Leonardo DiCaprio's Moving Speech on Climate Change
An impassioned speech by Leonardo DiCaprio about climate change at the United Nations ► Transcript: "President Abraham Lincoln was also thinking of bold action 150 years ago when he said:"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. As our case is new so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves and then we shall save our country.” He was speaking before the US Congress to confront the defining issue of his time – slavery. Everyone knew it had to end but no one had the political will to stop it. Remarkably, his words ring as true today when applied to the defining crisis of our time – Climate Change. As a UN Messenger of Peace, I have traveled all over the world for the last two years documenting how this crisis is changing the natural balance of our planet. I have seen cities like Beijing choked by industrial pollution. Ancient Boreal forests in Canada that have been clear cut and rainforests in Indonesia that have been incinerated. In India, I met farmers whose crops have literally been washed away by historic flooding. In America, I have witnessed unprecedented droughts in California and sea level rise flooding the streets of Miami. In Greenland and in the Arctic I was astonished to see that ancient glaciers are rapidly disappearing well ahead of scientific predictions. All that I have seen and learned on this journey has absolutely terrified me. There is no doubt in the world’s scientific community that this a direct result of human activity and that the effects of climate change will become astronomically worse in the future. You know that climate change is happening faster than even the most pessimistic of scientists warned us decades ago. It has become a runaway freight train bringing with it an impending disaster for all living things. Now think about the shame that each of us will carry when our children and grandchildren look back and realize that we had the means of stopping this devastation, but simply lacked the political will to do so. Our planet cannot be saved unless we leave fossil fuels in the ground where they belong. Massive change is required, now. One that leads to a new collective consciousness. A new collective evolution of the human race, inspired and enabled by a sense of urgency from all of you. We all know that reversing the course of climate change will not be easy, but the tools are in our hands – if we apply them before it is too late. Now is the time for bold unprecedented action. It is time to ask each other – which side of history will you be on? As a citizen of our planet, it is time to declare no more talk. No more excuses. No more ten-year studies. No more allowing the fossil fuel companies to manipulate and dictate the science and policies that affect our future. Lincoln’s words still resonate to all of us here today:“We will be remembered in spite of ourselves. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the last generation… We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.” That is our charge now – you are the last best hope of Earth. We ask you to protect it. Or we – and all living things we cherish – are history." - Leonardo DiCaprio ► For more Inspirational Videos: http://blog.goalcast.life/epic-motivational-videos/ ► Subscribe To Our Channel Here: https://goo.gl/wTKGC4 Don't forget to share this video to spread the inspiration! ================================================ FOLLOW US: Facebook: https://goo.gl/cjShXM Instagram: https://goo.gl/XaukHK Twitter: https://goo.gl/WBe30b Website: http://www.goalcast.life ================================================
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leo is a fraud....he's a member of the kabbalah...look it up
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Börk Börk Börk Börk!
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This is how communism sounds like in the 21st century. They just gave it new names like "liberalism" and "environmentalism". Fuck this piece of shit!
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OMG look at me smart Leo, he reads a paper and TelePrompter some NWO puppet wrote, and the girls all say wow you go leo, this is climatically bullshit and propaganda educate yourself people PLEASE, when you have no hydro and freeze to death in winter , you'll get it, but then it's too late
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THE ARROGANCE OF MAN!
The planet will be fine, it is man who will expire.
He will expire as the planet throws him off, or as his excessive debt consumes him.
We must urgently hold humanity to replacement birth levels or less, and both our environment and our debt problems will be solved.
MAN IS THE PROBLEM, limit the amount, you limit the problem! -
THANK YOU LEONARDO DiCAprio FOR STANDING UP FOR MOTHER EARTH AND UNDERSTANDING THE EFFECTS HOW GLOBAL WARMING IS RIGHT NOW SEVERELY
CHANGING OUR EARTH AND IT'S ATMOSPHERE. WE NEED TO STAND TOGETHER STRONG AND FIGHT TO SAVE THE ONLY EARTH WE HAVE TO LEAVE TO OUR NEXT GENERATIONS IF THERE IS TIME LEFT. SADLY TRUMP IS NOT A PERSON OF GREAT HONER WHEN IT COMES TO FACTS, REALITY AND COMMON SENSE. THE NEXT FOUR YEARS OF A PERSON LIKE TRUMP IN A POLITICAL ARENA IN WHICH HE PLAYS LIKE IT'S A GAME IS NOT ONLY GOING TO BE DANGEROUS FOR US THE AMERICANS, BUT THE WHOLE WORLD. HE IS AN EVIL MAN WITH EVIL INHUMANE HEART WITH NO UNDERSTANDING OF THE REALITY OF TRUE LIFE AS HE WAS UNDER HIS FATHER'S WING AND NEVER UNDERSTOOD THE TRUE MEANING OF LIFE....SADLY THOSE FOOLED BY HIS ENTERTAINING LAUGHS AND JOKES MADE HIM LOOK LIKE A FUN IDEA TO VOTE FOR. NOTHING MORE TO SAY, I CANNOT WATCH THE NEWS, WILL NOT SPEAK HIS NAME OR CALL HIM MY PRESIDENT. I WILL WAIT UNTIL HE IS GONE.............THANK YOU
LEONARDO FOR YOUR TRUE REALITY AND DEEP UNDERSTANDING OF HOW OUR EARTH IS IN GREAT DANGER OF EXTINCTION....THIS IS A TRUTH...WE ALL NEED TO FACE........ -
Just so beautiful... Amazing smart man who really understand things. and yeah I think too that Dicaprio should be president! :)
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we are in big trouble
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The fact that trump won will end up destroying the whole damn planet. He will rip the Paris agreement. He will promote oil companies and fossil fuel industry with the backing of republicans in congress. This election outcome will end the era of men. This was it.
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Just for this speech he should receive another Oscar.
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come on Mother Nature! Wipe the virus of the planet. Death to humans...except me and a hot chick...
I am a vegetarian, non car owning, cycling, ecotricty using bad ass and even smug gits like me should be extrapolated from this planet. -
ya dammit! what he said.✌
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Came here to see the full speech
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practice what you preach you hypocrite
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WHO THE HELL IS DECAPRIO TO TALK ABOUT CLAMATE CHANGE?.HE NEVER GRADUATE FROM COLLEGE. HAS A GED ONLY. WHAT A SELL OUT $$$$.
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it is a prophecy that all of you `ll come to MidEast for preparing for next sir Jesus coming back .. all of you
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Tsunami is not climate change, but I am glad he is jetting around to preach to others not to jet around, it takes someone with courage to be such a bold hypocrite.
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Dear Goalcast crew: Is the version with subtitles available on Youtube? (Or elsewhere except Facebook)
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DICaprio for president
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