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