 Here's how we avert a worsening climate crisis and build a renewable and fair society together and fast. It's not about changing light bulbs or expecting your elected officials to lead. It's about you taking action right now where you have the most power, your very own community. We the people have to take down the fossil fuel industry if we want to replace it with renewable energy for all. The fossil fuel industry have spent decades creating and denying a climate crisis that is already affecting millions of us around the world. So how do we take down the most powerful industry in the history of the world? It's quite simple actually by building enough local people power. Fossil fuel companies only have the power that we are willing to give them. They are supported by our public institutions giving them social acceptability through sponsorships and partnerships, our very own investments allowing them to expand into new fossil fuel projects that are completely unnecessary, our politicians allowing them to operate and pollute within our very own communities. But look what happens if enough people are pushing against those very pillars of support? What if communities all over the world stand up for themselves and say no more fossil fuel projects, not here, not anywhere? If we pass local bands and organize ourselves to resist fossil fuel projects in our very communities, not up anymore for dirty energy. If our universities, museums, pension funds divest from fossil fuels and refuse their tainted sponsorships. Now imagine how much more quickly those pillars of support will fall if we are accelerating a just and fair transition to 100% renewable energy for all. If we're actively promoting the kind of community controlled and just alternatives we want to see. If we don't know the solar yet, if we don't have a project that will open up the power plant here. If a big investment is used in dirty energy, why don't they use it? Now, the renewable energy is still here in our country. Our campaign is difficult to start with because the people in our culture are passive or indifferent. And the cost of anti-development is much higher. The idea that they are giving to them, that they will give good programs to start the country of our country, and that's it. We are already on the other side of the country. In the next few months, when they are just a little aware of what they are saying and what we are fighting for, you are also saying that, oh father, when is the next rally? When we are able to change the coal-fired power plant, we are already making an action, isn't that parochial? When you are able to empower other youths, it's like you are already making a move. It's time to make a change. What we have done is to put it in our solar panels. That's why we have to walk the talk. Every time we buy it, he explains to us what it will be good for, what it will be like, and what it will be like to be a beneficiary for other youths. Why did we become a beneficiary of God? The fact that we have been broken in the past, that's why God only believes in us. This is not ours. This is for these children. We are not doing what we see. What we are not talking about is what we are already doing. That's why we are making a mistake. If we cannot get government agencies, we will not be able to do it. We can't do it alone. We need collaboration from different sects or Christian denominations. We have a lot of things to do. Yes, we have a lot. That's why we are putting a huge solar panel here. We can supply the needs of the whole country. The community of the city of Peruibi, in the southeast coast of Brazil, has spent months mobilized against the installation of a 1.7 gigawatt gas-fired power plant, which would generate a lot of environmental and social damage. The fight resulted in the approval of an amendment to the law of the municipality, which prevents the installation of polluting and acid rain causing industries. They say it will bring employment, but that is not the truth. We will not have this opportunity all that they are presenting. So let's participate and let's wear the shirt because it will not be cool, especially for our region, where the house will be built. It is very close to our neighborhood, so for us it would not be very cool. It is respiratory problems, acid rain. Without water, we would have big problems with water. So, for this reason, we will not be able to get out of this situation. In fact, I was the first farmer to involve me in this action, until the moment when I started to circulate this conversation at home, and I already manifested myself in the whole tribe in the opposite way, precisely by the principles that brought me to the city, which was the quality of the air, and all the nature where I live until today, which is in Guaraú, and we had a very difficult vote, a warm start, and I believe that the development of not only the population, but also the groups, the people who guided us, was of great importance for us to have this victory. There is a question that we are here in a direct environment, of conservation units, both marine and continental, we are in a region where we have a decline in sanitation, and also a very large health, and we have done the opposite to the entrepreneurship. We managed to bring the benefits that social media brings to society, you understand, which is unique and far away. So, we made this union of several people, of different branches, of different thoughts, credits and so on. We managed to make a huge mobilization, which we ended up doing a beautiful party, which will be remarkable and unforgettable, and which, in a certain way, will serve as an example for other cities, that will be able to fight against this kind of entrepreneurship. It was a beautiful victory. They are global warming. They are ExxonMobil, BP, ConocoPhillips, Shell, and Chevron. It's time for them to start paying for the damage they've done. The Divest New York campaign began years ago. I remember personally leafletting in the streets of Midtown Manhattan in the summer of 2015. At first, the Divestment Movement was very much, you know, climate organizations and climate groups coming together. We started ramping up a ton of events. We had a huge, huge, huge, like, over 5,000 people came out to March for the fifth anniversary of Sandy, and I think that was emotionally powerful. I was home in Bed-Stuy. I heard a cracking noise. I thought my daughter had her bed, and the ceiling caved in. I almost lost my daughter. You know, organizers like NYCC help us see that, you know, this is actually systemic, and that my liberation really is bound up with yours. And then you start building power with your neighbors, with your communities. Bruce Climate! Bruce Climate! Bruce Climate! And so today we announce that the City of New York will divest from fossil fuel reserve owner companies. We, 8.5 million strong, will no longer participate in a system that endangers our very own people. Winning divestment certainly was a testament that the only sort of transformative change comes from grassroots, comes from the bottom, comes from the people. And this movement was the people saying, this is what we want, this is what we need, and you have to do it because we will vote you out if you don't. You know the story about David and Goliath? To win somebody that huge, it's like emotional. What you have been fighting for wasn't a losing battle. I want for her to know that we will fight for her future. The lawmakers, they do have children too, so we're not only fighting for ourselves, but we are fighting for their children as well. This is really just the beginning, I think. We are waging a war on fossil fuel, and we're coming for them, and they know that, and I think they're a little scared. We know from history social change only happens from the bottom up, when enough people take a stand together. Street by street, city by city, town by town, it's up to you and me to get involved. That's how the Fossil Free Campaign is going to end the age of fossil fuels and build a world that is powered by community-led renewable energy for all. But it starts with you, your neighbor, your town, your community. Our shared fossil free future.