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Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.05,0:00:19.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All right, all right. Listen up. listen up.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.39,0:00:32.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Very few people can ever say that they are in the single most important place they could possibly be
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.23,0:00:38.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,doing the single most important thing they could possibly be doing.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.95,0:00:44.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That’s you, here, now.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.27,0:00:54.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You are the movement that we need if we are going to win in the few years that we have.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.20,0:01:04.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have the skills now. You are making the connections. And there is no one else. It is you.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.80,0:01:16.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is a great honor and that is a terrible burden. There is no one else.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.63,0:01:27.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The science is the easy part in this, grim, but easy. 2010 was the warmest year on record. And it was warm.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.30,0:01:34.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were on the phone one day with our 350 crew in Pakistan and one of them said, “It’s hot out here today,”
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.11,0:01:38.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I was surprised to hear him say it because it’s usually hot in Pakistan during the summer.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.68,0:01:47.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said, no it’s really hot . We just set the new, all time Asia temperature record, 129 degrees [53.9 °C].
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.65,0:01:57.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That kind of heat melts the arctic. That kind of heat causes drought so deep across Russia that the Kremlin stops all grain exports.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.90,0:02:07.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That kind of heat causes the flooding that still has 4 million people across Pakistan homeless tonight.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.45,0:02:15.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s tough, it’s grim, but the good news at least is that it’s clear, the science.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.63,0:02:21.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have a number: 350 parts per million. 350, the most important number on earth.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.87,0:02:30.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As the NASA team put it in January 2008, “any value in the atmosphere greater than 350 parts per million
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.37,0:02:38.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is not compatible with the planet on which civilization developed and which life on earth is adapted.”
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.20,0:02:45.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Getting back to 350 pars per million will be very very tough, the toughest thing human beings have ever done,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.48,0:02:50.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but there is no use complaining about it, it’s just physics and chemistry.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.77,0:02:56.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That’s what we have to do.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.92,0:03:06.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But if the scientific method has worked splendidly to outline our dilemma,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.62,0:03:11.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that’s how badly the political method has worked to solve it.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.98,0:03:17.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Think about our own country, historically the biggest source of carbon emissions.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.72,0:03:27.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Last summer, the Senate refused to even take a vote on the tepid, moderate, tame climate bill that was before it.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.10,0:03:37.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Last week, the House voted 248 to 174 to pass a resolution saying global warming wasn’t real.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.58,0:03:42.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was one of the most embarrassing votes that Congress has ever taken.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.35,0:03:55.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They believe that because they can amend the tax laws they can amend the laws of nature too, but they can’t.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.27,0:04:06.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I’m awful glad a few of you went up to the visitors gallery to talk some sense to them last week.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:06.04,0:04:17.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even the White House. Two weeks ago, the interior secretary, who spoke here two years ago, Ken Salazar,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:17.51,0:04:24.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,signed a piece of paper opening 750 million tonnes of coal under federal land in Wyoming to mining.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:24.64,0:04:32.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That’s like opening 300 new coal fired power plants and running them for a year. That’s a disgrace.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:32.58,0:04:41.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you know what. We understand the physics and chemistry of political power.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.36,0:04:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In this case, it’s not carbon dioxide that rules the day: it’s money.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:47.00,0:04:53.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many of you are in the District of Columbia for the first time and it looks clean and it looks sparkling.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:53.64,0:05:09.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No, this city is as polluted as Beijing. But instead of coal smoke it’s polluted by money.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:09.24,0:05:24.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Money warps our political life, it obscures our vision, but just like with physics in chemistry there is no use whining.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:24.95,0:05:30.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We know now what we need to do and the first thing we need to do is build a movement.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:30.97,0:05:36.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We will never have as much money as the oil companies so we need a different currency to work in,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:36.89,0:05:40.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we need bodies, we need creativity, we need spirit.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:40.40,0:05:58.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,350.org has been like a beta-test for that movement. It began with youth here at Power Shift four years ago.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:58.90,0:06:07.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s now spread around the planet. In the last two years, there have been 15,000 demonstrations in 189 nations.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:07.02,0:06:18.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,CNN called it the most widespread political activity in the planet’s history. But it needs to get bigger still.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:18.69,0:06:25.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On the first Earth Day in 1970 there where 20 million Americans in the street, one in ten Americans.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:25.68,0:06:31.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That’s the kind of size we need.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:31.14,0:06:35.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so, on September 24 we need your help. September 24 is the next big day of action.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:35.06,0:06:40.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We’re calling it Moving Planet and in those 189 nations, people will be in motion.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:40.59,0:06:53.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Much of it will be on bicycles, because the bicycles is one of the few tools that rich and poor both use.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:53.97,0:07:00.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who here knows how to ride a bike?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:00.79,0:07:08.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All right, September 24, I cannot wait to see the pictures.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:08.66,0:07:15.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are not going to wait for the politicians to move, we’re going to create the future that we need ourselves.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:15.90,0:07:23.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But that movement doesn’t just need to be bigger, it needs to be sharper too, more aggressive.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:23.71,0:07:30.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know what, at Copenhagen we got 117 nations to sign on to that 350 target.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:30.42,0:07:38.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That was good, but they were the wrong 117 nations. They were the poorest and most vulnerable nations.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:38.48,0:07:48.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The most addicted nations, led by our own, weren’t yet willing to bite the bullet, so that’s where we’ve got to go to work.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:48.72,0:07:57.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That work, to deal with that money pollution, that work starts Monday at ten o’clock in Lafayette Square,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:57.19,0:08:06.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,across from the White House and next to a place called the US Chamber of Commerce.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:06.20,0:08:20.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Koch Brothers are high peaks of corruption, but the US Chamber of Commerce is the Everest of dirty money.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:20.88,0:08:25.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It boasts on its web page that it is the biggest lobby in Washington.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:25.99,0:08:31.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In fact, it spends more money lobbying than the next five lobbies combined.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:31.27,0:08:35.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It spent more money on politics last year than the Republican National Committee and
Dialogue: 0,0:08:35.86,0:08:45.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Democratic National Committee combined and 94% of that went to climate deniers.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:45.84,0:08:55.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We cannot stop their money, but we can strip them of their credibility. They claim to represent all American business,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:55.78,0:09:01.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but they don’t. 55% of their funding came from 16 companies.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:01.54,0:09:06.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They don’t have to say who those companies are, but it’s easy to tell when you watch what they do.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:06.97,0:09:13.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They spend their time lobbying to make sure the planet heats up as fast it possibly can.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:13.15,0:09:22.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They sent a legal brief to the EPA last year, saying that they should take no action on climate change, because if the planet warmed,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:22.24,0:09:29.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,humans could alter their behavior and their physiology to deal with the problem.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:29.89,0:09:37.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don’t even really know what that means, alter your physiology. Grow gills? I don’t know.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:37.57,0:09:55.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I can tell you this. I am too old to change my physiology and you all are too good looking.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:55.08,0:10:04.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I will adapt my behavior. Every day now I will roll out of bed and go to work fighting them.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:04.11,0:10:12.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hell, I will go to bed at night and try to dream up new ways to fight.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:12.89,0:10:20.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We’re going to adapt our behavior all right. We’re going to adapt our behavior now to fight on every front.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:20.69,0:10:25.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I’m sorry if that sounds aggressive, but there we are.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:25.40,0:10:31.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Twenty-two years ago, I wrote the first book about climate change and I’ve gotten to watch it all,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:31.12,0:10:35.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I know that simply persuasion will not do.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:35.43,0:10:42.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need to fight. Now, we need to fight non-violently and with civil disobedience.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:42.22,0:10:54.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You will hear from my friend Tim DeChristopher in a moment and more to come,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:54.73,0:11:02.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but if you’re going to go that route, one thing you need to make sure that you manage to get across
Dialogue: 0,0:11:02.28,0:11:10.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in your witness is that you are not the radicals in this fight.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:10.06,0:11:15.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The radicals are the people who are fundamentally altering the composition of the atmosphere.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:15.99,0:11:23.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is the most radical thing people have ever done.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:23.75,0:11:34.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need to fight with art and with music, too. Not just the side with our brain that likes bar graphs and
Dialogue: 0,0:11:34.52,0:11:40.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pie graphs, but with all our heart and all our soul.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:40.08,0:11:48.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tomorrow or tonight, you need to go down behind Hall B downstairs and help them build the art work for Monday morning.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:48.36,0:11:55.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need to fight with unity. We need to have a coherent voice.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:55.22,0:12:05.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That’s why, last week we joined with our friends at 1Sky to build this bigger, stronger 350.org.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:05.18,0:12:16.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need to speak with one loud voice, because we are fighting for your future.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:16.24,0:12:21.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So far, we’ve raised the temperature of the planet one degree and that’s done all that I’ve described, it’s melted the arctic, it’s changed the oceans.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:21.81,0:12:35.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The climatologists tell us that unless we act with great speed and courage that one degree will be five degrees before this century is out.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:35.55,0:12:41.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if we do that, then the world that we leave behind will be a ruined world.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:41.73,0:12:49.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We fight not just for ourselves, we fight for the beauty of this place.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:49.12,0:13:01.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For cool trout streams and deep spruce woods. For chilly fog rising off the Pacific and deep snow blanketing the mountains.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:01.22,0:13:18.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We fight for all the creation that shares this planet with us. We don’t know half the species on Earth we’re wiping out.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:18.34,0:13:32.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And of course, we fight alongside our brothers and sisters around the world. You’ve seen the pictures as I talk: these are our comrades.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:32.65,0:13:45.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Most of these people, as you see, come from places that have not caused this problem, and yet they’re willing to be in deep solidarity with us.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:45.56,0:13:50.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That’s truly admirable and it puts a real moral burden on us.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:50.61,0:13:56.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Never let anyone tell you, that environmentalism is something that rich, white people do.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:56.66,0:14:02.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Most of the people that we work with around the world are poor and black and brown and Asian and young,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:02.28,0:14:14.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because that’s what most of the world is made up of, and they care about the future as anyone else.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:14.16,0:14:23.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have to fight, finally, without any guarantee that we are going to win.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:23.18,0:14:31.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have waited late to get started and our adversaries are strong and we do not know how this is going to come out.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:31.72,0:14:40.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you were a betting person, you might bet we were going to lose because so far that’s what happened, but that’s not a bet you’re allowed to make.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:40.77,0:14:53.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The only thing that a morally awake person can do when the worst thing that’s ever happened is happening is try to change those odds.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:53.58,0:15:09.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have spent most of my last few years in rooms around the world with great people, many of whom will be refugees before this century is out,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:09.11,0:15:13.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some of whom may be dead from climate change before this century is out.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:13.82,0:15:21.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No guarantee that we will win, but from them a complete guarantee that we will fight with everything we have.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:21.53,0:15:30.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is always an honor for me to be in those rooms. It is the greatest honor for me to be with you tonight.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:30.35,0:15:39.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No guarantee that we will win, but we will fight side by side, as long as we’ve got. Thank you all so much.