What that means now in the policy and the security space. Im excited to have an excellent panel to talk about that. Weve got heather conley, our vice president. We have john. We have sara glasser, the Deputy Director of secure fisheries and amy lair, the director of our human rights initiative. Thank you to the panel, and im going to sit down and be quiet and turn it over to my excellent panel, and well start off with heather. Thank you so much. Good morning, everyone. I think the arctic is the best place to talk about that intersection of climate stress and security. And in many ways the arctic is telling us, actually, both polar regions are telling us theyre under the most dramatic stress as the arctic certainly is warming two to three times faster than any place on the planet. And in many ways we are now dealing with a very new ocean. In fact, our former coast guard commandant called the arctic americas fourth coast. I thought that was a powerful way of thinking about it in part bec
Be watching you. [applause] this is all wrong. I shouldnt be up here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet, you all come to us young people for hope. How dare you . You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words, and yet, im one of the lucky ones. People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ok systems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is the money and fairytales of eternal economic growth. Ow dare you . [cheers and applause] for more than 30 years, the science has been crystal clear. How dare you continue to look away and come here saying that youre doing enough when the politics and Solutions Needed are still nowhere in sight . You say you hear us and that you understand the urgency, but no matter how sad and angry i am, i do not want to believe that because if you really understood the situation and still kept on failing to about then you would be evil. And that, i refuse to believe.
The other side of the ocean. Yet, you all come to us young people for hope. How dare you . You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words, and yet, im one of the lucky ones. People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is the money and fairytales of eternal economic growth. How dare you . [cheers and applause] greta for more than 30 years, the science has been crystal clear. How dare you continue to look away and come here saying that youre doing enough when the politics and Solutions Needed are still nowhere in sight . You say you hear us and that you understand the urgency, but no matter how sad and angry i am, i do not want to believe that because if you really understood the situation and still kept on failing to act then you would be evil. And that, i refuse to believe. [applause] greta the popular idea of cutting our emissions in half in 10 years only gives us a
Mass extinction and all you can talk about is the money and fairytales of eternal economic growth. How dare you . [cheers and applause] greta for more than 30 years, the science has been crystal clear. How dare you continue to look away and come here saying that youre doing enough when the politics and Solutions Needed are still nowhere in sight . You say you hear us and that you understand the urgency, but no matter how sad and angry i am, i do not want to believe that because if you really understood the situation and still kept on failing to act then you would be evil. And that, i refuse to believe. [applause] greta the popular idea of cutting our emissions in half in 10 years only gives us a 50 chance of staying below 1. 5 degrees at the risk of setting off irreversal Chain Reactions beyond human control. 50 may be acceptable to you. But those numbers do not include tipping points most feedback loops, additional warming hidden by toxic air pollution or the aspects of equity in clim
Change is also affecting oceans and seas. To day we will take a look at how exactly and to what extent. Mm. Hello and welcome to to morrow to day this science show on d. W. Coral reefs have been around for thousands of years. But environmental degradation and Climate Change threatened to destroy them within a few decades. These diverse ecosystems provide life and food sources for millions of people worldwide is theres still time to save them. With coral reefs are unlike anywhere else on earth that come to mind blowing, biodiversity, the wild reefs shown with red dots. Here. They cover less than one percent of the ocean or but they actually support over a quarter of all marine life built. She tiny animals, coral polyps, cobbles. Oh, a great deal of them magic and that beautiful color to a complex co operation between organisms. Algae live in the polyps tissue and provide nutrients to the coal in exchange for protection. But this delicate teamwork is under threat from Climate Change. C o