthose impacts every day Dialogue: 0,0:35:32.92,0:35:34.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Joaquin Brito Jr. - Climate Justice Organizer, Uprose] Dialogue: 0,0:35:34.92,0:35:41.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So on September 21st, we're going to march for Climate Justice -- so who's with us? Come on let's hear it! Dialogue: 0,0:35:52.34,0:35:58.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,OK, alright, yes -- we pull the fossil\Nfuels out of the ground, we put them in the Dialogue: 0,0:35:58.34,0:36:03.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,incinerator, we put the carbon in the sky,\Nit warms the Earth, lots of bad stuff is going Dialogue: 0,0:36:03.07,0:36:09.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to happen -- heat waves, extreme weather,\Nfloods. OK, sure. But I mean, really, is that Dialogue: 0,0:36:09.85,0:36:16.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the thing I care about most. There's all these\Nother issues in my life that are more pressing Dialogue: 0,0:36:17.42,0:36:21.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For someone who is engaged in a struggle for\Nhigher minimum wage Dialogue: 0,0:36:21.35,0:36:23.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or worries about health care,\Nit's understandable that these molecules Dialogue: 0,0:36:23.99,0:36:27.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,floating around the air seem invisible\Nand abstract Dialogue: 0,0:36:30.23,0:36:35.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Humans have this thing that we call a finite\Npool of worry. You've got your mortgage you've Dialogue: 0,0:36:35.56,0:36:39.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,got to pay you've got your kids you've got\Nto take care of -- and they tend to be more immediate Dialogue: 0,0:36:42.42,0:36:46.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We respond to things that feel\Nincredibly urgent, like a gun to the head, Dialogue: 0,0:36:46.83,0:36:52.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a stampede a wild elephants. Climate change\Nis a completely Dialogue: 0,0:36:52.36,0:36:58.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,different kind of risk. It plays out\Nover these very long time scales, and it's Dialogue: 0,0:36:58.41,0:37:02.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,really hard to perceive it as a very urgent threat Dialogue: 0,0:37:02.25,0:37:06.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The other thing that happens is that there's something\Ncalled a "single action bias" Dialogue: 0,0:37:06.91,0:37:12.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have this tendency to see a threat, and we try\Nto fix it with one thing Dialogue: 0,0:37:12.15,0:37:16.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's like the silver bullet solution. When we look at climate change we become overwhelmed by it Dialogue: 0,0:37:16.60,0:37:21.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because there's so many different ways that we're\Ngoing to need to fix it Dialogue: 0,0:37:22.60,0:37:29.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,25 years we've been talking about climate change. The\Nlevel of scientific reports becomes higher and higher Dialogue: 0,0:37:29.50,0:37:33.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[George Marshall - Author, "Don't Even Think About it"]\NWhy has that still not compelled Dialogue: 0,0:37:33.72,0:37:35.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the majority of people to action? Dialogue: 0,0:37:39.47,0:37:44.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Cognitive psychologists have been mapping\Nthe processing systems within our brains Dialogue: 0,0:37:44.18,0:37:48.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they have found that there are two parallel\Nand deeply interlocked processing systems Dialogue: 0,0:37:51.18,0:37:57.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The rational side, the analytic side\Nwhich deals with information, facts, data Dialogue: 0,0:37:57.38,0:38:04.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we have another side which is a much more\Nintuitive and emotionally driven side Dialogue: 0,0:38:04.08,0:38:10.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is that emotional system that moves us into action Dialogue: 0,0:38:10.94,0:38:16.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The challenge for climate change is how do\Nwe get something that's so based in the science Dialogue: 0,0:38:16.06,0:38:22.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to cross over to the side that makes us feel\Nsomething Dialogue: 0,0:38:22.54,0:38:26.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People are reluctant to stand up and take action if they don't see many other people around and taking action Dialogue: 0,0:38:26.79,0:38:31.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that is why it is absolutely critical\Nthat there are people who seem to be doing something Dialogue: 0,0:38:31.42,0:38:36.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are creating the breakage Dialogue: 0,0:38:36.17,0:38:41.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Climate changes is strangely, \Nmaybe uniquely, problematic Dialogue: 0,0:38:41.88,0:38:50.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because not only are we all bystanders, we are also perpetrators actively contributing to the thing Dialogue: 0,0:38:50.34,0:38:54.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we recognize a problem, we become morally compelled to take action on it Dialogue: 0,0:38:54.77,0:38:58.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is a fundamental tipping point at which\Nthat has to happen Dialogue: 0,0:39:02.04,0:39:04.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,25 DAYS UNTIL THE MARCH Dialogue: 0,0:39:06.46,0:39:08.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[People's Climate Tour - Boston, MA] Dialogue: 0,0:39:08.46,0:39:12.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Change doesn't happen because people\Ndecide to stay home and click "like" on Facebook Dialogue: 0,0:39:12.36,0:39:16.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Vanessa Rule - Co-Director, Mothers Out Front]\NChange happens because people like you and I Dialogue: 0,0:39:16.30,0:39:18.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,decide to get involved Dialogue: 0,0:39:18.89,0:39:25.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We didn't want to leave it to world leaders -- their track record is not very good in dealing with this question Dialogue: 0,0:39:25.24,0:39:28.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Joe Uehlein - Founder, Labor Network for Sustainability] Dialogue: 0,0:39:28.10,0:39:34.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am a trade unionist and I am an environmentalist\Nand I see no conflict whatsoever in those two things Dialogue: 0,0:39:35.15,0:39:42.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's in our core self-interest as a \Ntrade union movement to help build Dialogue: 0,0:39:42.14,0:39:47.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the path to a sustainable future and get on\Nthe right side of the climate change issue Dialogue: 0,0:39:47.85,0:39:51.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sooner rather than later Dialogue: 0,0:40:01.42,0:40:05.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Normally it takes a long time to switch energy sources -- Dialogue: 0,0:40:05.14,0:40:07.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,50 or 60 years to go from wood to coal, coal to oil and gas Dialogue: 0,0:40:07.40,0:40:09.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We lack 50 or 60 years Dialogue: 0,0:40:09.96,0:40:15.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The reason we want to get off of fossil\Nfuels now is because we have to Dialogue: 0,0:40:15.73,0:40:17.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to protect our way of life Dialogue: 0,0:40:17.62,0:40:24.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need vision for what the \Npost-carbon economy looks like Dialogue: 0,0:40:24.62,0:40:28.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is inspiring enough and delivers enough Dialogue: 0,0:40:28.56,0:40:33.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in terms of jobs, in terms of new opportunities Dialogue: 0,0:40:33.52,0:40:35.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in terms of better health Dialogue: 0,0:40:35.07,0:40:38.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It has to be exciting Dialogue: 0,0:40:38.52,0:40:44.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are many more jobs available to people\Nwho are going to be building wind turbines Dialogue: 0,0:40:44.01,0:40:47.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,retrofitting houses so they waste less energy Dialogue: 0,0:40:47.22,0:40:51.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Solar panels have to be installed by a person\N-- that person has to go to your home Dialogue: 0,0:40:51.63,0:40:55.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's no way to outsource putting \Nthat solar panel onto a roof Dialogue: 0,0:40:55.80,0:41:00.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A 100 percent renewable economy is within our grasp -- Dialogue: 0,0:41:00.54,0:41:03.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is economically and technologically possible Dialogue: 0,0:41:03.22,0:41:07.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not something that we need to keep researching because it's always off in the distance Dialogue: 0,0:41:07.08,0:41:10.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No, it's here. It's a question\Nof political will Dialogue: 0,0:41:10.85,0:41:16.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you look at the renewable revolution that's\Nhappened in Germany, it wasn't about leaving Dialogue: 0,0:41:16.49,0:41:20.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the renewable sector to the market, it was\Nabout creating different incentives -- Dialogue: 0,0:41:20.27,0:41:23.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and there was an explosion of\Ninnovation and creativity Dialogue: 0,0:41:23.07,0:41:26.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Germany is now the number one solar\Ncountry in the world, even though they had Dialogue: 0,0:41:26.91,0:41:31.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the same amount of solar incidence as Alaska Dialogue: 0,0:41:31.64,0:41:36.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can we do it? Can we take the power\Nthat has been highly centralized Dialogue: 0,0:41:36.84,0:41:41.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and highly focused and controlled by very few hands Dialogue: 0,0:41:41.59,0:41:43.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it is not an accident that very few hands controlling power in the sense of electricity Dialogue: 0,0:41:43.50,0:41:48.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,leads to very few hands controlling power in the sense of political power Dialogue: 0,0:41:49.48,0:41:52.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are going to try a global experiment \Nthat is going to be the most difficult Dialogue: 0,0:41:52.34,0:41:55.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,thing humans have ever done \Nwhich is to rip those two apart Dialogue: 0,0:41:55.02,0:41:57.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which means we are democratizing\Npower Dialogue: 0,0:41:57.11,0:41:59.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in both senses of the word Dialogue: 0,0:41:59.54,0:42:06.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The real question is, are we gonna scrape the\Nbottom up the barrel for the last polycarbons Dialogue: 0,0:42:06.28,0:42:12.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on Earth, to burn them too. Or can we actually\Nshow some restraint Dialogue: 0,0:42:12.15,0:42:14.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,-- which we ask our children to do ("don't eat the last 17 marshmallows") Dialogue: 0,0:42:14.60,0:42:20.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,could you just show some restraint and choose a wiser course? Dialogue: 0,0:42:20.12,0:42:26.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A Canadian company called TransCanada\Nwants to build the Keystone XL pipeline Dialogue: 0,0:42:26.64,0:42:30.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The $13 billion dollar system would carry crude\Noil Dialogue: 0,0:42:30.04,0:42:34.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the so-called tar sands region in Alberta to Houston, Texas for refining Dialogue: 0,0:42:34.74,0:42:38.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Keystone XL pipeline has become a huge\Nfocus of controversy Dialogue: 0,0:42:38.95,0:42:41.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tar sands oil is particularly dirty, it's particularly carbon-intensive Dialogue: 0,0:42:41.16,0:42:46.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,An estimated 2,000 environmental activists\Nfrom across the continent plan to gather in Dialogue: 0,0:42:46.12,0:42:48.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Washington, D.C. to launch a two-week protest Dialogue: 0,0:42:48.89,0:42:53.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It has become a symbol to both sides in\Nthis debate where the people who want further Dialogue: 0,0:42:53.37,0:42:58.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,development of fossil fuels see getting Keystone\Nthrough as core to their strategy Dialogue: 0,0:42:58.96,0:43:02.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And on the other side, the climate activists see\Nit as a symbolic fight that they have to win Dialogue: 0,0:43:02.81,0:43:05.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm here as a Nebraska citizen and landowner Dialogue: 0,0:43:05.44,0:43:09.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm on the advisory board of the Center for Health and the Global Environment Dialogue: 0,0:43:09.39,0:43:10.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm an Evangelical Christian Dialogue: 0,0:43:10.90,0:43:13.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm a proud member of the Transport Workers Union of America Dialogue: 0,0:43:13.72,0:43:18.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know what's so fascinating about this\Nwhole Keystone thing is that that was supposed Dialogue: 0,0:43:18.08,0:43:22.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be a wedge and instead\Nit's been turned upside down Dialogue: 0,0:43:22.16,0:43:24.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now it's actually a base that is lining up Dialogue: 0,0:43:24.70,0:43:26.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,constituency after constituency Dialogue: 0,0:43:26.68,0:43:32.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today we act. Today we send a message to them,\Nand everybody else Dialogue: 0,0:43:32.22,0:43:36.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are taking back our futures! Dialogue: 0,0:43:36.56,0:43:42.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Something extraordinary and unexpected has\Nbackfired out of the ambition of the fossil fuel companies Dialogue: 0,0:43:42.71,0:43:44.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They've built a movement by mistake Dialogue: 0,0:43:44.61,0:43:48.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you are going to be risking arrest, you're\Ngoing to be lining up over here Dialogue: 0,0:43:48.19,0:43:50.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of the tools that came into play was Dialogue: 0,0:43:50.31,0:43:55.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,peaceful civil disobedience to show the moral\Nurgency of these problems Dialogue: 0,0:43:55.67,0:43:59.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that this was the crisis of our time Dialogue: 0,0:43:59.73,0:44:03.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I saw a story in one of the trade publications of the oil industry not long ago Dialogue: 0,0:44:03.76,0:44:07.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they said, "We're never going\Nto get to build another pipeline in peace again" Dialogue: 0,0:44:07.94,0:44:12.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I hope they're right Dialogue: 0,0:44:27.78,0:44:34.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As scientists, we study this out of this fascination,\Nand kind of awe -- this whole system that Dialogue: 0,0:44:34.79,0:44:36.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we call "home" Dialogue: 0,0:44:36.20,0:44:41.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are on this planet that\Nis so perfectly built to sustain life Dialogue: 0,0:44:41.45,0:44:45.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We got so lucky. And then you begin to think Dialogue: 0,0:44:45.39,0:44:52.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what do you do with this knowledge -- this unbearable,\Nincredibly depressing knowledge that the decision Dialogue: 0,0:44:52.01,0:44:56.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to burn fossil fuels was a decision that had\Ntremendous downside risks Dialogue: 0,0:44:56.97,0:45:01.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we didn't realize immediately Dialogue: 0,0:45:01.25,0:45:06.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I read a climate science article that talks about\Nmid-century projections, what I read is what Dialogue: 0,0:45:06.19,0:45:12.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is going to happen when my kid is 40 -- that's what\NI see on the page and for me it is absolutely Dialogue: 0,0:45:12.42,0:45:19.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my responsibility then to do whatever it takes\Nto protect my child Dialogue: 0,0:45:19.36,0:45:24.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Alice Walker says that resistance is the secret\Nof joy -- and I don't know if it's the secret Dialogue: 0,0:45:24.59,0:45:28.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of joy, but I know it is definitely the secret\Nof staving off depression Dialogue: 0,0:45:28.88,0:45:33.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The reality we're facing is very grave, so\Nhow do you not get depressed about it Dialogue: 0,0:45:33.95,0:45:35.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well one way you don't get depressed is by work Dialogue: 0,0:45:40.26,0:45:43.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Things change for lots of different reasons Dialogue: 0,0:45:43.35,0:45:48.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's all kinds of dynamics -- but one central element\Nis people being in the streets Dialogue: 0,0:45:49.88,0:45:53.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All of us must stand up together and say, "No more!" Dialogue: 0,0:45:55.18,0:45:58.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We live in a culture\Nthat doesn't tell us our own history Dialogue: 0,0:45:58.94,0:46:01.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that doesn't tell us the history of social movement wins Dialogue: 0,0:46:01.78,0:46:07.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the times in our past when masses of people\Nhave taken the wheel of history and turned it Dialogue: 0,0:46:07.28,0:46:12.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was only one percent of Americans\Nthat ever took part in the civil rights demonstration Dialogue: 0,0:46:12.58,0:46:18.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but they were able to change our society\Nenough to stand up to those powers that be Dialogue: 0,0:46:18.70,0:46:25.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think that this march will go down as one\Nof the greatest, if not the greatest Dialogue: 0,0:46:25.86,0:46:30.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,demonstrations for freedom and human dignity ever held in the United States Dialogue: 0,0:46:30.86,0:46:35.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Martin Luther King always said that the victories\Nthat had been won so far Dialogue: 0,0:46:35.86,0:46:41.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were the ones that were cheapest to the status quo. Giving legal rights and giving voting rights Dialogue: 0,0:46:41.88,0:46:47.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,doesn't cost the system nearly as much as providing\Ngood jobs and infrastructure and good schools Dialogue: 0,0:46:47.94,0:46:51.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We as a people will get to the promised land Dialogue: 0,0:46:51.76,0:46:55.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Big victories have been won before, \Nbut nothing on the scale Dialogue: 0,0:46:55.42,0:46:58.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the economic challenge that really\Nresponding to the climate crisis represents Dialogue: 0,0:46:59.16,0:47:02.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have a responsibility to rise to our historical moment Dialogue: 0,0:47:03.08,0:47:07.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are joining around the world to say the time has come Dialogue: 0,0:47:07.72,0:47:11.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we're going to have a movement worthy of\Nthe name, solidarity among all these different Dialogue: 0,0:47:11.86,0:47:14.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,causes needs to be the foremost principle Dialogue: 0,0:47:14.95,0:47:20.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's this broad and powerful spectrum of allies\Nthat has the political weight Dialogue: 0,0:47:20.08,0:47:21.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to move the dialogue on this Dialogue: 0,0:47:21.61,0:47:25.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a tipping point coming, where the\Nonline movements are going to move offline Dialogue: 0,0:47:25.59,0:47:31.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we can push this to where there's a social\Ntipping point, we really can move forward on this issue Dialogue: 0,0:47:32.54,0:47:34.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We will not be stopped Dialogue: 0,0:47:34.54,0:47:36.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Take action right now Dialogue: 0,0:47:36.54,0:47:39.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the issue that I will vote on, this is the issue I will bid money on Dialogue: 0,0:47:39.60,0:47:42.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the issue I will scream at the top of\Nmy lungs into a bullhorn over Dialogue: 0,0:47:42.70,0:47:45.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is what moves politics Dialogue: 0,0:47:45.34,0:47:47.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,14 DAYS UNTIL THE MARCH Dialogue: 0,0:47:47.50,0:47:53.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The People's Climate March is our chance to\Nshow the immense power of people in solidarity Dialogue: 0,0:47:55.50,0:47:59.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Heads of state are gathering. They need us\Nto say, "We demand action" Dialogue: 0,0:47:59.87,0:48:03.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the right thing, at the right time,\Nin the right place Dialogue: 0,0:48:03.14,0:48:06.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The whole world will be watching Dialogue: 0,0:48:06.63,0:48:12.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nothing moves public opinion, more than seeing\Nlarge numbers of people gathered Dialogue: 0,0:48:12.12,0:48:18.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A march is not an end in itself. It is a tool.\NIn my heart of hearts I know that this Dialogue: 0,0:48:18.30,0:48:23.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People's Climate March in September will serve to deepen this movement Dialogue: 0,0:48:23.33,0:48:28.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I will be there in New York, September 21st Dialogue: 0,0:48:28.17,0:48:32.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is no replacement, even in the digital\Nage, for human bodies, next to each other, Dialogue: 0,0:48:32.78,0:48:39.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,standing as one, hearts beating as one, voices raised as one, making a political demand Dialogue: 0,0:48:40.62,0:48:43.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you don't fight for what you want, you\Ndeserve what you get Dialogue: 0,0:48:44.70,0:48:47.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,September 21st, in some ways, is the beginning Dialogue: 0,0:48:47.64,0:48:51.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are teams around the world, organizing\Nmarches in Rio, in Delhi, in Berlin, in Paris, Dialogue: 0,0:48:51.91,0:48:54.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in London Dialogue: 0,0:48:54.04,0:48:59.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People around the world will get together\Nin the largest climate change mobilization in history Dialogue: 0,0:48:59.37,0:49:03.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Are you ready to march? Are you ready to march? Dialogue: 0,0:49:09.75,0:49:13.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,HERE IS WHAT YOU CAN DO RIGHT NOW Dialogue: 0,0:49:14.02,0:49:19.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,JOIN THE MARCH\NPEOPLESCLIMATE.ORG Dialogue: 0,0:49:20.48,0:49:25.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,SEND A MESSAGE \NText DISRUPT to 97779 Dialogue: 0,0:49:26.93,0:49:31.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,SHARE THIS MOVIE \Nwatchdisruption.com Dialogue: 0,0:49:32.08,0:49:36.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can't undo the day after something like\Nthat happens Dialogue: 0,0:50:04.02,0:50:10.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is a line that divides good from evil,\Nand it runs down the middle Dialogue: 0,0:50:10.18,0:50:11.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of every single person Dialogue: 0,0:50:11.89,0:50:16.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we prevail, it won't just be because\Nwe defeated the worst instincts in other people Dialogue: 0,0:50:16.93,0:50:21.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It will be because we overcame the worst instincts\Nand the worst fears, even within ourselves