00:00 Mark, thank you for doing all this. I was so inspired by Jane Goodall, as I always am
00:06 when I hear you speak, Jane. I was reminiscing on when she and Ban Ki-moon and I were trying
00:11 to stay at the head of the crowd in the big 2015 climate march in New York City. And wrestling
00:18 between courtesy, southern male courtesy and chauvinism, I decided I was going to be a
00:28 protector of Jane and make sure that nobody jostled her as we're, well, I need not have
00:34 worried as we were in line. She claimed she did not throw any elbows. I don't know how
00:39 the hell she did it, but everybody else got out of her way. But Jane, thank you for inspiring
00:44 me. In the 1960s, I was inspired, first of all, on the climate issue by a professor named
00:53 Roger Revelle. And he opened my eyes to this and began the journey that I have been on
01:00 ever since. And on the -- he died in his early 90s, and I went out to give a speech at a
01:07 ceremony commemorating the 100th anniversary of his birth. And I did a lot of research
01:14 on his life, and I thought I knew all about him, but as is often the case, you just turn
01:20 up things that you didn't know about. And one of the facts I was unaware of is that
01:25 he himself, as a young college student, had been inspired by a professor whose teachings
01:32 changed his life. And it sounds like a little thing, but it caused me to think long and
01:41 hard about how many chains of inspiration reaching back in time. And I thought, well,
01:48 how many chains of inspiration in time are there that have brought us to where we are?
01:55 And of course, we're in a very difficult situation. And perhaps the best speech ever given in
02:02 the English language, Abraham Lincoln said, "The occasion is piled high with difficulty,
02:10 and we must rise with the occasion. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we will save
02:16 our country." It caused me to look up the word "disenthrall" and the word "thrall."
02:23 Thrall, at least according to Google, is an ancient form of voluntary enslavement in Scandinavia.
02:32 And the application that came to my mind is that we are, in a sense, voluntarily enslaved
02:44 to a fossil fuel economy, 80 percent of the energy we use, and we're trying to break out
02:51 of this. And it's causing so much danger and so many difficulties, not least to the biodiversity
03:01 with which we share this earth that Jane has taught us all about so eloquently. We hear
03:07 the word "polycrisis" thrown around now. Solving the climate crisis is a poly-solution.
03:15 That will help us solve a wide range of crises. And we need inspiration. And I close by again
03:22 thanking Jane for her inspiration, and I offer a toast without a glass. I offer a toast to
03:31 Jane Goodall's mother for setting her on this journey that has inspired us all.
03:37 [APPLAUSE]
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