Britain's King Charles III warns that the dangers of climate change are "no longer distant risks" as he opens the UN's COP28 climate summit in Dubai. Charles kicks off two days of speeches by heads of state and government in the oil-rich United Arab Emirates, where the future of fossil fuels has taken centre stage.
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00:00 The dangers are no longer distant risks.
00:04 I have seen across the Commonwealth and beyond countless communities which are unable to
00:11 withstand repeated shocks whose lives and livelihoods are laid waste by climate change.
00:21 Surely real action is required to stem the growing toll of its most vulnerable victims.
00:28 We are carrying out a vast, frightening experiment of changing every ecological condition all
00:37 at once at a pace that far outstrips nature's ability to cope.
00:45 And we need to remember too that the indigenous worldview teaches us that we are all connected,
00:52 not only as human beings but with all living things and all that sustains life.
00:59 As part of this grand and sacred system, harmony with nature must be maintained.
01:07 The earth does not belong to us.
01:10 We belong to the earth.
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