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Carbon

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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 2800 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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    >> The government has been subsidizing energy for decades
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    to the tune now of a trillion dollars a year. We need to redirect these subsidies
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    that encourage innovation. That's what we need in the world.
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    But the biggest barrier is money from fossil industries that want to defend
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    their market share, and which I consider the industries' walking butt. They've got
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    tremendous assets underground that they want to be able to mine.
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    Those are trillions of dollars of assets that the fossil energy companies used
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    to evaluate their worth in the stock market. And the fact that we want to strand them,
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    to leave them underground is not going over real well In those industries.
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    But in fact, if we wanted to head off the worst uncontrollable damages
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    from climate change, that's what we have to do.
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    Thom Hartmann: Finland and the Netherlands implemented a carbon tax back in 1990.
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    Both, putting a price tag on each ton of CO2 poison.
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    >> In the beginning of the '90s there was a deep understanding that we should do something.
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    We think that the Finnish economy should be based on sustainable energy in order
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    to make our society competitive and in order to save our planet, which is, of course, the main target.
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    Thom Hartmann: Since then several other nations have created their own versions, including
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    Norway, Costa Rica, and the United Kingdom.
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    Ireland passed a carbon tax in 2010.
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    >> It was very simple to introduce. When they see a carbon tax in place,
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    people know that they can invest in alternatives that actually
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    cut out the use of fossil fuel.
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    It starts to have that effect improving energy efficiency in your homes and improving industries' energy efficiency.
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    And what we've seen in the last 5 years is we have doubled amount
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    of renewable energy supplies, so the benefit for the consumer
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    is if through those signals you can cut out the wasteful use of energy, then everyone
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    is saving money and it more than covers the cost of the carbon tax in the first place.
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    Thom Hartmann: In Australia, renewables like wind are now cheaper than fossil fuels
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    like coal. Recently China put a price on carbon in over 7 regions and will add more.
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    Now it's up to the United States, where there's good news at a local level.
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    In 2007, Boulder, Colorado passed a carbon tax charging $13 for every metric ton of CO2.
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    >> The carbon tax was generated and voted into place by Boulder voters.
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    So it's a surcharge on electricity consumption and it's applied to residential,
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    commercial, and industrial customers here in Boulder. The effect has been really tremendous.
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    So once the carbon tax went into place, it has generated about 1.8 million dollars a year.
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    What's been extraordinary is that we've been able to really turn the curve so to speak on our emissions
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    just on demand side alone.
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    >> We actually proposed that every single dollar go back to American households.
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    Carbon tax is the right way to go and is actually the conservative answer to global warming.
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    >> Finally we're at the point where wind power and solar are coming down in price
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    in a quarter of the United States. Solar voltaics are already cost effective.
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    Last year more wind power was added than natural gas power.
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    And this is true around the world. We have the technologies at hand.
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    We are ready now to really ramp up deployment.
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    >> The figures for Ireland I think show an example that you can actually start
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    cutting out the carbon and your economy still holds up.
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    The world didn't come to an end. I think it's a lesson for the rest of the world.
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    >> We've been disappointed by the national policymakers who haven't been
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    able to resolve their differences about this, and time is growing, very, very short.
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    President Obama is the last president with a chance to confront this problem
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    in an way that may head off the worst of the damage.
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    >> But given the severity of the problem right now, we're not moving fast enough.
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    We're looking at a fight to save this planet.
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    And we have got to be bold and we have got to be aggressive.
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    >> If it's not going to happen at the federal level or the state level,
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    we in the communities where the innovation occurs, where we're gonna be
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    on the front lines of the impact of climate change, we need to take it
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    in our own hands and make the changes that we need to see.
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    (Leonardo DiCaprio) If national governments won't take action,
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    your community can. We no longer need the dead economy of the fossil fuel industry.
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    We can move our economy town by town, state by state to renewable energy
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    and a sustainable future.
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    To learn more and join the movement,
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    go to greenworld rising.og.
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    [tranquil mid tempo orchestral music]
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  • Hi Robert,

    I'm so glad you undertook the captioning of this video, and the way you are splitting captions.

    Thank you!

  • Claude:

    Thank you for the encouragement. Very much appreciated. I hope to try and do the entire video.

  • That's great, Roberto! However, don't hesitate to ask if you want some help: e.g. the other voices than DiCaprio are identified in on-video texts: you could re-use that, or simply mar changes of speakers with ">>".

    Best

    Claude

  • Hey there, Claude:

    Thanks mucho for the input and tips. I did actually finish the whole thing!!! Yaaaaay! Whew!! ... but just haven't done the sync yet, and still not sure I like all the groupings yet.

    As far as speaker ID, DiCaprio and Hartmann I know of and identified. The rest of them, I used the "-" indication as per the "Rev" company guidelines I trained and tested for and the Amara guidlines. However, I started out using what you suggested, ">>", which I like a lot better, and may go back and change it to that. However, I was looking into Amara's offer of doing paid work for them, and so was trying to stick more to their style since they want to see what one's subtitling work looks like. Anyway, next stop, "sync."

    Again, thanks for the support and suggestions. I hope to have this project finished early this week.

    Appreciatively,

    Robert

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