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Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.02,0:00:30.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The picture you are about to see deals\Nwith the problem of self-destruction.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.33,0:00:37.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Its purpose was to enable people to better\Nunderstand the nature of this strange, tragic act.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.04,0:00:42.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We shall not be able to diminish\Nthis great human affliction
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.21,0:00:47.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,until more people do understand it\Nand appreciate its seriousness.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.48,0:00:52.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voices in the Dark
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.65,0:00:57.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A lot of things about the world\Nthese days are very scary.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.83,0:01:13.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My generation may be one of the first\Ngenerations where a lot of us die...\N...not of old age.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.24,0:01:15.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because a lot of us may not make it there.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.41,0:01:26.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Global warming... it's gonna do this\Nand our climate's gonna go weird and...
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.35,0:01:30.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...like another ice age or something.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.20,0:01:41.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think the scariest things aren't for me.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.67,0:01:48.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The scariest things are thinking that I\Nmight leave a world to my children
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.31,0:01:56.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that would be really difficult and painful for them.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.92,0:02:00.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think we're all fucked. All of us.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.42,0:02:04.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think most of us in this room are\Ngonna die before we reach...
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.36,0:02:07.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't believe that we would\Nwipe ourselves out entirely.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.19,0:02:10.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I believe that... I believe that\Nwe can probably fall down to...
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.73,0:02:13.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's gotta be a way. There's\Ngotta be a way to live through it...
Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.90,0:02:21.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Once we're able to look at the world\Nwithout blinders and see the\Nreally horrific mess we're making of it...
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.20,0:02:25.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have got to change our whole idea\Nof the way that the world works...
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.98,0:02:29.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I generally just feel like\Neverything is out of balance.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.55,0:02:32.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nothing that I can do will make\Nany impact on the planet.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.52,0:02:37.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're living a way that doesn't work.\NWe have to live a way that does work.\NSo it's gonna change.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.92,0:02:42.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can't change what's happening in\NWashington. You can't change what's\Nhappening over in Iraq.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.38,0:02:59.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"We've met the enemy and he is us. "
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.55,0:03:11.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I guess I just tell myself that it's all gonna\Nbe OK. You kinda have to to keep going.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.39,0:03:19.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not a happy thing to think about.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.35,0:03:40.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was a time in my life when I\Nwas having this recurring daydream.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.82,0:03:50.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'd be sitting in my car, radio blaring,\Nslowly making my way forward\Nthrough a fast food drive thru.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:54.93,0:03:59.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'd get to the window and they'd hand\Nme my drink and my burger and fries.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.27,0:04:05.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And as i waited for me change. . .\Noff in the distance. . .
Dialogue: 0,0:04:06.48,0:04:10.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a bright flash... and a rising cloud.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.32,0:04:16.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And as the full force of the\Nnuclear blast washed over me...
Dialogue: 0,0:04:17.05,0:04:21.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...as the icy cold of my overturned\NCoke seeped into my jeans...
Dialogue: 0,0:04:25.73,0:04:27.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'd think to myself...
Dialogue: 0,0:04:28.67,0:04:30.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,... what a way to go.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.14,0:04:42.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah I think that we might\Nwipe ourselves off the Earth.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:42.81,0:04:46.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Definitely. I feel like that's where we're headed.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:47.55,0:04:50.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's an emptiness that other needs...
Dialogue: 0,0:04:50.55,0:04:51.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the real needs...
Dialogue: 0,0:04:51.92,0:04:54.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the real desires aren't being met.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:54.76,0:04:57.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we're just scrambling\Nwith what our culture offers us.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:57.93,0:05:02.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And our culture tells us... you know\Nour culture tells us we will find love
Dialogue: 0,0:05:02.43,0:05:06.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if we buy this lipstick and that\Nmake-up and these clothes and this car.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.94,0:05:09.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think it would be OK if we gave the Earth back
Dialogue: 0,0:05:09.97,0:05:14.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to everybody else why is not as destructive.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:14.08,0:05:16.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All the rest of the life on Earth.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:25.59,0:05:31.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was born in the American Midwest, central\NMichigan, the "water winter wonderland".
Dialogue: 0,0:05:31.100,0:05:37.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was raised in the arms of an extended\Nrural family.: mostly farming folk...
Dialogue: 0,0:05:37.44,0:05:41.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...solid, hard working, quiet, giving.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:41.97,0:05:48.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was bom into warmth and plenty to eat, a\Nsense of place, and a surety of security.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:49.08,0:05:51.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I was born into stories.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:51.45,0:05:54.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Stories about the value of work\Nand the right way to live.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:54.95,0:06:01.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Stories about God and country, about\Ncommunity, loyalty, steadfastness, and resolve.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:01.36,0:06:04.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Stories about the role and place\Nof humans on this planet.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:05.86,0:06:09.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Stories about our relationship\Nto something we called "nature".
Dialogue: 0,0:06:11.37,0:06:13.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was born into stories.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:16.11,0:06:18.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nobody told me these stories.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:18.38,0:06:19.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They didn't have to.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:19.98,0:06:25.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The stories were the air I breathed, the water in\Nwhich I swam, the ground upon which I walked.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:26.12,0:06:27.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They were all around me.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:28.18,0:06:30.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We didn't even know they were stories.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:30.99,0:06:33.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We just thought they were the way things are.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:34.32,0:06:36.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My world was a playground.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:36.33,0:06:41.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There were fish to catch, boats to row,\Nparades to watch, trails to hike,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:41.06,0:06:49.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,lakes to swim, snowmobiles to rlde,\Ngames to play, presents to open,\Nand family to share it all with.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:50.67,0:06:53.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The days would end with sunsets and fireworks
Dialogue: 0,0:06:53.44,0:06:56.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and sometimes I would dance\Nuntil I collapsed with joy.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:58.65,0:07:02.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was a magical land...\Ncherry Popsicles and warm milk,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:02.49,0:07:06.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,birthday cakes and store-bought costumes\Nand brand-new chairs under the tree.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:07.19,0:07:10.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A land of giant geese, well-dressed poodles,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:10.36,0:07:13.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,talented birds and even more talented people.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:15.06,0:07:19.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Earth was our merry-go-round,\Nour monkey bars, our swing set.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:19.70,0:07:23.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As long as we didn't look down,\Neverything would be just fine.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:27.94,0:07:31.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was born halfway up the population explosion.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:31.48,0:07:34.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was born on the slope of rising CO2 levels.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:34.85,0:07:37.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was born in the foothills of a mass extinction.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:38.32,0:07:41.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was born on the rocky rise of oil production.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:42.06,0:07:48.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was bom facing forward, looking ever\Nupward, my first step a step upslope,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:48.03,0:07:52.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a step into progress, a step into a\Nvast and glorious human future.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:52.94,0:07:56.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were moving on up.\NThere was no looking back.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:56.57,0:08:00.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was a mountain to conquer,\Nand conquer it we would.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:00.28,0:08:03.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All we had to do was climb a bit further.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:03.18,0:08:06.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the mountain we were climbing\Nwas not what we thought it was.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:06.75,0:08:13.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Rather than rising from natural forces, the\Nslopes up which we were headed were the\Nresults of imbalance and shortsightedness.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:13.96,0:08:18.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In our efforts to progress, to succeed, to\Nimprove, to strive, to overcome,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:18.73,0:08:21.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to manage, to shape, to solve, and to grow,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:21.80,0:08:24.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we wielded huge new forces across the globe.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:25.40,0:08:30.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We walked as giants upon the Earth,:\Nunaware of the footprints we left behind.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:32.84,0:08:38.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have walked that path, unaware of my own\Nbig feet, enacting the stories of our culture,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:38.68,0:08:43.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not stopping long enough to feel\Nthe instability of the slope underfoot.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:45.09,0:08:51.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But in the late 80s, news of the ozone\Nhole and global warming first hit me,\Nand the ground began to shake.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:52.93,0:08:56.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I stopped and looked\Naround me for the first time.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:56.23,0:08:59.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I got scared. I got involved.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:59.70,0:09:04.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then the shaking subsided.\NOr rather, I just got used to it.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:05.21,0:09:11.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Life got more complex with the births of my three\Nchildren. And there was climbing still to do.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:11.25,0:09:13.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I continued to climb.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:14.35,0:09:16.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the tremors were still there, underfoot.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:16.59,0:09:21.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At night I slept, but fitfully, clenched with worries,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:21.09,0:09:24.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my dreams assaulted by\Nvague rumblings from the future.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:25.46,0:09:31.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In my dreams, I would stand at the\Npinnacle of the present, and look\Nout over the surrounding terrain.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:31.40,0:09:34.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it didn't look like I had thought it would. . .
Dialogue: 0,0:09:48.28,0:09:51.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A faint howling in the distance pierces the night
Dialogue: 0,0:09:51.92,0:09:56.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The monsters we have created\NLumbering to rampant life
Dialogue: 0,0:09:57.09,0:10:00.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Are heading even now toward our village
Dialogue: 0,0:10:02.70,0:10:05.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nuclear weapons\Nbiding their time
Dialogue: 0,0:10:05.57,0:10:08.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Itching with purposes unfulfilled
Dialogue: 0,0:10:09.74,0:10:12.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As hopeful fingers tremble near buttons
Dialogue: 0,0:10:15.04,0:10:17.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bunker Busters and Tactical nukes
Dialogue: 0,0:10:19.45,0:10:21.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Suitcase bombs and terrorist acts
Dialogue: 0,0:10:23.65,0:10:26.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Power plant accidents and leaking wastes
Dialogue: 0,0:10:28.36,0:10:32.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Plutonium launched into space\NIn rockets known to explode
Dialogue: 0,0:10:35.36,0:10:40.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And depleted uranium poisoning the battlefield\NDepopulating the land
Dialogue: 0,0:10:47.08,0:10:50.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Chemical warheads\NAnd biological black magicks
Dialogue: 0,0:10:51.18,0:10:54.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sarin and Soman and VX and phosgene
Dialogue: 0,0:10:55.59,0:10:58.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anthrax and smallpox and plague
Dialogue: 0,0:10:58.56,0:11:03.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Enough to take out entire cities\NEnough to cover the planet
Dialogue: 0,0:11:04.50,0:11:08.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they don't care who lets them out\NAs long as they get to play
Dialogue: 0,0:11:09.80,0:11:12.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Others nasties lurch toward us on their own
Dialogue: 0,0:11:13.00,0:11:16.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Old friends, new creations and recent escapees
Dialogue: 0,0:11:17.61,0:11:20.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ebola, Marburg, Lassa and SARS
Dialogue: 0,0:11:20.58,0:11:23.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Swine Flu, Bird Flu, HIV and AIDS
Dialogue: 0,0:11:25.22,0:11:29.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The rebound of tuberculosis,\NCholera, malaria, and typhus
Dialogue: 0,0:11:30.69,0:11:35.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Prions and mad cows\NScrapie sheep and chronic wasting disease
Dialogue: 0,0:11:35.79,0:11:41.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Cancers that eat away our lungs our brains\NOur breasts our testlcles and our ovaries
Dialogue: 0,0:11:44.60,0:11:47.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And new monsters peer over the horizon
Dialogue: 0,0:11:48.70,0:11:52.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Good intentions spliced to\NBlind arrogance and numbing greed
Dialogue: 0,0:11:55.44,0:11:58.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Frankenfoods and Terminator seeds
Dialogue: 0,0:11:58.85,0:12:02.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Herbicide tolerant and pesticide laced crops
Dialogue: 0,0:12:03.52,0:12:08.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Patented Life\NBarely tested, quietly ticking. . .
Dialogue: 0,0:12:08.69,0:12:10.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let loose upon the land
Dialogue: 0,0:12:11.26,0:12:14.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As if their creators, having looked at the world,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:14.80,0:12:17.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Managed to learn nothing at all
Dialogue: 0,0:12:20.14,0:12:22.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The monsters howls grow frenzied
Dialogue: 0,0:12:22.37,0:12:28.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Chemicals in our land our sky our rain\NOur rivers our food our bodies our babies
Dialogue: 0,0:12:28.95,0:12:33.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Rising male infertility rates and\NSuperfund sites and ozone depletion
Dialogue: 0,0:12:35.62,0:12:38.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Rivers dammed and salmon doomed
Dialogue: 0,0:12:38.89,0:12:41.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Topsoil loss and fertilizer run-off
Dialogue: 0,0:12:42.36,0:12:45.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Huge oceanic dead zones\NAnd depleted fisheries
Dialogue: 0,0:12:46.40,0:12:51.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the ghosts of silent whales\NScraping over the corpses of coral reefs
Dialogue: 0,0:12:55.24,0:12:59.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The monsters advance\NAnd forests collapse under their feet
Dialogue: 0,0:13:00.78,0:13:06.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Leaving indigenous cultures battered,\NHomeless, soul-sick, or dead
Dialogue: 0,0:13:06.72,0:13:11.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Disrupting water and oxygen cycles\NAnd turning soil into deserts
Dialogue: 0,0:13:11.22,0:13:16.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As tigers and salmon and tree frogs and falcons\NStumble down the path toward extinction
Dialogue: 0,0:13:17.53,0:13:20.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Their heartrending voices\NLost in the chatter of chainsaws
Dialogue: 0,0:13:20.66,0:13:23.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the coughing insults of bulldozers
Dialogue: 0,0:13:26.67,0:13:29.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And all the while the climate is changing. . .
Dialogue: 0,0:13:30.74,0:13:35.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Angry summers, insistent floods,\NBelligerent blizzards
Dialogue: 0,0:13:35.41,0:13:38.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Grudging droughts and pissed-off hurricanes
Dialogue: 0,0:13:39.35,0:13:44.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with poles warming and ice shelves calving\NPermafrost slumping and glaciers receding
Dialogue: 0,0:13:44.99,0:13:47.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sea levels rising and big cities sinking
Dialogue: 0,0:13:48.32,0:13:53.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As ocean currents halt and superstorms gust,\NDeserts expand and rabbits run
Dialogue: 0,0:13:53.90,0:13:59.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And locusts horde and army ants march\NAnd mosquitoes hunt and rodents overrun
Dialogue: 0,0:14:00.97,0:14:03.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The balance undone
Dialogue: 0,0:14:05.14,0:14:10.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Leaving crops destroyed and diseases vectored\NAnd famine and rioting and looting and war
Dialogue: 0,0:14:10.58,0:14:15.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The ocean turns acld and corals\NAnd shellfish and planktons dissolve
Dialogue: 0,0:14:15.42,0:14:19.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The disruption of food chains,\NThe collapsing of ecosystems
Dialogue: 0,0:14:19.46,0:14:21.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tonight on the Weather Channel
Dialogue: 0,0:14:24.83,0:14:28.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(commentator blathering)
Dialogue: 0,0:14:28.83,0:14:30.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Watch it now, while you can
Dialogue: 0,0:14:30.47,0:14:33.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because oil is peaking,\Nwith no clear replacements
Dialogue: 0,0:14:35.00,0:14:37.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Production will falter\NAs demand keeps increasing
Dialogue: 0,0:14:37.74,0:14:42.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the price, which is rising now,\Nwill just keep on rising
Dialogue: 0,0:14:45.52,0:14:50.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Imagine the impact to the global economy\NTo the truckers and farmers
Dialogue: 0,0:14:50.49,0:14:52.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To your neighbors
Dialogue: 0,0:14:52.99,0:14:54.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yourself
Dialogue: 0,0:14:55.19,0:14:59.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Watch the bidding war rage\NFrom trade floors to battlefields
Dialogue: 0,0:14:59.20,0:15:02.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Watch the Pentagon plan and the patriots act
Dialogue: 0,0:15:03.83,0:15:07.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Go look out the window\NDo you feel a draft?
Dialogue: 0,0:15:08.07,0:15:14.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,World population is fueled by the input of oil\NWe could reach 7 billion by 2013
Dialogue: 0,0:15:14.71,0:15:18.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's billions of bodies more\NThan the planet can sustain without oll
Dialogue: 0,0:15:21.05,0:15:26.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're consuming the planet and\NPoisoning the soil and the air and\NThe water that we all need to live
Dialogue: 0,0:15:26.49,0:15:29.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're driving a high-speed train\NTo the end of life
Dialogue: 0,0:15:29.66,0:15:31.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we're taking the rest of the planet
Dialogue: 0,0:15:31.80,0:15:34.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Trillions upon trillions of living souls
Dialogue: 0,0:15:34.53,0:15:36.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Along with us
Dialogue: 0,0:15:39.64,0:15:41.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And all of this
Dialogue: 0,0:15:42.27,0:15:43.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All of this
Dialogue: 0,0:15:44.91,0:15:46.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All of this
Dialogue: 0,0:15:47.88,0:15:49.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All of this
Dialogue: 0,0:15:50.65,0:15:55.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is wrapped tightly inside a culture of denials and\Nlies and absurdities so complex
Dialogue: 0,0:15:55.45,0:15:56.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so powerful
Dialogue: 0,0:15:56.52,0:15:58.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That we can barely see through the smog
Dialogue: 0,0:15:59.39,0:16:02.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The monsters are screeching\NAt the village's edge
Dialogue: 0,0:16:02.32,0:16:06.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So huge and so horrible\NThat we cannot bear to look at them
Dialogue: 0,0:16:06.40,0:16:07.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:07.96,0:16:11.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bound in a cultural straightjacket\NOf our own making,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:11.30,0:16:13.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Slumber on as they draw near
Dialogue: 0,0:16:13.80,0:16:18.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Working jobs we hate\NConsuming products that do not fulfill
Dialogue: 0,0:16:18.21,0:16:24.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Distracting ourselves as best we can with\NTelevision drugs food sex and entertainments
Dialogue: 0,0:16:24.75,0:16:27.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hoping our leaders will find some answers
Dialogue: 0,0:16:28.45,0:16:32.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Awakening, finally,\NIn the still hours of early morning
Dialogue: 0,0:16:32.56,0:16:36.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To the shapeless realization\NThat they will not
Dialogue: 0,0:16:40.90,0:16:47.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(alarm clock begins to beep and grows louder...)
Dialogue: 0,0:16:48.47,0:16:49.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(click off)
Dialogue: 0,0:16:51.61,0:16:55.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ah. . . what a nightmare. . .
Dialogue: 0,0:16:57.98,0:17:02.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, Johnny, you are in a pretty serious situation.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:02.79,0:17:10.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But we believe - your mother and\NMr. Benton and I - that you can\Nmake good without being sent away.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:15.87,0:17:22.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There has always been a part of me that has\Nsuspected that I would see the end-of-the-world-\Nas-we-know-it in my lifetime.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:23.20,0:17:28.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It seemed built into the situation,\Na certainty of population dynamics,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:28.18,0:17:31.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the inevitable end to Mr. Malthus' musings.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:32.98,0:17:35.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At some point we would near the sun,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:35.05,0:17:38.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our wings would fail, and we would\Nplummet back to the earth.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:38.99,0:17:39.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Fuck!"
Dialogue: 0,0:17:40.19,0:17:42.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,New voices spoke of possible futures.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:42.96,0:17:44.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Hey can i have some of those purple berries?"
Dialogue: 0,0:17:44.79,0:17:47.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Crosby, Stills and Nash\Nsailed the Wooden Ships.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:47.60,0:17:49.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Shit, not again!"
Dialogue: 0,0:17:49.17,0:17:51.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Riddley Walker wrote his connexions.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:52.80,0:17:58.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Charlton Heston ate Soylent Green with\NThe Omega Man on the Planet of the Apes.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:58.18,0:18:00.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"You maniacs!"
Dialogue: 0,0:18:01.71,0:18:08.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The world looked insane to me but nobody\Nelse seemed to notice so I buried\Nmy thoughts and muddled on.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:09.82,0:18:12.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Deep inside, this was tearing me to pieces.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:12.72,0:18:19.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I remember looking in at night on my\Nsleeping children, and feeling a deep\Nand gnawing terror for their futures.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:20.40,0:18:26.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I locked my fears tightly in my heart, hit the\Nsnooze button, and slept a while longer.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:26.84,0:18:31.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then I came across Daniel Quinn and\NDerrick Jensen, two writers who helped me,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:31.84,0:18:35.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with books such as Ishmael and\NThe Culture of Make Believe,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:35.31,0:18:42.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to recognize the stories of our culture,\Nthe beliefs and assumptions and fables\Nthat have shaped our lives,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:42.18,0:18:48.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the fairy-tales we have told ourselves, the\Nmadness we have made manifest in the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:49.09,0:18:54.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Quinn speaks of the Nazi regime, of Adolph\NHitler and the story he told the German people.:
Dialogue: 0,0:18:54.76,0:19:00.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a story about the lost destiny of the Aryan race,\Na story of oppression and defilement,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:00.67,0:19:04.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a story of victory and vengeance\Nand greatness regained.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:04.41,0:19:08.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Quinn explained how the entire nation,\Noppressors and oppressed alike,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:08.68,0:19:14.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jews and Good Germans and Gypsies and\NGays, were all held captive by that story.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:15.48,0:19:21.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We who live today inside the dominant global\Nculture are similarly captives of stories.:
Dialogue: 0,0:19:21.22,0:19:24.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,stories that surround us like the air we breathe,:
Dialogue: 0,0:19:24.23,0:19:27.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,stories that we enact at our own peril,:
Dialogue: 0,0:19:27.10,0:19:30.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,stories that threaten the community of life itself.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:31.53,0:19:38.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Have you heard the one about humans\Nbeing separate from "nature", different,\Nspecial, the pinnacle of creation?
Dialogue: 0,0:19:39.71,0:19:44.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or about humans being innately flawed -\Nviolent, selfish and greedy?
Dialogue: 0,0:19:45.48,0:19:52.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How about the one that says that the world\Nwas made for human beings, to manage,\Ncontrol, and exploit as a resource,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:52.12,0:19:56.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that the world has\Nno value beyond its utility?
Dialogue: 0,0:19:57.19,0:20:03.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or the story about there being only one\Nright way to live, and one right way to\Nunderstand and view the world?
Dialogue: 0,0:20:04.37,0:20:09.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or about how unlimited growth, competition,\Nand production are all unquestionably good?
Dialogue: 0,0:20:10.37,0:20:13.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or the story that tells us\Nthat we can have and do
Dialogue: 0,0:20:13.04,0:20:16.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,anything we think we want,\Nbecause there are no limits?
Dialogue: 0,0:20:18.62,0:20:22.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There were people in the world looking\Nsquarely at our cultural stories,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:22.38,0:20:23.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and at the global predicament,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:23.89,0:20:25.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and seeing what I saw.:
Dialogue: 0,0:20:25.72,0:20:30.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our culture, in its present\Nconfiguration, could not last.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:31.33,0:20:33.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was not alone.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:33.53,0:20:38.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the transformation, or the\Ncollapse, still seemed far away.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:38.57,0:20:41.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It would come one day. But not now.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:42.24,0:20:45.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was time. There was hope.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:46.28,0:20:49.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Somewhere, there were\Npeople taking care of it all.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:50.45,0:20:53.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's how it was for me, year after year.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:53.98,0:20:56.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I lived the middle class American life.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:56.59,0:21:04.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I lived the stories I had learned as a child\Nand tried as best I could to ignore the\Nrumblings of fear that haunted my depths.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:06.20,0:21:09.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then I started to work\Non this documentary. . .
Dialogue: 0,0:21:10.43,0:21:18.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Three years later, having chewed our way\Nthrough a mountain of books, articles, websites,\Nmagazines, newspapers, and documentaries,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:18.27,0:21:21.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,having attended lectures and\Nmeetings and salons and rallies,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:21.91,0:21:29.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and having interviews with friends and neighbors,\Nscientists and researchers and writers and\Nactivity and thinkers and feelers and more,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:29.75,0:21:36.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and having talked and written and laughed and\Ncried and worried and despaired and regained\Nour power to plunge ahead again,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:36.56,0:21:38.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one thing seems clear.:
Dialogue: 0,0:21:38.73,0:21:43.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the global environmental, political and economic\Npredicament we live in today is critical,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:43.73,0:21:47.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the possible scenarios range\Ninto the highly disturbing,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:47.40,0:21:52.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the timeframe seems. . . well. . . imminent.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:52.24,0:21:55.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's as though we've awakened\Nto find ourselves on a runaway train,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:55.88,0:22:00.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hurtling wildly down the tracks, held\Nin place by powerful cultural stories
Dialogue: 0,0:22:00.88,0:22:07.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and fueled by our desperate consumption of the\Nvery heart, blood, bones and flesh of this planet.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:07.82,0:22:10.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we don't find some way to stop this train soon,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:10.89,0:22:13.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we're going to reach the end of the line.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:30.81,0:22:35.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So what do you see when you wake up\Non the train? I can tell you what I saw.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:35.48,0:22:43.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I saw the ground beneath the pavement,\Nthe man behind the curtain, the monster\Nunder the bed, the real below the rails.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:44.69,0:22:51.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The culture of Empire works every\Nmoment of every day to distract my attention,\Nlike a magician using sleight-of-hand.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:51.70,0:22:55.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What happens when I look where\Nthe conjurer does not want me to look?
Dialogue: 0,0:22:56.17,0:22:57.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I see the trick.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:58.71,0:23:01.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I see the reality behind the illusion.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:03.35,0:23:08.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I see, if I look long enough,\Nthat the Empire has no clothes.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:11.12,0:23:12.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ride with me a while.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:12.62,0:23:17.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look more closely at the train, and the tracks,\Nand the terrain through which we're speeding.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:17.63,0:23:23.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we are to respond effectively, we'll need a\Nclear understanding of the whole of the situation.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:24.63,0:23:27.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For me, four aspects of our\Npredicament stand out.:
Dialogue: 0,0:23:27.94,0:23:33.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Peak oil, climate change, mass\Nextinction and population overshoot.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:33.11,0:23:37.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the fall of 2005, Sally Erickson\Nand I circled the country by train,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:37.71,0:23:41.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,meeting with people to talk\Nabout these issues, and many others.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:42.89,0:23:47.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At some point you reach the place
Dialogue: 0,0:23:47.76,0:23:50.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where you can't get it out any faster.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:52.20,0:23:56.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, when you get to that point you've reached\Nthe peak. Then we start downhill.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:56.73,0:24:02.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And once we start downhill that's when\Neconomic collapse will occur.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:03.07,0:24:07.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's my friend Tom, talking about oll.\NPeak Oil. And Economic Collapse.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:07.88,0:24:15.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At first I didn't get it. So I started reading.\NAnd on our trip I met with some people\Nwho knew more about the situation.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:15.92,0:24:20.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Over the last 150 years we've\Ncreated a society that runs on oil.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:20.92,0:24:23.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's inevitable that we would have done so,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:23.63,0:24:26.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because it's just such incredible inexpensive,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:26.90,0:24:29.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,convenient, energy-dense stuff.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:29.53,0:24:37.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I spoke with Richard Heinberg, a core\Nfaculty member of New College of Callfornla\Nand author of three books on Peak Oil.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:37.57,0:24:46.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The problem, of course, is that oil is a\Nnon-renewable resource. So even\Nwhen we first started using the stuff\Nwe knew that eventually we'd run out.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:46.58,0:24:51.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I met with the journalist Paul Roberts,\Nwho wrote a book about oil depletion in 2004.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:52.52,0:24:54.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At some point, since oil is a finite resource,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:54.89,0:24:57.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you can't keep raising production.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:57.59,0:24:59.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Usually this is about the halfway point.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:59.16,0:25:01.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you've depleted half of the resource
Dialogue: 0,0:25:01.30,0:25:03.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it becomes harder and harder to raise\Nproduction. Doesn't mean you run out.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:03.97,0:25:06.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And a great deal of oil is still\Ncoming out of the ground.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:06.37,0:25:11.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we were to peak tomorrow we'd still have\Neighty-two and a half million barrels\Ncoming out of the ground every day.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:11.37,0:25:14.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it would be really hard to get\Neighty-three and a half million barrels.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:14.98,0:25:25.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Gerald Cecil, a professor of Astrophysics at the\NUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has\Nbeen so taken by the oil situation that he's now\Nwriting a book about it.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:25.29,0:25:29.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The rate with which oil has been\Ncoming out of the ground has stagnated.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:29.26,0:25:33.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's stagnated at eighty four\Nmillion barrels of oil a day,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:33.06,0:25:39.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which sounds like an incredible number.\NBut that's what we use to power\Nourselves at today's rate of use.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:39.54,0:25:46.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And as the world population continues to grow,\Nand as prosperity presumably continues to grow\Nand people power up in their energy use,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:46.84,0:25:51.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we get to a situation where there isn't any\Nexcess capacity to keep that powering going.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:51.51,0:25:58.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And at some point you end up with a\Nflat supply and a growing demand\Nand you have serious problems.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:58.19,0:26:00.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's the nature of peak oil.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:01.86,0:26:06.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Are we at or near the peak of oil extraction?\NThere are many signs that we are.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:07.100,0:26:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Discoveries of new oil peaked\Nright around 1963, '64.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:13.00,0:26:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That was a long time ago.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:15.00,0:26:19.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we're not talking about a couple\Nyears of bad luck in exploration.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:19.28,0:26:21.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a long-established trend.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:21.08,0:26:30.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've been discovering less oil with every\Npassing year, to the point now where we're\Nextracting and using about four or five barrels of\Noil for everyone that we discover.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:31.15,0:26:39.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now the oil industry responded in a number of\Nways. But one of the things it did was begin\Ndeveloping some amazing new technologies to\Nhelp it find more oil faster.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:39.73,0:26:46.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And despite this huge investment in technology,\Nand these great leaps forward, the rates of\Ndiscovery are still declining.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:46.57,0:26:51.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Country after country is reaching its own\Nnational all-time oil production peak
Dialogue: 0,0:26:51.44,0:26:52.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and going into decline.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:52.94,0:27:01.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The US was one of the first to do it back\Nin 1970. And now something like\N30 or 33 countries are past their peak.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:01.25,0:27:07.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so it's inevitable that within the\Nvery next few years we'll see the\Nglobal peak in oil production.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:07.62,0:27:09.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nobody's ready for that.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:10.06,0:27:14.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not ready for what, exactly? What will\Nthe end of cheap oil mean for the world?
Dialogue: 0,0:27:14.100,0:27:17.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I went to speak with the writer\Nand activist Jerry Mander.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:17.97,0:27:24.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'd let myself believe that the real problems\Nwere decades away. Turns out they're\Nprobably right around the corner.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:25.31,0:27:27.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All the structures that now exist -
Dialogue: 0,0:27:28.21,0:27:30.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our urban formations,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:31.55,0:27:34.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our transportation systems,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:35.45,0:27:37.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our means of getting food,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:37.95,0:27:40.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,globalization as an economic model,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:42.12,0:27:44.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,capitalism as an economic model,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:44.36,0:27:48.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which depends on constant expansion and\Ngrowth and ever-more resources -
Dialogue: 0,0:27:49.33,0:27:53.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cannot possibly continue to exist.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:53.30,0:28:02.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because they're all based on - the root base of\Nall of it - is the existence of cheap energy.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:02.78,0:28:08.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In order to avoid a deflationary\Ndepression we have to have continual\Ngrowth in the money supply,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:08.72,0:28:13.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which has to be based on continual\Ngrowth in economic activity,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:13.72,0:28:19.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which must be based on the continual\Ngrowth in available energy and raw materials.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:19.66,0:28:27.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've built an economy based on the idea that\NIt has to grow every year or else collapse.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:27.57,0:28:30.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, soon, the economy won't be able to grow.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:30.27,0:28:37.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And all signs are that we may be facing a kind of\Nglobal economic collapse because of peak oil.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:38.55,0:28:44.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It seems that, if our economy is poised for\Nmeltdown, our agricultural system is doubly so.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:44.79,0:28:52.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I spoke with local sustainable designer\NHarvey Harman and with writer Richard\NManning about what he calls "the oil we eat".
Dialogue: 0,0:28:52.96,0:28:58.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The average piece of food in your supermarket\Nhas traveled 3,000 miles or more to get there.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:59.20,0:29:04.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So not only is it based on petroleum to grow it,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:04.14,0:29:07.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but then it's transported, and refrigerated.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:07.08,0:29:08.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, you know, it's a system
Dialogue: 0,0:29:08.74,0:29:15.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's very dependent on cheap energy,\Nand it's very energy-intensive.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:15.48,0:29:21.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we take a look at about 1940, and an\NAmerican farmer, that farmer was using roughly
Dialogue: 0,0:29:21.86,0:29:27.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a calorie of fossil fuel to make a calorie of food.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:27.66,0:29:29.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today that same farmer
Dialogue: 0,0:29:29.90,0:29:35.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,uses something like 10 calories of\Nfossil fuel to make a calorie of food.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:36.24,0:29:42.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That means that petrochemicals, fossil fuel,\Nhave become embedded in our food supply.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:42.64,0:29:48.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if we run out of fossil fuel that strategy\Nwill collapse in a heartbeat.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:49.52,0:29:54.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sadly, with so much at stake, oil\Ngrows increasingly worth fighting for.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:54.32,0:29:56.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My friend Ray said it best.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:57.03,0:29:59.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Prices will naturally begin to rise
Dialogue: 0,0:29:59.26,0:30:01.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and people will probably fight over it more.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:01.36,0:30:07.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the US will, almost certainly, with\Nwhatever means are necessary, make\Nsure that we get everything we need.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:07.60,0:30:11.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so that will probably make\Nfor an unhappy rest of the planet.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:13.11,0:30:15.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a permanent state of affairs. You know?
Dialogue: 0,0:30:15.71,0:30:19.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The fuel crisis will be over in a\Ncouple of hundred million years.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:20.32,0:30:30.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When everything has settled down and there's a\Nlot more having been made from all of us\Nhaving, you know, been squished back under.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:30.46,0:30:32.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(laughs)
Dialogue: 0,0:30:32.53,0:30:34.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It takes a long time.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:36.26,0:30:40.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Peak oil got my attention.\NThe ramifications are enormous.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:40.44,0:30:45.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if the oil situation is bleak, some say\Nthat the natural gas situation is even worse.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:46.14,0:30:48.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As writer and professor Otis Graham said.:
Dialogue: 0,0:30:48.94,0:30:50.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've had three or four hundred years of
Dialogue: 0,0:30:50.64,0:30:53.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fossil fuel - it's coming to an end.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:53.08,0:30:54.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that an historic turning point?
Dialogue: 0,0:30:54.85,0:30:56.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's breathtaking!
Dialogue: 0,0:30:57.92,0:31:01.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even more breathtaking is what\Nhappens when we burn the stuff.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:01.66,0:31:07.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Scientists used to talk about climate\Nchange in terms of centuries. Now\Nthey're talking about decades.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:07.60,0:31:12.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now they're talking about next year.\NNow they're talking about now.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:12.97,0:31:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My friends and neighbors\Nare talking about it too.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:16.00,0:31:19.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've increased the levels of carbon\Ndioxide in the atmosphere.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:19.31,0:31:24.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Which traps heat in the earth's atmosphere.\NWhich raises the temperature.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:24.88,0:31:27.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The glaciers are melting. The sea ice is melting.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:27.75,0:31:30.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The polar ice caps are basically melting.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:30.45,0:31:36.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I hate it. I hate feeling like\Nwe've done this to nature.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:36.69,0:31:41.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not to mention all of the animals,\Nall of the wildlife, that are going to die.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:41.70,0:31:44.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it'll begin to happen.\Nit's already beginning to happen.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:44.17,0:31:47.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's happening everywhere.\NYou know. it's happening!
Dialogue: 0,0:31:47.24,0:31:48.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's terrifying.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:49.07,0:31:50.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's a drag.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:51.64,0:31:53.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's putting it mildly.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:53.48,0:32:00.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The only good thing I can think to say\Nabout climate change is that when I\Nunderstood the climate situation, I\Nspent less time worrying about oil.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:01.62,0:32:03.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some people have said, and I\Nthink they're right about this,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:03.99,0:32:08.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we're gonna run out of air to burn\Nbefore we run out of fossil fuels to burn.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:08.19,0:32:13.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in other words, the fossil fuels are\Ncreating the global warming problem,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:13.60,0:32:16.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the CO2, and the pollution problems.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:16.30,0:32:20.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, if we keep using those, it's not really a\Nmatter of when we run out of fossil fuels.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:20.30,0:32:28.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's when we befoul the atmosphere so much,\Nand create so much global warming, it's\Nirrelevant how much gas we've got left.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:28.74,0:32:32.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There. See what I mean? You feel\Nbetter already, don't you?
Dialogue: 0,0:32:33.38,0:32:38.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, whom else could I speak with about the\Nclimate? Turns out I didn't have to go very far.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:38.65,0:32:45.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,William Schlesinger, Dean of the Nicholas\NSchool of the Environment and Earth Sciences\Nat Duke University had this to say.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:45.63,0:32:49.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have raised, globally in our atmosphere,
Dialogue: 0,0:32:49.63,0:32:51.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the concentration of carbon dioxide
Dialogue: 0,0:32:51.97,0:33:00.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from about 280 parts-per-million in the late\N1800's to close to 380 parts-per-million today.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:00.24,0:33:08.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's roughly a 30% increase.\NAnd the projection is that it will\Nbe 550, 560, in the year 2050.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:08.32,0:33:14.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Schlesinger's colleague at Duke, Professor of\NConservation Ecology Stuart Pimm, added this.:
Dialogue: 0,0:33:14.32,0:33:17.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is now a strong scientific consensus that
Dialogue: 0,0:33:17.29,0:33:19.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that has caused warming over the last
Dialogue: 0,0:33:19.73,0:33:26.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,several decades, maybe centuries, and there's a\Nstrong expectation that it will continue to do so.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:26.57,0:33:33.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So. . .greenhouse gases on the rise.\NTemperature on the rise. More floods.\NMore droughts. Rising sea level.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:33.64,0:33:38.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's been in the news for some time now.\NHow does this impact the community of life?
Dialogue: 0,0:33:38.65,0:33:48.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Birds are arriving earlier in the springtime.\NPlants are flowering earlier. Species'\Nranges are moving northward.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:48.56,0:33:55.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are seeing an extraordinary,\Nstrong signal, biological signal,
Dialogue: 0,0:33:55.83,0:33:58.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of what global warming is doing for us.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:58.27,0:34:02.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Crops and trees will grow in\Nplaces they don't grow today.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:02.24,0:34:06.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have a lot of suspicion that\Nthey may not grow as well.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:06.08,0:34:14.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we're beginning to see extinctions of\Nspecies that have literally no place\Nelse to go as the climate gets warmer.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:15.28,0:34:18.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's one impact I found particularly sobering.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:18.42,0:34:22.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The carbon in the atmosphere. The carbon in\Nthe atmosphere goes into the ocean,
Dialogue: 0,0:34:22.69,0:34:25.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it gets absorbed in the ocean as,\NI want to say, carbonic acid. . .
Dialogue: 0,0:34:25.46,0:34:27.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Changes in the atmosphere, for example,
Dialogue: 0,0:34:27.26,0:34:30.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of carbon dioxide can be buffered by absorption
Dialogue: 0,0:34:30.30,0:34:32.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the carbon dioxide into the oceans.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:32.43,0:34:40.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That as you do that, you do change the acidity of\Nthe oceans. And we are finding that there's a\Nmeasurable change in the acidity of the oceans.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:40.48,0:34:48.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that is making it harder for the plankton to\Nform their shells. And if there's a plankton die-\Noff. . . that's the bottom of the food chain.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:49.78,0:34:56.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Plankton, as well as corals, are threatened not\Nonly by rising acidity, but by rising temperatures.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:56.52,0:35:00.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Phytoplankton levels have declined by as much\Nas a third in some northern oceans.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:00.96,0:35:06.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this has resulted in significant\Nimpacts to fish and krill and bird populations.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:06.57,0:35:11.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the reported dangers go far beyond a\Nbreaking of food chains, which is bad enough.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:11.57,0:35:16.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Phytoplanktons produce half of\Nthe oxygen we breathe. Half.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:16.98,0:35:19.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they are a major carbon sink.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:19.48,0:35:25.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When plankton dies, more carbon remains\Nin the air. Which means more warming.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:26.52,0:35:31.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On top of this, new evidence shows\Nthat climate can shift very rapidly.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:31.16,0:35:37.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Slow changes can build. . . to a\Ntipping point. . .and the system can\Nthen shift abruptly to a new state.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:38.63,0:35:47.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this is happening in the oceans, where a global\Ncurrent known as the grand conveyor belt is now\Nbeing impacted, with possibly disastrous results.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:47.58,0:35:56.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As Douglas Crawford-Brown, Director\Nof the Carolina Environmental\NProgram at the University of North\NCarolina at Chapel Hill told me.:
Dialogue: 0,0:35:56.12,0:36:01.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The amount of carbon dioxide that we're putting\Nout into the atmosphere is rising to a point now
Dialogue: 0,0:36:01.69,0:36:06.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where most scientists would agree\Nthat we may be at a sort of tipping point.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:06.46,0:36:13.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We may be at a point where we're going to\Nstart to get so much carbon dioxide into the\Natmosphere that feedback mechanisms
Dialogue: 0,0:36:13.30,0:36:18.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that control the temperature of the earth will\Nstart to be stretched a little bit too far.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:18.31,0:36:25.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The classic one is you get too much\Nmelting of ice, it flows into the ocean,\Nand you shut off the conveyor belt.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:25.45,0:36:30.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if that happens, this will cause dramatic\Nchanges in the climate in England.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:30.22,0:36:37.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, England would literally become Norway\Nor Sweden, if you look at them on the globe, if\Nthe conveyor belt were to be slowed down.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:37.43,0:36:40.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we're starting to see\Nchanges of those magnitudes.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:41.16,0:36:45.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this is why I tend to use the term climate\Nchange, rather than global warming.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:45.20,0:36:54.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A warming planet can have heating and drought\Nin some areas, and freezing in others, such as\NEurope and North America would experience if\Nthe Gulf Steam shut down.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:54.78,0:36:56.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The impact of that would be huge.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:57.38,0:37:05.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,those portions, much of which supply the\Nagricultural bounty for Europe and the US,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:05.79,0:37:10.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would have dramatic changes in climate,\Nparticularly affecting agriculture.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:11.89,0:37:18.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are a number of self-reinforcing\Nfeedback loops now in operation.\NHere are two such processes.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:19.17,0:37:27.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know the polar ice melting, which is opening\Nhuge areas of sea in the polar regions.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:28.64,0:37:32.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Without that ice, which normally reflects sunlight,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:33.52,0:37:40.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that polar sea is now going to be absorbing\Na lot more sunlight and, therefore, heat.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:40.79,0:37:47.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have a lot of carbon stored in the\Npermafrost. And those permafrosts\Nare starting to defrost.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:47.20,0:37:50.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when they defrost that carbon dioxide - that\Ncarbon - is going to be oxidized
Dialogue: 0,0:37:50.90,0:37:54.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to carbon dioxide, or brought out\Nas methane and so on.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:54.07,0:37:57.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that will be a dramatic\Nincrease in greenhouse gases.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:57.67,0:38:05.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This may get out of hand and we'll suddenly\Nbe looking at a very rapid warming of the planet.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:05.51,0:38:07.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This may get out of hand.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:07.72,0:38:13.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,given that there seems to be a\Nconsensus that we need to reduce carbon\Nemissions by 70 percent or more,
Dialogue: 0,0:38:13.42,0:38:17.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and given that we live in a world where\Neconomies must grow or die,
Dialogue: 0,0:38:17.43,0:38:21.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and given that our carbon emissions grow\Nalong with our economies,
Dialogue: 0,0:38:21.30,0:38:26.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and given that many countries are working\Nfeverishly to emulate the American way of life,
Dialogue: 0,0:38:26.30,0:38:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's difficult to see a way to STOP\Nit from getting out of hand.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:30.00,0:38:35.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've yet to see a proposed solution\Nthat even comes close to realistically\Naddressing the situation.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:37.04,0:38:39.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Talk about a snowball's chance in hell.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:40.32,0:38:44.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I used to take this martial arts class. And a lot of\Nthese guys, it was kind of a kung-fu thing,
Dialogue: 0,0:38:44.52,0:38:46.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a lot of the guys in class would be saying,\N'well, what if i meet a guy that's really good
Dialogue: 0,0:38:46.99,0:38:49.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in tae-kwon-do?',\Nor "what if i meet a really good boxer?"
Dialogue: 0,0:38:49.89,0:38:52.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the teacher would say, "well, you're\Ngoing to get your butt kicked". You know?
Dialogue: 0,0:38:52.49,0:38:58.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You say, "what if we run into a tipping point\Nwhere we have this kind of accelerated\Nscenario of climate change?"
Dialogue: 0,0:38:58.03,0:38:59.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're going to get our butts kicked.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:59.30,0:39:05.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's very possible that global climate\Nchange is out of our control at this\Npoint no matter what we do.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:05.94,0:39:11.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Whether we implement Kyoto, or\NKyoto on steroids, or whatever it is.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:11.38,0:39:18.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know how it will be manageable.\NIf they can't manage the fallout from\Nthe New Orleans catastrophe
Dialogue: 0,0:39:18.32,0:39:23.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what's going to happen when they try to\Nmanage a society-wide catastrophic situation?
Dialogue: 0,0:39:24.93,0:39:31.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can take a lot of punches.\NNature takes punches pretty readily.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:31.27,0:39:34.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Global warming is a really severe punch.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:35.27,0:39:41.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And all that we depend on for\Nnatural systems and agricultural systems
Dialogue: 0,0:39:41.51,0:39:43.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is about to be wiped out pretty drastically.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:45.31,0:39:51.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,About to be? What is he saying? Do we\Ndare speak of such disasters as inevitable?
Dialogue: 0,0:39:51.49,0:39:55.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we speak of inevitability,\Nwill that overwhelm people?
Dialogue: 0,0:39:55.12,0:39:58.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Will they slide into apathy and diversion?
Dialogue: 0,0:39:58.46,0:40:01.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Isn't that where people already are?
Dialogue: 0,0:40:01.40,0:40:04.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't feel like I can afford to look\Nat anything less than the truth.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:04.90,0:40:08.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then I must ask.: what are we made of?
Dialogue: 0,0:40:08.57,0:40:11.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who will we be in the face of such truths?
Dialogue: 0,0:40:11.87,0:40:15.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we don't look at these\Nthings, one thing seems certain.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:15.94,0:40:23.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Generations to come are not going to be very\Nhappy with us for refusing to get serious
Dialogue: 0,0:40:23.72,0:40:26.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about these hugely important issues.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:28.42,0:40:35.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What really gets me is it's not just our human\Ndescendents. Millions of species and more are\Nnow threatened by our behavior.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:35.66,0:40:40.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And for many of them, there will\Nbe no "generations to come".
Dialogue: 0,0:40:40.57,0:40:45.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're killing off all the life forms that give us life.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:45.74,0:40:49.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have black holes in the ocean.\NThere are no fish in places in the ocean.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:49.98,0:40:54.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What's happened to the fish?\NWhat's happened?
Dialogue: 0,0:40:55.25,0:41:01.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's my friend Barbara, who spent\Nher life as a teacher and activist,\Nworking for the life of this planet.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:01.72,0:41:07.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The thing is, we know what's happened. My son\NJack knows. He's known since he was a kid.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:08.36,0:41:12.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, everyone knows the problems -\Nthe deforestation, the pollution of rivers,\Nthe garbage, overpopulation.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:12.57,0:41:19.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All of these things the planet\Nisn't built for us to do that.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:19.31,0:41:22.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not built in such a way that it can take that.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:22.04,0:41:27.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, we have to live on the planet, so\Nif we're going to destroy where we're\Nliving then that's going to be a problem.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:30.35,0:41:36.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hmm. Destroy where you're living. A problem?\NWhat are the analysts and scientists saying?
Dialogue: 0,0:41:39.06,0:41:42.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Geologists mark geological time by catastrophe.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:42.30,0:41:46.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When did the comet hit and wipe out all those\Nspecies? When did the fossil record change?
Dialogue: 0,0:41:46.77,0:41:53.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so what was there yesterday was not\Nthere the next day? And we're in one of those\Nperiods right now. But it's human-caused.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:53.91,0:41:59.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we're seeing an order of extinctions\Nnow that ranks with the great\Ncatastrophes on the planet.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:59.92,0:42:09.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Currently we are driving species to\Nextinction probably a thousand\Ntimes faster than they should be.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:09.46,0:42:14.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We will lose somewhere between a\Nquarter, maybe as many as a half,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:15.26,0:42:19.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of all the species on earth\Nwithin the next century.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:19.47,0:42:22.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think what he's saying is.:\Nthat would be bad.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:23.30,0:42:26.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I spoke with Daniel Quinn,\Nhe seemed to agree.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:26.24,0:42:34.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if this goes on, and on and on and on,\Nthere's going to come a point
Dialogue: 0,0:42:34.92,0:42:37.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when the system is going to collapse.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:38.22,0:42:45.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is it that's going on and on? Nothing\Nless than the people of Empire devouring\Nthe world. As my friend Kevin put it.:
Dialogue: 0,0:42:48.26,0:42:50.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Humans are taking over the whole planet.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:50.77,0:42:53.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And everything else is being crowded out.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:53.17,0:43:02.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Crowded out. Felled and milled. Caught,\Ncleaned and canned. The numbers show\Nthat the culture of civilization is eating\Nitself out of house and home.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:02.84,0:43:08.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On land, we consume forty percent of what's\Nknown as the primary productivity of the planet.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:08.72,0:43:15.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you look at how much green\N"stuff" the planet produces every year,
Dialogue: 0,0:43:15.29,0:43:17.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we use about two-fifths of that.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:17.69,0:43:24.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We consume it, our domestic animals consume\Nit, and we use wood, and fibers like cotton.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:24.93,0:43:30.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I drive through the country and see it. Forests\Nare now fields and parking lots and box stores.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:30.84,0:43:37.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We grow crops and livestock and billboards\Nand cell phone towers, bulldozing and bush-\Nhogging our way around the globe.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:38.71,0:43:46.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's the destruction of the places\Nwhere species live that's the principal\Ncause of species becoming extinct.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:48.82,0:43:51.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's the same story in the oceans.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:51.36,0:44:02.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many people think that the oceans are vast and\Nuntouched. And in actual fact we take about a\Nthird of the production from the oceans, too.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:02.90,0:44:07.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our fish stocks, all over the coast of the\NUnited States and certainly around the world,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:07.01,0:44:10.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are getting perilously close to collapsing.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:10.41,0:44:19.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Most of the desirable, large, predatory\Nfish - snapper, swordfish, and the like -\Nhave been reduced
Dialogue: 0,0:44:19.25,0:44:23.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,down to ten percent of their previous population.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:23.59,0:44:28.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Down to ten percent? Maybe that's why\Nwe're now eating tilapia instead of cod.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:29.60,0:44:31.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The cod is almost gone.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:33.07,0:44:37.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And with your tilapia may I suggest a\Nbig tall glass of drinkable water?
Dialogue: 0,0:44:37.57,0:44:44.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When it comes to fresh water we probably\Ntake about half of the available fresh water.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:44.68,0:44:50.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Part of the way we've fed the planet over\Nthe last thirty years, as we've doubled\Npopulation, is to use a whole lot of water.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:50.52,0:44:54.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our agriculture's now the leading\Nuser of water in the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:54.49,0:44:56.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in this nation as well.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:56.09,0:45:04.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our watersheds in the United States have\Nbeen so highly developed that even small\Nchanges in the amount of water that falls
Dialogue: 0,0:45:04.63,0:45:10.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are beginning to cause large implications\Nfor society's availability of water.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:11.11,0:45:16.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Multiplying the impact of consumption\Nand habitat destruction is the fact that,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:16.01,0:45:20.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with fuels, with pesticides and\Nherbicides and industrial chemicals,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:20.25,0:45:22.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with noise and with electromagnetic waves
Dialogue: 0,0:45:22.85,0:45:26.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and with human activity and with\Nstructures of control and domination,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:26.86,0:45:32.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Empire is literally and metaphorically\Npoisoning every square inch of the planet.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:32.69,0:45:36.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes, life will recover from\Nwhat we are doing to the planet.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:36.100,0:45:38.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But don't hold your breath.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:38.40,0:45:40.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's going to take millions of years.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:40.34,0:45:45.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's going to take an incredible\Nnumber of human generations.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:45.54,0:45:50.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Trillions of people will live in a\Nbiologically impoverished world
Dialogue: 0,0:45:50.88,0:45:56.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if we don't stop our human impacts now.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:57.55,0:46:00.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I spoke with Daniel Quinn\Nabout this mass extinction.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:00.82,0:46:03.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He gave me a metaphor\Nthat has haunted me since.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:04.76,0:46:10.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are like people who live in a\Nvery tall building. . . brick building.\NWe live on the top floor.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:11.40,0:46:21.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And every day we go out, go down to the lower\Nfloors and at random we knock bricks out, take\Nthem upstairs to the top, and build higher.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:23.58,0:46:28.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every day. Downstairs, 200 bricks.\NTake them upstairs.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:30.02,0:46:36.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the building is perfectly stable.\NBut it's not going to be stable forever.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:36.99,0:46:42.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because we are attacking the\Nstructural integrity of the building.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:42.46,0:46:46.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Two hundred species a day, day after\Nday after day, year after year. . .
Dialogue: 0,0:46:46.60,0:46:49.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And as our population increases
Dialogue: 0,0:46:50.30,0:46:55.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's going to turn into 400 species\Na day, a thousand species a day.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:55.04,0:46:59.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And there's going to come a day\Nwhen the system is going to collapse.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:59.81,0:47:02.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Two hundred species a day!?
Dialogue: 0,0:47:04.15,0:47:06.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is calamitous.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:07.69,0:47:14.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We may already be well above 200 bricks\Neach day. And it looks to me like the\Nbuilding is not far from collapse.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:14.50,0:47:19.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everything in me wants to run out of the building\Nbefore it comes crashing down around my ears.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:19.97,0:47:23.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But where would I run?\NEmpire now covers the planet.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:23.57,0:47:28.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The building is everywhere.\NAnd almost all of us are inside of it.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:28.81,0:47:29.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All of us.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:30.48,0:47:33.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All six and a half billion of us.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:34.08,0:47:38.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of the hardest things to talk about\Nis the human population explosion.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:38.09,0:47:45.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The friends and neighbors I spoke with all\Nseemed to agree that the enormous\Nincrease in human population would\Nsoon have to be reckoned with.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:45.86,0:47:48.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're approaching full tilt, I think,
Dialogue: 0,0:47:48.20,0:47:54.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in terms of what the planet can sustain.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:54.87,0:48:00.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Any species that has outgrown its environment
Dialogue: 0,0:48:00.31,0:48:02.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is pressed for resources.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:02.54,0:48:04.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is it just all going to end,
Dialogue: 0,0:48:04.35,0:48:06.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and is that going to be the solution?
Dialogue: 0,0:48:06.41,0:48:10.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, are we gonna become extinct
Dialogue: 0,0:48:10.28,0:48:11.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like the dinosaurs?
Dialogue: 0,0:48:11.65,0:48:18.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Equilibrium will be re-achieved.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:18.96,0:48:22.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Unfortunately, nature is a harsh taskmaster.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:22.60,0:48:24.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because we're so intelligent,
Dialogue: 0,0:48:24.30,0:48:27.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because we're such a different class of animal,
Dialogue: 0,0:48:27.37,0:48:35.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with such a big brain, we have the ability\Nto understand and foresee and prepare\Nand stuff for these things,
Dialogue: 0,0:48:35.48,0:48:37.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,doesn't mean we will.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:37.85,0:48:40.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How will we face into the\Nissue of human population?
Dialogue: 0,0:48:40.98,0:48:47.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I went to speak with William Catton, a\Nprofessor of Sociology & Human Ecology\Nat Washington State University,
Dialogue: 0,0:48:47.52,0:48:53.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,now retired, and author of an amazing\Nbook on ecology and human\Npopulation called Overshoot.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:53.73,0:48:57.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,According to Catton's assessment\Nof the carrying capacity of the planet.:
Dialogue: 0,0:48:57.83,0:49:00.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think the way we're living now,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:00.40,0:49:03.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the world was overpopulated already
Dialogue: 0,0:49:03.70,0:49:05.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by the time of our civil war.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:06.47,0:49:10.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The population at the time of the US\NCivil War was just over one billion.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:10.71,0:49:15.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we've now overshot that number by\Nmore than 5 billion. As Catton told me.:
Dialogue: 0,0:49:16.48,0:49:20.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is possible to exceed carrying\Ncapacity. But only temporarily.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:20.39,0:49:26.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you exceed carrying capacity\Nyou then damage the environment\Nupon which you're depending.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:26.46,0:49:33.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Looking closely, I've come to see that\Npopulation numbers for humans, in and of\Nthemselves, are only part of the story.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:33.90,0:49:37.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As Catton points out, it's the damage\Nthose numbers do that counts.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:37.84,0:49:41.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that damage is intimately\Nconnected to our way of life.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:41.84,0:49:45.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Earth supports as great a collective\Nmass of ants as it does people.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:45.91,0:49:52.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It can do so because ants aren't\Nbuilding 6000-square-foot homes,\Ndriving two hours to their jobs,
Dialogue: 0,0:49:52.79,0:49:57.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,buying plasma TV sets, and killing each\Nother with depleted uranium munitions.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:58.39,0:50:03.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We in the developed world have\N32 times the footprint on the planet,
Dialogue: 0,0:50:03.73,0:50:07.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on resources... depletion...\N32 times a person in india.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:10.70,0:50:13.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think we all know that\Nthough the figure is stunning.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:13.94,0:50:19.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it ought to make us really think,\Nand start to talk with each other about this.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:20.55,0:50:25.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You talk about how many "energy\Nslaves", per capita, do we have?
Dialogue: 0,0:50:27.09,0:50:29.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In this country we've got something like 70 times
Dialogue: 0,0:50:29.99,0:50:34.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as many energy slaves per capita\Nas people in Bangladesh.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:34.100,0:50:39.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,instead of thinking of Bangladesh\Nas the overpopulated country,
Dialogue: 0,0:50:39.07,0:50:41.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you multiply each of us by seventy
Dialogue: 0,0:50:41.50,0:50:47.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- take that 290 million, or whatever number of\Nus there are now, multiple it be seventy - wow.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:47.24,0:50:49.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are an overpopulated country.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:50.24,0:50:58.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In those terms, the US is a nation of\N21 billion people. And my own three\Nchildren add 210 to that number.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:58.39,0:51:03.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To speak of population, then, as the root\Ncause of our problem makes little sense to me.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:03.69,0:51:13.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It conjures images of crowded third-world\Ncities and teeming masses of human flesh,\Nwhile the global impacts of rich first-world\Nlifestyles go unexamined.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:15.97,0:51:21.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Big feet. More and more feet. And more\Nand more feet getting bigger and bigger.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:21.71,0:51:26.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if these feet just keep on walking, one of\Nthese days they're gonna walk right into oblivion.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:28.42,0:51:31.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It cannot be sustained for much longer.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:33.76,0:51:37.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are any number of catastrophic\Nforces that could lower our numbers,
Dialogue: 0,0:51:37.16,0:51:41.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as oil depletion, climate change and\Nenvironmental collapses play out.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:41.86,0:51:45.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One thing large populations are\Nespecially prone to is disease.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:46.67,0:51:51.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Microbes are gonna have a lot more to do with it\Nthan humans have to do with it in the end.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:52.41,0:51:57.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nature - we're still governed by natural rules,\Nwe like to think we're not, but we are -
Dialogue: 0,0:51:57.51,0:52:02.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when you put together the kind of biomass\Nthat humans represent on this planet,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:02.95,0:52:05.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we're an asset to somebody. We're a resource.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:07.29,0:52:11.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it may be possible to meet the\Nsituation with consciousness and intention.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:11.96,0:52:16.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Once we get to the peak human\Npopulation, wherever that is -
Dialogue: 0,0:52:16.86,0:52:22.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I hope it is 8 1/2 billion rather than\N12 billion but it's gonna be high -
Dialogue: 0,0:52:22.90,0:52:26.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whenever we get there, what -\Ndo we have a vision of what we should do?
Dialogue: 0,0:52:26.77,0:52:31.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, we got to the peak,\Nand there's trouble all around us!
Dialogue: 0,0:52:31.25,0:52:33.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What should we do?
Dialogue: 0,0:52:33.65,0:52:43.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Somehow we've got to devise a way\Nfor obtaining a soft landing as we\Nreduce the population from six-plus\Nbillion down toward one billion.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:43.99,0:52:48.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we decide we want to reduce it we can\Nsee to it that the reduction occurs
Dialogue: 0,0:52:48.76,0:52:54.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a more humane way than it will occur if we\Njust try to keep on business as usual.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:55.47,0:53:03.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Humanity has never been in this. This is\Nnew. This is new. And this is big.\NAnd this is not being talked about.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:03.58,0:53:09.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And because it is not being talked about,\Nwe have no clear idea how we might\Ndevice that softer landing.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:10.02,0:53:14.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Talking about it, then, clearly\Nand honestly, is the first step.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:14.99,0:53:19.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Without that, catastrophe\Nis inevitable. But either way,
Dialogue: 0,0:53:19.46,0:53:22.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our global population is going to be reduced.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:24.36,0:53:29.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this is what I had to face.: the population\Nof my species is going to be reduced.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:30.00,0:53:35.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had to face it just like the grizzly\Nbears have had to face it, and the\Nwild salmon have had to face it,
Dialogue: 0,0:53:35.61,0:53:40.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just like the right whales and the piping plovers\Nand the mountain gorillas have had to face it,
Dialogue: 0,0:53:40.35,0:53:46.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just like the great auks and the golden\Ntoads and the blackfin cisco had to\Nface it before they went extinct.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:47.42,0:53:51.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I had to face something else.:\NI have a choice about how I meet it.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:52.16,0:53:54.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My friend Lyle gave it some perspective.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:54.53,0:54:01.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The fact is that there have been die-offs\Nof civilizations. There have been\Ncollapses of great, mighty civilizations.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:01.57,0:54:06.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sophisticated, powerful, unbelievable\Ncivilizations have collapsed.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:07.01,0:54:10.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's a choice.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:10.98,0:54:18.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's a choice that we can decide to succeed\Nor fail. And i'm going to go ahead and\Ndecide to succeed, thank you
Dialogue: 0,0:54:18.45,0:54:21.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And i'd really like it if you'd come with me.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:23.42,0:54:28.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What choices do we now have? What would\Nthat success Lyle speaks of look like?
Dialogue: 0,0:54:28.96,0:54:34.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is inevitable at this point? And\Nwhat remains to be created, if only we\Nawaken to our power?
Dialogue: 0,0:54:36.27,0:54:41.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Most importantly, why have we\Nnot already awakened?
Dialogue: 0,0:54:42.61,0:54:48.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you know something? The more\Nyou talk about your problems the\Neasier they are to solve.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:48.88,0:54:52.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This bottling things up inside is bad!
Dialogue: 0,0:54:52.72,0:54:56.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can't survive apart from the earth.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:56.69,0:54:58.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so. . . we're killing it!
Dialogue: 0,0:54:59.43,0:55:08.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,i think part of looking at things exactly\Nthe way they are is feeling how isolated
Dialogue: 0,0:55:08.24,0:55:13.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and alienated we have become from ourselves,
Dialogue: 0,0:55:13.34,0:55:16.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the people around us,\Nand from the natural world.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:16.88,0:55:25.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when you look at that, and experience\Nthat, the natural response is deep grief.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:26.25,0:55:29.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Deep grief at the loss of connection.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:39.47,0:55:42.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are other issues we could have looked at.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:45.07,0:55:47.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How do we face into all of this information?
Dialogue: 0,0:55:48.54,0:55:52.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It looks as though our very survival\Nas a species is now in question.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:54.32,0:55:59.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As I gaze unflinchingly at the world situation,\Nthe information goes right into my body.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:00.22,0:56:01.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I feel shaken to the core.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:02.46,0:56:04.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I feel like running away.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:04.56,0:56:08.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I feel, at times, like I've been hit head on.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:09.06,0:56:10.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know I'm not alone.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:11.40,0:56:15.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wish I had some magic potion.\NI wish I had some easy fix.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:16.10,0:56:19.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wish I could just tell you that\Neverything is going to be OK.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:20.27,0:56:22.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But of course I can't tell you that.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:22.74,0:56:26.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And probably, deep down,\Nyou already know that.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:28.38,0:56:30.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What chance do I really have, doctor?
Dialogue: 0,0:56:32.09,0:56:37.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mr. Marshall, I have no desire to mislead you.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:37.76,0:56:41.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm sure you realize that\Nrecovery is not a sure thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:43.80,0:56:48.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thirty-six years after the first Earth Day,\Nforty-four years after Silent Spring,
Dialogue: 0,0:56:48.80,0:56:53.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the planet is closer now to ecological\Nmeltdown than it has ever been.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:54.94,0:57:01.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If what we want is to stop the destruction\Nof the life of this planet, then what\Nwe have been doing has not been working.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:01.78,0:57:04.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We will have to do something else.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:05.85,0:57:08.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we stay focused on\Nthe question, "what do we do?"
Dialogue: 0,0:57:10.09,0:57:15.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we don't ask the more basic\Nquestions about "how did we get here?"
Dialogue: 0,0:57:17.76,0:57:28.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if we don't ask those questions i don't\Nthink we've got much chance of effecting
Dialogue: 0,0:57:28.08,0:57:33.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the kind of radical change that we're going to\Nhave to effect if we're going to make it.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:33.35,0:57:38.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, i appreciate your being so\Nfrank with me, Dr Swenson.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:39.35,0:57:42.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I guess I don't have to tell you how i feel.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:43.59,0:57:48.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From my experience, talking about how\Nwe feel is exactly what we need to be doing.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:48.46,0:57:51.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we'll also need to\Nquestion some assumptions.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:52.07,0:57:58.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One assumption I question is the one\Nthat tells us that, since scientists can\Nhelp us understand the situation,
Dialogue: 0,0:57:58.47,0:58:02.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they are automatically equipped\Nto tell us how to "solve" it.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:02.68,0:58:07.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But there are forces at work in the world that\Ncannot be understood through a microscope.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:09.45,0:58:15.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What are the forces that brought us\Nto this point? And what are the\Nforces that keep us stuck here?
Dialogue: 0,0:58:16.09,0:58:19.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I went to speak with the people who are\Ntrying to answer these questions.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:21.16,0:58:27.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I realized that I would have to step\Noutside of the culture, so that I could\Nsee it from a new perspective.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:28.30,0:58:35.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Deep inside the tangle of problems that\Nthreatens the entire world there rages a\Nboundless blaze of cultural fire,
Dialogue: 0,0:58:35.04,0:58:38.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the locomotive power for the\Ncultural train we're all now riding.:
Dialogue: 0,0:58:39.58,0:58:44.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an engine not of steam or diesel, but of\Nstory, and myth, habit and belief.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:45.32,0:58:47.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,An engine racing out of control.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:47.92,0:58:51.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's time to look more closely\Nat the culture of Empire.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:51.49,0:58:53.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, how did we get into this mess?
Dialogue: 0,0:58:54.06,0:58:57.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wow. That's a cosmic question.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:58.50,0:59:07.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many analysts think it started about ten\Nthousand years ago when humans began to\Nengage in a new and fundamentally\Nunsustainable style of food production.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:08.34,0:59:12.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What we invented was something\Nthat I call totalitarian agriculture,
Dialogue: 0,0:59:12.55,0:59:19.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is predicated on the\Nnotion that it all belongs to us.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:19.79,0:59:24.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can kill off anything we don't want on\Nthe land, put a fence around the land.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:24.79,0:59:29.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can grow the food we want on\Nthe land and Nobody else can touch it.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:29.50,0:59:35.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That slippery slope that we're on right now. . . we\Nstarted walking on that ten thousand years ago.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:37.47,0:59:44.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it is because of an inherent\Nproblem in "agriculture". "Agriculture"\Nreally depends on disturbance.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:44.11,0:59:49.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's no way you can do "agriculture"\Nwithout doing that catastrophic damage.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:49.12,0:59:53.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it makes "agriculture"\Nfundamentally unsustainable.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:54.29,0:59:58.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The surplus from this new way\Nof getting food had immediate effects.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:58.39,1:00:04.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It has fueled this tremendous\Npopulation growth of ours.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:04.10,1:00:07.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our growing population is always\Ncatching up with our food production.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:08.80,1:00:11.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have a food race on our hands.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:11.81,1:00:17.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We grow more food and the population\Nincreases. So we grow more food.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:17.14,1:00:19.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a race that can't be won.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:19.55,1:00:27.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On top of that, totalitarian agriculture\Nalso consigned its practitioners to\Na life of hard work and poor health.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:27.15,1:00:33.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As a species, we had food before us for\Nall of our history, which is two hundred. . .\Nthree hundred thousand years.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:33.53,1:00:38.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you look at ten thousand years\Nit's relatively minor in that space.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:38.100,1:00:40.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But we were hunter-gatherers.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:40.67,1:00:46.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So nature grew our food in its way. As\Nopposed to our way, which is "agriculture".
Dialogue: 0,1:00:47.51,1:00:49.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We didn't grow food. Food grew.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:51.34,1:00:55.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's hard for people to accept the fact that
Dialogue: 0,1:00:57.92,1:01:05.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the more you base your society\Non agriculture, the harder you work.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:05.33,1:01:09.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if we look at archaeological sites around\Nthe world - and people have done this -
Dialogue: 0,1:01:09.23,1:01:11.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in all the locations - this is not a cultural issue -
Dialogue: 0,1:01:11.66,1:01:17.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in all the locations where agriculture\Nbegan, in Asia, the Mid-East, South\NAmerica, and Central America,
Dialogue: 0,1:01:17.40,1:01:20.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we will find people who are stunted, short,
Dialogue: 0,1:01:20.21,1:01:24.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their teeth are invariable gone because of the\Ncarbohydrates they're eating turn into sugars
Dialogue: 0,1:01:24.34,1:01:25.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and rot their teeth out,
Dialogue: 0,1:01:25.95,1:01:32.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they're misshapen, they're asymmetrical,\Nthey show every evidence of suffering\Nall sorts of disease.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:33.32,1:01:40.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this new type of agriculture both required and\Nallowed more settlement, and with that came the\Nbeginnings of wealth and inequality.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:40.90,1:01:47.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you go to pre-agricultural towns you'll see a\Nseries of houses, all about the same size.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:47.87,1:01:56.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And almost instantly, when agriculture occurred,\Nyou can go to any town, in any agricultural site in\Nthe world, not just in Western culture,
Dialogue: 0,1:01:56.08,1:02:01.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and see a few very large houses with\Ngranaries connected to them, and a\Nwhole series of smaller houses.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:01.75,1:02:06.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That kind of social inequity began\Nalmost immediately with agriculture.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:07.89,1:02:15.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As Quinn and Manning point out, early\Nagricultural peoples were not better off\Nthan their hunter-gatherer predecessors.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:15.33,1:02:16.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this was news to me.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:17.26,1:02:23.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The psychologist and cultural analyst\NChellis Glendinning points to other\Nconsequences of settlement and agriculture.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:24.20,1:02:28.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Before, when women were moving around,\Nand very athletic, and carrying their babies,
Dialogue: 0,1:02:29.98,1:02:34.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and having a diet that\Nwasn't so high in carbohydrates,
Dialogue: 0,1:02:34.11,1:02:37.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and nursing their babies for long periods of time,
Dialogue: 0,1:02:37.08,1:02:39.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then women didn't ovulate very often.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:39.69,1:02:44.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But when women became sedentary,\Nwomen began to have regular cycles.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:44.69,1:02:47.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so, more babies were born.\NAnd so guess what?
Dialogue: 0,1:02:47.56,1:02:52.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then you have to make more farms. And then\Nyou have to expand the area that's fenced off.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:53.43,1:02:57.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then, ooh, maybe you're going to\Nmeet up with someone else who's\Ncoming that way, another group.
Dialogue: 0,1:02:57.97,1:02:59.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so then you have to have a war.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:00.88,1:03:05.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're taught to regard agriculture and\Nsettlement as the normal and\Nnatural way for humans to live.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:06.45,1:03:15.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it was a bit of a shock, to learn how these\Nbasic cultural changes were the fundamental\Ncause of so many of the problems that have\Ndogged us through the centuries.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:16.16,1:03:19.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Derrick Jensen speaks to the\Nend result of all of this cultural change.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:20.53,1:03:26.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think one of the best lines i ever wrote was that\N"forests precede us and deserts dog our heels."
Dialogue: 0,1:03:26.30,1:03:32.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I think of - or when you think of -\Nthe plains and hillsides of Iraq,
Dialogue: 0,1:03:32.11,1:03:37.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is the first thing that you normally\Nthink of cedar forests so thick the sunlight\Nnever touches the ground?
Dialogue: 0,1:03:37.98,1:03:39.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think for most of us that's not the case.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:39.61,1:03:47.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the first written myth of this\Nculture is Gilgamesh cutting down\Nthose forests to make cities.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:48.79,1:03:53.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Cities. Settlements begat villages\Nwhich begat towns which begat cities.
Dialogue: 0,1:03:54.30,1:03:59.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Totalitarian and catastrophic agriculture,\Nthe accumulation of wealth and power,
Dialogue: 0,1:03:59.30,1:04:05.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and increases in population all came together to\Ngive rise to a new form of human culture.:
Dialogue: 0,1:04:05.14,1:04:08.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the culture of cities, the culture of civilization,
Dialogue: 0,1:04:08.58,1:04:10.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the culture of Empire.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:10.78,1:04:21.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I realized, as I was writing the newest book,\NEndgame, that i'd been bashing\Ncivilization for probably, eh, ten years now.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:21.72,1:04:24.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And i'd never defined it.\NI didn't know what i was talking about.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:24.82,1:04:33.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so I define it in that book as a way of life\Ncharacterized by the growth of cities.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:34.37,1:04:41.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've defined a city as a collection of people\Nliving in numbers large enough to require\Nthe importation of resources.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:41.24,1:04:45.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A city could be defined, almost, as a\Nhuman ecosystem that grossly exceeds
Dialogue: 0,1:04:45.85,1:04:48.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the carrying capacity of its local environment.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:49.82,1:04:59.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As Jensen and Catton point out, because\Ncities exceed the carrying capacity of their\Nlocal environment, and because they require\Nthe importation of resources,
Dialogue: 0,1:04:59.43,1:05:06.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then those who live in cities are locked\Ninto the inevitability of getting those\Nresources from somewhere else,
Dialogue: 0,1:05:06.13,1:05:11.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from somebody else,\Nby whatever means is necessary.
Dialogue: 0,1:05:12.21,1:05:14.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Often that means is trade.
Dialogue: 0,1:05:14.58,1:05:22.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But trade requires transport, and transport\Nrequires energy, and energy has to come from\Nsomewhere, and it eventually runs out.
Dialogue: 0,1:05:22.35,1:05:27.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And trade requires willing partners.\NBut people do not always want to trade.
Dialogue: 0,1:05:27.65,1:05:32.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When trade breaks down, and you need\Nthose resources, what remains is war.
Dialogue: 0,1:05:34.03,1:05:36.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We now need oil to keep our cities going.
Dialogue: 0,1:05:37.10,1:05:40.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Watch the bidding war rage from\Ntrade floors to battlefields.
Dialogue: 0,1:05:40.97,1:05:44.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Watch the Pentagon plan and the patriots act.
Dialogue: 0,1:05:45.91,1:05:50.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's stop for a second and regroup. I told you\NI've had to challenge some assumptions.
Dialogue: 0,1:05:50.91,1:05:57.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've been doing agriculture and expanding\Nand growing and building cities and\Naccumulating material wealth for so long now
Dialogue: 0,1:05:57.68,1:06:01.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that it just feels like this is how\Nthings are supposed to be.
Dialogue: 0,1:06:01.29,1:06:08.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But how can a way of life that is destroying\Nits own support systems be considered\N"how things are supposed to be"?
Dialogue: 0,1:06:09.60,1:06:19.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"...they did eat every herb of the land,\Nand all the fruit of the trees, and there\Nremained not any green thing... "\NExodus 10.:1 5
Dialogue: 0,1:06:23.34,1:06:24.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's move on.
Dialogue: 0,1:06:25.58,1:06:33.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Once our native human intelligence and\Ncreativity was combined with the defining\Nimpulses of empire, things began to snowball.
Dialogue: 0,1:06:33.69,1:06:40.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We kept using more and more sophisticated\Ntechnology so we could put off the inevitable.
Dialogue: 0,1:06:40.13,1:06:42.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Which is.: we've got physical limits.
Dialogue: 0,1:06:43.06,1:06:47.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Using the power of technology, we could break\Nthrough the limits and laws and rules
Dialogue: 0,1:06:47.77,1:06:52.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that kept the community of life in balance\Nfor millions of years . . . temporarily. . .
Dialogue: 0,1:06:53.14,1:06:58.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Rules! All the time rules! i'm sick of 'em.
Dialogue: 0,1:06:58.38,1:07:01.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Offscreen Narrator.: Excuse me for\Ninterrupting, boys and girls,
Dialogue: 0,1:07:01.08,1:07:05.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but maybe you would like to find out just\Nwhat it would be like if there were no rules.
Dialogue: 0,1:07:05.18,1:07:07.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But how could we do that?
Dialogue: 0,1:07:07.09,1:07:09.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By going someplace where there are no rules.
Dialogue: 0,1:07:09.96,1:07:12.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's no such place.
Dialogue: 0,1:07:12.13,1:07:16.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But maybe there is a way we\Ncould go to a place without rules.
Dialogue: 0,1:07:16.23,1:07:17.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how?
Dialogue: 0,1:07:17.40,1:07:23.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By using our imagination.\NNow let's all pretend real hard. . .
Dialogue: 0,1:07:25.51,1:07:28.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And pretend we did.
Dialogue: 0,1:07:28.04,1:07:32.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,thinking we had no limits, our power\Nto control went right to our heads.
Dialogue: 0,1:07:32.28,1:07:35.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As historian and "geologian"\NThomas Berry put it.:
Dialogue: 0,1:07:57.50,1:08:02.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What i say goes, see? i'm the law around here!
Dialogue: 0,1:08:02.81,1:08:05.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(laughs)
Dialogue: 0,1:08:06.58,1:08:12.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the belief in the power to control has\Nproceeded on some faulty assumptions\Nabout the limits of science.
Dialogue: 0,1:08:40.98,1:08:43.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've been confused about technology.
Dialogue: 0,1:08:43.45,1:08:49.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've heard all my life that technologies\Nthemselves are neutral, that it all\Ndepends on how we use them,
Dialogue: 0,1:08:49.12,1:08:54.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they can be used for good or ill, depending\Non the wisdom and intelligence of the user.
Dialogue: 0,1:08:54.83,1:08:57.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, as Jerry Mander explains.:
Dialogue: 0,1:08:57.30,1:09:02.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's completely wrong. You can\Ndo an analysis of every technology
Dialogue: 0,1:09:02.30,1:09:09.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and find its beneficial aspects\Nand its negative aspects.
Dialogue: 0,1:09:09.38,1:09:17.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The idea that it's just about the way we use it is\Nabsurd. Because these are built-in factors.
Dialogue: 0,1:09:18.18,1:09:23.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As an example, the difference between nuclear\Nand solar is more than in how we use them.
Dialogue: 0,1:09:23.66,1:09:28.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Each technology has built-in characteristics\Nthat determine how they end up being used,
Dialogue: 0,1:09:28.53,1:09:29.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and who uses them,
Dialogue: 0,1:09:29.96,1:09:31.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and for what.
Dialogue: 0,1:09:31.23,1:09:35.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Military scientists are not now\Nworking on a solar powered warhead.
Dialogue: 0,1:09:35.40,1:09:39.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And neither am I looking to put a\Nnuclear water heater on my roof.
Dialogue: 0,1:09:40.91,1:09:45.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because of this misunderstanding, it's easy to\Nget trapped in the myth of the technofix. . .
Dialogue: 0,1:09:46.45,1:09:52.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ever since that division of humans and\Nhuman space away from the rest of the world,
Dialogue: 0,1:09:52.89,1:09:57.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's been one problem arising from\Nthat situation after another, you know.
Dialogue: 0,1:09:58.46,1:10:02.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Oh dear, we have to pipe in more\Nwater for the more farms", you know.
Dialogue: 0,1:10:03.13,1:10:05.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Oh dear, now we have to\Ntravel great distances".
Dialogue: 0,1:10:05.50,1:10:08.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Oh dear, now we need more\Nresources, we need more land".
Dialogue: 0,1:10:09.10,1:10:13.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Whatever. It's been one\Ntechnological fix after another.
Dialogue: 0,1:10:13.51,1:10:19.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then as soon as you try to answer\Nsomething with some kind of a technological fix\Nthat doesn't really go to the root of the problem
Dialogue: 0,1:10:19.15,1:10:20.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then there's going to be new problems.
Dialogue: 0,1:10:20.48,1:10:22.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then it just rolls along.
Dialogue: 0,1:10:22.75,1:10:28.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so now, I mean, you look at the state\Nof the world now and half the people in the\Nworld are living in urban areas.
Dialogue: 0,1:10:28.92,1:10:31.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so how do you answer that?
Dialogue: 0,1:10:31.46,1:10:35.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the population explosion\Nhas gone to such an extreme.
Dialogue: 0,1:10:35.13,1:10:39.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How do you answer that, but\Nwith another technological fix?
Dialogue: 0,1:10:39.70,1:10:42.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Half the people in the world live in cities.
Dialogue: 0,1:10:42.17,1:10:47.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And cities, by definition, exceed the\Ncarrying capacity of their local environments.
Dialogue: 0,1:10:47.17,1:10:49.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't think most people know this.
Dialogue: 0,1:10:49.61,1:10:53.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you'll agree that to make up your\Nmind fairly you have to know all the facts.
Dialogue: 0,1:10:54.21,1:10:56.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,See, I don't think you know all the facts.
Dialogue: 0,1:10:57.62,1:11:02.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If we knew all the facts we'd have discarded\Nthe myth of the technofix a long time ago.
Dialogue: 0,1:11:02.89,1:11:10.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To my eye our crisis, at its deepest\Nlevels, is a crisis not of technology\Nbut of meaning and purpose.
Dialogue: 0,1:11:10.86,1:11:17.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We keep acting like all we need do is\Nthrow more technology at it while we\Nfall to understand, or even see,
Dialogue: 0,1:11:17.74,1:11:25.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the clearly cultural issues that doom to\Nfantastic failure these ever more desperate\Nattempts to keep the present system going.
Dialogue: 0,1:11:26.35,1:11:30.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've been pretending for so long\Nwe've forgotten what we once knew.:
Dialogue: 0,1:11:30.78,1:11:34.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you can't survive in the long run\Nif you don't follow the laws of life.
Dialogue: 0,1:11:36.16,1:11:42.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As we settled into agriculture and civilization,\Nagriculture and civilization settled into us.
Dialogue: 0,1:11:42.40,1:11:45.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We fenced ourselves off from the world. . .
Dialogue: 0,1:11:45.10,1:11:48.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And everything inside the fence\Nbecame what we needed to survive.
Dialogue: 0,1:11:48.97,1:11:55.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And everything outside the fence\Nbecame threatening, wild, you know,\Nuncontrollable, keep it out!
Dialogue: 0,1:11:55.84,1:11:59.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And our technologies cut us\Noff from our own experience. . .
Dialogue: 0,1:11:59.38,1:12:06.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can build a culture that sits\Nbetween us and the world.
Dialogue: 0,1:12:06.42,1:12:11.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it mediates our behavior toward the world.
Dialogue: 0,1:12:11.49,1:12:14.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it mediates what we do\Nand what we perceive.
Dialogue: 0,1:12:14.23,1:12:19.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you have a spear, it becomes a lot easier. You\Ndon't have to kill somebody right in front of you.
Dialogue: 0,1:12:19.50,1:12:24.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can kill somebody thirty feet away.\NAnd that distance makes it easier to kill.
Dialogue: 0,1:12:24.20,1:12:31.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if you've been sent into war with a B2\Nbomber strapped to your back and an array\Nof high-tech sensors at your fingertips,
Dialogue: 0,1:12:31.44,1:12:38.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you can kill Iraqis with no more thought\Nor feeling than you might have wasting\Nthe Covenant on your X-Box at home.
Dialogue: 0,1:12:40.79,1:12:44.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this disconnection from the world,\Nfrom other people and other creatures,
Dialogue: 0,1:12:44.86,1:12:48.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,altered our relationships,\Nand left us confused and wounded.
Dialogue: 0,1:13:16.46,1:13:22.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At what point do we stop and listen? And if we\Nstop and listen, what will we be able to hear?
Dialogue: 0,1:13:22.23,1:13:30.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Disconnection has stopped our ears.\NThe planet's voice barely registers.\NOur minds are clogged with stories.
Dialogue: 0,1:13:30.87,1:13:36.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Central to my understanding of the world is\Nthis.: all cultures are based on stories.
Dialogue: 0,1:13:36.31,1:13:42.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The culture of civilization and empire comes\Nwith its own unique set of beliefs and impulses.
Dialogue: 0,1:13:42.22,1:13:46.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Listen to some of the stories that have\Nbrought us to our present predicament.
Dialogue: 0,1:13:46.59,1:13:49.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"There's never quite enough"
Dialogue: 0,1:13:49.26,1:13:50.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"We're innately flawed"
Dialogue: 0,1:13:50.62,1:13:53.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"it's heresy today to say, 'let's stop growing"'
Dialogue: 0,1:13:53.49,1:13:55.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Hard work is morally virtuous"
Dialogue: 0,1:13:55.16,1:13:56.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"More is better"
Dialogue: 0,1:13:56.46,1:13:59.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The physical world as i see it is everything"
Dialogue: 0,1:13:59.77,1:14:02.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"We can solve any problem"
Dialogue: 0,1:14:02.24,1:14:06.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I mean... they actually say that the\Nway to be happy is to own more stuff"
Dialogue: 0,1:14:06.74,1:14:11.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"We are to subdue the earth\Nand have dominion over it"
Dialogue: 0,1:14:11.48,1:14:16.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"We own. . . we own the planet. We own\Neverything here. We own these resources"
Dialogue: 0,1:14:16.78,1:14:21.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Humans have rights. Nothing else has rights"
Dialogue: 0,1:14:21.35,1:14:27.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"There are many times in which people just\Ndon't want to be told that such-and-such\Na place is off-limits to them"
Dialogue: 0,1:14:27.89,1:14:32.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Living with stories like this, is it any\Nwonder we're devouring the planet?
Dialogue: 0,1:14:33.03,1:14:37.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In some ways we're kind of -\Nwe're in a culture of two-year-olds.
Dialogue: 0,1:14:37.70,1:14:41.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where we just won't look at the limits.
Dialogue: 0,1:14:41.71,1:14:49.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dominion over the Earth, in Genesis, didn't\Nmean to leave this pillaged and smoking.
Dialogue: 0,1:14:50.68,1:14:54.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Daniel Quinn has named some\Nof the basic stories of Empire.
Dialogue: 0,1:14:54.59,1:14:58.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The ambient voice of our\Nculture tells us that
Dialogue: 0,1:14:58.39,1:15:03.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this is the best that\Nhumans could ever hope for.
Dialogue: 0,1:15:03.100,1:15:06.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What we've got right now,\Nwhere we're going.
Dialogue: 0,1:15:06.67,1:15:08.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's just unsurpassable.
Dialogue: 0,1:15:09.40,1:15:13.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ergo, any alternative\Nhas got to be worse.
Dialogue: 0,1:15:13.64,1:15:17.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There were other\Ncivilizations besides ours;
Dialogue: 0,1:15:17.31,1:15:20.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they did not think that they\Nhad the one right way to live,
Dialogue: 0,1:15:20.58,1:15:24.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that everyone in the world\Nshould be made to live that way.
Dialogue: 0,1:15:24.02,1:15:27.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're taught to think\Nthat we are Humanity.
Dialogue: 0,1:15:27.02,1:15:33.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if there are other people out\Nthere that are different from us,\Nwell they're degenerates,
Dialogue: 0,1:15:33.53,1:15:36.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or they're just not as\Nfar advanced as we are.
Dialogue: 0,1:15:36.30,1:15:40.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We came along,\Nand began doing things,
Dialogue: 0,1:15:40.70,1:15:42.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and building civilization,
Dialogue: 0,1:15:42.80,1:15:46.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this is the way humans\Nwere meant to live from the beginning.
Dialogue: 0,1:15:47.24,1:15:50.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Which is one reason why we can't give it up.
Dialogue: 0,1:15:51.91,1:15:55.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here, perhaps, is the most\Ndangerous story of them all. . .
Dialogue: 0,1:15:57.38,1:16:06.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are superior to all other creatures\Nand our lives are independent of theirs.
Dialogue: 0,1:16:06.53,1:16:15.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Narrator.: Through his intellect man\Nhas developed a superiority over\Nevery other form of animal life.
Dialogue: 0,1:16:17.54,1:16:22.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the stories of Empire in place, civilization\Nwas ready to spread around the planet.
Dialogue: 0,1:16:22.91,1:16:27.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ran Prieur explains the core idea of\N"The Parable of the Tribes",
Dialogue: 0,1:16:27.01,1:16:33.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which reveals how the culture\Nof Empire prevailed in a process of\Ncultural evolution that selects for power.
Dialogue: 0,1:16:33.69,1:16:36.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,imagine there's a bunch of tribes\Nthat are living together peacefully.
Dialogue: 0,1:16:36.46,1:16:42.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And one of the tribes, for some reason,\Ninstead of living in balance and in peace,
Dialogue: 0,1:16:42.93,1:16:48.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they decide that they're going to make\Na bunch of weapons and conquer\Nthe next tribe and turn them into slaves.
Dialogue: 0,1:16:49.74,1:16:51.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The next tribe has three choices.
Dialogue: 0,1:16:53.24,1:16:59.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if they run away the paradigm of the\Nviolent tribe expands into their territory.
Dialogue: 0,1:17:00.08,1:17:05.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if they submit into slavery the paradigm\Nof the violent tribe expands into their territory.
Dialogue: 0,1:17:05.98,1:17:11.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if they build weapons to fight back the paradigm\Nof the violent tribe expands into their territory.
Dialogue: 0,1:17:11.82,1:17:20.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that just goes on until the whole\Nworld is made up of people who make\Nweapons and fight and enslave other people.
Dialogue: 0,1:17:21.47,1:17:25.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After ten thousand years of this,\Nwe've forgotten who we are. . .
Dialogue: 0,1:17:25.44,1:17:30.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How could three million years of\Nhuman life be meaningless?
Dialogue: 0,1:17:30.71,1:17:36.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The way people were living at\Nthat time, during that vast period,:
Dialogue: 0,1:17:36.28,1:17:43.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they were living in a way in which\Nhumans could live for millions of years.
Dialogue: 0,1:17:44.56,1:17:49.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tens of millions of years. And that's something!
Dialogue: 0,1:17:50.10,1:17:56.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Man, now we're saying "how\Nmany decades can we have?"
Dialogue: 0,1:17:56.04,1:18:00.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if we go on living this way, it's not many.
Dialogue: 0,1:18:04.14,1:18:07.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It strikes me as critical that we\Nremember who we really are.
Dialogue: 0,1:18:07.88,1:18:12.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have these huge brains and a great\Ncapacity for innovation and adaptation.
Dialogue: 0,1:18:12.72,1:18:17.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But we can get trapped inside of stories and\Nfantasies that block us from our own greatness.
Dialogue: 0,1:18:18.32,1:18:26.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, human beings can act either\Nas members of climax ecosystems,
Dialogue: 0,1:18:26.06,1:18:30.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where we integrate ourselves into\Neverything else that's going on,
Dialogue: 0,1:18:30.14,1:18:33.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or we can act as invasive\Nspecies, like the cane toad.
Dialogue: 0,1:18:33.21,1:18:41.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The classic example of human beings acting as\Nan invasive species, of course, is Europeans\Nover the last five hundred years or so.
Dialogue: 0,1:18:42.22,1:18:47.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It doesn't have to be this way.\NNot all human cultures have followed this path.
Dialogue: 0,1:18:47.22,1:18:54.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I look closely, what I see is that human\Ncapacities and characteristics have always been\Nmedlated by the larger society.
Dialogue: 0,1:18:55.93,1:18:57.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Always.
Dialogue: 0,1:18:58.83,1:19:05.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One person I spoke with who discussed our\Npresent predicament in terms of inherent human\Ncharacteristics was Richard Manning.
Dialogue: 0,1:19:06.27,1:19:11.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to survive in our hunter-gatherer\Ndays. . . a very narrow field of vision.
Dialogue: 0,1:19:11.11,1:19:16.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You had to be concerned with what\Nwas happening around you in the\Nimmediate hundred yards.
Dialogue: 0,1:19:16.08,1:19:21.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You had to be worried about what was going to\Nhappen in the next ten seconds or five minutes.
Dialogue: 0,1:19:21.45,1:19:25.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where was that tiger going to come from that\Nwas going to bite your neck and kill you?
Dialogue: 0,1:19:25.26,1:19:28.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So our strongest instincts are\Ngeared to the immediate.
Dialogue: 0,1:19:28.80,1:19:32.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our adrenaline doesn't start to flow\Nwhen we read about global warming.
Dialogue: 0,1:19:32.83,1:19:35.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It starts to flow when somebody\Nput a fist in our face.
Dialogue: 0,1:19:36.64,1:19:42.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And yet the Haudenosaunee evolved a\Nculture that balanced those strong instincts.
Dialogue: 0,1:19:42.01,1:19:46.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They make decisions based on their\Nimpact on the seventh generation.
Dialogue: 0,1:19:46.18,1:19:49.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Contrast that with the culture of Empire.
Dialogue: 0,1:19:49.32,1:19:54.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What we've never been able to do is recognize\Na limit coming from thirty or forty years out
Dialogue: 0,1:19:54.02,1:19:55.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and behave accordingly.
Dialogue: 0,1:19:55.46,1:20:01.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so we haven't seen climate change coming.\NAnd most people don't see oil depletion coming.
Dialogue: 0,1:20:01.96,1:20:06.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And there are other forces in the universe\Nthat play out over the long term.
Dialogue: 0,1:20:06.16,1:20:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Exponential growth and population dynamics\Ncan both unfold over generations making them,
Dialogue: 0,1:20:12.00,1:20:16.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for humans blinded by their\Nown culture, difficult to see.
Dialogue: 0,1:20:16.51,1:20:19.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,William Catton explains\Nanother long-term process.
Dialogue: 0,1:20:19.88,1:20:27.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,C. Wright Mills of Columbia University -\Nkind of a maverick - gave a nice\Nphysiological definition of fate.
Dialogue: 0,1:20:27.25,1:20:38.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fate is what happens when innumerable\Npeople make innumerable small decisions\Nabout other matters that have a collective,\Ncumulative effect that Nobody intended.
Dialogue: 0,1:20:38.96,1:20:42.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ok. That's what's happened\Nwhen we overpopulated the world.
Dialogue: 0,1:20:42.30,1:20:50.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nobody intended to overpopulate the world.\NNobody intended to pollute the oceans. Nobody\Nintended to start the greenhouse effect.
Dialogue: 0,1:20:52.11,1:20:55.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this is part of what I've come\Nto about how we got here.:
Dialogue: 0,1:20:55.65,1:20:59.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a snarl of assumptions and\Nbehaviors and beliefs and stories
Dialogue: 0,1:20:59.42,1:21:02.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that form the backbone of the culture of Empire,
Dialogue: 0,1:21:02.29,1:21:06.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a fusion of forces that severed\Nus from the laws of life.
Dialogue: 0,1:21:06.56,1:21:09.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this culture tells us that we can\Nlive apart from those laws.
Dialogue: 0,1:21:09.80,1:21:12.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Without limits. Without rules.
Dialogue: 0,1:21:12.33,1:21:16.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But doing so has left us,\Nand the planet, battered and beaten.
Dialogue: 0,1:21:16.94,1:21:20.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It isn't working out the way\Nwe've been taught to think it will.
Dialogue: 0,1:21:22.11,1:21:25.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Offscreen Narrator.: Well boys and girls,\Nhow do you like living without rules?
Dialogue: 0,1:21:25.54,1:21:27.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I hate it!
Dialogue: 0,1:21:27.25,1:21:30.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is no fun.
Dialogue: 0,1:21:30.02,1:21:32.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It stinks.
Dialogue: 0,1:21:34.22,1:21:43.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Over and over I've had to ask.: why do we keep\Ndestroying the planet, even now, when the\Nevidence that we are doing so is overwhelming?
Dialogue: 0,1:21:43.93,1:21:48.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The first thing to note is that all of\Nthese historical forces are still in play.
Dialogue: 0,1:21:48.74,1:21:52.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And some new forces have arisen in our time.
Dialogue: 0,1:21:52.24,1:21:57.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's sobering to consider that we're\Ntrapped in an economy that must grow or die.
Dialogue: 0,1:21:57.54,1:22:01.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The economy will, can and\Nmust continue to grow.
Dialogue: 0,1:22:01.91,1:22:06.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now of course this is an absurdity.\NBecause we live on a finite spherical planet.
Dialogue: 0,1:22:07.15,1:22:10.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so there's only so much stuff\Nto chew up and spit out.
Dialogue: 0,1:22:11.82,1:22:16.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're assaulted by corporately\Ncontrolled media that keep us delusional.
Dialogue: 0,1:22:16.50,1:22:23.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People tend to think that they have a choice\Nabout what information they take from television.
Dialogue: 0,1:22:24.40,1:22:32.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we are sitting and receiving a\Nform of information, which is very very\Npowerful. It comes in the form of images.
Dialogue: 0,1:22:32.01,1:22:34.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And once the images go in, they don't come out.
Dialogue: 0,1:22:34.41,1:22:37.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's almost science fiction in its implications.
Dialogue: 0,1:22:37.72,1:22:42.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's Big Brother.\NAnd yet we think it's perfectly normal.
Dialogue: 0,1:22:42.16,1:22:47.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As people's real lives become more\Nand more degraded and unsatisfying
Dialogue: 0,1:22:47.16,1:22:54.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and petty and vulgar and irritating and sterile,
Dialogue: 0,1:22:55.50,1:23:01.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then the appeals of those glorified\Nimages became all the more powerful.
Dialogue: 0,1:23:01.84,1:23:05.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a great line be Zygmunt Bauman that -
Dialogue: 0,1:23:05.21,1:23:10.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he says that rational people will go\Nquietly and meekly into a gas chamber
Dialogue: 0,1:23:10.58,1:23:13.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if only you allow them to believe it's a bathroom.
Dialogue: 0,1:23:15.76,1:23:21.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I've lost all hope that my government is\Ncapable of looking clearly at the situation.
Dialogue: 0,1:23:25.56,1:23:32.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sadly, it looks as though much of our\Neducational system leaves us totally unprepared\Nto question the dominant culture.
Dialogue: 0,1:23:32.87,1:23:37.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It numbs our critical thinking\Nskills, instead of developing them.
Dialogue: 0,1:23:37.88,1:23:48.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it goes along with technical, industrialized\Nsociety because you need to turn people into\Ninterchangeable machine parts
Dialogue: 0,1:23:48.55,1:23:52.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where you can pull one person out,\Nstick another person in the same spot.
Dialogue: 0,1:23:53.36,1:23:58.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Narrator.: These children are being taught\Nto accept uncritically whatever they're told.
Dialogue: 0,1:23:58.73,1:24:01.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Questions are not encouraged.
Dialogue: 0,1:24:02.20,1:24:07.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've certainly never been encouraged to question\Nhow our culture creates disconnection.
Dialogue: 0,1:24:07.01,1:24:12.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every one of us is living in this little comfortable\Nbubble that's completely disconnected
Dialogue: 0,1:24:12.74,1:24:18.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the real world of animals and plants\Nand soil and water and natural forces
Dialogue: 0,1:24:18.58,1:24:23.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that produces everything that's of\Nany meaning whatsoever on this planet.
Dialogue: 0,1:24:23.29,1:24:28.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If your experience is that your food\Ncomes from the grocery store,
Dialogue: 0,1:24:28.73,1:24:30.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that your water comes from a tap,
Dialogue: 0,1:24:30.93,1:24:34.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you will defend to the death the\Nsystem that brings those to you.
Dialogue: 0,1:24:34.47,1:24:36.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because your life depends on it.
Dialogue: 0,1:24:36.10,1:24:38.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If your experience is that\Nyour water comes from a stream
Dialogue: 0,1:24:38.87,1:24:41.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that your food comes from a land base,
Dialogue: 0,1:24:41.51,1:24:45.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you will defend to the death that stream and that\Nland base because your life depends on it.
Dialogue: 0,1:24:47.48,1:24:55.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Systems of manipulation and exploitation.\NStructures of disconnection and delusion.\NInstitutions of domination and deceit.
Dialogue: 0,1:24:55.86,1:24:59.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had to ask.: who would create such things?
Dialogue: 0,1:25:00.39,1:25:04.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Only people who have become almost\Nwholly disconnected from their world.
Dialogue: 0,1:25:04.73,1:25:07.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People who have forgotten who they once were.
Dialogue: 0,1:25:07.73,1:25:10.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People who have been deeply wounded.
Dialogue: 0,1:25:11.97,1:25:14.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've gotten lost in a hall of mirrors.
Dialogue: 0,1:25:14.54,1:25:24.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everything that we receive - everything\Nwe see, hear, smell, taste, feel - originates in,\Nor is mediated by, humans and machines.
Dialogue: 0,1:25:24.08,1:25:28.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That affects our consciousness.\NIt gives us an inflated sense
Dialogue: 0,1:25:28.62,1:25:32.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of our own importance and of what reality is.
Dialogue: 0,1:25:32.36,1:25:37.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As if, because we've made it,\NIt makes it most real.
Dialogue: 0,1:25:37.10,1:25:44.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As any narcissist knows, it's endless.\NWe can never get enough of that:\Nenough of that reflection of ourselves.
Dialogue: 0,1:25:44.94,1:25:47.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What we're really aching for is real relationship.
Dialogue: 0,1:25:49.58,1:25:57.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our animal bodies, I think, formed by\Nthe Earth itself, want and require a\Nreal relationship to the world.
Dialogue: 0,1:25:57.22,1:25:59.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To the water, wind and soil.
Dialogue: 0,1:25:59.25,1:26:04.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To the animals, plants and fellow\Nhumans that comprise the\Ncommunity into which we were born.
Dialogue: 0,1:26:05.12,1:26:10.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But we're stuck in the hall of mirrors.\NAnd we've begun to lose our sanity.
Dialogue: 0,1:26:10.73,1:26:16.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So that you see the beginning of something like\Ndissociation, like post-traumatic stress disorder,
Dialogue: 0,1:26:16.34,1:26:19.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like schizophrenia, like multiple\Npersonalities, you know.
Dialogue: 0,1:26:19.90,1:26:28.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see that the fragmentation in the world\Ntoday is being mirrored in all of these kind of\Nvery severe psychological disorders.
Dialogue: 0,1:26:29.62,1:26:35.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you're in that sort of solitary confinement\Nyou're going to start hallucinating.
Dialogue: 0,1:26:35.19,1:26:40.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you may end up believing strange things.
Dialogue: 0,1:26:40.19,1:26:42.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like the idea that humans are superior.
Dialogue: 0,1:26:44.10,1:26:51.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Acting out of that belief of superiority,\Nof entitlement, of invincibility,\NEmpire has conquered the world.
Dialogue: 0,1:26:51.60,1:26:56.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But that conquering has bounced back on\Nthe conquerors, leaving everyone wounded.
Dialogue: 0,1:26:56.38,1:27:03.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if the world, the system that we're\Nliving in, is harming other people,
Dialogue: 0,1:27:03.72,1:27:06.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then that's something that, you\Nknow, you can't live with that.
Dialogue: 0,1:27:06.62,1:27:12.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So if you look at the people who have\Nbeen assimilated into Empire,
Dialogue: 0,1:27:12.82,1:27:15.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and if you look at the Imperialists themselves,
Dialogue: 0,1:27:15.46,1:27:21.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you find an incredible dissociation from reality.
Dialogue: 0,1:27:22.74,1:27:27.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dissociated from the reality of the\Nplanet, we don't act on its behalf.
Dialogue: 0,1:27:27.24,1:27:35.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Feeling for nature is diminishing to the\Ndegree that people are less desiring
Dialogue: 0,1:27:35.58,1:27:39.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and less able to influence policy about nature,
Dialogue: 0,1:27:39.35,1:27:42.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to do anything to protect nature,\Nto have any feeling for nature.
Dialogue: 0,1:27:42.99,1:27:46.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's hard to have feeling for it if you\Nnever have any contact with it.
Dialogue: 0,1:27:47.36,1:27:50.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's hard to have any contact\Nwith the rest of the world
Dialogue: 0,1:27:50.43,1:27:53.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because we're living like an animal in a cage.
Dialogue: 0,1:27:53.43,1:27:55.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just think about an animal in a zoo.
Dialogue: 0,1:27:56.90,1:28:04.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,An animal's deprived of the very things that keep\Nthat animal going.: the smells, the sights, the\Nsounds, the instincts, the hunting.
Dialogue: 0,1:28:05.54,1:28:09.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they become psychotic. Literally psychotic.
Dialogue: 0,1:28:10.22,1:28:14.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think that we've done something to\Nourselves that is exactly analogous to that.
Dialogue: 0,1:28:14.59,1:28:19.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've put ourselves in a cage -\Nthis cage of civilization, of cities.
Dialogue: 0,1:28:19.12,1:28:21.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's made us, in a way, psychotic.
Dialogue: 0,1:28:21.56,1:28:26.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That - if you would have a group of hunter-\Ngatherers - and this has happened a lot -
Dialogue: 0,1:28:26.93,1:28:34.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hunter-gatherers watch behavior of people\Nin our society, they would think we\Nwere crazy for the way we behave.
Dialogue: 0,1:28:34.67,1:28:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because we are.
Dialogue: 0,1:28:37.51,1:28:43.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I stop. I listen. I watch the world.\NThe disconnection is everywhere.
Dialogue: 0,1:28:43.75,1:28:54.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You learn it as a child. You learn to not\Nfeel the kind of pain that is inflicted\Nupon you by the lack of connection.
Dialogue: 0,1:28:55.19,1:28:58.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By being in a crib by yourself in a dark room.
Dialogue: 0,1:28:59.03,1:29:05.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By not having the breastfeeding. By not having\Nthe constant contact with other people's bodies.
Dialogue: 0,1:29:05.44,1:29:11.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Television viewing for children, and\NI think to some degree for adults,
Dialogue: 0,1:29:11.88,1:29:23.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is a training for more hyperactive lifestyles\Nand hyperactive informational systems.
Dialogue: 0,1:29:23.02,1:29:33.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that is putting people into a kind of\Nemotional psychological state, which\Nmakes it impossible to relate to nature.
Dialogue: 0,1:29:33.47,1:29:36.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, I mean, it's concrete alienation again.
Dialogue: 0,1:29:36.34,1:29:46.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,most of us don't have a human community\Nwhere we can rest and feel safe and feel like\N"i'm going to be taken care of".
Dialogue: 0,1:29:46.58,1:29:54.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in our culture there's so many things that are\Nset up to stop us from connecting directly.
Dialogue: 0,1:29:54.89,1:29:58.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you go to a bar- we take this for granted -\Nif you go to a bar it's dark.
Dialogue: 0,1:29:58.69,1:30:00.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's really loud music playing.
Dialogue: 0,1:30:01.86,1:30:08.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because if it were quiet and there were good\Nlight people would get freaked out to have to\Ndeal with each other so directly.
Dialogue: 0,1:30:11.60,1:30:14.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our economy thrives on this.
Dialogue: 0,1:30:14.34,1:30:20.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's pretty easy to sell stuff to people\Nwho are so disconnected from the\Nthings that they most need.
Dialogue: 0,1:30:20.71,1:30:24.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The stores are filled with bandages\Nfor the wounds of Empire.
Dialogue: 0,1:30:26.02,1:30:28.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are other ways to look at this wounding.
Dialogue: 0,1:30:28.62,1:30:36.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Derrick Jensen sees the dominant culture as an\Nabusive system, leaving its members suffering\Nfrom Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Dialogue: 0,1:30:36.80,1:30:42.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What happens if you're not traumatized once\Nor twice, but if you're actually in captivity\Nfor a long time? if you're held as prisoner?
Dialogue: 0,1:30:42.97,1:30:47.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of the things that happens is you\Nbecome afraid of all relationships and you\Nhave to control everything around you.
Dialogue: 0,1:30:47.97,1:30:53.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You forget that mutual relationships are\Npossible and you begin to believe that all\Nrelationships are based upon hierarchy.
Dialogue: 0,1:30:53.95,1:30:56.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because that was your experience.
Dialogue: 0,1:30:56.48,1:31:03.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you come to believe that all relationships\Nare based on power. And, of course, when we\Nlook around that's what we see.
Dialogue: 0,1:31:03.46,1:31:12.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we are too frightened to enter\Ninto a relationship with these trees,\Nwith all of our neighbors.
Dialogue: 0,1:31:12.76,1:31:16.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so we call them resources:\Nthose to be exploited.
Dialogue: 0,1:31:17.30,1:31:22.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everything within an abusive family structure is\Nset up to protect the abuser. Everything.
Dialogue: 0,1:31:22.58,1:31:30.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And by the same token, everything\Nwithin this culture is setup to protect the rich.\NThat's what this culture is about.
Dialogue: 0,1:31:31.78,1:31:38.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why do so many victims of abuse\Nstay with their abusers?
Dialogue: 0,1:31:38.42,1:31:45.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because they're identified with the system.\NAnd they've been taught since they were\Nvery - since early on - that everything\Nis about protecting that system.
Dialogue: 0,1:31:45.96,1:31:52.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with civilization, we've been taught to identify\Nwith this larger whole that isn't us.
Dialogue: 0,1:31:52.07,1:32:00.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We identify more strongly as "civilized"\Nthan we do as living beings.
Dialogue: 0,1:32:02.05,1:32:06.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Over the years I've begun to break my own\Nidentification with the dominant culture,
Dialogue: 0,1:32:06.35,1:32:10.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to reconnect with myself as a\Nliving creature walking the Earth.
Dialogue: 0,1:32:10.36,1:32:14.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm still not finished with the task.\NA daunting challenge.
Dialogue: 0,1:32:14.49,1:32:18.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And yet one of the most\Nrewarding things I've ever done.
Dialogue: 0,1:32:20.06,1:32:23.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've also learned to view this culture\Nthrough the lens of addiction.
Dialogue: 0,1:32:24.54,1:32:34.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Addiction is based on continually seeking\Nmore of what it is we don't really want.
Dialogue: 0,1:32:35.21,1:32:38.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And therefore, never being fully satisfied.
Dialogue: 0,1:32:39.15,1:32:44.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a deep need. There's\Na deep hole, a deep longing,
Dialogue: 0,1:32:44.16,1:32:50.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a deep fear, a deep grief, a deep rage.
Dialogue: 0,1:32:50.13,1:32:55.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so there's food, there's cigarettes, there's\Nalcohol, there's drugs, there's computers,
Dialogue: 0,1:32:55.13,1:33:00.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's TV, there's movies, there's\Nshopping, there's music. . .it's endless.
Dialogue: 0,1:33:00.61,1:33:10.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Chellis Glendinning.: All of that, that\Nwe've now determined people can be\Naddicted to, it's like a technological fix.
Dialogue: 0,1:33:10.25,1:33:18.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So as long as that's working, why would I stop?\NI won't stop. An alcoholic doesn't stop.
Dialogue: 0,1:33:18.12,1:33:22.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A drug addict doesn't stop as long\Nas it's working. But you reach a point\Nwhere it doesn't work any more.
Dialogue: 0,1:33:23.83,1:33:30.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After centuries of abuse, disconnection,\Ndelusion and addiction, it looks as though\Nwe're desperate to hit bottom.
Dialogue: 0,1:33:30.64,1:33:39.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's almost as if we're wanting to hit\Nbottom so hard that we either shift or die.
Dialogue: 0,1:33:39.14,1:33:41.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Cause it's not worth continuing like this.
Dialogue: 0,1:33:42.51,1:33:47.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so many people are so very, very unhappy.\NAnd they want this nightmare to end.
Dialogue: 0,1:33:47.89,1:33:58.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they don't recognize that the death that\Nthey want is a cultural death, and is a\Nspiritual and metaphorical death.
Dialogue: 0,1:33:59.53,1:34:02.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That would explain why we\Ncontinue to foul our nest.
Dialogue: 0,1:34:02.87,1:34:07.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If what we want is to hit bottom, we've\Nfound the perfect means to get us there.
Dialogue: 0,1:34:07.64,1:34:08.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Denial.
Dialogue: 0,1:34:08.24,1:34:08.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Denial.
Dialogue: 0,1:34:08.94,1:34:09.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Denial.
Dialogue: 0,1:34:09.58,1:34:10.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Denial.
Dialogue: 0,1:34:10.31,1:34:11.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Denial.
Dialogue: 0,1:34:11.24,1:34:12.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Denial.
Dialogue: 0,1:34:12.34,1:34:17.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Denial in huge neon letters that blink on and off
Dialogue: 0,1:34:17.08,1:34:20.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like the old Rocky and Bullwinkle\Ncredits at the end of the show!
Dialogue: 0,1:34:22.29,1:34:27.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Again I stop. And listen. And watch\Nas I move through the landscape of Empire.
Dialogue: 0,1:34:27.96,1:34:31.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The denial is so thick that you\Ncould cut it with a paper knife.
Dialogue: 0,1:34:31.26,1:34:34.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If only you weren't still using it to frost that cake.
Dialogue: 0,1:34:34.60,1:34:39.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Denial takes tremendous energy.\NAnd if you have to work really, really hard
Dialogue: 0,1:34:39.60,1:34:47.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to not acknowledge the fact that\Nthis culture's killing everything,
Dialogue: 0,1:34:47.68,1:34:49.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you're not going to have much energy left over.
Dialogue: 0,1:34:50.58,1:34:56.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's the energy I freed up when I stepped\Nout of my own denial that has made this\Ndocumentary possible.
Dialogue: 0,1:34:56.16,1:35:01.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The more I let down my defenses, the more I\Nfind the power to look more deeply at the world.
Dialogue: 0,1:35:01.99,1:35:09.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when I look I find the story of\N"somehow", a fantasy that keeps us\Npassive in the face of the world situation.
Dialogue: 0,1:35:09.30,1:35:13.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"We've muddled through things before. And\Nsomehow we'll muddle through this one."
Dialogue: 0,1:35:13.77,1:35:15.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"somehow, everything's ok."
Dialogue: 0,1:35:15.51,1:35:18.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,somehow? How do we get there? You know?
Dialogue: 0,1:35:18.08,1:35:23.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's like - it doesn't do any good to fantasize if\Nthere's no way to get from here to there.
Dialogue: 0,1:35:24.62,1:35:30.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is there a way to get from here to there?\NAnd where is there, exactly?\NWhere do go from here?
Dialogue: 0,1:35:31.56,1:35:37.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As world events break through our\Nwalls of denial, voices of helplessness\Nand resignation fill the air.
Dialogue: 0,1:35:38.53,1:35:42.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voice 1 : If we knew some way to\Nget out of it we would. But we don't.
Dialogue: 0,1:35:42.70,1:35:44.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voice 2: Whatever's gonna\Nhappen is gonna happen.
Dialogue: 0,1:35:44.87,1:35:47.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voice 3: There's gonna have to be\Nsome sort of catastrophic event.
Dialogue: 0,1:35:47.87,1:35:51.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voice 4: A meltdown of all of these\Nsystems that we've been depending on.
Dialogue: 0,1:35:51.84,1:35:58.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voice 5: We figure there's no way to stop the\Ntrain from heading off the end of the bridge, you\Nknow. We're just gonna go down screaming.
Dialogue: 0,1:35:58.75,1:36:04.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voice 6: And finally you just say, "Aww fuck it.\Nthis is. . . you know. . . let's just fuck it.\NWho cares?"
Dialogue: 0,1:36:04.66,1:36:11.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Voice 7: You know, we might as well go out and\Nparty and have a good time. Because\Nthe world's not going anywhere good.
Dialogue: 0,1:36:14.30,1:36:18.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this system feels like a trap,\Na madhouse, a prison.
Dialogue: 0,1:36:18.97,1:36:23.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With resignation this profound,\NIt seems as though there is little left to do
Dialogue: 0,1:36:23.31,1:36:24.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but to make the prison
Dialogue: 0,1:36:24.31,1:36:26.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as comfortable as is possible.
Dialogue: 0,1:36:31.08,1:36:36.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Narrator.: Personalized. And with accessories\Nengineered to our personalized taste.
Dialogue: 0,1:36:36.36,1:36:39.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For convenience. For comfort.
Dialogue: 0,1:36:40.63,1:36:42.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For convenience and safety.
Dialogue: 0,1:36:43.80,1:36:45.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With protection from rain.
Dialogue: 0,1:36:48.80,1:36:53.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Blocking out the wintry gale\Nwith comforting warmth.
Dialogue: 0,1:36:56.31,1:37:00.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To hold out the searing heat\Nwith cooling comfort.
Dialogue: 0,1:37:02.28,1:37:08.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Capitalist culture is telling us to buy.\NAnd we will feel better if we buy more...
Dialogue: 0,1:37:08.99,1:37:17.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,. . .that we are incomplete and that we need to fill\Nthis emptiness within us by consuming.
Dialogue: 0,1:37:17.26,1:37:19.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Consume, consume, consume.
Dialogue: 0,1:37:21.07,1:37:24.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've looked now at the train\Nthat is hurtling us to destruction,
Dialogue: 0,1:37:24.37,1:37:26.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the tracks that constrain us,
Dialogue: 0,1:37:26.17,1:37:29.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the locomotive power\Nthat drives us to oblivion.
Dialogue: 0,1:37:29.11,1:37:32.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we see more clearly now\Nexactly where we are headed.
Dialogue: 0,1:37:33.31,1:37:35.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It all adds up to this.:
Dialogue: 0,1:37:35.05,1:37:40.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this culture is not only killing the planet,\NIt is destroying us as human beings.
Dialogue: 0,1:37:43.16,1:37:46.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The train plunges forward at blinding speed.
Dialogue: 0,1:37:47.56,1:37:49.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Charlie stole the handle. "
Dialogue: 0,1:37:50.73,1:37:52.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So who are we going to be?
Dialogue: 0,1:37:57.04,1:38:02.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,First Psychologist.:\NIn the film I see a man standing on the ledge.\NDo you think he really wants to live?
Dialogue: 0,1:38:02.94,1:38:04.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Second Psychologist.:\NThe answer, of course, is yes.
Dialogue: 0,1:38:08.28,1:38:12.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't think humans are going to\Ngo extinct. We can't kill ourselves off.
Dialogue: 0,1:38:13.18,1:38:17.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I just don't see any plausible\Nway it could happen. . .
Dialogue: 0,1:38:19.06,1:38:20.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,well. . . I guess. . . yeah. . .
Dialogue: 0,1:38:20.99,1:38:27.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What we could - what might happen is\Nthe earth could get into a serious\Nrunaway greenhouse effect
Dialogue: 0,1:38:27.26,1:38:30.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that could turn the whole\Nplanet like the planet Venus.
Dialogue: 0,1:38:30.37,1:38:33.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where it's like a thousand\Ndegrees and full of methane.
Dialogue: 0,1:38:43.82,1:38:49.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A powerful creative tension arises when\Nwe hold two things at the same time.:
Dialogue: 0,1:38:49.05,1:38:54.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a clear assessment of where we are,\Nand a clear vision of where we want to go.
Dialogue: 0,1:38:54.99,1:38:58.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't see that the culture of Empire has either.
Dialogue: 0,1:38:58.63,1:39:03.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Trapped in a fantasy of domination and\Ncontrol, any clear assessment of the world
Dialogue: 0,1:39:03.43,1:39:07.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,gets trampled underfoot in the mad\Nmarch toward the scam of progress.
Dialogue: 0,1:39:08.54,1:39:15.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Traumatized by disconnection and\Nabuse, the people of Empire now hold\Nvisions that are unhinged and insane.
Dialogue: 0,1:39:17.22,1:39:24.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Born and raised in captivity, we're\Nnow so institutionalized that few\Nof us can even see the prison bars.
Dialogue: 0,1:39:25.06,1:39:27.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But we all know our cell numbers.
Dialogue: 0,1:39:28.76,1:39:32.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Waking on the train, we find that\Nwe don't know where we are.
Dialogue: 0,1:39:32.53,1:39:34.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we don't know where we're going.
Dialogue: 0,1:39:35.43,1:39:39.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We hear the whistle blowing.\NAnd we can see the world speeding by.
Dialogue: 0,1:39:40.74,1:39:43.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some of us want to stop the train.
Dialogue: 0,1:39:43.94,1:39:47.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We want to get off before it\Nreaches the end of the line.
Dialogue: 0,1:39:48.18,1:39:52.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But we have no clear idea\Nhow to get from here to there.
Dialogue: 0,1:39:57.56,1:40:07.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The secret plan is that we're going to go on this\Nway, no matter what, for as long as we can.
Dialogue: 0,1:40:08.53,1:40:16.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I likened it to the secret plan in Nazi\NGermany. It was an open secret.
Dialogue: 0,1:40:17.91,1:40:27.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everyone knew that those Jews weren't going\Noff to resorts or to have picnics in the woods.
Dialogue: 0,1:40:27.89,1:40:31.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But no one talked about it.\NAnd no one talks about this either.
Dialogue: 0,1:40:31.46,1:40:33.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is scary! We're in a democracy!
Dialogue: 0,1:40:33.36,1:40:36.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're in the biggest democracy on the\Nplanet and we're not getting informed.
Dialogue: 0,1:40:36.100,1:40:40.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we're not looking, either. We're not asking.
Dialogue: 0,1:40:40.80,1:40:49.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As civilization has provided more and more for\Nus, it's made us more and more infantile.
Dialogue: 0,1:40:50.11,1:40:58.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So that we are less and less able to\Nthink for ourselves, less and less\Nable to provide for ourselves.
Dialogue: 0,1:40:58.45,1:41:04.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this makes us more of a herd. . .\Nwhere you develop more of a herd mentality. . .
Dialogue: 0,1:41:04.66,1:41:10.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where we take our cues from the people\Naround us, from the authority figures around us.
Dialogue: 0,1:41:27.31,1:41:29.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The situation is desperate.
Dialogue: 0,1:41:29.25,1:41:38.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's the World-Wide Eco-Slam, where climate\NCrash goes head-to-head with The Peak oil kid\Nand Overshoot tears into Mass Extinction.
Dialogue: 0,1:41:38.02,1:41:42.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's the Smackdown at the End of the\NUniverse and tickets go on sale this Friday.
Dialogue: 0,1:41:44.26,1:41:47.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The American lifestyle is unsustainable.
Dialogue: 0,1:41:47.30,1:41:50.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That means that it can't be sustained.
Dialogue: 0,1:41:50.70,1:41:52.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's coming to an end.
Dialogue: 0,1:41:53.44,1:42:00.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Remember how thirty years ago we looked to\Nthe future and said "thirty years from now, if we\Ndon't act, we're going to be in trouble"?
Dialogue: 0,1:42:01.48,1:42:05.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well it's now and we are because we didn't.
Dialogue: 0,1:42:06.18,1:42:09.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The fundamental laws of life have been broken.
Dialogue: 0,1:42:09.09,1:42:12.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The consequences of that are now apparent.
Dialogue: 0,1:42:13.62,1:42:19.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Remember the Secret Plan.:\Nthe dominant culture is not going to\Nstop until it destroys everything.
Dialogue: 0,1:42:20.43,1:42:21.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It can't.
Dialogue: 0,1:42:21.87,1:42:27.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's built on a foundation of faulty assumptions.\NI see no way that it can be reformed.
Dialogue: 0,1:42:28.11,1:42:32.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It can only be discarded, so that\Nsomething new can grow in its place.
Dialogue: 0,1:42:34.51,1:42:36.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have to look at this.
Dialogue: 0,1:43:05.71,1:43:10.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've got to understand that we\Nare part of a living community.
Dialogue: 0,1:43:10.48,1:43:14.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're not the masters of the living community.\NWe're not the guardians of the living community.
Dialogue: 0,1:43:14.79,1:43:24.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are just another species. And we\Nhave the power to destroy that community.
Dialogue: 0,1:43:24.26,1:43:27.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when we do that we destroy ourselves.
Dialogue: 0,1:43:27.90,1:43:33.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if we don't figure out what\Nour place in the universe is
Dialogue: 0,1:43:33.90,1:43:36.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we're not going to have a place in the universe.
Dialogue: 0,1:43:46.75,1:43:51.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have read many books about the world\Nsituation. And I have noticed a curious thing.:
Dialogue: 0,1:43:51.66,1:43:53.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Happy Chapter".
Dialogue: 0,1:43:54.96,1:44:00.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After an entire book of dire prognostications and\Nappalling facts comes the chapter at the end
Dialogue: 0,1:44:00.76,1:44:05.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that says that if we only do this and\Nthis and that we'll find the solution,
Dialogue: 0,1:44:05.84,1:44:11.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that while there is much to give us\Nconcern, there is also much about\Nwhich we can be hopeful.
Dialogue: 0,1:44:13.01,1:44:15.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't like happy chapters.
Dialogue: 0,1:44:15.28,1:44:17.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They've lulled me back to sleep.
Dialogue: 0,1:44:17.25,1:44:21.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They suggest that somebody\Nsomewhere somehow is handling it.
Dialogue: 0,1:44:21.79,1:44:23.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can just go on with my life.
Dialogue: 0,1:44:24.12,1:44:28.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And hey, we've got thirty years\Nor so, right? That's lots of time.
Dialogue: 0,1:44:30.23,1:44:33.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm sorry, folks, but I think time's up.
Dialogue: 0,1:44:34.03,1:44:36.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have no happy chapter to offer you.
Dialogue: 0,1:44:37.27,1:44:39.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No list of quick and painless fixes.
Dialogue: 0,1:44:40.87,1:44:44.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No plan that will keep the train\Nrolling forever on this track.
Dialogue: 0,1:44:45.31,1:44:47.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I see no way for that to happen.
Dialogue: 0,1:44:48.85,1:44:54.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If there is going to be a happy chapter,\Nwe shall have to write it together,
Dialogue: 0,1:44:55.49,1:45:01.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the rest of the community of life,\Non the pages of the living world.
Dialogue: 0,1:45:02.89,1:45:06.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I sometimes have dreams about\Nmy grandchildren coming also.
Dialogue: 0,1:45:06.13,1:45:08.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And these dreams sometimes turn unpleasant.
Dialogue: 0,1:45:08.47,1:45:12.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because the grandchildren come and they come\Nfrom a North Carolina and from a California
Dialogue: 0,1:45:12.77,1:45:15.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is polluted, the air they can't breathe.
Dialogue: 0,1:45:15.57,1:45:18.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they say, "Granddad,\Ndid you let that happen?"
Dialogue: 0,1:45:18.84,1:45:20.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they're angry when they get there.
Dialogue: 0,1:45:20.71,1:45:24.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think they're going to look back\Nand shake their heads and say,
Dialogue: 0,1:45:26.15,1:45:28.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'what happened to those people?
Dialogue: 0,1:45:28.89,1:45:33.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How did they lose sight of such basic things?"
Dialogue: 0,1:45:44.77,1:45:50.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is a new story arising in the world.:\Nthe story of the Great Turning,
Dialogue: 0,1:45:50.61,1:45:58.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the turning away from a culture of domination\Nand death, and the turning toward a culture\Nthat is life-sustaining and life-renewing.
Dialogue: 0,1:45:59.65,1:46:03.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All over the planet, people\Nare now telling this story.
Dialogue: 0,1:46:03.99,1:46:08.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Buddhist scholar and deep ecologist\NJoanna Macy tells this story in her workshops.
Dialogue: 0,1:46:09.73,1:46:14.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The writer and activist David Korten\Ntells it in his book by the same name.
Dialogue: 0,1:46:14.60,1:46:19.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a story to be told by our descendents,\Nlooking back on this present time.
Dialogue: 0,1:46:20.80,1:46:24.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Will we be the monsters of our great-\Ngrandchildren's nightmares?
Dialogue: 0,1:46:24.61,1:46:33.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or will we walk, as the story of the Great\NTurning says, as heroes and healers\Nin the epic poetry of those still-unborn voices?
Dialogue: 0,1:46:34.38,1:46:38.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Will we be reviled for our\Nentitled, destructive ways?
Dialogue: 0,1:46:38.32,1:46:42.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or will we be lovingly remembered\Nin the songs of our descendents
Dialogue: 0,1:46:42.16,1:46:48.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as they recount the story of this lost and very\Nwounded tribe that stepped back from the abyss
Dialogue: 0,1:46:48.07,1:46:51.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and found its way home to the\Ncommunity of living souls?
Dialogue: 0,1:46:53.20,1:46:54.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We get to choose.
Dialogue: 0,1:46:56.17,1:46:58.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who are we going to be?
Dialogue: 0,1:47:00.01,1:47:03.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Part of me still wishes that someone\Nwould just take care of it, you know.
Dialogue: 0,1:47:03.98,1:47:08.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That it's their job. That's what we pay them for.
Dialogue: 0,1:47:08.75,1:47:11.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're supposed to be the wise parents of us.
Dialogue: 0,1:47:12.09,1:47:18.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's going to come as a really rude\Nawakening when people realize that\Na) they can't and b) they won't.
Dialogue: 0,1:47:19.36,1:47:29.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't think life for most Americans, despite our\Naffluence, is all that it's been cracked up to be.
Dialogue: 0,1:47:29.51,1:47:32.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And people are afraid to talk about that.
Dialogue: 0,1:47:33.84,1:47:39.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they're afraid they're the only ones that\Nare experiencing deep dissatisfaction.
Dialogue: 0,1:47:39.08,1:47:41.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's really so sad, you know.
Dialogue: 0,1:47:41.42,1:47:46.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You look at - and particularly American\Nculture is emblematic of this -
Dialogue: 0,1:47:46.29,1:47:51.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,go to a typical shopping mall and\Nlook at the people around you\Nand the environment around you.
Dialogue: 0,1:47:51.83,1:48:01.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the utter shallowness and\Nhopelessness of it all is profoundly depressing.
Dialogue: 0,1:48:07.78,1:48:08.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look.
Dialogue: 0,1:48:09.41,1:48:10.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is this who are we?
Dialogue: 0,1:48:11.32,1:48:15.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Consumers? Shoppers? Workers? Voters?
Dialogue: 0,1:48:16.32,1:48:21.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Does our identity lie in Nielsen numbers and box\Noffice receipts and the Gross Domestic Product?
Dialogue: 0,1:48:22.19,1:48:26.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Are we on this Earth to sell cheeseburgers\Nto each other and yell at our children
Dialogue: 0,1:48:26.66,1:48:30.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and drive around in clown cars\Nand fall asleep in front of the tube?
Dialogue: 0,1:48:31.04,1:48:37.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Are we destroying the planet, as\NDmitry Orlov asks, just "to be somewhat\Nmore comfortable for a little while"?
Dialogue: 0,1:48:38.94,1:48:43.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I keep having to remind myself.:\Nthis culture is not humanity.
Dialogue: 0,1:48:44.62,1:48:49.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is only one culture out of the tens of\Nthousands that used to exist on this planet.
Dialogue: 0,1:48:49.52,1:48:53.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Only one culture out of the\Nmany that are still hanging on.
Dialogue: 0,1:48:53.56,1:48:59.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That it has overrun the world means nothing\Nabout its rightness, its greatness, or its destiny.
Dialogue: 0,1:48:59.53,1:49:04.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It means only that we live in a system of social\Nevolution that selects for short-term power
Dialogue: 0,1:49:04.54,1:49:10.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rather than for compassion, or for\Nsanity, or for long-term survival.
Dialogue: 0,1:49:12.14,1:49:15.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think we are much more than\Nwe've ever been allowed to believe.
Dialogue: 0,1:49:16.95,1:49:24.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Denied the connection and meaning that\Nnourishes us, we've grown small and\Nstunted in the shallow soil of this culture.
Dialogue: 0,1:49:24.99,1:49:28.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's time to revitalize that ground of our being.
Dialogue: 0,1:49:30.70,1:49:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What really is important, and what\Nadds value and what adds... you know. . .
Dialogue: 0,1:49:38.00,1:49:40.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what does a life well-lived look like?
Dialogue: 0,1:49:41.57,1:49:49.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Humans have a history of living much more in\Ntouch with the natural world, with the planet.
Dialogue: 0,1:49:50.15,1:49:54.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Much more sustainable.
Dialogue: 0,1:49:55.35,1:49:56.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Much more spiritual.
Dialogue: 0,1:49:57.56,1:49:58.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Much more communal.
Dialogue: 0,1:49:59.62,1:50:00.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's who we are.
Dialogue: 0,1:50:00.89,1:50:05.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As all of this starts to shift and\Nchange and disintegrate and collapse,
Dialogue: 0,1:50:06.16,1:50:10.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's the opportunity, in fact,\Nto come back to ourselves.
Dialogue: 0,1:50:10.44,1:50:16.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To grow up, fundamentally,\Nas people and as a culture.
Dialogue: 0,1:50:18.51,1:50:20.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're in a time of initiation, folks.
Dialogue: 0,1:50:21.51,1:50:27.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A mass initiation at the level of culture itself.\NA vision quest for the collective mind.
Dialogue: 0,1:50:28.65,1:50:33.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this culture's arrogance, its adolescent\Nsense of invincibility and entitlement,
Dialogue: 0,1:50:33.66,1:50:42.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,must be sloughed off to make room for a\Nmore mature sense of interdependence with,\Nand responsibility to, the community of life.
Dialogue: 0,1:50:43.20,1:50:45.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this is the work of initiation.
Dialogue: 0,1:50:46.60,1:50:51.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Stepping into this cultural maturity, we will\Ntake our rightful place in the community of life.
Dialogue: 0,1:50:52.28,1:50:55.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we will fall back in love with the world.
Dialogue: 0,1:50:55.91,1:50:59.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can do this. But only if we choose to.
Dialogue: 0,1:51:00.08,1:51:04.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Only if we lay down our weapons\Nin this insane war against the world.
Dialogue: 0,1:51:04.79,1:51:09.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Only if we surrender control and\Nmove back into relationship.
Dialogue: 0,1:51:21.67,1:51:24.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You want unlimited growth? You can have it.
Dialogue: 0,1:51:24.68,1:51:26.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All you've ever wished for and more.
Dialogue: 0,1:51:27.18,1:51:33.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Growth in relationship and experience.\NIn self-awareness and spirit and love\Nand community and connection.
Dialogue: 0,1:51:33.85,1:51:37.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Growth in purpose and meaning.\NGrowth in vision.
Dialogue: 0,1:51:38.39,1:51:44.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we step back into the\Ncommunity of life, we will find out\Nimmediately what has always been true.:
Dialogue: 0,1:51:44.56,1:51:46.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all of life's on our side.
Dialogue: 0,1:51:47.53,1:51:50.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We'll have polar bears on\Nour team. And elm trees.
Dialogue: 0,1:51:50.94,1:51:54.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And condors and salmon and\Ndragonflies and plankton.
Dialogue: 0,1:51:55.01,1:52:00.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We'll walk with the wind and the water, with\Nmountains underfoot and stars overhead.
Dialogue: 0,1:52:00.78,1:52:06.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The tiger's blood will course through our veins.\NThe horse's breath will fill our lungs.
Dialogue: 0,1:52:06.88,1:52:13.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We'll be more connected to real power\Nthan we've ever dreamt possible\Nin our sick fantasy of domination.
Dialogue: 0,1:52:13.96,1:52:16.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Power with." Not "power over."
Dialogue: 0,1:52:17.43,1:52:22.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The power of a species that has passed\Nthrough initiation and into maturity.
Dialogue: 0,1:52:26.67,1:52:30.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think we need to look at what is it we want
Dialogue: 0,1:52:30.91,1:52:35.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and see if civilization as we've\Ncreated it is giving us that.
Dialogue: 0,1:52:35.45,1:52:38.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if it's not, what might give us that?
Dialogue: 0,1:52:38.55,1:52:40.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What does it mean to dismantle civilization?
Dialogue: 0,1:52:40.48,1:52:45.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What it means is depriving the rich of the ability\Nto steal from the poor and to destroy the world.
Dialogue: 0,1:52:46.22,1:52:48.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can't give a better definition than that.
Dialogue: 0,1:52:48.23,1:52:57.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's no real reason why the entire country\Nof the United States couldn't face reality.
Dialogue: 0,1:52:57.10,1:53:00.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You just have to drop the idea of capitalism.
Dialogue: 0,1:53:00.57,1:53:06.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have to drop the idea of\Ncorporations running things.
Dialogue: 0,1:53:06.11,1:53:09.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have to drop the idea of economic growth.
Dialogue: 0,1:53:10.35,1:53:12.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It could be done. it could be done.
Dialogue: 0,1:53:15.55,1:53:21.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was a great tradition\Namong the Cheyenne dog soldiers\Ncalled the picket pin and stake.
Dialogue: 0,1:53:21.63,1:53:26.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they would get a tanned rope,\Ncalled a dog rope, and a picket pin,
Dialogue: 0,1:53:26.86,1:53:34.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's used to stake horses to the ground, and\Nthey would attach the picket pin to the sash,
Dialogue: 0,1:53:34.97,1:53:37.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the dog rope that was attached to them.
Dialogue: 0,1:53:37.98,1:53:41.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then in battle they would drive\Nthe picket stake into the ground.
Dialogue: 0,1:53:41.91,1:53:46.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that was done as a mark of resolve.\NBecause once it's driven, you can't leave
Dialogue: 0,1:53:46.42,1:53:53.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,until either you're dead, or you're\Nrelieved by another dog soldier, or\Nthe battle's over and everyone is safe.
Dialogue: 0,1:53:53.56,1:53:57.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so the question i ask people is,\Nyou know, at what point,
Dialogue: 0,1:53:57.19,1:53:59.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know, where will you drive your picket pin?
Dialogue: 0,1:53:59.93,1:54:03.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where will you stake yourself out and say\N"i'm not going to retreat any more"?
Dialogue: 0,1:54:15.81,1:54:18.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our descendents are watching us.
Dialogue: 0,1:54:18.92,1:54:20.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How will we be?
Dialogue: 0,1:54:22.02,1:54:26.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's time to be thoughtful, coming together\Nto learn about the world as it really is.
Dialogue: 0,1:54:27.66,1:54:31.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Reading between the lies. Doing the math.
Dialogue: 0,1:54:31.06,1:54:33.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Studying the world situation.
Dialogue: 0,1:54:33.86,1:54:35.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There will be a quiz.
Dialogue: 0,1:54:36.63,1:54:41.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A paradigm shift will require that we question our\Ndeepest and most fundamental assumptions.
Dialogue: 0,1:54:42.57,1:54:49.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that will require that we take our\Ncurrent worldview gently in our arms\Nand hold it while it breathes its last.
Dialogue: 0,1:54:51.88,1:54:55.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Step into a new story.\NWalk away from the pyramids.
Dialogue: 0,1:54:55.45,1:54:59.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Get out of the crumbling building.\NBreak out of prison.
Dialogue: 0,1:55:00.02,1:55:04.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Choose your favorite metaphor. Choose\Nyour own adventure. But choose.
Dialogue: 0,1:55:06.30,1:55:08.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's time to be truthful.
Dialogue: 0,1:55:08.63,1:55:16.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Millions of sensual pulsing animal\Nbodies are now living trapped and used\Nand starved in cities and cubicles
Dialogue: 0,1:55:16.74,1:55:22.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and sweatshops and food courts and traffic jams\Nand suburbs and public school classrooms.
Dialogue: 0,1:55:23.61,1:55:27.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People who are not rich and\Nwhite already know this.
Dialogue: 0,1:55:28.12,1:55:32.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What would happen if we let ourselves\Nfeel our feelings about all of this?
Dialogue: 0,1:55:33.46,1:55:37.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The entire community of life on\Nthis planet is now being threatened.
Dialogue: 0,1:55:38.56,1:55:43.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where do we stick our picket pins?\NWhere do we take a stand?
Dialogue: 0,1:55:44.04,1:55:48.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When do we find the courage to\Nlet ourselves feel what's going on?
Dialogue: 0,1:55:49.37,1:55:54.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our feelings are the swiftest\Npath back to our forgotten selves.
Dialogue: 0,1:55:55.88,1:55:57.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's time to be open and humble.
Dialogue: 0,1:55:58.68,1:56:05.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are huge forces at work in the world, both\Nseen and unseen. It's time to ask for help.
Dialogue: 0,1:56:06.02,1:56:11.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ask the ancestors.\NAsk the gods.\NAsk your God.
Dialogue: 0,1:56:12.36,1:56:18.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Go outside and lie down on the Earth and ask\Nthe land, and the sky, and the life of this place.
Dialogue: 0,1:56:19.54,1:56:21.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then listen for a response.
Dialogue: 0,1:56:22.77,1:56:28.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Listen to the voices of soil and stone, wind\Nand water, the voices of cirrus clouds
Dialogue: 0,1:56:28.75,1:56:33.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and chickadees, of red squirrels and wood\Nbeetles and Russian olives and hickories.
Dialogue: 0,1:56:33.88,1:56:40.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The world will tell us what it knows,\Nif only we will be still. And listen.
Dialogue: 0,1:56:41.52,1:56:42.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then speak.
Dialogue: 0,1:56:43.49,1:56:46.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's time to show up in our\Nown lives and tell the truth.
Dialogue: 0,1:56:47.43,1:56:51.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's time to talk about the world\Nsituation with everyone we see.
Dialogue: 0,1:56:52.00,1:56:58.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're all in this together. What a relief\Nit'll be, to discover that we are not alone.
Dialogue: 0,1:56:59.98,1:57:02.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's time to act with great intention.
Dialogue: 0,1:57:02.91,1:57:08.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is work aplenty to do in this weary\Nworld, and people engaged in that work.
Dialogue: 0,1:57:08.49,1:57:11.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Find those people. Join in.
Dialogue: 0,1:57:11.69,1:57:16.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Save rivers and stop bulldozers and stand\Nup at city council meetings to tell your truth.
Dialogue: 0,1:57:17.33,1:57:20.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Share skills. Evolve local communities.
Dialogue: 0,1:57:20.43,1:57:26.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Move from agriculture to permaculture and grow\Nyour own food. Learn about medicinal herbs.
Dialogue: 0,1:57:27.50,1:57:34.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As Derrick Jensen says, "we need it all."\NFind your work, and do it. It's time.
Dialogue: 0,1:57:35.81,1:57:37.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But what about that speeding train?
Dialogue: 0,1:57:38.95,1:57:41.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How will the Great Turning turn?
Dialogue: 0,1:57:43.05,1:57:49.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can wait for the train to crash on its own and\Nhope that it doesn't kill us, and everything else.
Dialogue: 0,1:57:49.23,1:57:54.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But with the children grown, perhaps we can\Ncome together and decide to dismantle,
Dialogue: 0,1:57:54.60,1:57:57.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,joyfully and with conscious intent,
Dialogue: 0,1:57:57.10,1:58:02.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the rusty and dangerous old swing-set\Nof a culture that no longer serves us.
Dialogue: 0,1:58:03.21,1:58:05.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this may seem an impossible task.
Dialogue: 0,1:58:05.61,1:58:10.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But if the alternative is extinction,\Nthen we have nothing to lose.
Dialogue: 0,1:58:11.28,1:58:16.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We humans once knew how to\Nlive on this planet. A few still do.
Dialogue: 0,1:58:16.15,1:58:20.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's the good news. It can be done.
Dialogue: 0,1:58:21.26,1:58:24.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can do way, way better than Empire.
Dialogue: 0,1:58:35.71,1:58:38.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's jump off the train and build a boat.
Dialogue: 0,1:58:38.88,1:58:44.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The train is constrained to rigid tracks and its\Nmomentum makes it almost impossible to steer.
Dialogue: 0,1:58:44.92,1:58:48.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the boat? Ah, the boat\Nis a very different thing.
Dialogue: 0,1:58:49.32,1:58:54.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Boats set sail into the unknown, subject\Nonly to wind and wave and weather.
Dialogue: 0,1:58:54.89,1:59:00.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Boats can be lifeboats, preserving wisdom and\Nunderstanding while the storm rages overhead.
Dialogue: 0,1:59:01.10,1:59:06.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Boats can be arks, safeguarding the\Nlife of the world as the floodwaters rise.
Dialogue: 0,1:59:06.84,1:59:16.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And boats can carry us into adventure, away\Nfrom the shores of the current paradigm and to\Nthose unseen shores of a future not yet written.
Dialogue: 0,1:59:17.18,1:59:19.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,find your people and build a boat.
Dialogue: 0,1:59:19.92,1:59:24.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Build a local community to serve the\Nworld and preserve the life of a piece of land.
Dialogue: 0,1:59:25.52,1:59:33.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or set sail in the wider world, interrupting\Nthe destruction, healing the wounds,\Ncrafting connections and changing minds.
Dialogue: 0,1:59:34.06,1:59:37.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Build a boat. A lifeboat. An ark.
Dialogue: 0,1:59:37.84,1:59:42.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A galleon of adventure and imagination\Ndestined for unknown lands.
Dialogue: 0,1:59:43.61,1:59:44.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Build it now.
Dialogue: 0,1:59:45.71,1:59:47.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The ice is melting.
Dialogue: 0,1:59:48.14,1:59:50.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The waters are rising.
Dialogue: 0,1:59:51.58,1:59:54.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're going to have to let go of the shore.
Dialogue: 0,1:59:55.65,2:00:00.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I do not know if I will survive the\Ncrash of industrial civilization
Dialogue: 0,2:00:00.06,2:00:04.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or the impacts of the climate change\Nthat that civilization has unleashed.
Dialogue: 0,2:00:05.06,2:00:09.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I do know this.: I have a choice\Nabout how I meet it.
Dialogue: 0,2:00:10.17,2:00:12.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have a choice.
Dialogue: 0,2:00:12.64,2:00:14.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have a choice.
Dialogue: 0,2:00:15.20,2:00:22.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can meet it with a burger in my hand,\Na French fry in my mouth,\Nand a cold drink spilling onto my jeans.
Dialogue: 0,2:00:22.45,2:00:28.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or I can meet it with consciousness, integrity,\Nand the sense of purpose that is my birthright.
Dialogue: 0,2:00:29.32,2:00:36.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can meet it on the far side of\Ninitiation, a mature and related\Nmember of the community of life,
Dialogue: 0,2:00:36.03,2:00:41.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,standing tall, doing my best to\Nprotect and serve this Earth that I love.
Dialogue: 0,2:00:42.97,2:00:44.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this is the course I've chosen.
Dialogue: 0,2:00:45.24,2:00:47.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this is my picket pin.:
Dialogue: 0,2:00:47.64,2:00:51.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I will show up and I will tell my truth.
Dialogue: 0,2:00:52.24,2:00:56.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it's hard to sail alone,\Nwhen the seas rage so fiercely.
Dialogue: 0,2:00:57.45,2:01:01.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you sail with me, we shall\Nboth be made stronger.
Dialogue: 0,2:01:01.88,2:01:06.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when others join us, then our\Ncrew will be made strong indeed.
Dialogue: 0,2:01:07.96,2:01:11.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Together, we will set forth, to find that new land.
Dialogue: 0,2:01:13.100,2:01:16.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What a way to go. . .
Dialogue: 0,2:01:17.00,2:01:18.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,// Let's build a boat //
Dialogue: 0,2:01:20.40,2:01:22.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,// In case the waters rise //
Dialogue: 0,2:01:23.47,2:01:24.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,// Let's build a boat //
Dialogue: 0,2:01:27.34,2:01:29.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,// Clouds they gather in the skies //
Dialogue: 0,2:01:29.98,2:01:31.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,// Let's build a boat //
Dialogue: 0,2:01:33.35,2:01:35.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,// For when the storm comes //
Dialogue: 0,2:01:36.32,2:01:37.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,// Let's build a boat //
Dialogue: 0,2:01:39.39,2:01:42.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,// For when the rain it beat like drums //
Dialogue: 0,2:01:42.59,2:01:45.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,// Oh the levee will get pounded //
Dialogue: 0,2:01:45.73,2:01:49.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,// Now the people are out having fun //
Dialogue: 0,2:01:49.53,2:01:52.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,// Someday our work will pay off //
Dialogue: 0,2:01:52.47,2:01:55.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,// We will float others will be overcome //
Dialogue: 0,2:01:55.71,2:01:57.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,// But you can't outrun the water //
Dialogue: 0,2:01:58.71,2:02:02.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,// Oh you can't outrun the water //
Dialogue: 0,2:02:02.38,2:02:07.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,// You can't outrun the water //
Dialogue: 0,2:02:08.18,2:02:09.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,// Let's build a boat //
Dialogue: 0,2:02:46.52,2:02:47.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,// Let's build a boat //
Dialogue: 0,2:02:49.83,2:02:52.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,// Take me to the other slde //
Dialogue: 0,2:02:53.13,2:02:54.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,// Let's build a boat //
Dialogue: 0,2:02:55.47,2:02:59.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,// Be forewarned this is no easy ride //
Dialogue: 0,2:02:59.20,2:03:01.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,// Let's build a boat //
Dialogue: 0,2:03:02.71,2:03:05.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,// Big enough for all of us //
Dialogue: 0,2:03:05.81,2:03:07.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,// Let's build a boat //
Dialogue: 0,2:03:09.01,2:03:10.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,// One that's good enough //
Dialogue: 0,2:03:10.61,2:03:12.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,// One that we can trust //
Dialogue: 0,2:03:12.35,2:03:15.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,// Oh the levee will get pounded //
Dialogue: 0,2:03:15.42,2:03:18.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,// Oh the people are out having fun //
Dialogue: 0,2:03:19.09,2:03:21.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,// Someday our work will pay off //
Dialogue: 0,2:03:21.99,2:03:25.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,// We will float others will be overcome //
Dialogue: 0,2:03:25.13,2:03:27.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,// But you can't outrun the water //
Dialogue: 0,2:03:28.26,2:03:31.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,// Oh you can't outrun the water //
Dialogue: 0,2:03:31.90,2:03:37.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,// You can't outrun the water //
Dialogue: 0,2:03:37.91,2:03:39.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,// Let's build a boat //