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Hello and welcome to the

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final video
in the series about renewable energies.

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Now it's OK saying,
let's all use renewable energies.

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Yeah, that's great.

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Now we all know renewable
energy systems are not as power

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rich as our old forms of power generation.

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We've all heard the buzz words, carbon
neutral carbon zero.

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Yeah,
let's talk about us on a personal level.

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When you walk out of a room,
turn the light out.

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Instead of using a normal incandescent
bulb, use a fluorescent bulb.

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5% of the power used to drive incandescent
bulbs is used for a fluorescent bulb.

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It was worked out if we all took measures

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to be efficient on a personal level
in the domestic setting.

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I am not talking about industrial.

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This is just on a domestic setting.

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We would save 17 million

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tons of CO2 emissions into our atmosphere.

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Now, let that sink in 17 million tonnes

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just by switching the light off.

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Just by turning the thermostat down
one degree doesn't take a massive change.

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As my granddad used to say,
are you cold son?

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I say yes, granddad,
he said put a cardigan on then.

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Don't turn the heating
up, don't put another log on the fire.

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Think about it. It starts at base level.

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Now that is 17 million tonnes
domestically.

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Lets talk about industrially.

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How many times do you see offices

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unoccupied with lights on, computers
running,

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the photocopier left on, air conditioning
running when there's nobody in the room?

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It all starts off at home.

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So carbon neutral,

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you burn a tree, you plant a tree.

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Is that what it means?

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Basically yeah,

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if you are emitting CO2,

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create a sink where that CO2 is
then removed

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at the end of the day,
it is everybody's responsibility.

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We must look at our behavior.

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We must look at the way we waste things.

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A normal house
in the United States actually uses

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40% more energy

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than an average house in the UK.

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Frightening figures again,
look at the cars we drive.

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Do you have to drive three litre?

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No, you don't get yourself 1.2
get yourself hybrid, better

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still get yourself a fully electric
but somewhere

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that electrics
got to come from to be charged. So

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it is all about responsible use of energy.

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Now it's OK,

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all the summits going round around
and saying, Yes, we're going to do this.

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Yes, we're going to do that.

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The government says that by 2050, we will.

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It's all hot air.

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Unless you personally take it seriously.

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Again, as I said.

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Don't boil a full kettle.

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Boiler a cup of water.

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The amount of energy you save.

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Unbelievable.

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If you're like me, a bill payer,

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you'll start noticing the difference
I have

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because I've actually started doing it
myself.

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I've actually gone through my whole house,
replaced them with energy efficient

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lighting, and I've put time
and switches on things to turn them off.

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Computers
running in sleep mode. They still

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use energy.

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So are we at the point that it's too late?

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I won't be here to find out.

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I'm 54.

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I want to live to a ripe old age.

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I do believe things are going to start
changing.

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We've seen changes

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in the weather patterns,
we've seen the average temperature rise,

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we've seen sea levels rising,
the ice sheets are melting,

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the arctic tundra is melting,
releasing methane.

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We are now into a cycle.

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And I think to break that cycle,
we must take massive measures.

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It's not enough to say yeah,
We'll do it by 2050.

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We need to be doing it by tomorrow.

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We need to be doing it
by the day after tomorrow.

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We need to be doing it by next year.

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We need to actually be looking at it
in a very serious and responsible way.

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Remember, as I said before in one of
the videos, Venus very similar to Earth.

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It is now hell.

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Hot enough to melt lead on the surface.

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The pressure of the atmosphere
is about eight times it is here.

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Venus is exactly the same size as
the planet Earth it is our sister planet.

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It was very similar to what we are now.

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Thermal runaway greenhouse gas production

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through natural causes volcanism.

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It got over the tipping point.

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Are we there?

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I think we've gone past it.

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Me personally
thinks we have gone to the point

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and I personally believe we cannot stop.

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We can slow it down.

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Trust me, the world is going to be
a different place in 100 years.

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And I must say I'm pleased
I'm not going to be around.

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It's going to be very,
very different to what it is now.

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Don't take this planet for granted.

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Take responsibility
that goes to everybody,

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whether it be a company,
whether it be your own personal life.

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Think about it before you switch something
on, think about it

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as you walk past
the switch to switch it off.

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That's all it takes. Thank you.