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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.96,0:00:05.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[ominous music]\N>> Ancient life on earth.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:05.66,0:00:10.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Over millions of years plants and animals lived and died.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.86,0:00:16.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That decomposed life sunk deep into the ground, and as a result,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.10,0:00:21.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an ancient menace was created...fossil fuels.\N
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.61,0:00:27.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Black oil, coal, and gas, have created modern society as we know it.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.84,0:00:33.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This ancient sunlight unleashed global industrial power on a scale
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.48,0:00:37.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,never before witnessed in the history of the planet.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.05,0:00:41.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But when burnt into the atmosphere, carbon causes climate change.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.25,0:00:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ninety-seven percent of climate scientists agree that climate change
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.00,0:00:49.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is happening now and is caused by human activity.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.69,0:00:54.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,However, the fossil fuel industry continues to pull that carbon out of the ground.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.30,0:00:59.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They drill, they extract, making trillions of dollars.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.13,0:01:04.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They frack, they mine, earning astronomical profits.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.80,0:01:09.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need to keep this carbon in the ground.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In order to prevent a catastrophic warming of the planet by 2 degrees Celsius,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we cannot burn more than 500 gigatons of carbon into the atmosphere.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the fossil fuel industry has access to five times more than that.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Almost twenty-eight-hundred gigatons of carbon pollution is ready to be pulled out of the ground, sold, and burned.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We must fight to keep this carbon in the ground., and it is possible.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>> People are ready for conversation. They're ready to understand that carbon pollution is causing this challenge,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that there is a simple solution. Put a price on carbon pollution.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the United States we spend $110 billion federal dollars on climate change events.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's about $300 a person in tax dollars.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>> But which certainly need a price on carbon pollution.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Right now it's a free good and we're using the atmosphere as a sewer and that has a real cost.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that cost should be reflected in the cost of carbon pollution.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>> In the '50s in London, based on the industrial revolution,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there was so much pollution, as you see in Beijing and around China today,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you actually couldn't see six straight feet in front of you.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They put a price on pollution, and it changed.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>> You have to put a price on carbon, and that can either happen by carbon trading or through a carbon tax.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a moral imperative there, but there's also a business imperative.