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I stand before you not as an expert but as a concerned citizen. One of the 400,000 people who marched in the streets of New York on Sunday, and the billions of others around the world who want to solve our climate crisis. As an actor, I pretend for a living. I play fictitious characters often solving fictitious problems. I believe mankind has looked at climate change in that same way, as if it were a fiction. As if pretending that climate change wasn't real would somehow make it go away. But I think we know better than that now. Every week, we're seeing new and undeniable climate events, evidence that accelerated climate change is here, right now. Our oceans are acidifying, with methane plumes rising up from the ocean floor. We are seeing extreme weather events, and the West Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets melting at unprecedented rates, decades ahead of scientific projections. None of this is rhetoric and none of it is hysteria. It is fact.

Let's follow Leonardo Dicaprio...

I stand before you / not as an expert / but as a concerned citizen. // One of the 400,000 people / who marched in the streets of New York / on Sunday, / and the billions of others / around the world / who want to solve our climate crisis. // As an actor, / I pretend for a living. // I play fictitious characters / often solving fictitious problems. // I believe mankind / has looked at climate change / in that same way, / as if it were a fiction. // As if pretending that climate change / wasn't real would somehow / make it go away. // But I think / we all know better than that now. // Every week, / we're seeing new / and undeniable climate events, / evidence that accelerated climate change / is here, / right now. // Our oceans are acidifying, / with methane plumes / rising up from the ocean floor. // We are seeing extreme weather events, / and the West Antarctic / and Greenland ice sheets / melting at unprecedented rates, / decades ahead of scientific projections. // None of this is rhetoric / and none of it is hysteria. // It is fact. //

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The scientific community knows it, industry knows it, governments know it, even the United States military knows it. The chief of the US navy's Pacific command, admiral Samuel Locklear, recently said that climate change is our single greatest security threat. My friends, this body perhaps more than any other gathering in human history, now faces this difficult, but achievable task. You can make history or you will be vilified by it. To be clear, this is not about just telling people to change their light bulbs or to buy a hybrid car. This disaster has grown beyond the choices that individuals make. This is now about our industries and our governments around the world taking decisive, large-scale action. Now, must be our moment for action. We need to put a price tag on carbon emissions and eliminate government subsidies for all oil, coal, and gas companies. We need to end the free ride that industrial polluters have been given in the name of a free-market economy, they do not deserve our tax dollars, they deserve our scrutiny. For the economy itself will die if our ecosystems collapse.

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The scientific community knows it, / industry knows it, / governments know it, / even the United States military knows it. // The chief of the US navy's Pacific command, / Admiral Samuel Locklear, / recently said / that climate change / is our single greatest security threat. // My friends, / this body / perhaps / more than any other gathering / in human history, / now faces this difficult, / but achievable task. // You can make history / or you will be vilified by it. // To be clear, / this is not about just / telling people to change their light bulbs / or to buy a hybrid car. // This disaster / has grown beyond the choices / that individuals make. // This is now about our industries / and our governments around the world // taking decisive, / large-scale action. // Now must be our moment / for action. // We need to put a price tag / on carbon emissions / and eliminate government subsidies / for all oil, / coal, / and gas companies. // We need to end the free ride / that industrial polluters have been given / in the name of a free-market economy. // They do not deserve our tax dollars, / they deserve our scrutiny. / For the economy itself will die / if our ecosystems collapse. //