Al Gore

Cancer Alley Reserve, Louisiana, has the highest cancer rate in the United States, 50 times the national average, and they want to put even more petrochemical facilities there.

Is it realistic to totally ignore the acidification of the world's oceans?

30 percent more acid than before the Industrial Revolution, and 93 percent of all the heat is being absorbed in the oceans.

That's why the coral reefs are in such danger.

Eighty-four percent in danger right now.

We've seen massive die-offs.

That's why a lot of the fish are at risk.

Forty to sixty percent of all the fish species face an extremely high risk as the rivers and the place and estuaries where they have spawning and in their embryonic stages are continued to heat up.

And fifty percent of all

All living species that we share this planet with are at risk of extinction.

Is it realistic to ignore that?

My faith tradition tells me that Noah was commanded to save the species of this earth.

I think we have a moral obligation as well.

Is it realistic to ignore the predictions

of a fresh water scarcity crisis.

Already 40 percent are facing water scarcities.

In the mountain glaciers in the Himalayas, one quarter of the world's population depends on that meltwater.

But depending on whether or not we act, 80 percent of all those glaciers will disappear in this century.

We can act.

Now, this just happened in Switzerland.