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[ominous music][br]>> 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.[br]

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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.