EAR 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Leonardo Dicaprio, Sea Level Rise, Renewable Energy

• School: Syracuse University
• Department: Earth Sciences
• Course: EAR 105
• Professor: Junium

Document Summary

Leonardo dicaprio climate change speech (full transcript can be found on his website) Thank you, mr. secretary general, for the honor to address this body once more. And thanks to the distinguished climate leaders assembled here today who are ready to take action. President abraham lincoln was also thinking of bold action 150 years ago when he said: The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. As our case is new so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves and then we shall save our country. He was speaking before the us congress to confront the defining issue of his time slavery. Everyone knew it had to end but no one had the political will to stop it. Remarkably, his words ring as true today when applied to the defining crisis of our time climate.