WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.900 Our government has not invested what is necessary to protect 00:00:03.900 --> 00:00:07.500 our country from the climate crisis matter what your feeling 00:00:07.500 --> 00:00:12.400 today if it's anger anxiety, if it's frustration just know that 00:00:12.400 --> 00:00:16.100 this is how we win when we keep at it when we keep organized 00:00:16.100 --> 00:00:19.300 and then we can push it until they cannot ignore. 00:00:33.900 --> 00:00:37.300 I'm very angry because world leaders have done nothing to make 00:00:37.300 --> 00:00:39.700 sure that my generation is going up in a habitable planet. 00:00:39.700 --> 00:00:42.600 My name is Alexander Visa New York. 00:00:42.600 --> 00:00:45.800 I am a 13 year old climate activist and I've been on School 00:00:45.800 --> 00:00:47.900 site for climate in front of the United Nations Headquarters 00:00:47.900 --> 00:00:49.500 for 18 weeks now. 00:00:51.600 --> 00:00:54.800 My earliest moment of becoming conscious of climate change 00:00:54.800 --> 00:00:56.300 was last November. 00:00:59.600 --> 00:01:02.800 So when visiting family in California, do you buy Rogue out? 00:01:02.800 --> 00:01:04.900 My family is only an hour away from Paradise. 00:01:04.900 --> 00:01:06.800 So we got a lot of the smoke. 00:01:09.200 --> 00:01:13.600 When I think of my future I'm most scared of how is unpredictable. 00:01:13.600 --> 00:01:16.400 My generation will have the most extreme weather. 00:01:16.400 --> 00:01:21.200 We will continue to run from the next Wildfire hurricane 00:01:21.200 --> 00:01:22.900 in the we won't have time for school anymore. 00:01:22.900 --> 00:01:24.700 That's why so striking is so symbolic. 00:01:28.800 --> 00:01:31.900 When people from the United Nations come out talk with me most of 00:01:31.900 --> 00:01:35.200 them to show their support as to how they can help but then 00:01:35.200 --> 00:01:38.100 also talked about climate change about their climate grief, 00:01:38.100 --> 00:01:40.100 and we talked about our climate anxiety together. 00:01:40.100 --> 00:01:45.100 I've been going inside the United Nations for a couple of Engagement. 00:01:45.100 --> 00:01:47.400 I was at the ecosocial Youth Forum 00:01:48.400 --> 00:01:53.600 Even before most of our generation and I was also invited 00:01:53.600 --> 00:01:56.700 into a couple of their round tables for the climate Summit 00:01:56.700 --> 00:02:00.800 and some of their special debrief meeting like everyone 00:02:00.800 --> 00:02:04.900 is needed. And so this day in age the most effective way to get 00:02:04.900 --> 00:02:08.700 change is by Civil Disobedience and taking direct action like 00:02:08.700 --> 00:02:12.300 striking because a lot of the students Were Striking are not 00:02:12.300 --> 00:02:13.400 voting age act. 00:02:13.400 --> 00:02:16.400 So striking is our only way to get our voices heard and be a 00:02:16.400 --> 00:02:18.900 boy are mobilizing. 00:02:18.900 --> 00:02:25.200 We must reduce greenhouse gas emissions and transition 00:02:25.200 --> 00:02:28.000 to renewable energy and we must keep it in the ground. 00:02:28.000 --> 00:02:35.300 I do not think mostly adults are taking the suit Strikers 00:02:35.300 --> 00:02:39.400 message seriously yet because 1.6 million students protested 00:02:39.400 --> 00:02:41.900 on March 15th, and no laws and policies were made. 00:02:41.900 --> 00:02:45.000 We are still not being heard efficiently to the point where 00:02:45.000 --> 00:02:47.100 world leaders will act on climate change. 00:02:47.100 --> 00:02:50.200 We are still Being theoretically patted on the head. 00:02:58.500 --> 00:03:04.800 You got her back in the show me the most Progressive 00:03:04.800 --> 00:03:11.900 agenda that this country has ever has a politician's 00:03:11.900 --> 00:03:15.400 have utterly failed us some I taken millions of dollars from 00:03:15.400 --> 00:03:20.900 Executives others just don't seem to have the spine to actually 00:03:20.900 --> 00:03:22.400 fight for the solutions that we need. 00:03:22.400 --> 00:03:25.300 And so we decided that we need to create movement of young 00:03:25.300 --> 00:03:27.800 people to stop climate change and crayons a good jobs in the 00:03:27.800 --> 00:03:35.400 process for the past few decades. 00:03:35.400 --> 00:03:38.800 The debate about climate change has been the framing of like 00:03:38.800 --> 00:03:42.100 our grandchildren are going to suffer and now those grandchildren 00:03:42.100 --> 00:03:44.900 are stepping up and we're saying actually we're suffering 00:03:44.900 --> 00:03:47.400 from The Price is Right now and we're getting a solution 00:03:47.400 --> 00:03:50.600 because if you don't actually provide a solution for us in the 00:03:50.600 --> 00:03:53.400 entire world, then we're going to be living in climate chaos. 00:03:54.900 --> 00:03:59.500 Probably the biggest moment was when superstorm Sandy hit it something 00:03:59.500 --> 00:04:00.300 it's really hard to explain. 00:04:00.300 --> 00:04:03.500 When you see your home City like completely devastated 00:04:03.500 --> 00:04:05.900 to the point where it's like the streets are dead. 00:04:05.900 --> 00:04:10.600 No one's outside known to Subway and to be a junior in high 00:04:10.600 --> 00:04:14.000 school and see this entire city, to a grinding halt. 00:04:14.000 --> 00:04:15.400 What's really really astonishing? 00:04:17.900 --> 00:04:21.300 I would say that the imagery is it's not so much fear. 00:04:21.300 --> 00:04:24.800 It's hope and that really is the difference that we're bringing 00:04:24.800 --> 00:04:25.200 to the table. 00:04:25.200 --> 00:04:28.000 We're not just calling attention to the crisis or not. 00:04:28.000 --> 00:04:30.400 Just saying look at these wildfires look at these clothes 00:04:30.400 --> 00:04:33.100 are not displaying to the crisis are also coming with solution. 00:04:34.100 --> 00:04:36.900 Just look at how the green New Deal resolution has totally 00:04:36.900 --> 00:04:40.000 shifted the debate on climate, right? 00:04:40.000 --> 00:04:43.200 Because now it's suddenly actually about planet policy when 00:04:43.200 --> 00:04:48.400 before the November midterm election debate was between the last 00:04:48.400 --> 00:04:50.900 witch was saying the crisis exists and the right which is staying 00:04:50.900 --> 00:04:51.500 at the house. 00:04:56.000 --> 00:04:58.300 Young people don't really want to pick up the phone when I call 00:04:58.300 --> 00:05:01.500 their politician, but they will show up and you know droves 00:05:01.500 --> 00:05:06.200 of 20 or 30 and sit outside their office and conditioner 00:05:06.200 --> 00:05:09.500 and a senator Schumer's and I'm calling fatter Senator Schumer 00:05:09.500 --> 00:05:14.300 co-sponsor is a green New Deal resolution has a long history 00:05:14.300 --> 00:05:17.900 of trading changed at Sunrise is rounding we did a deep dive 00:05:17.900 --> 00:05:22.000 into the historical context of the situation we were in but it 00:05:22.000 --> 00:05:24.600 also meant a deep dive into social movements what made them 00:05:24.600 --> 00:05:33.900 successful and what made them not work direct action is a little 00:05:33.900 --> 00:05:39.200 bit of a Lifeline a call for help a way to show how dire 00:05:39.200 --> 00:05:43.900 the situation is and how few options we have to actually 00:05:43.900 --> 00:05:48.400 fight this a lot of people are I looking for community 00:05:48.400 --> 00:05:52.700 and they're looking for other people like them or not like them 00:05:52.700 --> 00:05:55.800 but looking to do something exciting to make an impact. 00:05:56.200 --> 00:05:59.500 And a lot of times it's risky and it's scary. 00:05:59.500 --> 00:06:03.700 But seeing the other people are doing it too and knowing 00:06:03.700 --> 00:06:07.400 that it's actually okay to feel scared because it's not super 00:06:07.400 --> 00:06:08.800 typical to have to do this. 00:06:08.800 --> 00:06:13.300 It's not super typical to face a crisis that has been boiling 00:06:13.300 --> 00:06:14.700 boiling for 30 years. 00:06:14.700 --> 00:06:18.000 And you're the generation that has to take actions that's 00:06:18.000 --> 00:06:22.000 scary and it's a lot of responsibility but knowing that we can 00:06:22.000 --> 00:06:25.000 do it together and that it's important to ask anyway, 00:06:25.000 --> 00:06:29.500 if he's some sort of hunger and people that keeps on coming 00:06:29.500 --> 00:06:30.600 back again and again, 00:06:35.000 --> 00:06:37.800 in everything everything