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other people who are going to suffer.

Good morning, Miami.

The summer of 2015 is on track to

become one of the hottest in history.

Temperatures are expected

to be in the triple digits.

My mother and I were waiting for gas.

The line went around the block

and then some.

Nothing new.

But this time, the line had

stopped moving altogether.

A man who worked at the gas

station came out holding a sign.

People started yelling

and they got out of their cars

and started moving towards him.

My mother got us out of there fast.

I've been

staking out an area that's been

hit hard recently by gas snatchers.

Look at him, he gets out,

walks right up to the car.

Wow.

Look at this,

right in the middle of the day.

There's cars going by, and these guys are -

siphoning gas out of someone's car.

In the face of mounting protests

over rising gas and food prices,

Congress today approved a plan

to fund the construction of

over the next five years.

The country took the easy way out.

Coal was once again touted

as our so- called salvation.

But the more coal we burned,

the faster our planet warmed.

You get the picture.

We're spewing more carbon, more methane,

more nitrous oxide into the atmosphere.

All the bad things of

climate change are coming true.

And most people were just going

along with their everyday lives

as If nothing had changed.

And until we have a crisis of some kind,

I don't think we're going to be motivated to

wake up and say, okay, now we have to change.

Sometimes it takes a big shock to get people,

you know, out of the inertia that,

that, that's built into the system.

They're calling

it the storm of the century,

Hurricane Linda packing Category 5 winds.

Big storms weren't unusual.

But this one was bigger than the others.

And it was headed for Miami.

All coastal regions

are being evacuated.

This storm makes landfall, we're

going to see a tremendous storm surge.

My mother was a nurse

and she wouldn't leave until all the

sick were evacuated from the hospital.

My father was afraid we

wouldn't get out in time.

I was afraid too.

Those who make the decision not to

evacuate face life threatening danger,

between the howling winds

and those giant surging waves.

Miami is a very scary

place to be right now.

but many experts say that If the

world has not reached an agreement

to massively reduce greenhouse gases by then,

we could pass the point of no return.

If we're still dragging our feet in 2015,

it really becomes almost

impossible for the world to avert

a degree of climate change that we

simply will not be able to manage.

The longer we wait without addressing

these challenges in an aggressive way,

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