Climate change is our reality. Here’s how we’re taking action | Al Gore, Gloria Kasang Bulus, Nana Firman, Ximena Loría and Tim Guinee

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🗓️ 4 March 2021

⏱️ 8 minutes

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With the Climate Reality Project, Al Gore is helping mold future leaders to build the movement for climate survival and social justice from the ground up. He introduces us to four of the Project’s graduates, each of whom confronts climate change on their own terms: Ximena Loría, founder of Misión 2 Grados, an NGO influencing public policy in Central America; Nana Firman, “daughter of the rainforest” and advocate for climate justice among Indigenous peoples; Gloria Kasang Bulus, a Nigerian activist for women and education; and Tim Guinee, a first responder and climate change fighter in upstate New York. Together, they’re gathering local actors into a global, grassroots movement that aims to turn the climate fight around.

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Frieda Pinto with TED Talks Daily, and I want to invite you to join Countdown,
0:09.5	TED's new global initiative to accelerate solutions to the climate crisis.
0:13.9	I am so excited to be part of Countdown.
0:17.1	Now here's a talk from the Countdown Global Launch Event, given by Al Gore and four climate activists,
0:24.0	Imena Loria, Nana Furman, Gloria Kasang Bullis, and Tim Guinea.
0:29.9	To hear more of these ideas and get involved, check out countdown.com and subscribe to the
0:36.7	countdown podcast wherever you're listening to this.
0:41.6	Hello everyone. I'm Al Gore, founder and chairman of the climate reality project.
0:47.7	This extraordinary moment of great challenge and great loss is obviously also a moment of
0:53.5	great awakening and a great opportunity.
0:56.7	The global pandemic, structural and institutional racism with its horrific violence,
1:03.1	the worsening impacts of the climate crisis, all of these have accelerated the emergence
1:07.7	of a new and widespread collective understanding of our connection to the natural world,
1:13.6	the consequences of ignoring science, and our sacred obligation to build a just society for all.
1:21.6	The Climate Reality Project trains thousands of climate leaders around the world in all 195 nations to advocate
1:30.1	for a future humanity deserves. You're about to hear from four very different people who've
1:35.9	gone through this week-long training and hear how they've been inspired to act. I want to let them
1:42.0	speak for themselves, beginning with Jimena Loria.
1:47.0	Jimena is working in Central America to influence public policy and develop young leaders.
1:53.2	She's given presentations on climate to thousands of people and has now created her own NGO.
2:00.1	My name is Jimenez-Loria.
2:01.6	I'm from Costa Rica and I attended that 2016 training in Houston, Texas.
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