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Now, I'm an ethnobotanist.

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That's a scientist who [br]works in the rain forest

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to document how people use local plants.

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I've been doing this for a long time,

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and I want to tell you,

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these people know these forests[br]and these medicinal treasures

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better than we do and[br]better than we ever will.

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But also, these cultures,

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these indigenous cultures,

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are disappearing much faster[br]than the forests themselves.

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And the greatest and[br]most endangered species

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in the Amazon rain forest

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is not the jaguar,

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it's not the harpy eagle,

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it's the isolated and uncontacted tribes.

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Now four years, I injured my [br]foot in a climbing accident

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and I went to the doctor.

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She gave me heat,

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she gave me cold, Aspirin,

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narcotic painkillers, anti-inflammatories,

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cortisone shots.

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It didn't work.

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Several months later,

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I was in the northeast Amazon,

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walked into a village,

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and the shaman said, "You're limping."

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And I'll never forget[br]this as long as I live.

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He looked me in the face and he said,

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"Take off your shoe and give [br]me your machete."

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(Laughter)

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He walked over to a palm tree

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and carved off a fern,

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threw it in the fire,

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applied it to my foot,

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threw it in a pond of water,

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and had me drink the tea.

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The pain disappeared for seven months.

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When it came back, I went[br]to see the shaman again.

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He gave me the same treatment,

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and I've been cured for three years now.

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Who would you rather be treated by?

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(Applause)

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Now make no mistake, Western medicine

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is the most successful system of healing

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ever devised,

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but there's plenty of holes in it.

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Where's the cure for breast cancer?

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Where's the cure for schizophrenia?

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Where's the cure for acid reflux?

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Where's the cure for insomnia?

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The fact is that these people

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can sometimes, sometimes, sometimes

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cure things we cannot.

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Here you see a medicine man[br]in the northeast Amazon

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treating Leishmaniasis,

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a really nasty protozoal disease

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that afflicts 12 million[br]people around the world.

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Western treatment are[br]injections of antimony.

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They're painful, they're expensive,

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and they're probably[br]not good for your heart.

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It's a heavy metal.

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This man cures it with

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three plants from the Amazon rain forest.

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This is the magic frog.

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My colleague, the late[br]great Loren McIntyre,

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discoverer of the source lake of Amazon,

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Laguna McIntyre in the Peruvian Andes,

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was lost on the Peru-Brazil border

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about 30 years ago.

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He was rescued by a group of isolated

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Indians called the Matses.

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They beckoned for him to follow them

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into the forest, which he did.

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There, they took out palm leaf baskets.

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There, they took out these[br]green monkey frogs

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— These are big suckers,[br]they're like this —

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and they began licking them.

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It turns out, they're[br]highly hallucinogenic.

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McIntyre wrote about this, and it was read

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by the editor of High Times Magazine.

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You see, the ethnobotanists have friends

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in all sorts of strange cultures.

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This guy decided he would go down

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to the Amazon and give it a whirl,

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or give it a lick, and he did,

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and he wrote,

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"My blood pressure went through the roof,

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I lost full control of[br]my bodily functions,

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I passed out in a heap,

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I woke up in a hammock six hours later,

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felt like God for two days."

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(Laughter)

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An Italian chemist read this and said,

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"I'm not really interested[br]in the theological aspects

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of the green monkey frog.

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What's this about the[br]change in blood presure?

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Now, this is an Italian chemist

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who's working on a new treatment[br]for high blood pressure

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based on peptides in the skin

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of the green monkey frog,

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and other scientists are looking

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at a cure for drug-resistant staph aureus.

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How ironic, if these isolated Indians

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and their magic frog

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prove to be one of the cures.

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Here's an Ayahuasca shaman

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in the northwest Amazon, in[br]the middle of a yage ceremony.

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I took him to Los Angeles

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to meet a foundation officer

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looking for support

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for moneys to protect their culture.

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This fellow looked at the[br]medicine man, and he said,

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"You didn't go to medical school, did you"

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The shaman said, "No, I did not."

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He said, "Well, then what can[br]you know about healing?"

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The shaman looked at him and he said,

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"You know what? If you have an infection,

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go to a doctor,"

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but he said, "but many human afflictions

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are disease of the heart,

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the mind, and the spirit.

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Western medicine can't touch those.

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I cure them."

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(Applause)

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But all is not rosy in learning

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from nature about new medicines.

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This is a viper from Brazil,

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the venom of which was studied at[br]the Universidade de São Paulo here.

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It was later developed

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into ace inhibitors.

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This is a frontline treatment[br]for hypertension.

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Hypertension kills over 10 percent

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of all deaths on the planet everyday.

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This is a four billion dollar industry

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based on venom from a Brazilian snake,

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and the Brazilians did not get a nickel.

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This is not an acceptable way

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of doing business.

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The rain forest has been called

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the greatest expression of life on Earth.

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There's a saying in Suriname

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that I dearly love:

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"The rain forests hold answers

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to questions we have yet to ask."

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But as you all know,[br]it's rapidly disappearing,

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here in Brazil, in the Amazon,

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around the world.

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I took this picture from a small plane

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flying over the eastern border[br]of the Xingu indigenous reserve

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in the state of Mato Grosso[br]to the northwest of here.

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The top half of the picture,

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you see where the Indians live.

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The line through the middle

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is the eastern border of the reserve.

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Top half Indians, bottom half white guys.

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Top half wonder drugs,

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bottom half just a bunch[br]of skinny-ass cows.

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Top half carbon sequestered

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in the forest where it belongs,

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bottom half carbon in the atmosphere

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where it's driving climate change.

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In fact, the number two cause

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of carbon being released[br]into the atmosphere

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is forest destruction.

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But in talking about destruction,

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it's important to keep in mind

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that the Amazon is the mightiest

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landscape of all.

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It's a place of beauty and wonder.

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The biggest anteater in the world

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lives in the rain forest,

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tips the scale at 90 pounds.

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The goliath bird-eating spider

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is the world's largest spider.

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It's found in the Amazon as well.

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The harpy eagle wingspan

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is over seven feet.

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And the black cayman.

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These monsters can tip the scale

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at over half a ton.

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They're known to be man-eaters.

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The anaconda, the largest snake,

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the capybara, the largest rodent.

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A specimen from here in Brazil

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tipped the scale at 201 pounds.

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Let's visit where these creatures live,

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the northeast Amazon,

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home to the Akuriyo tribe.

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Uncontacted peoples

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hold a mystical and iconic role

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in our imagination.

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These are the people who know nature best.

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These are the people who truly live

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in total harmony with nature.

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By our standards, some would[br]dismiss these people as primitive.

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They don't know how to make fire,

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or they didn't when they[br]were first contacted,

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but they know the forest

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far better than we do.

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The Akuriyos have 35 words for honey,

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and other Indians look up to them

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as being the true masters

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of the emerald realm.

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Here you see the face of my friend Ponay.

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When I was a teenager rocking out

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to the Rolling Stones in my[br]hometown of New Orleans,

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Ponay was a forest normad

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roaming the jungles of[br]the northeast Amazon

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in a small band,

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looking for game,

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looking for medicinal plants,

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looking for a wife

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in other small nomadic bands.

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But it's people like these

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that know things that we don't,

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and they have lots of lessons

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to teach us.

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However, if you go into most

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of the forests of the Amazon,

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there are no indigenous peoples.

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This is what you find:

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rock carvings which indigenous peoples,

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uncontacted peoples, used to sharpen

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the edge of the stone axe.

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These cultures that once danced,

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made love, sang to the gods,

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worshipped the forest,

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all that's left is an imprint in stone,

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as you see here.

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Let's move to the western Amazon,

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which is really the epicenter[br]of isolated peoples.

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Each of these dots represents

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a small, uncontacted tribe,

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and the big reveal today is

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we believe there are 14 or 15 isolated groups

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in the Columbian Amazon alone.

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Why are these people isolated?

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They know we exist, they[br]know there's an outside world.

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This is a form of resistance.

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They have chosen to remain isolated,

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and I think it is their[br]human right to remain so.

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Why are these the tribes[br]that hide from man?

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Here's why. Obviously some of this

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was set off in 1492,

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but at the turn of the last century

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was the rubber trade.

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The demand for natural rubber,

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which came from the Amazon,

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set off the botanical[br]equivalent of a gold rush.

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Rubber for bicycle tires,

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rubber for automobile tires,

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rubber for zeppelins.

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It was a mad race to get that rubber,

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and the man on the left, Julio Arana,

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is one of the true thugs of the story.

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His people, his company,

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and other companies like them

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killed, massacred, tortured,

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butchered Indians like the Witotos you see

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on the right hand side of the slide.

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Even today, when people[br]come out of the forest,

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the story seldom has a happy ending.

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These are Nukaks. They[br]were contacted in the '80s.

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Within a year, everybody over 40 was dead.

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And remember, these[br]are preliterate societies.

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The elders are the libraries.

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Every time a shaman dies,

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it's as if a library has been burned down.

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They have been forced off their lands.

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The drug traffickers have taken over

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the Nukak lands,

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and the Nukaks live as beggars

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in public parks in eastern Colombia.

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From the Nukak lands, I want to take you

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to the southwest, to the most spectacular

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landscape in the world:

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Chiribiquete National Park.

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It was surrounded by three isolated tribes

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and thanks to the Colombian government

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and Colombian colleagues,

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it has now expanded.

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It's bigger than the state of Maryland.

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It is a treasure trove[br]of botanical diversity.

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It was first explored botanically in 1943

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by my mentor, Richard Schultes,

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seen here atop the Bell Mountain,

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the sacred mountains of the Carajás?

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And let me show you[br]what it looks like today.

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Flying over Chiribiquete,

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realize that these lost world[br]mountains are still lost.

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No scientist has been atop them.

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In fact, nobody has been[br]atop the Bell Mountain

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since Schultes in '43,

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and we'll end up here[br]with the Bell Mountain

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just to the east of the picture.

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Let me show you what it looks like today.

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Not only is this a treasure[br]trove of botanical diversity,

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not only is it home to[br]three isolated tribes,

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but it's the greatest treasure trove

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of pre-Colombian art in the world:

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over 200,000 paintings.

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The Dutch scientist Thomas van der Hammen

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described this as the Sistine Chapel

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of the Amazon rain forest.

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But move from Chiribiquete[br]down to the southeast,

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again in the Colombian Amazon.

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Remember, the Colombian Amazon

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is bigger than New England.

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The Amazon's a big forest,

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and Brazil's got a big part of it,

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but not all of it.

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Moving down to these two national parks,

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Cahuinari and Puré

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in the Colombian Amazon

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— that's the Brazilian[br]border to the right —

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it's home to several groups

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of isolated and uncontacted peoples.

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To the trained eye, you[br]can look at the roofs

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of these maloccas, these longhouses,

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and see that there's cultural diversity.

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These are, in fact, different tribes.

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As isolated as these areas are,

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let me show you how the outside world

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is crowding in.

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Here we see trade and transport[br]increased in Putamayo.

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With the diminishment of[br]the Civil War in Colombia,

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the outside world is showing up.

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To the north, we have illegal gold mining,

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also from the east, from Brazil.

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There's increased hunting and fishing

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for commercial purposes.

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We see illegal logging[br]come in from the south,

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and drug runners are trying to move

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through the park and get into Brazil.

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This, in the past, is why you didn't mess

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with isolated Indians,

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and if it looks like this[br]picture is out of focus

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because it was taken[br]in a hurry, here's why.

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(Laughter)

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This looks like — (Applause)

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This looks like a hangar[br]from the Brazilian Amazon.

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This is an art exhibit in Havana, Cuba.

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A group called Los Carpinteros.

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This is their perception[br]of why you shouldn't

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mess with uncontacted Indians.

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But the world is changing.

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These are Mascoteros[br]on the Brazil-Peru border

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who stumbled out of the jungle

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because they were essentially chased out

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by drug runners and timber people,

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and in Peru, there's[br]a very nasty business.

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It's called human safaris.

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They will take you in

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to isolated groups to take their picture.

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Of course, when you give them clothes

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then you give them tools,[br]you also give them diseases.

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We call these "inhuman safaris."

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These are Indians again on the Peru border

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who were overflown by flights[br]sponsored by missionaries.

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They want to get in there

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and turn them into Christians.

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We know how that turns out.

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What's to be done?

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Introduce technology[br]to the contacted tribes,

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not the uncontacted tribes,

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in a culturally sensitive way.

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This is the perfect marriage

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of ancient shamanic wisdom

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and 21st century technology.

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We've done this now with over 30 tribes,

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mapped, managed, and increased protection

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of over 70 million acres[br]of ancestral rain forest.

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(Applause)

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So this allows the Indians to take control

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of their environmental[br]and cultural destiny.

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They also then set up guard houses

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to keep outsiders out.

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These are Indians, trained[br]as indigenous park rangers,

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patrolling the borders

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and keeping the outside world at bay.

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This is a picture of actual contact.

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These are Chitanawa Indians

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on the Brazil-Peru border.

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They've come out of the jungle

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asking for help.

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They were shot at,

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their maloccas, their [br]longhouses, were burned.

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Some of them were massacred.

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Using automatic weapons

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to slaughter uncontacted peoples

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is the single most despicable

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and disgusting human rights abuse

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on our planet today, and it has to stop.

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(Applause)

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But let me conclude by saying,

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this work can be spiritually rewarding,

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but it's difficult and[br]it can be dangerous.

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Two colleagues of mine[br]passed away recently

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in the crash of a small plane.

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They were serving the forest

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to protect those uncontacted tribes.

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So the question is, in conclusion,

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is what the future holds.

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These are Uray people in Brazil.

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What does the future hold for them,

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and what does the future hold for us?

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Let's think differently.

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Let's make a better world.

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If the climate's going to change,

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let's have a climate that changes for

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the better rather than for the worse.

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Let's live on a planet

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full of luxuriant vegetation,

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in which isolated peoples

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can remain in isolation,

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can maintain that mystery

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and that knowledge

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if they so choose.

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Let's live in a world

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where the shamans live in these forests

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and heal themselves and us

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with their mystical plants

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and their sacred frogs.

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Thanks again.

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(Applause)