Video - Bill McKibben of 350.org Speaks at Forward on Climate Rally

Here is the entire speech by Bill McKibben at the Forward on Climate rally on February 17, 2013. 50,000 concerned citizens watch at the largest rally on climate to date in Washington DC.

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Video - What the Forward on Climate Rally Looked Like

An estimated 50,000 people gathered in Washington, D.C. on Sunday, February 17th for the Forward on Climate Rally at the National Mall. The rally preceded a march to the White House to urge President Barack Obama to take action against climate change and reject the Keystone XL pipeline.

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Video - Thanks to All Who Supported the Historic Forward on Climate Rally

Thank you to the nearly 50,000 who demonstrated on Presidents Day Weekend at the Washington Monument, the thousands at 20+ solidarity rallies across the country, and the more than one million online activists who stood up and spoke out to tell President Obama that right now its time to move Forward on Climate.

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Forward on Climate Rally and Growing Support for Action

On Sunday February 17th, 160 organizations and tens of thousands of people came together for the biggest climate rally in American history. After assembling at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., participants marched to the White House and formed a human pipeline. In addition to the action in Washington, events took place across the US.

A decision on the Keystone XL tarsands pipeline will be one of the first tests for the new secretary of state John Kerry who called climate change a “life-threatening issue” of national security.

The tar sands in Alberta are causing irrevocable damage to the environment, destroying land and poisoning the water. The Keystone XL will increase extraction from the tar sands by 700,000 barrels a day and send it down to the Gulf of Mexico for processing and export. In addition to the fact that the pipeline jeopardizes the lands that it traverses and the aquifers that lie beneath it, 350.org's Bill McKibben has repeatedly called the Keystone XL the fuse to the largest ‘carbon bomb’ we’ll ever know.

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American Voters Want More Renewable Energy

As reviewed in a Huffington Post article, Americans want more renewable energy whether they support Obama, Romney or are undecided. On the issue of global warming, the 7 percent of voters who are undecided tend to be more like Obama supporters than Romney supporters. Undecided voters tend to believe in anthropogenic climate change and support renewable energy.

Sixty-one percent of the undecided voters said they see global warming as an "important issue" they'll consider when making their choice. Seventy-five percent of Obama supporters said the same, while only 32 percent of likely Romney supporters see global warming as an important issue.