Watch the Countdown Global Launch a call to action on climate

we start this new decade knowing that it

is the most consequential period

in history climate has reached

a global crisis point

more than a million acres burned in

california this summer and massive

floods put a third of bangladesh

underwater

we now have one last chance to truly

change our course

we will plant a million trees within the

next two years

in kenya where i’m from renewable

sources provide nearly 80

of our electricity we’ve pushed our

research to develop a concrete that may

become a carbon sink

we know we need to reduce our emissions

and draw the existing carbon

out of the atmosphere stop the damage

and start the repair

and the only way we can do this is

together

so let’s get to work

louis armstrong said it isn’t the world

that’s so bad it’s what we are doing to

it

we need to start connecting to the

future in an urgent way because our time

is the time that we create

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the world has the opportunity to build a

healthier and more resilient future

it is time for us to put climate justice

at the forefront of our struggles

climate justice

is linked to racial justice social

justice

and intergenerational justice too there

is no rehearsal

we need to do it now the time is now

now now i’m only a child yet i know we

are all in this together

i was that 12 year old child now it’s

time

to get to work

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