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Before the Flood Page #2
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- 2016
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was called back then,
I was in my early twenties.
I had the opportunity to sit
down one on one with then
Vice President, Al Gore
in the White House.
And he drew a picture of
our planet on a chalkboard,
and then he drew the atmosphere
around it, and he said,
this is the most important
issue of our time.
I had absolutely no idea
what he was talking about.
He said all our modes of
transportation, boats, trains,
planes, cars, the way
we produce our food,
the way we build our cities,
almost everything we do releases
carbon dioxide, CO2, and that
leads to climate change.
The polar ice caps will melt,
the seas will start to rise,
there will be more dangerous
weather patterns, floods,
droughts, wildfires.
It sounded like some nightmarish
science fiction film.
Except everything
he said is real
Wow.
Wow.
Beautiful.
I just want to know
how far we've gone,
how much damage we've done, and
if there's anything we can do
to stop it.
You all set, mate?!
So it's the 4th of July,
and we're here in the
middle of the Arctic.
Right now we are
standing on the ocean,
we are basically
walking on water.
This is the northern
tip of Baffin Island,
one of the hundreds of islands
in the High Canadian Arctic.
We are way above
the Arctic Circle,
and if you put your
hand in the water,
you would not be able to stand
it for more than 5 minutes,
except you who are a badass.
You hunt and fish here, right?
Yeah.
What do you, what do
you fish and what do you hunt?
In my territory I
hunt fish, seal, narwhal,
and polar bear.
- Is this polar bear?
- Yup.
Oh, well there you go!
And the ice here, since you've
been around has it been
decreasing?
We used to have
a solid ice, blue.
Not light blue like this, blue.
Hard, ice.
Now we usually have a, kind
of ice cream type of ice.
It's ice but it's,
when it starts to melt,
Much faster than before.
2040, you will be able
to sail over the North Pole.
There's going to be no sea
ice left in the Arctic Ocean
in the summer.
We are burning so many fossil
fuels that the ice is melting.
The Arctic is like
the air conditioning for
the Northern Hemisphere.
If it goes away, that's
going to change currents,
that's going to change
weather patterns,
that's going to make floods and
droughts more catastrophic.
It's the most dramatic
transformation of a large
environment ever.
Look at this.
They're right here!
There are about 10,000
to 12,000 narwhals
in this region.
in other regions are declining.
Wow.
That's awesome.
Yeah, they are
waiting for the ice to open up,
to swim in, so they
can catch the flounder.
I can't believe what
they sound like, it's amazing.
They're like purring.
You know, I don't
want to be in a planet
without these animals.
He's the
chairman of Earth Day 2000,
Leonardo DiCaprio.
When I was 25 years old,
participate in this huge event
in Washington for Earth Day.
Temperatures are rising,
coral reefs are dying,
and not since a meteor hit the
have so many species of plant
in such a short time.
I even got a chance to
interview the President
of the United States.
Why do you think this issue
is so constantly overlooked?
I think it's
because it takes a long time
a way that people feel it,
and because, uh, it seems
sort of abstract now.
At the time, it was
this huge push to get the word
out on global warming.
Now a couple degrees' difference
in today's temperatures
may not seem like an emergency.
Back then everyone was focused
on small, individual actions.
We all have to, you know, bring
environmentalism to the American
consciousness.
And it boiled down to simple
solutions like changing
your light bulb.
It seemed like a positive
thing at the time, you know.
Changing your lightbulb.
But it's pretty clear that we're
things have taken a
massive turn for the worst.
aren't in the climate models
that are used to
project the future.
So that, that tells me that the
projections for the future are,
are really conservative.
temperature that it's been
in the last decade, Greenland
is, is going away.
Don't walk into the crevasse.
Oh my God!
Don't get too close to the edge.
Look at how violent that is.
These rapids are going
so incredibly fast.
This meltwater is
making its way to the sea.
If that's not balanced by
snowfall then the ice sheet gets
smaller and sea level rises.
This is actually our
proper climate station.
This is a climate station?
I was imagining a massive igloo
with all kinds of scientists
doing experiments.
It really does look like
broken down pool equipment.
How, what does this connect to?
Well, this is all melted up now,
this was a hose that
went down 30 feet,
and now it's melted out.
Wait a minute, so this,
that's lying here used to
Yeah, so we made.
So that's the amount
of ice that has melted.
Yeah.
This is 5 years of melt.
So this entire length
is the thickness of ice that has
melted throughout all of lower
Greenland in the past 5 years.
Right.
That's hundreds of cubic
kilometers of ice that's now
It's gone into
the sea over here.
Miami, New Orleans,
Boston and Long Beach,
California may be doomed
to fall victim
to ever-rising sea levels.
South Florida as we
by risings seas.
When you look at
places that are the most
susceptible to sea level rise,
especially in the United States,
Florida is the key one.
And a lot of the, your
campaign was based on um,
giving people an understanding
of what's at risk here.
We don't have
the liberty or the time
If you don't believe
in it, I always say
bring your unconverted to
us and we'll make sure you agree
that there is a major problem.
We have this thing called
sunny day flooding.
Picture a beautiful sunny day,
all of a sudden you see water
coming up on the street.
As the sea level rises,
the water's coming up,
backflowing into our
streets through our drains.
If the city is underwater,
there's no future.
How do you combat that?
Exactly what's going on as far
as prevention is concerned?
pumps, take a look at this.
Oh, this is the pump!
Yup!
We're in the process of
building all across the city.
to be fully underwater.
During high tide you
may need a canoe.
And now what we did was we
raised this road and you can see
the difference, see how that
area there kind of goes,
slopes down a little bit.
So the main investment
is in these systems right here,
raising the roads and
the electric pumps.
Yeah, this is a
400-million-dollar project.
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