The summary is:
This is a transcript of a video that uses humor and satire to explain the causes and consequences of climate change, and to urge people to take political action to reduce carbon emissions. The video features a scientist who tries to convince a wealthy and apathetic old man to care about the future of the planet, while showing him various clips and animations. The video also mocks the climate change deniers, oil companies, and Republican politicians who have contributed to the problem. The video ends with a dramatic speech from the personified sea, who threatens to swallow humanity as revenge for their pollution.
Some possible key facts extracted from the text are:
1. Al Gore led the first congressional hearings on global warming in 1976 and released a documentary called An Inconvenient Truth in 2006.
2. South Park aired an episode in 2006 that mocked Gore as a paranoid alarmist obsessed with a mythical creature called manbearpig.
3. A 2013 analysis of the scientific literature on climate change found that 97% of papers published on the subject supported the conclusion that humans caused global warming.
4. Just 100 companies are responsible for 71 percent of global emissions, and many of them have funded climate denial campaigns for decades.
5. The Paris agreement of 2015 established the goal of limiting the increase in global temperature to well below two degrees Celsius, but Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the agreement in 2017.
6. The IPCC report of 2018 warned that the world has already warmed 1 degree Celsius above the pre-industrial average and that drastic action is needed to limit warming to 1.5 degrees by 2030 and net zero emissions by 2050.
7. Climate change is expected to cause severe impacts such as sea level rise, flooding, droughts, famines, tropical cyclones, coral reef destruction, and mass migration of refugees.
8. The video suggests some lifestyle changes and political actions that individuals can take to reduce their carbon footprint and pressure governments and corporations to act on climate change.