Learn English Leonardo DiCaprio Climate Change Is Real with Big Subtittles

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 that 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 droughts are intensifying our oceans

are acidifying with methane plumes

rising up from the ocean floor we are

seeing extreme weather events and the

West’s 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 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 lightbulbs 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 old

oil coal and gas companies we need to

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 the good news

is that renewable energy is not only

achievable but good economic policy this

is not a partisan debate it is a human

one clean air and a livable climate are

in a label human rights and solving this

crisis is not a question of politics it

is a question of our own survival this

is the most urgent of times and the most

urgent of messages honored delegates

leaders of the world I pretend for a

living but you do not the people made

their voices heard on Sunday around the

world and the momentum will not stop but

now it is your turn the time to answer

humankind’s greatest challenge is now we

beg of you to face it with courage and

honesty thank you