Harrison Ford Issues Dire Warning on the Amazon and Climate Crisis | NowThis — Transcript

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1. 0:00my house is on fire and we only have one
2. 0:03house we've been talking about saving
3. 0:13the Amazon for 30 years
4. 0:17almost 30 years ago sting held a concert
5. 0:21to save the Amazon right here in New
6. 0:23York and we're still talking about it
7. 0:28the world's largest rainforest the
8. 0:32Amazon is crucial to any climate change
9. 0:36solution for its capacity to sequester
10. 0:40carbon for its biodiversity for its
11. 0:44fresh water for the air we breathe for
12. 0:48our morality and it is on fire when a
13. 0:55room in your house is on fire you don't
14. 0:57say there's a fire in a room in my house
15. 1:00you say my house is on fire and we only
16. 1:03have one house greed is winning the
17. 1:08battle for the Amazon and what we've
18. 1:11done to preserve the Amazon what we've
19. 1:13worked so hard for is being purposefully
20. 1:17undone we need to protect what we have
21. 1:23we need to restore what we have lost and
22. 1:27we need to defund the mechanisms the
23. 1:31perverse tax subsidies the lending
24. 1:33policies and the institutional
25. 1:36investments that fuel deforestation it
26. 1:40is understood that the protection and
27. 1:43preservation of tropical forests can
28. 1:45achieve at least 30% of the emissions
29. 1:49reductions we need to protect
30. 1:54the planet on behalf my goodness I'm so
31. 2:00sorry in the movies we get to do it over
32. 2:09[Applause]
33. 2:13and without the Amazon without securing
34. 2:16the largest standing tropical forests in
35. 2:19the world we cannot achieve a climate
36. 2:21solution and nothing else we do will
37. 2:25matter Conservation International has
38. 2:28been working in Amazon Amazonia for over
39. 2:3130 years and we are here now to stand
40. 2:35with you to put funding to put teeth in
41. 2:38this ambition president McCrone we're
42. 2:44sincerely grateful to the French
43. 2:46government which has committed to
44. 2:47investing in this effort with a 100
45. 2:50million dollar contribution thank you
46. 2:52sir it is a great start but it is not
47. 2:57enough on behalf of Conservation
48. 3:00International I'm honored to announce
49. 3:02that we are committing an additional 20
50. 3:05million dollars in funding
51. 3:11but we can't do it alone we need all the
52. 3:15help that we can get this money must go
53. 3:19directly to indigenous people and civil
54. 3:23society the people on the front lines
55. 3:27the people on the ground the people with
56. 3:30their feet in the mud our efforts will
57. 3:34have effect we will make great progress
58. 3:37and we are not alone there's a new force
59. 3:42of nature at hand stirring all over the
60. 3:46world they are the young people whom
61. 3:48frankly we have failed who are angry who
62. 3:53are organized who are capable of making
63. 3:57a difference they are a moral army and
64. 4:02the most important thing that we can do
65. 4:05for them is to get the hell out of their
66. 4:08way
67. 4:12[Applause]