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Now, welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left podcast with Clips Today from Archbishop

Desmond Tutu, the Green News Report, the majority report, the U.S. Environmental Protection

Agency, Counter-Spin, the David Takman Show, the Young Turks, Shane Coizan, activism

from the NRDC and Climate Desk.

The destruction of the Earth's environment is the human rights challenge of our time.

Over the 25 years, the climate change has been on the world's agenda.

Global emissions have risen unchecked while real world impacts have taken hold in earnest.

Time is running out.

We are already experiencing loss of life and livelihood because of intensified storms,

shortage of fresh water, spread of disease, rising food prices and the creation of climate

refugees.

The most devastating effects are visited on the poor, though no involvement in creating

the problem at deep injustice.

Just as we argued in the 1980s, though you conducted business with a part-day South Africa,

we're aiding and abetting an immoral system.

Today, we say nobody should profit from the rising temperatures, seas and human suffering

caused by the burning of fossil fuels.

We can no longer continue feeding our addiction to fossil fuels as if there is no tomorrow.

For there will be no tomorrow.

We're on the cusp of a global transition to a new, safe, energy economy.

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