Desmond Tutu at Copenhagen

I want to say a big thank you to all of you, especially you beautiful young ones. We oldies have made something of a mess of the world. And we want to say to the leaders who are meeting, look in the eyes of your grandchildren. Climate change is already a serious crisis today. But we can do something about it. If we dont—if we dont, hoohoo!, theres no world which we will leave to you, this generation. You wont have a world. You will be drowning. You will be burning in drought. There will be no food. There will be floods. We have only one world. We have only one world. If we mess it up, theres no other world. And for those who think that the rich are going to escape, ha! ha! ha!, we either swim or sink together. We have one world. And we want to leave a beautiful world for all of these beautiful, wonderful young generation. We, the oldies, want to leave you a beautiful world. And it is a matter of morality. It is a question of justice. Haha, ha! Haha, hahahaha! Isnt it? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah! If—if—if—if you are responsible for most of the mess, then you are responsible for getting rid of that mess. Thats justice. Thats justice. If you are responsible for most of the emissions, which are—look—look—look at the ozone layer. People are now suffering from all kinds of skin diseases, because we are thinning the ozone layer. Whoa! Whoa-ho! So, you, wonderful rich people, you are wonderful! You are wonderful! You really are wonderful! But—but remember, if—if you are responsible for most of the emissions—its not if; we know it is the case—then youre going to have to be responsible for any adjustments. We, too, who are poor, want to become rich. And if you are able to bail out the banks—they gave [inaudible] billions and billions and billions and billions and billions! They just throw billions! Now, please, just give us a few billions to enable the poor to use alternative fuels. They cant do it if you ask them to pay for it. Please—actually, for your own sakes, OK? For your own sakes, rich people, please, for your own sakes, for your childrens sakes, for the sake of our world, be nice. Be nice, and pay up. Pay up, please. Please, for your own sake. The world, the world, we, the world, expect a real deal. Eh? Now, let us say that all of us [with crowd] we, the world, expect a real deal. One. Two. CROWD: We, the world, expect a real deal. ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU: Again! CROWD: We, the world, expect a real deal. ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU: Woohoooo!