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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