The speech that started it all

Ok after a little bit of work I have finished typing out the speech from the back of "The Final Warning" If you are going to use it( please do and support the cause on earth day) please read over it and edit to fit your need. As in put in your age where it says and change if you are not American.

There are so many awesome, beautiful things in our world. waterfalls and mountains, thermal pools surrounded by ice and snow as far as you can see. Beautiful beaches with sand like white sugar. Fields and fields of wildflowers. Places where the ocean crashes up against a mountain side as it has done for hundreds of thousands of years.
But there are also concrete cities with hardly any green. And rivers whose pretty rainbow surface came from an oil leak upstream. Animals are becoming extinct right now, in our lifetime. Just recently we went through some of the worst weather ever recorded. The reason for all of this is because of huge, worldwide climatic changes cause by…us. We, the people. We the people of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Amore perfect union? While huge corporations do whatever they want to whoever they want, and other people live in subway tunnels? Where’s the justice in that? Kids right here in America go to bed hungry every night, while other people get four-hundred dollar haircuts. Promote the general welfare? Where’s the general welfare in strip mining, toxic pesticides, industrial solvents being dumped into rivers, killing everything? Domestic tranquility? Ever sleep in a forest that is being clear cut? You’d be hearing chain saws in your head for weeks. The blessings of liberty? Yes. I am using one of the blessings right now, my freedom of speech, to tell you , that the very ground you stand on, the house you live in, the children you tuck in at night, are all in immediate, catastrophic danger.
Every minute of every day, cars belch exhaust. Factories spew toxins into the air, land, and water. we’ve cleared millions of square miles of forests, rain forests, and plains, which means tons of topsoil is just washing away. Which means loss of animals and plants, and an increased fire, floods, and coastal disintegration. Just by stuff people have made, created, we’re raising the overall temperature of the entire atmosphere. Well, we only have the one atmosphere! What do you plan to do when it’s destroyed. Can we all hold our breath until we get a new one. The problem is here, now, nine of the ten hottest years ever recorded happened in my life time. I am [insert your age here]! There have been record-setting weather extremes across the globe - tornadoes, hurricanes, typhoons, droughts, wildfires, tsunamis. We’re warming up the planet, and the planet’s ice is melting. If only fifty percent of the world’s ice melts, countless rivers and streams will overflow and dry up, killing hundreds of thousands of people from disease and starvation. The ocean water level will rise anywhere from four feet to maybe twenty feet. How many of your favorite vacation spots would be under water? Want to see the Eiffel Tower by canoe? Do any of you own beech houses? Kiss them good bye. And I am not talking two hundred years from now. I am talking soon. Maybe even is this lifetime.
We can’t reverse this disaster, even if we all pitched in now and did everything we could, which, face it we’re not going to do. A small percentage of us will do stuff, and other people will ignore the problem and hope they’ll be dead before it gets really bad. But there are things we can do that would at least help. It would make a difference.
The US could ratify the Kyoto treaty. Pretty much every country in the world, except us, and Australia, has ratified it. How can we be so pig headed? In general we need to pay more attention to what we do, what we buy, and who we buy it from. Use compact fluorescent bulbs. If every house in America replaced one of its regular bulbs with a compact fluorescent, it would be like taking a million cars of the road. I mean, how hard is that? Look into other kinds of power. Windmills, watermills, solar power - every year corporations pay an enormous amount of money in legal fees to avoid getting fined for pollution. What if they took a tiny percentage of that money and put it toward coming up with better energy sources.
Right now America looks like a fatheaded, short sided, gas guzzling, blowhard to the rest of the world. And Sweden looks all clean and tidy and progressive, I mean, where’s our sense of pride? Why can’t we be the progressive leaders, showing the rest of the world how to clean up it’s act? Why can’t we the people, get more involved and push through legislation that will help clean up our air, land, and water? Why can’t we take government funds from stupid things like war and use them for programs that will develop better fuel sources? Don’t wait until the water is lapping up against your feet to do something. Act now.