Do the Math

00:00:29 Like most people, I'm not an activist by nature.

00:02:16 We started this thing called 350.org.

00:04:36 In a sense it excites me, because I think we know what we need to do.

00:06:39 We're at the point of trying to keep it from becoming a complete and utter calamity.

00:08:24 is not compatible with the planet on which civilization developed and to which life on earth is adapted.

00:10:14 The next day I got a call from the editor saying

00:11:45 Every signatory pledged to make sure the temperature wouldn't rise about that.

00:13:32 I mean, it's five times more.

00:15:40 It's almost how we define civilization.

00:17:23 You're helping them stay on top and preventing their competitors like renewable fuels from competing.

00:19:20 Last summer, for the very first time, the CEO of Exxon, Mr. Tillerson gave a speech in which he said, yes, it's true.

00:20:48 to figure out the plan where they turn themselves into energy companies, not fossil fuel companies

00:23:01 and drive it into the information bloodstream of the planet?

00:24:42 to speed more oil from Cushing to state-of-the-art refineries down in the Gulf Coast

00:26:31 We're really starting to see an expansion of the group of people that are fighting this fight

00:28:11 That's what happened during the fight against South African Apartheid.

00:30:02 The fact that we have over 250 movements on different campusus around the country

00:31:41 The divestment work is a piece of that and what it does is it has the ambition

00:33:34 The long-term solution to climate change is very clear.

00:34:45 Why would be drill in the arctic when we know that solar power can meet our energy needs across the country?

00:36:30 The future doesn't have a lobby until now.

00:37:54 if we continue to talk about it but not do anything.

00:39:48 And the good news is that in this country, when we finally decided that we're going to take action

00:41:49 today I know we're going to fight the battle