[ominous music] >> Ancient life on earth.
Over millions of years plants and animals lived and died.
That decomposed life sunk deep into the ground, and as a result,
an ancient menace was created...fossil fuels.
Black oil, coal, and gas, have created modern society as we know it.
This ancient sunlight unleashed global industrial power on a scale
never before witnessed in the history of the planet.
But when burnt into the atmosphere, carbon causes climate change.
Ninety-seven percent of climate scientists agree that climate change
is happening now and is caused by human activity.
However, the fossil fuel industry continues to pull that carbon out of the ground.
They drill, they extract, making trillions of dollars.
They frack, they mine, earning astronomical profits.
We need to keep this carbon in the ground.
In order to prevent a catastrophic warming of the planet by 2 degrees Celsius,
we cannot burn more than 500 gigatons of carbon into the atmosphere.
But the fossil fuel industry has access to five times more than that.
Almost twenty-eight-hundred gigatons of carbon pollution is ready to be pulled out of the ground, sold, and burned.
We must fight to keep this carbon in the ground., and it is possible.