6,000 protesters, 500 ready to go to jail. All in the name of stopping climate extinction.
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00:00Extinction! Rebellion!
00:08The plan for today is essentially to take a series of bridges in London and have a peaceful
00:32sit-in protest to draw attention to the fact that we're on our way to extinction.
00:37It's about you, it's about me, it's about the world.
00:40We are going to die.
00:41Every day, 60 species are going extinct.
00:44You can Google that, it's a fact.
00:46We are on the way to our own extinction and if we don't do anything now, there will be
00:50no tomorrow for us, for our children and it's up to us to have some responsibility with
00:56our planet, with our people, with our brethren to make a difference now because now is the
01:01time.
01:02Tomorrow is too late.
01:03Woo!
01:04Let's go!
01:07For the first time, people are willing to go to jail and to actually sacrifice themselves
01:19for this cause, for our planet.
01:20We need to have drastic action, we need to take measures that people actually show real
01:25commitment to making real sacrifices to meet the needs of a planet that is fast going towards
01:33extinction.
01:37The Extinction Rebellion movement here in the UK has three basic demands.
01:51One is that the truth must be told because at the moment, people are not aware of what
01:55is really happening.
01:57We are not aware of how dangerous and how critical the situation is at the moment.
02:01Secondly, there is demand that all carbon emissions are cut by 2025, all carbon emissions
02:06in the UK.
02:07And thirdly, that to democratize the process, a council of citizens is set up to guide and
02:16to monitor the process of our efforts to stop climate change.
02:29This is not a UK movement, this is a global movement because it's not about French, it's
02:33not about the British, it's not about the Spanish, it's about humanity.
02:37It's about someone in Nairobi, it's about someone in Sydney, it's about someone in Bogota,
02:41Colombia.
02:42It's about all of us joining hands and making a difference because if not, there will be
02:46no tomorrow to speak of.