this is my great grandfather. and this is my grandmother with her my father. and this is me.

this is your great grandmother. and these boys are your great uncle simon and your grandfather. and here is your grandfather with his grandmother. right now and the idea of being a grandfather couldn't be further from bench is mine. and of course there are many guarantees in life. but when it comes to you. that's an uncertainty that we choose to ignore. we choose to believe that after us there will be others. and so i heard that us the years will pounce and we grow old. but as there will be done. the will also be long. and some time in the 2016. my great granddaughter.

i think of you often and the changes to come. i know i couldn't have changed what happened in my past. but i only wish i knew how to help you in your life. and by the time you are 5 i will be a $101.00. so even though i know it's very unlikely we will never meet. i still like to live in the hope that we could. you are my future. and i am your boss. and you are with me

as i look for nonce. what difference can i make for you. our journey together continues with something that i see every day. and that reminds me of you and the challenges ahead. it's the stuff that is such a central and mostly invisible part of our lives. that we all know a took cold wind in siberia just one of the many places that produces the fossil fuels that connects me and every other post in this planet to get a. place

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just. one day when you are a few years old enough you will fall in love and some. of this i am absolutely certain. i'm sure it will be magical wherever it happens. like you in a poem but the bottom of a disused gold mine. i really want to buy that got my novel and. i thought people would do it too but of course we'll. know them.

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said one. thing is. every day in this region 9000 train cars on loaded with coal and transported to cities in russia germany and china. the same coal provides the heat and the electricity from my own city and from. there still enough coal to last another 100 years. well into your lifetime. expert. to ask for its. citizens when the. thing took a lengthy run torrens. the

next person i want you to meet is someone i admire very much he's one of the world's most respected climate scientists in 1908 brought the real dangers of climate change to the world's attention. how do you think your grandchildren or all their grandchildren will see you. well they might think gee what took you so august. but i think in my case i'm you know i work in so hard now that at least they know that in the latter part of my life i was really trying so i don't think they will blame

me personally i'm not worried about that i think the people who should be worried about that are the people who deny the reality of climate change even though the science has become clear. what you can expect in the middle of the century in the 2nd half of the century the pan you know it we still have a out. of turn attempts is still the paleness on what happens especially in the next decade. in some sense we've passed already some of the tipping points we're going to have some climate impacts which are greater than what we see already.

there's the potential that thanks could really go downhill that the costs of climate change will become so large that the economies will really go back work well if not collapse at least become much less well to do. no matter how badly we mess up this planet it's still worth saving what's left and most of it is still left so of course there is every every reason to try to stay positive and try to get some action that will work in the right sounds but it had better be soon. or done people

will bear the consequences. his soul the ocean i think that's definitely the biggest part of being marshallese and these part of being an islander is just that ocean presence. and it's just you know even just driving into work it's just ocean on either side of all the time. and dangerous a very dangerous yeah. yeah you know a lot of marshallese for is believed to have a lot of respect for the ocean because you know i can take lives away in any moment . i didn't want to follow the news anymore on climate because i was just so disheartening all of the news. it would barely

mention us if it did mention us and then when did mention us it was comparing us to like so atlanta is or it's not like what should we do to help them it's all about well this is going to happen and you know for marshall and people. also when i look at my daughter you know she's just a baby what am i going to do tell her give up you know and you don't want to yell out of the or like scare your baby and tell her that everything's going to nothing's going to work out you want to comfort her you want to make them feel better and you want to believe that things will get better. thanks. to. the. i thank you

a small part of the changes you will see already. simple toss. in the marshall islands and also here in california where 5 schools by the was trying to in the state's history blankets the landscape smart. we're on our way to a climate summit in new york. where world leaders will make the decisions that shape your future. it's. just. that i. still see you all. but i hope that you remember as you go across the country that is 150 of you and there's 150000000 people all around the world who think like we do and you are the

figure. i know that we're calling this the kind of same we should also call it the oil industry's worst nightmare. i'll see you on your thanks and. thanks frank. when i think of bought my great grandchildren in the future and looking back at me . i don't think they'll respect me if i just say to politicians you should do something i feel that that i should do something. yeah well one of the problems is a lot of people are now beginning to not because they're afraid they're going to get blamed by their. children or grandchildren because they love their children and grandchildren and they want them to health the kind of world that we have and so

they want to do something and unfortunate. lee what they usually do is decide what i'll do the things that i think need to happen well that's all well and good except how do you get the other 7000000000 people to do it you think i can be an example for the others while it's like you say you say ok i'm right i'm going to use my car anymore i'm going to use a bicycle while k. that that reduces your carbon footprint and if you get a 1000000 a year frails to do that or 10000000 or even a 1000000000. the biggest one of the effects would be to reduce the price of fossil fuels and somebody else will burn them. unless you make the price of fossil fuels higher somebody is going to burn them you can look at this situation if we if everybody in europe and united states decides all this is wrong i'm going to stop

driving my vehicle sync that's going to change things in china. may hope that you're going to convert everybody in some country to do what's right and then try to use that for moral suasion in other countries well you're not going to do it fast enough to solve the climate problem. it's been 37 years and i still have the same recurring dream. it's about my dad

your great great grandfather in my tree my dad comes back he isn't dead he's just been away in my dream i'm overcome with happen it's a relief it never happen you never died. and then the next moment i am furious with him. how could you have abandoned us. how could you do it why have you been. and in all the trains i have ever had he has never said a word and although i love to see him in my dreams. i am most hurt by that silence it's a reminder that he really is somewhere far beyond my reach. that there are things that can be lost forever. that once they happen. you can never get them back.

let's go a little bit to the dark ok and on to fear. yeah. how do you deal with it how do i deal with fear. i think my my hope is in action i if i'm not in action with what i believe in with what i value with what i know is right. those can be those idle times are are the darkest moments for me are converging to talk about the current crisis but we know we need more time taught we need. 2

oxygen now i still feel that. that fear and that darkness. but. when i'm in action when i'm aligned with what i believe and when i'm with other people that. are willing to stand up in this critical and difficult moment together that feeds me that gives me. purpose and meaning and in a way that is not connected to the outcome of what happens. yes

. i'm on the journey i had set out maybe 30 years ago 40 years ago. you know much more than 75 and i set out to really try to do something about the racial problems in america . do you have grandchildren call i have a grandson who's 8 years old. do you think do you think about what the world will be like for them all for their children. go your grandchild children . well i do think about it and i would imagine that it will be different in ways that are on the marriage and to me i think there may be some ways that will be

a match and. so i'm just very much on my mind. i sometimes i sometimes feel over caught by the vision no for what the future will be like i think it is i think that it's a very real issue and one of the problems that it did arise as we're allowing despair to really enter into your psyche is that by. the by allowing that you're not actually end up hurting the people who loved america. but. you don't feel fear i don't go. here now that night there was that says a lot of ties. make

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this is the philippines. her mom is kathy from the marshall islands. the smiling i have 500 up to comes from all over the well kathy was chosen to speak at the opening of the climate summit. in today's time she will step in front of the leaders of the world to represent the voice of ordinary people. it's so weird my uncle dwight went in from the united nations and he was the 1st draftsman he was one that he was a 1st marshallese to speak out against nuclear testing and that was in 1964 i think . and i was thinking about him when i was flying up here i was thinking like what is what was he thinking was he scared you know was did he feel prepared gaps really terrified do you think about us you know and i wonder if there's going to be someone down the line who's going to look back at me like that. i'd like to say

i hope that they see us fighting you know that we're trying to do everything we can to make this you know it's 20 changes happen. you might even be given you know. i'm i'm not trying much i'm going i'm not going to defeat him we're only 2 meters behind the mountain. one of the i'm going to be here when i want to. meet you. let's let's talk about cathy ok let's talk about kathy i love kathy i do

i think we all do here how was she chosen to speak at the opening of the u.n. climate summit well. the big answer to that question is through openness. so i'm proud to say that the un opened and allowed me to run a process that invited nominations from anyone anywhere. and further supportive to that openness fire providing translations of my invitation. for nominations in all the un languages. and then i got a call from susan and she was like you're the one who's chosen you're the one who's the old it didn't open in front of all these heads of state you know your life's about to change our sources like was. ok if you did it was just i was totally shocked and i was super excited and. and then reality set in thank you so much for

and here right here i think we've got a. translator she told me later that her partner said to her whenever she was struggling with this how she could carry this you carry this moments from and be the representative of global civil society as one young woman from the marshall islands she said that her partner told her that this is bigger than you now you know. and that was how she registered that's what she had to step up to do. and it's just because. i want. to live it just.

there is a saying that people die twice. once when they physically die and once when nobody recognizes them in the photograph who. but that's not true. for the 12 years that i knew my father was a loving caring parent. something that he had not experienced himself something better that he wanted to give his own children. what we do can live much longer than ours. for both good and bad. most people in the world. would say the same they want to leave the world

having made a difference and the very thing you speak for is it given the gift of actually achieving that and watch even a fraction of it because i think it's probably only a fraction of what one hopes to not one does succeed in doing but that fraction is worth say. all. i think if you bring up a chart of all and as you have brought yours up your children i think you've done it for them. it's the foundation you give people that's the most that's the greatest a parent can hear.

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change is such a fine english of our age 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 moment so i was just scared i was terrified basically i was just. practicing at a wall and baby was crying she was screaming in the back to which didn't know how i was getting stressed out as i was like oh my gosh of the baby but i have to perform and so i was terrified from the marshall islands please welcome the new key.

to my family and i have traveled a long way to be here today all the way from the marshall islands usually when i perform it's pretty cool because the worst kind of take over for me and i just lose myself in the words and it happened i would now like to share with you a poem to have written for my daughter filipino. dear ma to philip being no. you are a 7 month old son rise of gummy smiles you're bald as an egg and bald as the buddha you are thighs that are thunders shrieks that are lightning so excited for bananas hugs and our morning walks along the loo coon deer much offended being oh i want to tell you about that lagoon that lazy lounging in the goon lounging against the sunrise men say that one day that the goon will devour you they say it will not the

shoreline chew at the roots of your bread fruit trees gulp down rows of sea walls and crunch through your island shattered bones they say you your daughter and your granddaughter too will wander rootless with only a passport to call home. dear much of filipino don't cry mommy promise you no one will come and devour you know greedy wail of a company sharking through political seas no backwater bullying of businesses with broken morals no blind folded baracoa see going to push this mother ocean over the edge no one's drowning baby no one's moving no one's losing their homeland no one's becoming a climate change refugee. or should i say no one else. to the carteret islanders of popular new guinea and to the taro islanders of fiji i take

this moment to apologize to you we are drawing the line here because we baby are going to fight your mommy daddy who would you mind your country and your president to we will all fights and even though there are those hidden behind platinum titles who like to pretend that we don't exist who like to pretend that the marshall islands to buy lucchino by small deeds type one ion in the philippines floods of algeria colombia. pakistan and all the hurricanes earthquakes and tidal wave didn't they it's. still there are those who see those cans reaching out this raise the banners unfurling megaphones booming and we are can use blocking coal ships we are the radiance of solar villages we are the fresh clean soil of the farmer's past we are teenagers could she blooming petitions

we are families biking cycling be using engineers building dreaming designing artists painting dancing writing and we are spreading the word and there are thousands out on the streets marching hand in hand chancing for change now and they're marching for you baby. they're marching for us because we deserve to do more than just survive we deserve to die. dear much offended if they know you're eyes heavy with drugs you wait so just close those eyes and sleep in peace because you won't let you down. you'll see.

you know kathy hasn't been able to quite take in how rare of a standing ovation is in the u.n. general assembly call i've been trying to explain to her that this hardly ever happens. you know this kind of a meeting where you have a summit and heads of state and their delegations these people have a lot of armor the fact that she got those people with all that armor on to stand up and feel you know i think that's a miracle. if worse if we're very very close to achieving an ambitious legal agreement. but

there's just a few people that haven't shifted yet and they are just people and she contributed changing just one of those mimes because of her performance i mean it's possible and even if it's just one person that's a huge victory. so i'm really grateful to her for bringing a miracle and i got so i got to live it and i got to live it in a really close way and that's amazing and i'll have that for the rest of my life as a memory i mean i start crying now because you know if i'm here for 30 or 40 more years. no matter how hard it gets i'll always have this memory. so you got me again. now it was really really something. wow i was wow. yeah it's hard it's hard to do that.

when you think of your accomplishment. and cathy's accomplishment. what does it make you think about the power of what one person can do. well i you know my favorite quote is by margaret mead never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed individuals can change the world indeed it's the only thing that ever has. this story started from last. but there are some things that you can't change. but i no longer believe. what can one person doing a i mean what difference. what difference can one person make. a lot there's a lot anyway you can do there's so much look at all these these people who have

stood up you know marching to king jr. they did so much anyone can do a lot doesn't have to be on the global you know it can be a lot for just your community or your family if you mean everything to somebody and that's doing a lot right there. yeah i don't know why people don't think they can make changes happen or that they can't do anything i don't. i don't believe there is it because they think that they have to be a gun. or a malcolm x. or martin luther king jr you know they feel they feel like i'm just me are i'm just now just regular guy yeah i'm pretty sure they're regular people i mean when i met al gore i was like regular dude pretty ordinary and he know it you think they're like this guy like they they're untouchable like you know he's there or there is al gore and then you meet and ordinary dude you know everybody is just ordinary i

don't know i just don't. i was see. as a point basically for somebody else because. as we come to the end of the story. i'm hopeful for you and your future. we can each of us pick up the torch. we can make a difference. we need to extend the love we have from children and grandchildren a generation further. to the children we will never meet. to the world we will not seen. and to the things we will not benefit from.

it is perfectly possible. and when you look back at us and our generation. i hope it will be with a sense of amazement and pride. that when you turn the last page in your. you will have been able to write the perfect ending to any good story. just when you thought all was lost and hopeless. in the end. it wasn't.

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