[Music] right now we're facing a man-made disaster of global scale our greatest threat in thousands of years climate change if we don't take action the collapse of our civilizations and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon [Music] the world's people have spoken their message is clear time is running out the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere now is 50 higher than it was in 1900 and not only are we piling in more and more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere but we are chopping down the forests of the earth at
a great rate and the forests themselves are the most efficient consumers of carbon dioxide that there are on earth we're going to destroy the ground because the soil of a rainforest isn't very good we are actually tampering with the climate of the earth and with the very atmosphere that we breathe when we talk about the disappearance of the ozone layer we don't know what will happen when the ozone layer goes the world has become so fragile that we cannot subject the earth to the tortures we can now inflict upon it when we talk about the
greenhouse effect we're talking about something that affects the entire earth and these problems are life and death problems they go to the root of the viability of the planet itself [Music] so there's one thing that is biologically certain about the human species is that it is a human species one species if we don't stop the destruction of our natural world nothing else will matter simply put if we don't protect nature we can't protect ourselves [Music] the only way we can solve a problem is by a human solution never can we sit back and wait for
miracles to save us miracles don't happen sweat happens efforts happens thought happens [Music] you
