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Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[ominous music]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Leonardo DiCaprio) Ancient life on earth.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Over millions of years plants and animals lived and died.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That decomposed life sunk deep into the ground, and as a result,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an ancient menace was created...fossil fuels.\N
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Black oil, coal, and gas, have created modern society as we know it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This ancient sunlight unleashed global industrial power on a scale
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,never before witnessed in the history of the planet.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But when burnt into the atmosphere, carbon causes climate change.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ninety-seven percent of climate scientists agree that climate change
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is happening now and is caused by human activity.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,However, the fossil fuel industry continues to pull that carbon out of the ground.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They drill, they extract, making trillions of dollars.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They frack, they mine, earning astronomical profits.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,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 2800 gigatons of carbon pollution
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,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 we 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,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,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.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>> Senator Boxer and I have introduced legislation to do just that. We are going
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to do it in a way that impacts fewer than 3,000 of the most significant
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fossil fuel polluters in the country. And the reason you do it , is people should not have
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the " freedom" to destroy the planet.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They cannot continue to be able to do that with impunity.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>> The government has been subsidizing energy for decades
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the tune now of a trillion dollars a year. We need to redirect these subsidies
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that encourage innovation. That's what we need in the world.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the biggest barrier is money from fossil industries that want to defend
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their market share, and which I consider the industries' walking butt. They've got
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tremendous assets underground that they want to be able to mine.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those are trillions of dollars of assets that the fossil energy companies used
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to evaluate their worth in the stock market. And the fact that we want to strand them,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to leave them underground is not going over real well In those industries.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But in fact, if we wanted to head off the worst uncontrollable damages
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from climate change, that's what we have to do.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thom Hartmann: Finland and the Netherlands implemented a carbon tax back in 1990.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Both, putting a price tag on each ton of CO2 poison.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>> In the beginning of the '90s there was a deep understanding that we should do something.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We think that the Finnish economy should be based on sustainable energy in order
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to make our society competitive and in order to save our planet, which is, of course, the main target.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thom Hartmann: Since then, several other nations have created their own versions,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,including Norway, Costa Rica, and the United Kingdom.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ireland passed a carbon tax in 2010.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>> It was very simple to introduce. When they see a carbon tax in place,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people know that they can invest in alternatives that actually
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cut out the use of fossil fuel.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It starts to have that effect improving energy efficiency in your homes and improving industries' energy efficiency.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what we've seen in the last 5 years is we have doubled amount
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of renewable energy supplies, so the benefit for the consumer
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is if through those signals you can cut out the wasteful use of energy, then everyone
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is saving money and it more than covers the cost of the carbon tax in the first place.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thom Hartmann: In Australia, renewables like wind are now cheaper than fossil fuels
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like coal. Recently China put a price on carbon in over 7 regions and will add more.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now it's up to the United States, where there's good news at a local level.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 2007, Boulder, Colorado passed a carbon tax charging $13 for every metric ton of CO2.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>> The carbon tax was generated and voted into place by Boulder voters.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it's a surcharge on electricity consumption and it's applied to residential,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,commercial, and industrial customers here in Boulder. The effect has been really tremendous.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So once the carbon tax went into place, it has generated about 1.8 million dollars a year.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What's been extraordinary is that we've been able to really turn the curve,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so to speak, on our emissions just on demand side alone.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>> We actually proposed that every single dollar go back to American households.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Carbon tax is the right way to go and is actually the conservative answer to global warming.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>> Finally we're at the point where wind power and solar are coming down in price
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a quarter of the United States. Solar voltaics are already cost effective.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Last year more wind power was added than natural gas power.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is true around the world. We have the technologies at hand.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are ready now to really ramp up deployment.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>> The figures for Ireland I think show an example that you can actually start
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cutting out the carbon and your economy still holds up.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The world didn't come to an end. I think it's a lesson for the rest of the world.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>> We've been disappointed by the national policymakers who haven't been
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,able to resolve their differences about this, and time is growing, very, very short.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,President Obama is the last president with a chance to confront this problem
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in an way that may head off the worst of the damage.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>> But given the severity of the problem right now, we're not moving fast enough.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're looking at a fight to save this planet.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we have got to be bold and we have got to be aggressive.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,>> If it's not going to happen at the federal level or the state level,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we in the communities where the innovation occurs, where we're gonna be
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the front lines of the impact of climate change, we need to take it
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in our own hands and make the changes that we need to see.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Leonardo DiCaprio) If national governments won't take action,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your community can. We no longer need the dead economy of the fossil fuel industry.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can move our economy town by town, state by state to renewable energy
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a sustainable future.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To learn more and join the movement,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,go to greenworld rising.og.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[tranquil mid tempo orchestral music]