we are making a very significant change
to the chemical constituency of the
atmosphere and the oceans and one that
is almost impossible to reverse you know
when we look back on on these days in
the future we want to be able to say
that we did the actions that were were
right there actions that that were
important because I think it's very
difficult to say you know if you go say
20 30 40 years in the future now what do
you say to your kids or grandkids the
year 2000 and 78 I will celebrate my
75th birthday if I have children maybe
they will spend that day with me maybe
they will ask me about you maybe they
will ask or you didn't do anything while
there still was time to act
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you say you love your children above all
else and yet you're stealing their
future in front of their very eyes the
scientists all say that these bad things
are gonna happen
it's like 97% it's like say well to your
grandkids or kids like wolf that nobody
tell you know it's like no if everyone
was telling us so why didn't you do
anything what's the answer I think it's
very important that we do something what
we do now and in the next few years will
profoundly affect the next few thousand
years we can create a world with clean
air and water I've been put on this
planet to protect wildlife and
wilderness areas which in essence is
gonna help humanity I want to have the
purest oceans I want to be able to drink
water straight out of that Creek I want
to stop the ozone layer I want to save
the world and you know money money's
great I can't get enough money and you
know what I'm gonna do with it I'm gonna
buy wilderness areas with it every
single cent I get go straight into
conservation and guess what Charles I
don't give a rip whose money it is made
I'll use it and I'll spend it on buying
land you only speak of a green eternal
economic growth because you're too
scared of being unpopular
you only talk about moving forward with
the same bad ideas that got us into this
mess
even when the only sensible thing to do
is pull the emergency brake you are not
mature enough to tell it like it is even
that burden you leave to us and children
but I don't care about being popular I
care about climate justice and the
Living Planet our civilization is being
sacrificed for the opportunity of a very
small number of people to continue
making enormous amounts of money nature
has been largely predictable and stable
now in the space of one human lifetime
indeed in the space of my lifetime all
that has changed we're running an
experiment which is to see what the co2
capacity of the oceans and atmosphere is
before earth gets cooked I don't think
that's a wise experiment that experiment
let's say that experiment is 99% likely
to show that the co2 is no problem but
1% likely to show that it's gonna cook
the planet I don't think we want to take
that 1% chance it's just not smart the
Holocene is ended
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there's no question that at a certain
level it will destroy the earth or
destroy large portions of the earth the
question is just what is that level and
and and how soon do we stop pumping vast
quantities of co2 into the atmosphere
given that oil and even coal are a
finite resource it doesn't seem to make
sense that we would run that experiment
when we have to get off them anyway
because they're simply finite until you
start focusing on what needs to be done
rather than it was what is politically
possible there is no hope we cannot
solve a crisis without treating it as a
crisis we need to keep the fossil fuels
in the ground and we need to focus on
equity and the solutions within this
system are so impossible to find that
maybe we should change the system itself
we have not come here to beg world
leaders to care you have ignored us in
the past and you will ignore us again we
have run out of excuses and we are
running out of time we have come here to
let you know that change is coming
whether you like it or not the real
power belongs to the people
you