An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power Page #9
For example, for the first time
they're learning about
the real energy balance
of the Earth.
Energy in and energy out.
Don't let anybody tell you
that we're gonna get on
rocket ships and go to
Mars and live in hermetically
sealed buildings.
We couldn't even evacuate
the city of New Orleans
when the hurricane hit there.
This is our home.
Delegates at the United Nations
Climate Summit
are expressing panic
over Tuesday's election results,
saying President-elect
Donald Trump
may threaten the future
of any international agreement
to slow catastrophic
climate change.
Trump has said he will "cancel
and also promised to promote
coal power and fracking,
and says he will allow
for oil and gas drilling
on federal land.
"Everybody has a plan"
"until he gets
punched in the face."
Days into his presidency,
Donald Trump is sending
chills down the spines
of environmentalists
and some EPA employees.
This trifecta
of cabinet appointments,
all staunch
fossil fuel supporters
who've expressed doubts
about the urgency
of climate change.
For all the years
I've been involved
in this struggle, there have
been lots of setbacks.
So now we have another one.
With all these new threats,
there's never been
a more important time
I do my best
to speak for
the public interest in solving
the climate crisis.
Even though it sounds
a little highfalutin,
I try to answer to the truth
of what needs to be done.
And each of us, in our own ways,
has the obligation
and some ability
to feel what is more likely
to be true than not.
And if you work hard enough
to get the best
available evidence,
you can feel if you're onto
And that's not arrogance,
that's just a feeling that
I think everybody
is familiar with.
And I've been
working on this issue
long enough that I feel very,
very deeply about
I remember vividly
when the Civil Rights
pick up steam.
We saw Bull Connor
turning fire hoses
on young African-American kids,
and we asked
the older generation
why it's just and fair
to have laws
that discriminate
on the basis of skin color.
And when they couldn't
answer that question,
the laws began to change.
This movement
is in the tradition of every
great moral movement
that has advanced
the cause of humankind.
has met with resistance
to the point
where many of the advocates
felt despair
and wondered, "How long
is this gonna take?"
Martin Luther King famously
answered a question during
some of the bleakest hours
when someone asked,
"How long is this gonna take?"
He said, "How long? Not long."
"Because no lie
can live forever."
"How long? Not long."
"Because the moral arc
of the universe is long,"
"but it bends toward justice."
"How long? Not long."
We are close in this movement.
We are very close
to the tipping point
beyond which this movement,
like the abolition movement,
like the women's
suffrage movement,
like the Civil Rights Movement,
like the anti-apartheid
movement,
like the movement
for gay rights,
is resolved into a choice
between right and wrong.
And because of who we are
as human beings,
the outcome is foreordained.
And it is right to save
the future for humanity!
It is wrong
to pollute this Earth
and destroy the climate balance!
It is right to give hope
to the future generation!
It will not be easy.
And we, too, in this movement
will encounter a series of no's.
Wallace Stevens,
in the last century,
one of his lines was this,
"After the last no comes a yes."
"And on that yes
Bye-bye, guys. Thank you!
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