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Experts predict millions of people will be displaced by climate change in the next half century. Well, the U.N. spokesperson for migration confirming at least 74 people have lost their lives when a ship capsized in the deadliest sea crossing in the world. All of these environment-related problems are increasing levels of migration in regions all around the world. This is a defining challenge for our generation, already been displaced by the ever-rising sea level.
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Well, the Vatican releases Pope Francis's wildly anticipated encyclical on the environment today. The leader of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics arrived for a flight. Never before has an official papal teaching letter been so widely praised and heard. His thousands of police officers on duty for Francis's first full day right here in the big. After the Pope reportedly agrees that global warming is real and that humans are to blame, there are still skeptics out there that say that, you know, the Pope is not qualified or the Pope is not the authority. So he's building off of a scientific literature. He's not attempting to be a scientist. It's actually a reflection on the planet. It's a moral document. It seems to me that the Pope is preaching politics from the pulpit, and that's something I'm not too. That the Pope is not pronouncing authoritatively climate change.
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[Music] foreign [Music] ER that Pope Francis has written to you. But and that usually gets people. They're going, Francis didn't write me a letter. I said, oh yes, he did. He wrote you a letter. He wrote every person on the planet a letter to share his concerns about the state of the world. It's that simple, really. It's a letter from the Pope. We're going to be bringing together four of the different voices that Pope Francis has called specifically for in Laudato Si. So we would like to invite, in the name of Pope Francis, a few representatives. The voice of the Cur, those are the peripheries, the voice of the indigenous peoples, the voice of the youth, and also the voice of nature, of wildlife. Our idea is to invite all these people, bring them to the Vatican, and then having a dialogue together.
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[Music] foreign [Applause] produced CO2 emissions and is the main cause of climate change. Africa is responsible for just three percent of global emissions, and yet Africans are suffering some of the most brutal impacts fueled by the climate crisis. Senegal is extremely vulnerable because of drought in the Sahel region.
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[Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] foreign foreign. Environmental defenders are being murdered every week. Last year was the bloodiest year on record, with 212 people killed for standing up for their land, for standing up to protect our environment. Thank you. Standing up to their right.
[Music] foreign foreign foreign foreign foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] I never, never expected to receive a letter from the Pope. It's like, never in my life. I'd never even, you know, thought of that it could be a thing. You know, it makes me feel a little special kind of a person. Ridhima Pandey is one among the 16 children who filed a complaint to protest against the lack of government action to tackle the climate crisis. I'm here because I want all the global leaders to do something to stop climate change because if it's not going to be stopped, it's going to harm our future. So if you want to stop global warming, we have to do something now. I won't let this fight die down, trust me. Venice, the organization, and now release it every single time. When I talk to the kids from any part of the world, the one thing that I found common amongst all our stories is that climate change has impacted and is still impacting our life in one way or the other.
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[Music] In 2013, the Kidana flash flood happened. After seeing those things, I started having these nightmares. When it comes to climate change, my generation is the most vulnerable right now, and we are going to be the most affected in the future as well.
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[Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign 92 FM, Hawaii's number one hit music station. We've got a special treat for you. Husband and wife team who are leading the way in coral protection, Dr. Greg Asner and Dr. Robin Martin. Guys, how are you doing today? Thanks for being here. Thanks for having us. Thank you for having us. On a global scale, corals are in trouble. We've had two major marine heat waves, that's these heat waves in the ocean. We weren't ready. We didn't have a lot of data, and we mobilized.
[Music] So we do a very high-tech style of environmental mapping. We take off, and we're flying over our coral reef, and the computers and the instrumentation on board the plane are collecting up these images as we fly over. These instruments are like fancy cameras that are pointing out at the bottom of the plane. This shows our progression as we fly across the reef, and each one of these passes is more than a diving team can do in a year. But really, what our mapping is that makes it so unique is our ability to see the biodiversity, see the actual organisms that are making up the ecosystem. And we've created technology on board my aircraft that allows us to probe these ecosystems, and that helps us to create information about the seafloor, including the corals. That information in the instrumentation on the plane has to be interpreted in some way. And so Robin comes into the picture by going into the ocean and relating what we see in the plane with the corals on the seafloor itself. Greg's team right now is heading over us, coming up over the boat right now. So this is showing our real-time display as we're flying over. Robin, my office is one of the coolest places on Earth. Coral reefs are like the rainforest of the sea. They provide habitat, they provide food, they provide shoreline protection. They're living, growing organisms that grow out of the bottom of the ocean. As ecologists, we look at nature as species, organisms that are interacting, and that one doesn't exist well without the other. Problems like climate change disrupt these interactions between species. These marine heat waves are causing an unknown amount of death among corals. These dark bands show the live coral. The oranges are still alive coral, but less of it, and the yellow is very little live coral cover. But it gives you a history of what we lost in the shallower parts of the reef. But we did learn in 2015 that we lost at least 25 percent of our corals statewide. By July 2019, we started seeing this heat wave arriving again. Unlike forest fires where we know we put water on it to put it out, we have no idea what to do about these heat waves in terms of putting them out.
[Music] [Music] Although I don't practice religion, the experiences that one has underwater or in this world, if you take the time to just be quiet and listen and look, make you always wonder who's in charge and how everything got here.
[Music] He lived below the waterline, you have no voice. So it's up to us to bring some of that voice above the surface. It's not easy to do.
[Music] foreign [Music] If you just look at the science, and having been an environmental activist for so many years, like, you look at the science and you can despair. But we also need the stories. We need the narratives that that faith brings, the motivation in order to to take action.
[Music] Every major faith has taken up the challenge of addressing the environmental crises, and they do so through their stories and their narratives.
[Music] And one of the things that the faiths have always known is you've got to be dealing with the spectrum of human issues, not just with one single issue. The first big meeting of the faiths with the major environmental groups was in 1986 in Assisi, Italy, the birthplace of Saint Francis. We had all the major conservation environmental groups there, and we had representatives of the five major religions. Laudato Si, and the theology that underpins Laudato Si is about calling us into a deeper communion with the natural world, in the way that Pope Francis starts this encyclical. Well, he calls it Laudato Si, praise be, from the Canticle of Creation.
[Music] But then the whole first chapter practically is dedicated to Saint Francis of Assisi. Saint Francis, as a mystic, had that intuition of the created world, and that's something at its deepest, I think, that's where Laudato Si offers something so unique. There has never been an invitation from a Pope to the rest of the religious world and the secular world to become partners side by side in addressing a major issue. That is unique. That's the turning point. Pope Francis really calls in Laudato Si for an urgent dialogue with those who are suffering from the effects of climate injustice, those who are not listened to.
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[Music] [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign foreign [Music] So first thing to say is a huge welcome to all of you. I have been a campaigner on environmental issues, social justice, I think since I was your age, around that time. Our coming together today is partly in response to to this, this little book, Laudato Si. Pope Francis wrote this for every person on the planet. Wow. And I know that each of you received a letter of invitation. Support Francis meets with people from the peripheries all the time. It's kind of like his bread and butter. But what we're trying to do here is to bring together the different peripheries into dialogue, and that's quite unique.
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[Music] Follow traditions. Thank you for this opportunity to speak to you today about the global biodiversity crisis and for all the unheard voices of wildlife. We need your help. As scientists, we realized that science can't solve the biodiversity crisis or the climate crisis alone. Science is a toolkit, but we need much more than tools. Do not plan it. It is a planet. Today, I am here in front of you to represent the voices of the youth because our future is in danger. We are not getting the life that we deserved. The older generation inherited this world in a way like it was beautiful, it was livable, it was a world that I wanted, but they have destroyed it for their profit. Thank you. This is here, but um, momento issues. Los Asian s.
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[Music] That's something humanity has lived on this planet and watched it and observed it for thousands of years. You've learned a lot. We didn't call it ecology, we didn't call it conservation, we just felt that somehow here there was something more wonderful and mysterious and majestical and powerful at work.
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[Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] moved because the first time I see this relic. Saint Francis had a special attraction to rocky places like this one, in complete solitude. He needed to renew his contact with the very source of his life. They needed the contact with the absolute, the transcendent. It is meaningful for everybody, not just for believers or Christians. So we need to have a transcendent reason to care for the creation. Francis, it's the first Francis in the history of the Catholic Church. It is fair to say, by the reaction in the square of Saint Peter's, they are stunned. This is a stunner. This is a stunner.
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[Music] And they say, okay, but you really have to go to Assisi to get a sense of the real Francis. This message of Saint Francis of love for nature, a concern for social justice for the poor. And then it says here, Laudato Si, for the sister moon and the stars. And this one here is Saint Francis looking at the stars. Yeah. And his eyes are wide open. So let's go up the stairs. Papa, if you get me to finish. Position. It went by too fast for me. And I, I just keep replaying it like, oh, I wish I could have done that or said that, asked this. Right. Yep. Oh, there's somebody walking at the other side. Yeah. I was feeling my legs shaking, and I was not able to figure out what happened. Like, the whole day. That's the essence of it. It's perfectly imperfect. Even with the Pope, it's human. So, um.
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[Music] When I think about Pope Francis's contribution, it's huge. It's enormous, and it needs to go far outside of the Catholic Church, far outside of Christianity, far outside among many belief systems. And the amplification can't be what I know, or what you know, or what you know, or what you know. It's what we know. I know if we can form alliances that stretch across different movements, we could still make a change. There is hope. Is.
[Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] It really has changed my perspective. I think it's going to define the rest of my career, my life. Everybody had their story, but everybody's story is the story of today. And the latest report by the United Nations climate science agency has declared that it is now or never. Marches have been taking place in more than 200 cities around the globe for what's built as a global day of action for climate justice. We know what to do. We know how to do it. I know it's up to us to take action. Taking action for climate crisis. Try to be the change you want to see in the world. We are now at the crossroads of humanity, having the opportunity to go one way or the other.
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