1 00:00:00,961 --> 00:00:05,658 [ominous music] >> Ancient life on earth. 2 00:00:05,658 --> 00:00:10,861 Over millions of years plants and animals lived and died. 3 00:00:10,861 --> 00:00:16,095 That decomposed life sunk deep into the ground, and as a result, 4 00:00:16,095 --> 00:00:21,611 an ancient menace was created...fossil fuels. 5 00:00:21,611 --> 00:00:27,836 Black oil, coal, and gas, have created modern society as we know it. 6 00:00:27,836 --> 00:00:33,484 This ancient sunlight unleashed global industrial power on a scale 7 00:00:33,484 --> 00:00:37,051 never before witnessed in the history of the planet. 8 00:00:37,051 --> 00:00:41,253 But when burnt into the atmosphere, carbon causes climate change. 9 00:00:41,253 --> 00:00:46,001 Ninety-seven percent of climate scientists agree that climate change 10 00:00:46,001 --> 00:00:49,690 is happening now and is caused by human activity. 11 00:00:49,690 --> 00:00:54,304 However, the fossil fuel industry continues to pull that carbon out of the ground. 12 00:00:54,304 --> 00:00:59,127 They drill, they extract, making trillions of dollars. 13 00:00:59,127 --> 00:01:04,804 They frack, they mine, earning astronomical profits. 14 00:01:04,804 --> 00:01:09,486 We need to keep this carbon in the ground. 15 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 In order to prevent a catastrophic warming of the planet by 2 degrees Celsius, 16 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 we cannot burn more than 500 gigatons of carbon into the atmosphere. 17 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 But the fossil fuel industry has access to five times more than that. 18 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Almost twenty-eight-hundred gigatons of carbon pollution is ready to be pulled out of the ground, sold, and burned. 19 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 We must fight to keep this carbon in the ground., and it is possible.