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(Leonardo DiCaprio) Ancient life on earth.

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Over millions of years plants and animals lived and died.

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That decomposed life sunk deep into the ground, and as a result,

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an ancient menace was created...fossil fuels.


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Black oil, coal, and gas, have created modern society as we know it.

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This ancient sunlight unleashed global industrial power on a scale

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never before witnessed in the history of the planet.

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But when burnt into the atmosphere, carbon causes climate change.

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Ninety-seven percent of climate scientists agree that climate change

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is happening now and is caused by human activity.

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However, the fossil fuel industry continues to pull that carbon out of the ground.

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They drill, they extract, making trillions of dollars.

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They frack, they mine, earning astronomical profits.

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We need to keep this carbon in the ground.

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In order to prevent a catastrophic warming of the planet by 2 degrees Celsius,

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we cannot burn more than 500 gigatons of carbon into the atmosphere.

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But the fossil fuel industry has access to five times more than that.

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Almost twenty-eight-hundred gigatons of carbon pollution is ready to be pulled out of the ground, sold, and burned.

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We must fight to keep this carbon in the ground., and it is possible.

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- People are ready for conversation. They're ready to understand that carbon pollution is causing this challenge,

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And that there is a simple solution. Put a price on carbon pollution.

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In the United States we spend $110 billion federal dollars on climate change events.

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That's about $300 a person in tax dollars.

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- But which certainly need a price on carbon pollution.

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Right now it's a free good and we're using the atmosphere as a sewer and that has a real cost.

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And that cost should be reflected in the cost of carbon pollution.

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- In the '50s in London, based on the industrial revolution,

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there was so much pollution, as you see in Beijing and around China today,

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that you actually couldn't see six straight feet in front of you.

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They put a price on pollution, and it changed.

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- You have to put a price on carbon,

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and that can either happen by carbon trading or through a carbon tax.

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There's a moral imperative there, but there's also a business imperative.

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- Senator Boxer and I have introduced legislation to do just that. We are going

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to do it in a way that impacts fewer than 3,000 of the most significant

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fossil fuel polluters in the country. And the reason you do it , is people should not have

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the " freedom" to destroy the planet.

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They cannot continue to be able to do that with impunity.

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