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today i went to the forty about serving across the north pole
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because most northern place in the whole world
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and perhaps the best place to start is with my late father
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he was a great storyteller he could tell a story apartment banks
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as he felt your excellently they're at the moment
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and one of the stories he told me so often when i was a young boy
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was of the first british atomic bomb tests
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and what should go off
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and he said that the explosion was so loud and the lights was so intense
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the actually had to put his hands in front of his face
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and he said that he could actually see and x-ray
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because a lights was so brides
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that watching that atomic bomb going off
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had a very very big impact on my late father
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every holiday i had as a young boy was in a national park
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what he was trying to do with me was to inspire me to protect the world
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and show me just how fragile the world is
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he also told me about the great explorers he loves history
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he would tell me about captain scott's walking all the way to the south pole
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and set admin hillary
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coming up mount everest
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and so ever since i think i was just six years old
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i dreamt of going to the polar regions
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wanted to go to the arctic there was something about that place
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which drew me to this
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sometimes it takes a long time for a dream to come true
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but seven years ago i went to the arctic
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and it was so beautiful
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that i've been fact they ever since for the last seven years
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but i have seen that page to change
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just initial period of time
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i have seen polar bears walking across very very thin ice in search of food
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i have strumming funds of places
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which is retreated so much
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and i have also every year seen less unless the odds
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wanted the world to know
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what was happening up there
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in the two years before my swim
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twenty three percent of the arctic sea ice cover just melted away
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and i wanted to really shake to the polls of world leaders
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to get them to understand what is happening
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so i decided to do the symbolic salam
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at the top of the world
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in a place which should be frozen over
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but which now is rapidly unfreezing
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and the message is very clear
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climate change is for real and we need to do something about it
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and we need to do something about it right now
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cynical sandals polar
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it's not an ordinary thing to do
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amigos to put it in perspective
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twenty-seven degrees is a temperature of a normal indoor swimming pool
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the temperature english channel was eighteen degrees
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the passengers who for the flip side ten excellence awards of just five degrees
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fresh water freezes at zero
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underwater the north pole is minus one point seven
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i'm sorry but there's no other way to describe it up
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i had to assemble it an incredible team around me to help me with this task
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i taught by a symbol of this team of twenty nine people from ten nations some
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people think the summing
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is a very sudden sporty just dive into the sea you know if you go
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it couldn't be further from the truth
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and uh... then went and did the huge amounts of training serving in our
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seawater backwards and forwards
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but the most important thing
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was to train my mind to prepare myself of what is going to happen
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and i had to visualize twosome
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i had to see it from the beginning all the way to the end i had to taste the
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saltwater monmouth i had to see my coach screaming for me come on let's come on
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come on plug ugh ugh don't slow down
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and so i did it to the senate personal pull
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hundreds and hundreds of times
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and then after a year of training by phil grady i felt confident though i
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so myself in the five members of the team we hitched a ride on a icebreaker
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which is going to the north pole
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we decided to just a quick five minutes a swim
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i had never strong in water minus one point seven degrees before
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because it's just impossible to train in those tough the conditions
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so we stop the ship as you did
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before but i want it buys
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and i think audience muscling caution and i thought into the sea
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i have never in my life felt anything
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i could barely breathe i was grasping for air
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i was hyperventilating so much
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and within seconds my hands were a number
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the paradox is that the u_n_ freezing cold water but actually on fire
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i swam as hard as i could for five minutes i remembered just trying to get
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out of the water a client out of the ice
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and remember taking the goggles of my face
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and looking down at my hands
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has slowed and so much that they were like sausages
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and that they were swollen so much by couldn't even close to him
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what had happened is that we are made partially report sir
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and when water freezes it expands
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and so what it actually happened is that the cells in my fingers
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and i wasn't so much becky
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i need legal rushed onto the ship and into a hot shower and i remember
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standing underneath the hot shower
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and trying to detroit's
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in two days time i was going to be this from across the north pole
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i was going to try and do a twenty
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for one kilometer across the north pole and this dream which i have had ever
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since i was a young boy
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was just going out the window
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there is no possibility
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that this was going to happen
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and i remembered and getting out to the shyla
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and revising couldn't even
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you need to feel your hands
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because you need to be able to grab the water
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and put it through with you
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the next morning i work up and i was in
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but wasn't such a state of depression
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or i could think about
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for those of you who don't know him is a great british explorer a number of years
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ago he tried to ski all the way to the north pole
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he accidentally fell through the ice into the sea
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and all students stream in its network
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after just three minutes not water he was they were to get himself out and his
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hands with soap eddie frostbitten that he had to attend england's
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he went to the local hospital in there they said ran
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that there is no possibility of pass being able to save these fingers we are
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going to actually have to take them off
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then decided to go into his tool shed
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and all i could think of was right if that happened to rent after three
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and i can't feel my hands off the five minutes
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what on earth is going to happen
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if i tried twenty minutes
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at the very best i'm going to end up losing something cuz
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anthony van one to think about it
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we carried on sailing through the ice packs towards the north pole
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and my close friend david he saw the way i was thinking any k_-mart's minisode
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i've known you since you were
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i've known you and buynow
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alright deep down here
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that you are going to make the swim
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i still believe in you lose i've seen the way you can training and i realize
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the reason why you going to do this
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this is such an important swim
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we stand a very very
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important moments in its history
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make a symbolic soon here to try and shake lapels of world leaders
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lewis had the courage to go in there
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because we are going to look off to you
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and i just approach so much confidence from him saying that because he knew me
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so he carried on sailing we arrived at the north pole ends
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we stop the ship and that is just as a scientist who predicted there were open
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patches of c everywhere
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and i went and in psych heaven and i put a muscle in question
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and then the doctor strapped on the chest monitor which measures like core
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body temperature and my heart rates
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and then we walked out onto the ice
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loking into the eyes
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and they were a big trunks of white spots in there
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was completely black
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i have never seen blackwater before
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and it is four thousand two hundred meters deep
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and i said to myself lewiston took left onto greiz
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just scuffle ford ends
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and so i now want to show you a short video
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but what happened there on the ice
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just saying i don't know and it says at this stage one hand over the world
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mainstream hasn't received so many runs the calls
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cecilia's whether there was an accident london england
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societal science and reinventing visible cheers and have extensive played by late
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soon had finals policies
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months and months and months of nineteen sixty s harrison training and leading a
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have last summer youth initiative the six th
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prime minister animus
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dances so i decided to strike
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meanwhile says it's over
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the hope she does not exist in this interview
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but just like to end up with the same there's six of me
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for months again to feel my hands that was it worth it yet
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absolutely it was a very very few people who don't know enough about what is
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happening in the arctic
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and people ask me lewis what can we do about climate change
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and other states them
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i think we need to do three things the first thing we need to do
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is we need to break this problem down into manageable chunks
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used or jana video all those flags
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does flex represented that
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countries from which might seem came from
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and equally when it comes to climate change every single country is going to
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brosnan america japan south africa the congo
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all of us together report on the same ship together
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the second thing we need to do this
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we need to just look back
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but how far we have come
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in such a short period of time are men but just a few years ago speaking about
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and people helping me in the back and save doesn't even exist
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i've just come back from giving a series of speeches and some of the poorest
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townships in south africa
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two young children as young as ten years old
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for five children sitting behind a desk and even in those pros conditions
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faithful have a very very good grasp of climate change
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we need to believe in ourselves
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now's the time to believe we've come a long way
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but the most important thing we must do
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walked to the end of our lives edsa arounds and also sells the most
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fundamental question
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what's type of world do we want to live in
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and what decision are we going to make today
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that we've all live
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in a sustainable world
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basin gentlemen thank you very very close
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has been exacting production process
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plummeted today twenty three years to come see us
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meetings with hundreds of finally manufactured components
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after catholics and minute adjustments
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all that remains is the catholic positioning a fiat senator
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this is the heartbeat of everywhere else
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manager was extremely comes to life
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aromatase isn't just a watch
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technology emboldened by the human spirit
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