NatureNow: Greta Thunberg and George Monbiot make short film on the climate crisis

Environmental activists Greta Thunberg and George Monbiot have helped produce a short film highlighting the need to protect, restore and use nature to tackle the climate crisis.

Living ecosystems like forests, mangroves, swamps and seabeds can pull enormous quantities of carbon from the air and store them safely, but natural climate solutions currently receive only 2% of the funding spent on cutting emissions.

The film’s director, Tom Mustill of Gripping Films, said: 'We tried to make the film have the tiniest environmental impact possible. We took trains to Sweden to interview Greta, charged our hybrid car at George’s house, used green energy to power the edit and recycled archive footage rather than shooting new.'

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CREDITS

Narrators: Greta Thunberg & George Monbiot
Director: Tom Mustill
Producer: Triangle Monday
DoP & Editor: Fergus Dingle
Sound: Shaman Media
GFX: Paraic Mcgloughlin
Online: Bram De Jonghe
Picture Post: Special Treats Productions
Mix: Mcasso Music
Audio Post: Tom Martin
NCS Guidance: Charlie Lat
Music: Rone / InFiné Music

The Independent film by Gripping Films(Tom Mustill) was supported by:
Conservation International
Food and Land Use Coalition
Gower St

With guidance from
Nature4Climate

Natural Climate Solutions

www.grippingfilms.com

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www.naturalclimate.solutions

My name is Greta Thunberg.

We are living in the beginning
of a mass extinction.

Our climate is breaking down.

Children like me are giving up
their education to protest.

But we can still fix this.

You can still fix this.

To survive, we need
to stop burning fossil fuels.

But this alone will not be enough.

Lots of solutions are talked about.

But what about the solution
that is right in front of us?

I’ll let my friend George explain.

There is a magic machine
that sucks carbon out of the air

costs very little

and builds itself.

It’s called...

a tree.

A tree is an example
of a natural climate solution.

Mangroves, peat bogs, jungles,
marshes, seabeds,

kelp forests, swamps, coral reefs,

they take carbon out of the air
and lock it away.

Nature is a tool we can use
to repair our broken climate.

These natural climate solutions
could make a massive difference.

Pretty cool, right?

But only if we also leave fossil fuels
in the ground.

Here’s the crazy part...

right now we are ignoring them.

We spend 1000 times more
on global fossil fuels subsidies

than natural based solutions.

Natural climate solutions get just 2%

of all the money used
on tackling climate breakdown.

This is your money.

It is your taxes and your savings.

Even more crazy

right now when we need nature the most,

we’re destroying it faster than ever.

Up to 200 species are going extinct
every single day.

Much of the arctic ice is gone.

Most of our wild animals have gone.

Much of our soil has gone.

So what should we do?

What should YOU do?

It’s simple...

We need to

PROTECT

RESTORE

and FUND.

PROTECT

Tropical forests are being cut down

at the rate of
30 football pitches a minute.

Where Nature is doing something vital

we must protect it.

RESTORE

Much of our planet has been damaged.

But Nature can regenerate

and we can help ecosystems bounce back.

FUND

We need to stop funding things
that destroy nature

and pay for things that help it.

It is that simple

PROTECT

RESTORE

FUND

This can happen everywhere;

Many people have already begun
using natural climate solutions.

We need to do it on a massive scale.

You can be part of this.

VOTE for people who defend nature.

SHARE this video.

Talk about this.

All around the world
there are amazing movements

fighting for nature.

JOIN them.

Everything counts.

What you do, counts.

[THIS FILM WAS MADE FROM RECYCLED FOOTAGE]

[WITH NO FLIGHTS
AND ZERO NET CARBON]

[PLEASE TAKE
& RE-USE IT]