Recently, a remarkable documentary called 'Before The Flood', was released to explain how real climate change is. It explicitly describes the causes and effects of the earth's production, consumption, and emissions. Leonardo Di Caprio is the producer and interviewer throughout the film. Amazing photography and words depict Leonardo's trip around the world seeing and speaking to numerous scientists, activists and politicians.

Connecting some of the largest corporations to the investment in their products vast destruction of our land, DiCaprio pursues interviews with a range of world leaders and innovators, including Barack Obama, Pope Francis, Ban Ki-Moon and Elon Musk, to discuss factors that threaten Earth's sustainability, while also taking aim at global warming skeptics.

See the movie on YouTube free! It may only be available for a short time!

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The movie was available for free on YouTube but has since been removed.

Here are some of the quote's that left a lasting impression on us:

"If we're gonna fight climate change effectively, we have to start by acknowledging that most of our economy is based on fossil fuels. Oil powers most of the transportation sector, coal and natural gas power most of the electricity".

"Almost everything we do releases CO2"

"Temperatures are rising, coral reefs are dying, and not since a meteor hit the earth 65 million years ago have so many species of plant and animals become extinct"

"Hundreds of cubic kilometers of ice have melted in less than 5 years"

"97 percent of climate scientists, our climate is changing due to fossil fuel burning"

"All of that hatred and fear is in fact organized and funded by fossil fuel interests like the Koch brothers finance, a very large echo chamber of climate change denialism"

"These are front groups that are funded by corporate interests"

"Due to our release through factories and automobiles, every year more than 6 billion tons of carbon dioxide are released"

"Coal is cheap"

"China has recently surpassed America as the number 1 world's polluter"

"Chinese media talks about climate change on a regular basis"

"China's got some of the biggest wind and solar companies in the world now"

"China is still heavily relying on fossil fuels but they seem to be transitioning to renewable's much faster than anyone anticipated"

"India is the world's third largest emitter, yet the country is struggling with massive power shortages and rolling blackouts"

India is a country where "energy access is as much a challenge as climate change"

"There are 300 million people without access to electricity in India... that's the entire population of the U.S.!"

"700 million households cook with biomass in India... if they switched to coal the earth would fry"

"The U.S. has been the biggest emitter of greenhouse gases in history"

"There are over a billion people out there without electricity and they want lights, they want heat, they want the lifestyle that we've had in the United States"

"Reefs as we know them are going to virtually disappear"

'Oceans are a buffer, that absorb about 1/3 of the C02 that we dump'

"Decades and decades of the forests breathing in the carbon storing it in the trunks and the leaves and the organic matter. Those carbon emissions are being held safe for us until we clear them and light them on fire. It acts like a carbon bomb and releases massive carbon emissions back into the atmosphere"

"Palm oil plantations grow the cheapest vegetable oil in the world. Its in cooking oil's, processed foods, in cosmetics, detergents, making corporations tremendous profits"

"Beef is one of the most inefficient uses of resources"
"Every molecule of Methane (CH4) is equivalent to 24 molecule's of CO2" -'47% of the United States' land is used for food production. 70% of the 47% is used for beef production'

"The things that we actually eat, like fruit, is 1%"

"About 10% of total U.S. emissions are from beef"

"Beef requires 50x as much land as potatoes"

"Just by switching from eating chicken to eating beef, you will have eliminated 80% of what you emit"

"You would only need 100 Tesla Gigafactories to produce all of the power consumption of the world"

"Politicians call them our elected leaders are really our elected followers"

"What makes scientists so nervous is that we can reach a point where earth takes over and starts reinforcing warming. This is what we call the tipping point… Greenland is melting on its entire surface to a point where the white surface becomes a dark surface. Because the sun cannot reflect back the whole surface starts to melt"

"Denmark produces 100% of its electricity from wind"

"Sweden is now the first fossil free nation"

'The Paris agreement is a step in the right direction but it does not mention carbon tax. There are no penalties, there are no enforcement provisions'

"The peace talks in Paris are nowhere near enough for what the scientists tell us we have to do eventually to solve this problem. But if we can use the next 20 years to apply existing technologies to reduce carbon emissions and then start slowly turning up the dials as new technologies come on line, more and more ambitious targets each year. Completely reversing the warming that now is inevitable can stop it before it becomes catastrophic" -Obama

"The ice is melting the earth is warming the sea level is rising"

"As a U.N. Messenger of Peace I have traveled all over the world for the last two years seen cities like Beijing choked by industrial pollution, boreal forests in Canada that have been cut clear, rainforests in Indonesia that have been incinerated. In Greenland and in the Arctic I was astonished to see that ancient glaciers are rapidly disappearing well ahead of scientific predictions"

"I just need a minute to breathe"

We need to stand together as one world, and stop polluting the earth that we stand on. If we think before we do, we can turn global warming around and take a fresh breath of air. We really need it.

Practice what you preach. If you can, show others how to take care of the environment around you. 

While we take positive actions, step by step, lets not forget to protect ourselves. Protect your loved ones the best you can. Provide them with clean air and add years to their life.

All of the media and quotations used in this article can be found in the YouTube video posted above. The producer is Leonardo Di Caprio. It can be found on National Geographic's website here: http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/before-the-flood/videos/before-the-flood/