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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.88,0:00:04.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My siblings and I grew up\Non our great-grandfather's farm
Dialogue: 0,0:00:04.90,0:00:06.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in California.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.82,0:00:10.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was a landscape\Nof our family and our home.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.49,0:00:13.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When it was clear\Nthat nobody in our generation
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.19,0:00:16.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wanted to take on\Nthe heavy burden of ranching,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.13,0:00:18.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the ranch was sold to a neighbor.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.70,0:00:21.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The anchor of our lives was cut,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.92,0:00:25.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we felt adrift\Nin the absence of that land.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.12,0:00:30.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For the first time, I came to understand
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.62,0:00:34.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that something valuable\Ncan be best understood
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.06,0:00:37.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not by its presence,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.08,0:00:38.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but by its absence.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.39,0:00:42.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was impossible to know then
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.15,0:00:46.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just how powerful the absence\Nof those things we love
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.83,0:00:50.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would have an impact far into my future.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.53,0:00:55.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For 23 years, my working life\Nwas with Yvon Chouinard.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.14,0:00:58.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I started when he was designing\Nand manufacturing
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.84,0:01:00.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,technical rock and ice climbing equipment
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.84,0:01:04.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a tin shed near\Nthe railroad tracks in Ventura.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.09,0:01:07.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when Yvon decided\Nto start making clothes for climbers,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.32,0:01:10.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and call this business Patagonia,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.25,0:01:13.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I became one of the first six employees,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.24,0:01:15.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,later becoming CEO
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.17,0:01:17.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and helping build a company
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.58,0:01:21.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where creating the best products\Nand doing good by the world
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.66,0:01:23.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was more than just a tagline.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.20,0:01:29.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Doug Tompkins, who would become\Nmy husband years later,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.17,0:01:33.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was an old friend and climbing\Ncompanion of Yvon's,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.04,0:01:35.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and also an entrepreneur.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.92,0:01:39.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He cofounded The North Face\Nand Esprit company,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.28,0:01:41.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all three of these businesses
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.36,0:01:44.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were created by people\Nwho had grown up through the '60s,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.91,0:01:49.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,shaped by the civil rights, antiwar,\Nfeminist and peace movements.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.81,0:01:53.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And those values\Nwere picked up in those years
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.02,0:01:57.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and carried throughout\Nthe values of these companies.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.92,0:01:59.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By the end of the 1980s,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.53,0:02:02.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Doug decided to leave business altogether
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.41,0:02:05.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and commit the last third of his life\Nto what he called
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.97,0:02:08.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"paying his rent\Nfor living on the planet."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.38,0:02:11.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At nearly the same time when I hit 40,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.95,0:02:15.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was ready to do something\Ncompletely new with my life.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.68,0:02:19.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The day after retiring\Nfrom the Patagonia company,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.37,0:02:24.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I flew 6,000 miles to Patagonia the place,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.48,0:02:30.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and joined Doug as he started\Nwhat was the first conservation project
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.30,0:02:32.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of that third of his life.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.37,0:02:35.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There we were, refugees\Nfrom the corporate world,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.77,0:02:38.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,holed up in a cabin on the coast\Nin southern Chile,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.74,0:02:41.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,surrounded by primaeval rainforest
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.09,0:02:44.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where Alerce trees\Ncan live for thousands of years.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.46,0:02:46.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were in the middle\Nof a great wilderness
Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.02,0:02:49.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that forms one of the only two gaps
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.47,0:02:51.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the Pan-American highway,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.22,0:02:54.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,between Fairbanks, Alaska, and Cape Horn.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.18,0:02:56.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A radical change to our daily lives
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.49,0:02:59.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,spurred on as we had begun to recognize
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.29,0:03:02.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how beauty and diversity\Nwere being destroyed
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.40,0:03:03.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pretty much everywhere.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.90,0:03:07.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The last wild protected places on earth
Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.40,0:03:08.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were still wild
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.62,0:03:12.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,mostly because the relentless\Nfrontlines of development
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.74,0:03:14.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,simply hadn't arrived there yet.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.100,0:03:18.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Doug and I were in one\Nof the most remote parts on earth,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:18.26,0:03:21.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and still around the edges\Nof Pumalín Park,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:21.44,0:03:23.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our first conservation effort.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.72,0:03:27.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Industrial aquaculture\Nwas growing like a malignancy.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.89,0:03:31.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Before too long, other threats\Narrived to the Patagonia region.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:31.97,0:03:35.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Gold mining, dam projects\Non pristine rivers,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.02,0:03:38.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and other growing conflicts.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.07,0:03:43.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The vibration of stampeding\Neconomic growth worldwide
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.67,0:03:48.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,could be heard even in the highest\Nlatitudes of the Southern Cone.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.26,0:03:53.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know that progress is viewed,\Ngenerally, in very positive terms.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:54.40,0:03:57.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As some sort of hopeful evolution.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.34,0:04:00.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But from where we sat,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.03,0:04:02.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we saw the dark side of industrial growth.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.29,0:04:08.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when industrial worldviews\Nare applied to natural systems
Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.04,0:04:10.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that support all life,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:10.62,0:04:13.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we begin to treat the Earth
Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.23,0:04:16.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a factory that produces all the things
Dialogue: 0,0:04:16.23,0:04:17.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we think we need.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.96,0:04:22.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As we're all painfully aware,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.10,0:04:24.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the consequences of that worldview
Dialogue: 0,0:04:24.89,0:04:27.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are destructive to human welfare,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.42,0:04:30.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our climate systems, and to wildlife.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:31.17,0:04:34.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Doug called it the price of progress.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:34.50,0:04:36.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's how we saw things
Dialogue: 0,0:04:36.14,0:04:39.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we wanted to be a part\Nof the resistance,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:39.04,0:04:41.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pushing up against all of those trends.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.84,0:04:44.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The idea of buying private land\Nand then donating it
Dialogue: 0,0:04:44.76,0:04:46.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to create national parks,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:46.77,0:04:47.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,isn't really new.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:48.26,0:04:50.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anyone who has even enjoyed the views
Dialogue: 0,0:04:50.46,0:04:53.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of Teton National Park in Wyoming
Dialogue: 0,0:04:53.62,0:04:56.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or camped in Acadia\NNational Park in Maine,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:56.85,0:04:59.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has benefited from this big idea.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:00.34,0:05:01.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Through our family foundation,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:01.95,0:05:06.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we began to acquire wildlife habitat\Nin Chile and Argentina.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:07.14,0:05:09.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Being believers in conservation biology,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:09.70,0:05:13.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we were going for big, wild and connected.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:14.08,0:05:16.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Areas that were pristine in some cases,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:16.78,0:05:19.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and others that would need time to heal.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:19.52,0:05:21.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That needed to be rewild.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:21.93,0:05:25.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Eventually, we bought\Nmore than two million acres
Dialogue: 0,0:05:25.11,0:05:26.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from willing sellers,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:26.74,0:05:31.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,assembling them into\Nprivately-managed protected areas,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:31.16,0:05:36.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,while building park infrastructure\Nas camp grounds and trails,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:36.39,0:05:39.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for future use by the general public.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:39.15,0:05:40.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All were welcome.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:40.88,0:05:43.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our goal was to donate all of this land
Dialogue: 0,0:05:43.30,0:05:45.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the form of new national parks.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:46.40,0:05:49.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You might describe this as a kind of
Dialogue: 0,0:05:49.59,0:05:52.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,capitalist jiujitsu move.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:53.10,0:05:58.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We deployed private wealth\Nfrom our business lives
Dialogue: 0,0:05:58.63,0:06:02.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and deployed it to protect nature
Dialogue: 0,0:06:02.49,0:06:07.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from being devoured by the hand\Nof the global economy.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:07.95,0:06:09.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It sounded good,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:09.31,0:06:11.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but in the early '90s in Chile,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:11.56,0:06:15.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where wild land philanthropy,\Nwhich is what we called it,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:15.09,0:06:17.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was completely unknown,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:17.40,0:06:20.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we faced tremendous suspicion
Dialogue: 0,0:06:20.58,0:06:23.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and from many quarters\Ndownright hostility.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:24.10,0:06:28.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Over time, largely by doing\Nwhat we said we were doing,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:28.22,0:06:30.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we began to win people over.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:30.58,0:06:32.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Over the last 27 years,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:32.61,0:06:36.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we've permanently protected\Nnearly 15 million acres
Dialogue: 0,0:06:36.86,0:06:39.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of temperate rainforest,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:39.24,0:06:41.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Patagonian step grasslands,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:41.65,0:06:43.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,coastal areas,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:43.30,0:06:45.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fresh water wetlands,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:45.12,0:06:48.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and created 13 new national parks.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:48.15,0:06:50.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All comprised of our land donations
Dialogue: 0,0:06:50.56,0:06:54.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and federal lands\Nadjoining those territories.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:55.38,0:06:58.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After Doug's death\Nfollowing a kayaking accident
Dialogue: 0,0:06:58.56,0:07:00.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,four years ago,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:00.44,0:07:03.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the power of absence hit home again.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:03.95,0:07:09.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But we at Tompkins Conservation\Nleaned in to our loss
Dialogue: 0,0:07:09.11,0:07:11.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and accelerated our efforts.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:11.48,0:07:13.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Among them, in 2018,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:13.76,0:07:16.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,creating new marine national parks
Dialogue: 0,0:07:16.64,0:07:19.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,covering roughly 25 million acres
Dialogue: 0,0:07:19.55,0:07:21.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the southern Atlantic Ocean.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:21.62,0:07:25.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No commercial fishing\Nor extraction of any kind.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:25.92,0:07:31.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 2019, we finalized the largest\Nprivate land gift in history,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:31.49,0:07:35.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when our last million acres\Nof conservation land in Chile
Dialogue: 0,0:07:35.39,0:07:37.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,passed to the government.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:37.16,0:07:39.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A public-private partnership
Dialogue: 0,0:07:39.86,0:07:44.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that created five new national parks\Nand expanded three others.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:44.11,0:07:48.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This ended up being an area\Nlarger than Switzerland.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:48.40,0:07:52.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All of our projects\Nare the results of partnerships.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:52.24,0:07:56.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,First and foremost with the governments\Nof Chile and Argentina.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:56.77,0:07:58.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this requires leadership
Dialogue: 0,0:07:58.97,0:08:03.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who understands the value of protecting\Nthe jewels of their countries,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:03.12,0:08:06.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not just for today,\Nbut long into the future.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:07.55,0:08:12.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Partnerships with like-minded\Nconservation philanthropists as well
Dialogue: 0,0:08:12.09,0:08:14.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,played a role in everything we've done.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:14.94,0:08:16.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fifteen years ago,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:16.46,0:08:17.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we asked ourselves,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:17.89,0:08:20.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Beyond protecting landscape,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:20.33,0:08:25.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what do we really have to do\Nto create fully-functioning ecosystems?"
Dialogue: 0,0:08:26.27,0:08:30.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we began to ask ourselves\Nwherever we were working,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:30.24,0:08:31.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who's missing?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:32.13,0:08:34.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What species had disappeared?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:35.44,0:08:38.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or whose numbers were low and fragile?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:39.24,0:08:40.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We also had to ask,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:41.02,0:08:43.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how do we eliminate the very reason
Dialogue: 0,0:08:43.41,0:08:46.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that these species went extinct\Nin the first place?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:46.39,0:08:48.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What seems so obvious now
Dialogue: 0,0:08:48.70,0:08:53.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was a complete thunderbolt for us.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:54.39,0:08:59.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it changed the nature\Nof everything we do,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:59.68,0:09:00.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,completely.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:01.22,0:09:05.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Unless all the members of the community\Nare present and flourishing,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:05.90,0:09:10.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's impossible for us to leave behind\Nfully-functioning ecosystems.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:11.20,0:09:15.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Since then, we've successfully\Nreintroduced several native species
Dialogue: 0,0:09:15.71,0:09:17.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the Ibera Wetlands:
Dialogue: 0,0:09:17.61,0:09:19.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Giant anteaters,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:19.39,0:09:20.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pampas deer,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:20.79,0:09:22.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,peccaries,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:22.09,0:09:25.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and finally, one of the most difficult,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:25.67,0:09:28.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the green-winged macaws,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:28.08,0:09:32.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who've gone missing\Nfor over 100 years in that ecosystem.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:32.76,0:09:36.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And today, they're back,\Nflying free, dispensing seeds,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:36.98,0:09:40.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,playing out their lives as they should be.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:40.08,0:09:42.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The capstone of these efforts in Ibera
Dialogue: 0,0:09:42.64,0:09:46.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is to return the apex carnivores\Nto their rightful place.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:46.74,0:09:50.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jaguars on the land,\Ngiant otters in the water.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:50.24,0:09:55.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Several years of trial and error\Nproduced young cubs
Dialogue: 0,0:09:55.12,0:09:57.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who will be released,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:57.67,0:10:00.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the first time in over half a century,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:00.80,0:10:02.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into Ibera wetlands,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:02.46,0:10:06.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and now, the 1.7-million-acre Ibera park
Dialogue: 0,0:10:06.14,0:10:08.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will provide enough space
Dialogue: 0,0:10:08.32,0:10:12.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for recovering jaguar populations\Nwith low risk of conflict
Dialogue: 0,0:10:12.81,0:10:15.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with neighboring ranchers.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:15.10,0:10:17.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our rewilding projects in Chile
Dialogue: 0,0:10:17.70,0:10:21.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are gaining ground on low numbers\Nof several key species
Dialogue: 0,0:10:21.28,0:10:22.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the Patagonia region.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:22.87,0:10:26.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The [unclear] deer\Nthat is truly nearly extinct,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:26.63,0:10:33.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the lesser rheas and building the puma\Nand fox populations back up.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:33.78,0:10:39.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, the power\Nof the absent can't help us
Dialogue: 0,0:10:39.60,0:10:42.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if it just leads to nostalgia or despair.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:45.02,0:10:47.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To the contrary,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:47.48,0:10:50.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's only useful if it motivates us
Dialogue: 0,0:10:50.35,0:10:54.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,toward working to bring back\Nwhat's gone missing.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:55.35,0:10:57.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of course, the first step in rewilding
Dialogue: 0,0:10:57.93,0:11:01.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is to be able to imagine\Nthat it's possible in the first place.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:01.57,0:11:06.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That wildlife abundance\Nrecorded in journals
Dialogue: 0,0:11:06.10,0:11:10.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,aren't just stories\Nfrom some old dusty books.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:11.53,0:11:13.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can you imagine that?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:14.99,0:11:20.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you believe the world\Ncould be more beautiful,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:20.48,0:11:21.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,more equitable?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:23.38,0:11:24.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I do.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:24.98,0:11:26.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because I've seen it.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:26.80,0:11:28.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here's an example.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:28.24,0:11:30.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we purchased\None of the largest ranches
Dialogue: 0,0:11:30.67,0:11:33.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in Chile and Patagonia in 2004,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:33.95,0:11:35.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it looked like this.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:35.28,0:11:39.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For a century, this land\Nhad been overgrazed by livestock,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:39.13,0:11:41.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like most grasslands around the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:41.81,0:11:44.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Soil erosion was rampant,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:44.23,0:11:47.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hundreds of miles of fencing
Dialogue: 0,0:11:47.09,0:11:52.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,kept wildlife and its flow corralled.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:52.66,0:11:55.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that was with the little\Nwildlife that was left.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:55.68,0:12:00.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The local mountain lions and foxes\Nhad been persecuted for decades,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:00.10,0:12:02.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,leaving their numbers very low.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:02.21,0:12:07.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today, those lands are the 763,000-acre\NPatagonian National Park
Dialogue: 0,0:12:07.68,0:12:09.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it looks like this.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:09.31,0:12:11.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Arcelio, the former gaucho,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:11.62,0:12:17.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whose job was to first find and kill\Nmountain lion in the years past,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:17.86,0:12:19.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,today is the head tracker
Dialogue: 0,0:12:19.87,0:12:22.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the Park's wildlife team,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:22.89,0:12:26.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and his story captures the imagination
Dialogue: 0,0:12:26.03,0:12:27.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of people around the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:28.35,0:12:29.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is possible.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:30.10,0:12:32.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I share these thought and images with you
Dialogue: 0,0:12:32.69,0:12:36.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not for self-congratulations,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:36.18,0:12:38.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but to make a simple point
Dialogue: 0,0:12:38.36,0:12:40.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and propose an urgent challenge.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:41.11,0:12:43.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If the question is survival,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:43.29,0:12:47.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,survival of life's diversity\Nand human dignity,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:47.80,0:12:51.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and healthy human communities,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:51.28,0:12:54.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then the answer must include\Nrewilding the Earth.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:55.90,0:12:58.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As much and as quickly as possible.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:00.04,0:13:03.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everyone has a role to play in this.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:04.12,0:13:08.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But especially those of us with privilege,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:08.24,0:13:11.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with political power,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:11.78,0:13:13.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wealth,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:14.44,0:13:18.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where, let's face it,\Nfor better, for worse,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:18.82,0:13:22.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's where the chess game\Nof our future is played out.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:23.66,0:13:26.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this gets to the core of the question.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:26.91,0:13:28.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Are we prepared to do what it takes
Dialogue: 0,0:13:28.94,0:13:31.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to change the end of this story?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:31.60,0:13:34.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The changes the world has made\Nin the past few months
Dialogue: 0,0:13:34.60,0:13:37.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to stop the spread of COVID-19,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:37.17,0:13:39.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are so promising to me,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:39.07,0:13:41.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because it shows we can join forces
Dialogue: 0,0:13:41.91,0:13:44.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,under desperate circumstances.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:44.51,0:13:46.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What we're going through now
Dialogue: 0,0:13:46.44,0:13:49.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,could be a precursor
Dialogue: 0,0:13:49.84,0:13:52.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the broader potential damage
Dialogue: 0,0:13:52.74,0:13:55.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a result of the climate crisis.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:56.56,0:13:58.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But without warning,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:58.26,0:14:03.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,globally, we're learning to work together\Nin ways we could never have imagined.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:03.51,0:14:06.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Having watched young people\Nfrom around the world
Dialogue: 0,0:14:06.39,0:14:09.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rising up and going out into the streets
Dialogue: 0,0:14:09.11,0:14:11.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to remind us of our culpability
Dialogue: 0,0:14:11.66,0:14:14.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and chastising us for our inaction
Dialogue: 0,0:14:14.54,0:14:17.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are the ones who really inspire me.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:17.06,0:14:19.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know, you've heard all of this before.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:19.96,0:14:23.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But if there was ever a moment\Nto awaken to the reality
Dialogue: 0,0:14:24.01,0:14:28.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that everything is connected\Nto everything else,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:28.51,0:14:29.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's right now.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:29.100,0:14:33.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every human life\Nis affected by the actions
Dialogue: 0,0:14:33.39,0:14:36.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of every other human life\Naround the globe.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:36.53,0:14:38.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the fate of humanity
Dialogue: 0,0:14:38.55,0:14:41.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is tied to the health of the planet.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:43.07,0:14:44.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have a common destiny.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:44.93,0:14:46.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can flourish
Dialogue: 0,0:14:46.72,0:14:49.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or we can suffer,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:49.58,0:14:51.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but we're going to be doing it together.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:52.49,0:14:53.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So here's the truth.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:54.13,0:14:56.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're so far past the point
Dialogue: 0,0:14:56.20,0:14:58.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when individual action is an elective.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:59.53,0:15:01.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In my opinion,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:01.36,0:15:03.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's a moral imperative
Dialogue: 0,0:15:03.21,0:15:05.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that every single one of us
Dialogue: 0,0:15:05.70,0:15:09.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,steps up to reimagine\Nour place in the circle of life.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:10.02,0:15:11.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not in the center,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:11.43,0:15:13.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but as part of the whole.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:13.52,0:15:15.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need to remember
Dialogue: 0,0:15:15.32,0:15:18.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that what we do\Nreflects who we choose to be.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:18.90,0:15:21.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's create a civilization
Dialogue: 0,0:15:21.30,0:15:25.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that honors the intrinsic\Nvalue of all life.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:25.91,0:15:27.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No matter who you are,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:27.96,0:15:30.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,no matter what you have to work with,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:30.92,0:15:34.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,get out of bed every single morning,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:34.15,0:15:38.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and do something that has nothing\Nto do with yourself,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:38.14,0:15:41.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but rather having everything to do
Dialogue: 0,0:15:41.41,0:15:43.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with those things you love.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:44.37,0:15:47.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With those things you know to be true.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:47.31,0:15:51.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Be someone who imagines human progress
Dialogue: 0,0:15:51.05,0:15:54.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be something that moves us\Ntoward wholeness.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:54.61,0:15:55.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Toward health.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:56.47,0:15:58.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Toward human dignity.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:59.01,0:16:01.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And always,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:01.14,0:16:03.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and forever,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:03.20,0:16:04.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wild beauty.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:06.36,0:16:07.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.