My Extinction | movie | 2023 | Official Trailer
What does it take for us to act on the climate crisis – especially if we’re the kind of person who should already be | dG1fWG8ydmJyS2JDVGM
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00:00 We know the science, we admit that it's real, and we do bugger all.
00:08 Hottest August day for 17 years.
00:15 I'm just in the edit.
00:16 It's a car commercial actually.
00:17 Piss off!
00:18 You're traffic-blind.
00:19 You can't make an SON.
00:20 Why not?
00:20 Well, I've got a job too.
00:30 I mean, okay, I'm freelance and it comes and goes a bit, but you know, hang on, sorry,
00:34 I do actually have quite a lot going on.
00:40 My name is Greta Thunberg, and I want you to act as if the house was on fire.
00:46 It really is just pure guilt of what will they say when they're old enough to say, "What
00:53 the f*** did you do?"
00:57 The recognition and the acknowledgement of privilege isn't enough.
01:00 It's what we do with it is what matters.
01:03 I'm not comfortable with knowing that half of the humanity is going to die starving.
01:07 I just started tearing up.
01:09 It's too much.
01:11 But then I keep thinking, you know, if not you, then who?
01:14 You know, if not now, when?
01:17 That's the part I don't get.
01:23 Who deems it to be an obstruction?
01:25 I just don't know if I can do an oil company now.
01:32 Oil is funding climate denial straightforwardly.
01:34 They've been doing it for 30 years.
01:36 Near Parliament on Tufton Street.
01:38 It's the Adam Smith Institute.
01:39 It is a cabal.
01:40 I cannot believe that all those scumbag people are in one building.
01:45 We've got enough people for that.
01:48 It's really coming together, isn't it?
01:49 For 20 years I feel I've been banging my head against a brick wall.
01:50 And now I feel there are loads of us banging our heads against it.
01:51 Now we know that there really are people who aim to transform genuine feelings of climate
02:09 grief and guilt into defended ignorance.
02:12 Then I started recycling.
02:13 First, paper and plastic.
02:14 Then my rage into activism.
02:15 Come on.
02:16 Yeah.
02:16 Yeah.
02:18 (audience laughing)
02:21 (audience laughing)