Carbon
-
0:00 - 0:03♪[ominous music]♪
-
0:03 - 0:05(Leonardo DiCaprio) Ancient life on earth.
-
0:06 - 0:11Over millions of years
plants and animals lived and died. -
0:11 - 0:16That decomposed life sunk
deep into the ground, and as a result, -
0:16 - 0:22an ancient menace was created...
fossil fuels. -
0:22 - 0:28Black oil, coal, and gas, have created
modern society as we know it. -
0:28 - 0:33This ancient sunlight unleashed
global industrial power on a scale -
0:33 - 0:37never before witnessed
in the history of the planet. -
0:37 - 0:42But when burnt into the atmosphere,
carbon causes climate change. -
0:42 - 0:4697% of climate scientists
agree that climate change -
0:46 - 0:50is happening now
and is caused by human activity. -
0:50 - 0:55However, the fossil fuel industry continues
to pull that carbon out of the ground. -
0:55 - 0:59They drill, they extract, making trillions of dollars.
-
1:00 - 1:05They frack, they mine, earning astronomical profits.
-
1:06 - 1:09We need to keep this carbon in the ground.
-
1:10 - 1:13In order to prevent a catastrophic
warming of the planet -
1:13 - 1:18by 2 degrees Celsius, we cannot burn
more than 500 gigatons -
1:18 - 1:23of carbon into the atmosphere.
But the fossil fuel industry has access -
1:23 - 1:28to five times more than that.
Almost 2800 gigatons of carbon pollution -
1:28 - 1:33is ready to be pulled out of the ground,
sold, and burned. -
1:33 - 1:37We must fight to keep this carbon
in the ground, and it is possible. -
1:40 - 1:43>> People are ready for conversation.
They're ready to understand -
1:43 - 1:45that carbon pollution
is causing this challenge, -
1:45 - 1:47and that there is a simple solution...
-
1:47 - 1:50Put a price on carbon pollution.
-
1:50 - 1:53In the United States we spend
$110 billion federal dollars -
1:53 - 1:58on climate change events.
That's about $300 a person in tax dollars. -
1:59 - 2:01>> But we certainly need a price
on carbon pollution. -
2:01 - 2:06Right now it's a free good and we're using
the atmosphere as a sewer, and that has -
2:06 - 2:10a real cost. And that cost should be
reflected in the cost of carbon pollution. -
2:10 - 2:12>> In the '50s in London,
based on the industrial revolution, -
2:12 - 2:16there was so much pollution,
as you see in Beijing and around -
2:16 - 2:19China today, that you actually couldn't
see six straight feet in front of you. -
2:19 - 2:22They put a price on pollution,
and it changed. -
2:22 - 2:25>> You have to put a price on carbon,
and that can either happen -
2:25 - 2:30by carbon trading or through a carbon tax.
There's a moral imperative there, -
2:30 - 2:33but there's also a business imperative.
-
2:33 - 2:36>> Senator Boxer and I have
introduced legislation to do just that. -
2:36 - 2:41We are going to do it in a way
that impacts fewer than 3,000 -
2:41 - 2:46of the most significant fossil fuel
polluters in the country. -
2:46 - 2:48And the reason you do it, is people should
-
2:48 - 2:52not have the " freedom"
to destroy the planet. -
2:52 - 2:55They cannot continue to be able
to do that with impunity -
2:55 - 2:58>>The government has been subsidizing energy for decades
-
2:58 - 3:02to the tune now of a trillion dollars
a year. We need to redirect these -
3:02 - 3:05subsidies that encourage innovation.
That's what we need in the world. -
3:05 - 3:08But the biggest barrier is money
from fossil industries that want to defend -
3:08 - 3:12their market share, and which I consider
the industries' walking butt. They've got -
3:12 - 3:15tremendous assets underground
that they want to be able to mine. -
3:15 - 3:18Those are trillions of dollars of assets
that the fossil energy companies used -
3:18 - 3:22to evaluate their worth in the stock
market. And the fact that we need -
3:22 - 3:24to strand them, to leave them
underground, is not going over real well -
3:24 - 3:28in those industries. But in fact,
if we wanted to head off the worst -
3:28 - 3:31uncontrollable damages from
climate change, that's what we have to do. -
3:31 - 3:35Thom Hartmann: Finland and the
Netherlands implemented a carbon tax -
3:35 - 3:42back in 1990. Both, putting a price tag
on each ton of CO2 poison. -
3:42 - 3:45>> In the beginning of the '90s
there was a deep understanding -
3:45 - 3:49that we should do something.
We think that the Finnish economy -
3:49 - 3:55should be based on sustainable energy
in order to make our society competitive -
3:55 - 3:59and in order to save our planet,
which is, of course, the main target. -
3:59 - 4:03Thom Hartmann : Since then, several other
nations have created their own versions, -
4:03 - 4:08including Norway, Costa Rica,
and the United Kingdom. -
4:08 - 4:12Ireland passed a carbon tax in 2010.
-
4:12 - 4:15>> It was very simple to introduce.
When they see a carbon tax in place, -
4:15 - 4:18people know that they can invest
in alternatives that actually -
4:18 - 4:19cut out the use of fossil fuel.
-
4:19 - 4:22It starts to have that effect improving
energy efficiency in your homes -
4:22 - 4:25and improving industries'
energy efficiency. -
4:25 - 4:28And what we've seen in the last
5 years is we doubled our amount -
4:28 - 4:33of renewable energy supplies,
so the benefit for the consumer -
4:33 - 4:36is if through those signals you can
cut out the wasteful use of energy, -
4:36 - 4:39then everyone is saving money
and it more than covers the cost -
4:39 - 4:41of the carbon tax in the first place.
-
4:41 - 4:46Thom Hartmann: In Australia, renewables
like wind are now cheaper -
4:46 - 4:51than fossil fuels like coal. Recently
China put a price on carbon -
4:51 - 4:55in over 7 regions and will add more.
-
4:55 - 4:59Now it's up to the United States,
where there's good news at a local level. -
4:59 - 5:04In 2007, Boulder, Colorado
passed a carbon tax -
5:04 - 5:09charging $13 for every metric ton of CO2.
-
5:10 - 5:13>> The carbon tax was generated
and voted into place by Boulder voters. -
5:13 - 5:16So it's a surcharge on electricity consumption and it's applied to residential,
-
5:16 - 5:19commercial, and industrial customers here in Boulder.
-
5:19 - 5:20The effect has been really tremendous.
-
5:20 - 5:22So once the carbon tax went into place,
-
5:22 - 5:25it has generated about
$1.8 million a year. -
5:25 - 5:29What's been extraordinary is that we've
been able to really turn the curve, -
5:29 - 5:32so to speak, on our emissions
just on demand side alone. -
5:32 - 5:36>> We actually proposed that every single
dollar go back to American households. -
5:36 - 5:40Carbon tax is the right way to go and is
actually the conservative answer -
5:40 - 5:41to global warming.
-
5:41 - 5:45>> Finally we're at the point where wind
power and solar are coming down in price -
5:45 - 5:50in a quarter of the United States.
Solar voltaics are already cost effective. -
5:50 - 5:55Last year more wind power was
added than natural gas power. -
5:55 - 5:58And this is true around the world.
We have the technologies at hand. -
5:58 - 6:01We are ready now to really
ramp up deployment. -
6:01 - 6:05>> The figures for Ireland I think
show an example that you can actually -
6:05 - 6:07start cutting out the carbon
and your economy still holds up. -
6:07 - 6:10The world didn't come to an end.
I think it's a lesson -
6:10 - 6:12for the rest of the world.
-
6:12 - 6:15>> We've been disappointed by the
national policymakers who haven't been -
6:15 - 6:19able to resolve their differences about
this and time is growing very, very short. -
6:19 - 6:23President Obama is the last president
with a chance to confront this problem -
6:23 - 6:26in a way that may head off
the worst of the damage. -
6:26 - 6:31>> But given the severity of the problem
right now, we're not moving fast enough. -
6:31 - 6:34We're looking at a fight
to save this planet. -
6:34 - 6:36And we have got to be bold
and we have got to be aggressive. -
6:36 - 6:39>> If it's not going to happen
at the federal level or the state level, -
6:39 - 6:42we in the communities,
where the innovation occurs, -
6:42 - 6:45where we're gonna be on the front lines
of the impact of climate change, -
6:45 - 6:47we need to take it in our own hands
-
6:47 - 6:49and make the changes that we need to see.
-
6:49 - 6:52(Leonardo DiCaprio) If national
governments won't take action, -
6:52 - 6:55your community can.
-
6:55 - 6:57We no longer need the dead economy
-
6:57 - 7:00of the fossil fuel industry.
-
7:00 - 7:05We can move our economy town by town,
state by state to renewable energy -
7:05 - 7:08and a sustainable future.
-
7:09 - 7:13To learn more and join the movement,
-
7:13 - 7:17go to greenworldrising.org.
-
7:17 - 7:24♪(tranquil mid tempo orchestral music)♪
- Title:
- Carbon
- Description:
-
CARBON is the first film in the Green World Rising Series. http://www.greenworldrising.org “Carbon” is narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, presented by Thom Hartmann and directed by Leila Conners. Executive Producers are George DiCaprio, Earl Katz and Roee Sharon Peled. Carbon is produced by Mathew Schmid and was written by Thom Hartmann, Sam Sacks, Leila Conners and Mathew Schmid. Music is composed and performed by Jean-Pascal Beintus and intro drone by Francesco Lupica. Carbon is produced by Tree Media with the support of the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation.
- Video Language:
- English
- Team:
- Captions Requested
- Duration:
- 08:33
E B edited English subtitles for Carbon | ||
E B edited English subtitles for Carbon | ||
Robert_CSR1970 edited English subtitles for Carbon | ||
Robert_CSR1970 edited English subtitles for Carbon | ||
Robert_CSR1970 edited English subtitles for Carbon | ||
Robert_CSR1970 edited English subtitles for Carbon | ||
Robert_CSR1970 edited English subtitles for Carbon | ||
Robert_CSR1970 edited English subtitles for Carbon |
Claude Almansi
Hi Robert,
I'm so glad you undertook the captioning of this video, and the way you are splitting captions.
Thank you!
Robert_CSR1970
Claude:
Thank you for the encouragement. Very much appreciated. I hope to try and do the entire video.
Claude Almansi
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
Robert_CSR1970
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