00:00 The dangers are no longer distant risks.
00:04 I have seen across the Commonwealth and beyond countless communities which are unable to
00:11 withstand repeated shocks whose lives and livelihoods are laid waste by climate change.
00:21 Surely real action is required to stem the growing toll of its most vulnerable victims.
00:28 We are carrying out a vast, frightening experiment of changing every ecological condition all
00:37 at once at a pace that far outstrips nature's ability to cope.
00:45 And we need to remember too that the indigenous worldview teaches us that we are all connected,
00:52 not only as human beings but with all living things and all that sustains life.
00:59 As part of this grand and sacred system, harmony with nature must be maintained.
01:07 The earth does not belong to us.
01:10 We belong to the earth.
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