Hello.
This map, I'm sure you all
know that if the world gets
two degrees hotter than
it was in 1800, which
is the time around the
Industrial Revolution started,
if it gets two degrees
hotter than it was in 1800--
we're nearly there.
Some people think we've
passed it and it's too late,
but then the earth
goes even hotter.
You cannot stop it
going to five degrees,
because everything kicks in.
All the me-thing gets activated.
All these things.
You can't stop it.
And the world will reach its
equilibrium at five degrees.
And it will stop around then.
All that's red is uninhabitable.
And this can happen
within a generation.
And I got really scared
about six years ago
when the famous scientist
James Lovelock, in an interview
he said by the end
of this century,
his guess was that
there would only
be one billion people left.
The earth will survive
in this poor state.
But there will be mass
extinction of the human race.
And it can happen very quickly.
We might not be able to
prevent it, even at this time.
But I am one of the
people who spends
an awful lot of time trying to
think what we can do in order
to prevent it.
When I first started, there's
so many NGOs, so many charities,
so many people
thinking, what can we
do to make the world better
or to stop this happening,
if they're an environmentalist.
But first of all, I
want to explain to you
why this is happening.
And I wrote a pamphlet, and
you can get this information
if you look at this
website, Climate Revolution.
And it's the best thing
I've ever written.
It's kind of a series
of bullet points
and it explains who are rulers
are and who runs the world.
And it's very simple.
People call it the 1%,
but of course there's
an awful lot more people
involved in this structure.
I've called it
vulture capitalism.
The central bankers, there
are about 147 of them,
and the world is run
for their profit.
There are three groups
of people-- the bankers,
I'm not talking
about every bank.
I'm talking about these
central banks that print money.
They're connected to the
monopolies, the people who
dig for oil, take out
all the finite resources
of the earth, and politicians.
And the press is on
their side as well.
And it's an economic
system that's
been going on for a
couple of hundred years.
And everybody's so used to
it that they don't know,
they can't imagine
anything else.
Anyway what happens is that
the central banks print money.
But they don't need to print
money very often because they
have so much interest.
They create debt and they
live off the interest.
And it's only in
emergencies that they
need to print the money.
You've all heard of poor
countries, third world
countries, who have to sell
all their assets in order
to pay the interest
on money they've
been forced to borrow by the
World Trade Organisation.
It's a whole scam, and it's
actually a complete Ponzi
scheme.
And it's called End Capitalism,
because we're the end
and people are getting
more and more desperate.
The people-- who we might
as well call them the 1%,
but-- like
everybody's connected.
Everybody who makes
a decent living
somehow is connected
with this whole thing.
Some people call it
the revolving door
as well, because the
politicians and the corporations
and the banks, they just-- when
you finish being a politician,
then you can go and be an
advisor to a corporation
and make sure the politicians
do what they want.
And that's how it's working.
Anyway, and so the thing is, do
have a look at this if you can.
Because if you know
this basic thing,
you can work out everything.
You can understand the
austerity, for example,
in England.
It's just a trick to help this
thing along and disguise it
a bit so they don't have
to print money too much.
It's just all part of it.
It's totally unnecessary,
all this kind of thing.
You have to work it
out for yourself.
What can we do?
I thought, if I've
got a minute left,
I could just explain
the Gaia theory to you.
The Gaia theory is the theory
of this man James Lovelock.
Gaia is the first name they gave
to the mother earth in Greece.
Her name was Gaia.
That's why he called
his theory that,
because his theory is that the
earth behaves as if it's alive.
Maybe it is alive.
Maybe the stones are alive.
We don't know.
I think there probably are
cosmic forces and everything.
Anyway the thing is that
the biosphere, the life
form on the earth, regulates
the metabolism of the earth.
It's a symbiotic
relationship whereby
the atmosphere-- the earth
is cooled through the life
forms that live on it.
And it's never been
so rich before,
and it's never stayed
so stable before,
because it's also
subtle and rich.
And we could carry on
for-- I don't know.
Whatever.
But we can't unless
we do something.
Thank you.
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