The Age of Stupid

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THE AGE OF STUPID is the new documentary-drama-animation hybrid from Director Franny Armstrong (McLibel, Drowned Out) and Oscar-winning Producer John Battsek (One Day In September, In the Shadow of the Moon).

Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite (In The Name of the Father, Brassed Off, The Usual Suspects) stars as an old man living in the devastated world of 2055. He watches 'archive' footage from 2008 and asks: Why didn't we stop climate change when we had the chance?

Runaway climate change has ravaged the planet by 2055. Pete plays the founder of The Global Archive, a storage facility located in the (now melted) Arctic, preserving all of humanity's achievements in the hope that the planet might one day be habitable again. Or that intelligent life may arrive and make use of all that we've achieved. He pulls together clips of 'archive' news and documentary from 1950-2008 to build a message showing what went wrong and why. He focuses on six human stories:

- Alvin DuVernay , is a paleontogolist helping Shell find more oil off the coast of New Orleans. He also rescued more than 100 people after Hurricane Katrina, which, by 2055, is well known as one of the first 'major climate change events'.

- Jeh Wadia in Mumbai aims to start-up a new low-cost airline and gets a million Indians flying.

- Layefa Malemi lives in absolute poverty in a small village in Nigeria from which Shell extracts tens of millions of dollars worth of oil every week. She dreams of becoming a doctor, but must fish in the oil-infested waters for four years to raise the funds.

- Jamila Bayyoud, aged 8, is an Iraqi refugee living on the streets of Jordan after her home was destroyed - and father killed - during the US-led invasion of 2003. She's trying to help her elder brother make it across the border to safety.

- Piers Guy is a windfarm developer from Cornwall fighting the NIMBYs of Middle England.

- 82-year-old French mountain guide Fernand Pareau has witnessed his beloved Alpine glaciers melt by 150 metres.

'This is a signally important film--a very clever and very powerful reminder of exactly where we stand on this fragile, lovely planet.' Bill McKibben, Educator, Environmentalist, Author, Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet

'Very, very impressive film. At a time when climate change has become far too politicized, The Age of Stupid is the wake up call we do not want to miss.' Dr. Paul Andrew Mayewski, Director, Climate Change Institute, University of Maine

'Timely and poignant, this film reinforces our collective responsibility, wherever we live and whatever we do, to act now in preventing foretold consequences of climate change. The film's message is usefully grounded in the lives and emotions of real people with complicated yet adaptable circumstances. I would certainly share its message with my students, colleagues, campus and community.' Dr. Jonathan Scherch, Core Faculty, The Center for Creative Change, Antioch University

'A wry yet all-too-close to reality movie...An award-winning cautionary tale with an overwhelmingly critical message, The Age of Stupid deserves the highest recommendation.' The Midwest Book Review

'If Al Gore and An Inconvenient Truth didn't lead frightened folks to renounce all green-house-gas-emitting pleasures, then The Age of Stupid might do the trick...Recommended.' Video Librarian

'The stories coalesce powerfully, and each makes its own impression...Highly recommended for all collections.' Library Journal

'The out and out winner this year was chosen for the sheer scale of its ambition and the verve of its realization on every level. The Age of Stupid is a powerful and unforgettable film that leaves you honor bound to force governments to take action and that the judges recommend everybody must see.' Grierson Awards Jury

'Adding a touch of sci-fi showmanship to its sounding the alarm on climate change, The Age of Stupid is a lively and accessible call to action before it's too late -- the tipping point, it argues, is just around the corner...The focus...is on a few individuals who provide examples of the causes, effects and preventions of climate change...These human-interest threads are deftly woven into a mosaic of news reporting (mostly archival, occasionally faked to portray the future), interviewed experts and zippy editorial/visual gambits, including some clever animation segments. Tone is often antic but never flippant...the docu succeeds at being a colorful and entertaining package that's well turned in all departments.' Dennis Harvey, Variety

'There's nothing in The Age of Stupid from the UK documentary filmmaker Franny Armstrong (best known for her last doco McLibel) that scientists and commentators haven't already told us a zillion times. But the truth about the destructive impact of humankind on the planet still hits home like a hammer blow...Fortunately the documentary is so tightly constructed and dynamic you leave the cinema energised rather than terrified and depressed.' Ruth Hessey, Movietime, ABC Radio (Australia)

'The Age of Stupid is more passionate, more emotionally charged than the Al Gore-fronted An Inconvenient Truth...Bold, supremely provocative, and hugely important, her film is a cry from the heart as much as a roar for necessary change.' Sukhdev Sandhu, The Daily Telegraph

'Think An Inconvenient Truth but with a personality, numerous ones actually, as Armstrong hops the globe interviewing an intriguing cross section of folks...whose lives have all been affected by some aspect of the global warming phenomenon. Their stories vividly highlight the various tentacles of the climate change problem and, in some cases, its potential solutions...[I]t also provides a visual and emotional power that drives home this absorbing film's crucial cautionary message.' Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times

'Educational and inventive, the documentary speaks with a strong editorial voice from a backward-looking vantage point. It's a narrative device that proves most effective.' Cole Smithey

'[Franny Armstrong's] film is nothing if not rousing...and if its mode is unapologetically didactic, then in a society in which 60 percent of the people believe, scientific evidence to the contrary, that man has no appreciable impact on climate change, then perhaps a round of didacticism is precisely what we need.' Andrew Schenker, Slant Magazine

'The terrifying documentary about climate change The Age of Stupid is the most imaginative and dramatic assault on the institutional complacency shrouding the issue...The power of this shameless campaigning film is that it gives dates and deadlines. It explores options and ideas. It names culprits...The conclusion is probably spot-on: we are inches away from being the first species on the planet to knowingly kill itself off.' James Christopher, The (London) Times

'The film is a wake-up call with an elegiac tone--not quite hectoring but pressing. It goes well beyond the arguments about science that Al Gore tried to straighten out in An lnconvenient Truth. This is about human nature, greed and personal responsibility. It aims to scare and galvanise--and it's pretty good at both.' Paul Byrnes, Sydney Morning Herald

'A scorching appeal for humans to avoid knowingly up-ending the earth's climate.' Andrew C. Revkin, The New York Times

'By the time The Age of Stupid's flashbacks are over and the viewer is stuck in a ravaged 2055, the urge to do something immediate is palpable and powerful.' Scott Thill, Wired

'Left me watching the credits role with a sense of urgency that even as a long-time climate activist I had not experienced before.' Sean Pool, Climate Progress

'The film successfully presents the case that man made climate change can be dramatically reduced if action is taken in the imminent future. If left unchecked it will ruin the planet and the lives of billions of people. The film is informative throughout. By using the stories of real people it, for the most part, avoids feeling like a lecture.' Donald Munro, Eye for Film

'By speaking directly to the disaffected and disinterested, its light tone successfully disguises an intent that could not be more serious or more urgent, which is no small feat.' Brian Duff, Film Ink

'The wonderfully creative Armstrong...largely avoids talking heads, lengthy...voiceovers, and other stifling staples of many documentaries. The pace is taut and the portraits intimate and playful, with an eye for gem-like moments of absurdity.' Anna Barnett, Nature Reports

'This film is a fantastic achievement...knocks spots off An Inconvenient Truth.' Mark Anslow, The Ecologist

'One of the most important films of the year (perhaps decade)...' Jon Reiss, The Huffington Post

'Maddening and motivating...A compelling argument for action before The Age of Stupid becomes, irrevocable, our own.' YES! Magazine

'I wish I could say thatThe Age of Stupid is a series of alarmist overstatements, but I fear it is right on the money. The old quote from the 'pogo' cartoon strip ran over and over in my mind as I watched: 'We have met the enemy and it is us.'...Riveting.' Constance Alexander, Murray Ledger and Times

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Main credits

Armstrong, Franny (Screenwriter)
Armstrong, Franny (Director)
Gillett, Lizzie (Producer)
Postlethwaite, Pete (act)

Other credits

Music, Chris Brierley; director of photography, Lawrence Gardner; editor, David G. Hill.

MARC Record See Worldcat record

Keywords

Pete Postlethwaite, climate change, John Battsek, Alvin DuVernay, Shell Oil, New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina, Jeh Wadia, Mumbai, Layefa Malemi, Nigeria, Jamila Bayyoud, Iraqi refugee, Jordan, Piers Guy, wind farm, Cornwall, NIMBY, Fernand Pareau, Alpine glaciers, oil, George Monbiot, Richard Heinberg,"The Age of Stupid",Bullfrog Films

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Welcome to the Global Archive,
a vast storage structure

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located 800 kilometers
north of Norway.

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It contains the artwork
from every national museum.

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There are pickled animals
stacked up two by two.

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Every film, every book,
every scientific report,

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all stored on banks of servers.

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But the conditions we
are experiencing now

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were actually caused
by our behavior

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in the period
leading up to 2015.

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In other words, we could
have saved ourselves.

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We could have saved
ourselves, but we didn't.

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It's amazing.

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What state of mind were
we in to face extinction

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and simply shrug it off?

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[MUSIC PLAYING]

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By nature, I was
always an introvert.

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I guess everybody in our
business needs a face.

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Blah, blah, blah, a personality.

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Here, 32-year-old
entrepreneur Jeh Wadia

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will be starting up India's
third low cost airline in 2005.

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The time for India is now.

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The time for developing
businesses in India is now.

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He's got 1,200
employees, most of whom

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have never set foot
on an airplane.

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What are the different kinds of
hijackers that you might have?

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[SPEAKING HINDI]

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Why are you scared
of a little smoke?

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If you're going to be
scared and run away

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from fire, [SPEAKING HINDI].

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You've got to aim it.

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Hold it.

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I was in London at the time
when Stelio Haji-Ioannou created

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EasyJet.

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And I was fascinated with
basically how he did it.

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Evacuate, evacuate!

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We'll be offering
fares from 600 rupees

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all the way down to 1 rupee.

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How many people can
afford a 1 rupee fare?

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I would imagine every
single Indian can.

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A rickshaw driver can.

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Servers-- in the year
2005, having an elite class

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who can fly in a country
of a billion people,

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it's ridiculous.

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Search visible impacts of
climate change leading up

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to 2010.

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101 degrees Fahrenheit, it's
the hottest day ever recorded.

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700 people are now feared
dead after the strongest

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ever recorded day's
rainfall in India's history.

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Now it's official.

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The past year has been the
driest in Melbourne's history.

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Desert is advancing at the
phenomenal rate of three miles

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every year.

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Dozens of Antarctic ice shelves,
collapsing faster than anyone

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predicted.

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18 countries are under water,
and 1 and a half million people

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are affected.

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[MUSIC PLAYING]

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[SPEAKING FRENCH]

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Fernand Pareau has climbed
Europe's highest mountain,

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Mont Blanc, over 150 times.

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Here, he's guiding a
family from England.

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[SPEAKING FRENCH]

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At 82, Fernand is the oldest
guide still working in France.

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Over his lifetime, he has
witnessed huge changes

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in the mountains.

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[SPEAKING FRENCH]

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There's a ladder extension
on the bottom here now.

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[SPEAKING FRENCH]

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Extraordinary to think that
these are the Alps in December.

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Here in Chamonix,
as across the Alps,

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there is a dramatic lack of
snow and exceptionally warm

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temperatures.

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It is a glimpse into the future.

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More than half the
ski resorts in Europe

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could shut down in
the next 50 years

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because of global warming.

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So we won't be
able to go skiing.

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Big deal.

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The thing is, it's not that.

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Is it?

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That's the whole point.

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The fact that you
can't go skiing anymore

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or the glaciers are melting
is not really the point.

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The point is that
that's a signal forever

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that basically the
Earth is destabilizing.

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And all the norms
that have allowed life

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to exist as it has
done are changing.

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[SPEAKING FRENCH]

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List climate change, major
events up to the present day.

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This is a couple of days
before Katrina struck.

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Most people are following
the evacuation order

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and getting out of the city.

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But New Orleans
born Alvin DuVernay

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had no intention of moving.

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I got up Saturday
morning, and there

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was a buzz in the neighborhood.

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Everybody was running around,
and I was like, what's up?

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What's up?

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Hurricane's coming.

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I checked on the web, and
sure enough, all of the models

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had it aiming right for us.

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Bullseye.

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This is a monster,
and it's coming.

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I walked through the house a
few times, putting things up.

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My silk rug from Nepal
up on a top shelf.

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And my guitar-- you
just do these things.

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I mean, another way to do
that is to get all your stuff

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and go.

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That's option one,
probably the best option.

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I didn't grow up in that option.

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Alvin collected his
84-year-old father

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and then barricaded the two
of them inside his house

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as the hurricane approached.

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You stare Mother
Nature in the eye.

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Usually she's fairly benign.

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Then she comes along
methodically, ruthlessly.

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And then she stands toe to
toe with you and dares you.

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She dares you, go ahead.

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Get your best equipment out.

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Go ahead.

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Do it.

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Let's dance.

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I think one's got to be
very careful about attaching

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a particular event
to global warming.

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But nevertheless, the
intensity of hurricanes

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is related to surface
sea temperature,

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so increased intensity
of hurricanes

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is associated with
global warming.

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By first light, the
water in Alvin's house

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was chest deep and
still rising, so he

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helped Alvin Sr. into their
boat and headed for dry land.

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At this point, the
boat's floating,

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so it's no big deal
to launch the boat.

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It's launched.

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There's no landmarks
to speak of.

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That's a real
different perspective,

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driving through your
neighborhood at tree level.

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Then all of a
sudden you realize,

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there's a lot of people
who stayed behind.

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There was no Coast
Guard or police.

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Most of our National
Guard is elsewhere

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in the world, Iraq, Afghanistan.

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Alvin rescued over 100
people and their pets

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over two long days,
including a 95-year-old man

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and a six-week-old baby.

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When that little basket
came out of the window,

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that a was pretty special time.

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And just as peaceful--
eyes closed.

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It just stops you
in your tracks.

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Just a dead stop, and
I said take a breath.

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There's nothing more
impressive than that.

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Alvin's neighbors
were the lucky ones.

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Hurricane Katrina was America's
worst weather-related event

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to that date, though it was just
a taste of what was to come.

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It is our fault.
After years of debate,

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some of the world's top
scientists have concluded--

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Unequivocable is
the word they use.

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Human activity is--

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Contributing to changes
in our Earth's climate.

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And that issue is no
longer up to debate.

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In Andermatt, they've
covered a glacier

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with a special protective sheet
to reduce its summer melt.

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One way I do my bit
for the environment

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is turning to 30 with Ariel.

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This is offsetting
all those flights

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that I take, that I
have to for my job.

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David Cameron even wears
recycled shoes made

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from old fireman's trousers.

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Despite all the efforts
to control pollution

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and its effect on our
climate, the level

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of greenhouse gas emissions
has reached a record high

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and shows no signs
of being reversed.

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Despite the Kyoto
Treaty and all the talk

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of reducing emissions
of carbon dioxide,

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levels of this
key greenhouse gas

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are rising faster than ever.

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6:30 AM on a cool
autumn morning,

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and Alvin is heading off to
work searching for more oil.

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Ironically, the
oil infrastructure

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off the coast of New Orleans
suffered major damage

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during the hurricane.

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But Shell moved fast
to carry out repairs.

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And just nine months
later, the rigs are online.

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And everyone's back at work.

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Oil was formed when ancient
plant life in the oceans

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absorbed energy from
the ancient sun.

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As these plants died, they
settled on the ocean floor

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along with the dead
bodies of tons and tons

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of ocean creatures.

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Over the millennia,
temperatures increased,

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and the organic
matter was gradually

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cooked until the sun's energy
that's stored inside oil.

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150 million years later,
Shell's geologists

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analyze where the
oil might be, then

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drill three miles down into
the sea bed to collect samples.

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Here you go, Al.

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Here's your samples.

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Thank you.

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We get the samples
and analyze them

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for the fossil contents,
the microscopic fossils.

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It's just another
geoscientific tool in order

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to improve your
possibility of finding oil.

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In my opinion-- probably
arrogantly so-- but it's

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pretty high calling
to try to do that,

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to try to figure out-- maybe
take apart time itself.

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Go back a few thousand years.

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The energy available to grow
our crops or feed animals

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was limited by the daily
sunlight falling on the Earth.

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But now, we use the
energy equivalent

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to hundreds of years of
sunlight every single year.

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Every part of modern
life is now literally

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made of oil from
CD's and plastic bags

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to medicine and computers.

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From clothes and carpets to
cosmetics and cell phones.

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It's truly a wonderful
and necessary substance.

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Then there's our food.

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Each calorie we eat uses
nearly 100 oil calories

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to produce, package,
refrigerate, and transport.

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Fossil fuel produced
fertilizers now

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feed a couple
billion or so people

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who could not
otherwise be sustained.

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It would be prudent for
humanity to carefully use

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the remaining oil to build a
new society run without it.

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Instead, we're burning
up tens of millions

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of barrels every day.

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So it will be gone.

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It will run out,
leaving pretty much none

00:19:04.030 --> 00:19:05.304
for future generations.

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Even though we in
the oil industry

00:19:06.720 --> 00:19:09.030
are working our asses off
looking for and finding

00:19:09.030 --> 00:19:11.656
this magical substance.

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Watch your back!

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Then you see it,
and you smell it.

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It's greasy, and ugly, and
smells so much like money.

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It's just beautiful.

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30 billion pounds in 2005.

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That's 1 and 1/2 million pounds
an hour, 400 pounds a second.

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A hefty chunk of those profits
came from here, Nigeria,

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where most of the population
lives on less than $1 a day.

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This is the water
we are drinking.

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There's a lot of
frogs inside, toads.

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Any germs, you can
find inside here.

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With a microscope, you can see
the disease are have inside.

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I was told that if we introduce
Shell into this community,

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that we change all this water,
but it still remains the same.

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This is our health center.

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22-year-old Layefa Malini has
an ambition to train as a doctor

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and then work in her home
for village, Cocojabani,

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where Shell started building
this medical center.

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So it has been like this
for three years now.

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We are simply believing that
they should come and finish it.

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Like hundreds of other community
projects across the Niger

00:20:21.370 --> 00:20:24.360
Delta, construction
has been abandoned.

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Shell maintains that's because
of the risk of kidnapping.

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13% of the oil
revenue is supposed

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to be spent on
community development,

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but the local people's
share is almost all

00:20:36.290 --> 00:20:38.600
lost to the corrupt
political system.

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So despite being in the
most profitable oil region

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in West Africa, Leyefa's
village has no health service,

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no secondary school,
no electricity,

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and no drinking water.

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I think in 2004, a lot
of people died, a lot.

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I think it's up to 20
people, children mostly.

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Even my mother's side, that's
my sister, She died of cholera.

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I think the death of
my sister motivated

00:21:10.960 --> 00:21:13.850
me a lot to become a
good medical doctor.

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Not just a doctor, a good one.

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Your ties will give me
the typhoid [INAUDIBLE].

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It takes a lot of money to
become a medical student.

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I need to pay for
my accommodation.

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I know that.

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And I'm going to get
some nice clothes.

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That's why I started fishing.

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From this year, it's
maybe four years time.

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We go farther that way.

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This way.

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[NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]

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The fishing is not good
because of oil spill.

00:21:54.600 --> 00:21:58.140
It is killing most of the fish.

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And we don't even have big
fish again, just small ones.

00:22:03.050 --> 00:22:05.980
[NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]

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Sometimes the oil will
be all over the fish,

00:22:13.880 --> 00:22:16.170
so you have to wash the fish.

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There's talking in
the news that we

00:22:24.610 --> 00:22:30.650
have produced one million
barrels of oil to date.

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But instead of being rich,
we are getting more poor.

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Leyafa is describing
a phenomenon

00:22:39.780 --> 00:22:42.620
known as the resource curse.

00:22:42.620 --> 00:22:44.850
Paradoxically,
finding oil usually

00:22:44.850 --> 00:22:47.550
increases a country's
poverty, as the oil wealth

00:22:47.550 --> 00:22:49.610
is concentrated in
the hands of a few,

00:22:49.610 --> 00:22:51.740
so the agriculture,
education, and health system

00:22:51.740 --> 00:22:54.210
of the country become
neglected and often collapse.

00:22:57.000 --> 00:22:58.570
The local peoples'
health problems

00:22:58.570 --> 00:23:01.540
are compounded by gas
flares, burning night and day

00:23:01.540 --> 00:23:03.280
throughout the Niger Delta.

00:23:03.280 --> 00:23:06.560
Asthma, bronchitis, skin
diseases, and cancer

00:23:06.560 --> 00:23:10.430
have all been linked.

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That gas is found
alongside oil, but as it's

00:23:13.990 --> 00:23:16.090
dangerous to transport,
it can't easily

00:23:16.090 --> 00:23:18.640
be sold to overseas markets.

00:23:18.640 --> 00:23:21.290
It could be used for cooking
and heating within Nigeria,

00:23:21.290 --> 00:23:23.430
but building the
infrastructure is expensive,

00:23:23.430 --> 00:23:27.080
so the oil companies
just burn it off.

00:23:27.080 --> 00:23:29.450
The flares emit
about 70 million tons

00:23:29.450 --> 00:23:33.330
of carbon dioxide every year,
more than the annual emissions

00:23:33.330 --> 00:23:36.380
from 10 million British homes.

00:23:36.380 --> 00:23:41.980
Because they have money,
the strong companies,

00:23:41.980 --> 00:23:44.501
they just do whatever they like.

00:23:49.120 --> 00:23:50.690
Why are Americans
cities designed

00:23:50.690 --> 00:23:54.480
so it's almost impossible
not to have a car?

00:23:54.480 --> 00:23:57.940
Why were 100 railways in cities
like New York, Philadelphia,

00:23:57.940 --> 00:24:02.180
and Los Angeles brought up and
then deliberately destroyed?

00:24:02.180 --> 00:24:05.830
Why did the electric
car get scrapped?

00:24:05.830 --> 00:24:08.490
Why were we, along with
Australia, the only two

00:24:08.490 --> 00:24:12.440
countries not to sign the
original Kyoto Climate Treaty?

00:24:12.440 --> 00:24:14.320
Why was an oil company
lobbyist allowed

00:24:14.320 --> 00:24:16.900
to change official government
reports on global warming?

00:24:20.630 --> 00:24:23.730
Why was the same PR firm
employed by the tobacco

00:24:23.730 --> 00:24:26.870
industry to persuade the
public that smoking is healthy,

00:24:26.870 --> 00:24:28.400
then employed by
the oil industry

00:24:28.400 --> 00:24:31.190
to convince us there were still
doubt about climate change?

00:24:36.780 --> 00:24:39.700
Alternative energy has been
available for 50 years.

00:24:39.700 --> 00:24:43.570
Why have we barely used it?

00:24:43.570 --> 00:24:48.130
Why were solar panels
taken off the White House?

00:24:48.130 --> 00:24:50.520
Because right from the
early days of the industry,

00:24:50.520 --> 00:24:52.160
the oil men and
their obscene profits

00:24:52.160 --> 00:24:54.368
have had an unhealthy
influence on the people running

00:24:54.368 --> 00:24:55.320
our country.

00:24:55.320 --> 00:24:57.410
And now they are the
people running our country.

00:25:01.450 --> 00:25:03.160
And they're providing
the cash too.

00:25:05.880 --> 00:25:08.285
Oil business isn't just in
bed with the government,

00:25:08.285 --> 00:25:09.265
it is the government.

00:25:15.400 --> 00:25:19.720
Here, Leyefa is going to
a nearby village, Odioma,

00:25:19.720 --> 00:25:22.900
that was massacred
by the government.

00:25:22.900 --> 00:25:25.780
The village was involved in
a dispute about ownership

00:25:25.780 --> 00:25:29.605
of a piece of land on which
Shell planned to drill for oil.

00:25:29.605 --> 00:25:31.230
The government claimed
that the village

00:25:31.230 --> 00:25:32.590
was harboring terrorists.

00:25:32.590 --> 00:25:36.160
And when they sent the military
in to find those terrorists,

00:25:36.160 --> 00:25:38.340
the villagers opened
fire on the soldiers.

00:25:38.340 --> 00:25:40.100
[NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]

00:25:40.100 --> 00:25:42.410
Leyefa has gone to hear the
village's side of the story

00:25:42.410 --> 00:25:45.100
from Omiekma Wickid.

00:25:45.100 --> 00:25:51.810
14 speedboats was coming
filled which military men.

00:25:51.810 --> 00:25:54.724
Then we saw four bomb boats.

00:25:54.724 --> 00:25:55.515
Then I feel a boom.

00:25:55.515 --> 00:25:56.920
I say, it's bombing.

00:25:56.920 --> 00:25:59.840
So we said, Jay, let's run.

00:25:59.840 --> 00:26:02.650
The whole highland is shaking.

00:26:02.650 --> 00:26:05.550
That was a building here.

00:26:05.550 --> 00:26:07.240
They come and bomb
it down, so they

00:26:07.240 --> 00:26:08.820
want the money that escaped.

00:26:08.820 --> 00:26:11.950
I ran down into the forest.

00:26:11.950 --> 00:26:14.910
Even two kids died here.

00:26:14.910 --> 00:26:15.650
Two kids.

00:26:15.650 --> 00:26:16.410
So you stayed--

00:26:16.410 --> 00:26:20.480
I stayed two weeks
in this forest.

00:26:20.480 --> 00:26:24.366
No food, plucking these.

00:26:24.366 --> 00:26:25.990
Right in the bush,
you can imagine what

00:26:25.990 --> 00:26:27.720
will happen to water there.

00:26:27.720 --> 00:26:31.640
We drank that water, and
so many children died.

00:26:31.640 --> 00:26:33.511
By then, I was pregnant.

00:26:33.511 --> 00:26:35.760
So when I deliver the baby,
because of the dirty water

00:26:35.760 --> 00:26:38.930
I would drink, when
I give birth to him,

00:26:38.930 --> 00:26:40.700
he was [INAUDIBLE] and vomiting.

00:26:40.700 --> 00:26:42.152
Then I lose him.

00:26:50.870 --> 00:26:53.170
Amnesty International
investigated the massacre

00:26:53.170 --> 00:26:55.870
and concluded that
although the government was

00:26:55.870 --> 00:26:58.750
responsible for the
killings, Shell Nigeria

00:26:58.750 --> 00:27:01.000
should have made sure that
their activities did not

00:27:01.000 --> 00:27:04.340
contribute to the conflict.

00:27:04.340 --> 00:27:09.220
Those ones that stayed, they
gathered them up, beat them up,

00:27:09.220 --> 00:27:10.220
raped some of our girls.

00:27:14.760 --> 00:27:17.210
This was my
grandfather's compound.

00:27:17.210 --> 00:27:20.666
He was living with his family.

00:27:20.666 --> 00:27:23.800
They burned down his
compound and killed him.

00:27:23.800 --> 00:27:25.070
They bombed him?

00:27:25.070 --> 00:27:27.350
They shoot him.

00:27:27.350 --> 00:27:32.050
Those leaders was lying in our
houses, they bombed them off.

00:27:32.050 --> 00:27:35.460
And when the old men and women,
they ones that are blind,

00:27:35.460 --> 00:27:36.780
they bombed them off.

00:27:39.606 --> 00:27:42.432
[MUSIC PLAYING]

00:27:45.000 --> 00:27:47.340
Human history littered
with the corpses of people

00:27:47.340 --> 00:27:48.644
who had stuff worth stealing.

00:27:51.540 --> 00:28:15.100
Animals, water, shiny
things, fertile land, spices.

00:28:22.370 --> 00:28:22.920
Nut mix?

00:28:22.920 --> 00:28:23.748
Slice.

00:28:23.748 --> 00:28:24.248
Tea?

00:28:29.506 --> 00:28:31.940
But when it came to
stuff worth pinching,

00:28:31.940 --> 00:28:33.478
one continent had it all.

00:28:36.290 --> 00:28:41.290
Ivory, copper, cotton, rubber,
wood, tin, gold, diamonds,

00:28:41.290 --> 00:28:42.264
and people.

00:28:46.160 --> 00:28:49.320
As cheap energy,
slaves were unbeatable

00:28:49.320 --> 00:28:52.370
until a less troublesome
energy source was discovered.

00:28:52.370 --> 00:28:54.850
And a new era began.

00:28:54.850 --> 00:28:57.770
Human numbers increased
five times over.

00:28:57.770 --> 00:29:00.574
And with each person
wanting more and more stuff,

00:29:00.574 --> 00:29:03.620
oil became the
resource worth fighting

00:29:03.620 --> 00:29:05.430
for all around the world.

00:29:27.342 --> 00:29:31.326
[MUSIC PLAYING]

00:29:54.741 --> 00:29:56.990
Well, you want the real
reason we went to war in Iraq?

00:29:56.990 --> 00:29:59.110
According to former Federal
Reserve Chairman Alan

00:29:59.110 --> 00:30:01.300
Greenspan, it's a simple
three letter answer.

00:30:01.300 --> 00:30:05.705
Not WMD, it's O-I-L.

00:30:05.705 --> 00:30:08.710
I am saddened that it's
politically inconvenient

00:30:08.710 --> 00:30:10.370
to acknowledge what
everyone knows,

00:30:10.370 --> 00:30:13.700
that the Iraq War is
largely about oil.

00:30:13.700 --> 00:30:15.480
You might read the
ex-chairman of Shell

00:30:15.480 --> 00:30:18.260
that said over the weekend
that oil could hit over $150

00:30:18.260 --> 00:30:20.820
a barrel as world
production begins to peak.

00:30:20.820 --> 00:30:25.240
Not really good news for a
country whose entire economy,

00:30:25.240 --> 00:30:29.580
not to mention its entire way
of life, is based on cheap oil.

00:30:33.848 --> 00:30:38.132
[SPEAKING ARABIC]

00:32:26.020 --> 00:32:29.850
Throughout our
history, the deal was

00:32:29.850 --> 00:32:33.530
we left the world in a better
place than we found it.

00:32:33.530 --> 00:32:34.870
That was progress.

00:32:34.870 --> 00:32:40.220
The wheel, the rule
of law, penicillin,

00:32:40.220 --> 00:32:44.770
it was our covenant to our
children and grandchildren.

00:32:44.770 --> 00:32:48.800
My children weren't angry with
me for breaking the covenant.

00:32:48.800 --> 00:32:50.810
They were too busy
trying to stay

00:32:50.810 --> 00:32:53.370
alive to waste energy on blame.

00:32:53.370 --> 00:32:56.100
Trying to negotiate their
way through food riots,

00:32:56.100 --> 00:33:00.550
refugee camps, the
collapse of society.

00:33:00.550 --> 00:33:03.240
But I think my grandchildren
would have been angry, had

00:33:03.240 --> 00:33:04.645
they survived into adulthood.

00:33:16.918 --> 00:33:20.760
[SPEAKING FRENCH]

00:34:54.949 --> 00:34:55.930
Skiing in the desert.

00:34:59.894 --> 00:35:00.560
Heating the air.

00:35:03.340 --> 00:35:05.680
Lighting empty offices.

00:35:05.680 --> 00:35:09.240
Energy is so ridiculously cheap,
it makes perfect economic sense

00:35:09.240 --> 00:35:11.600
to just piss it away.

00:35:11.600 --> 00:35:13.660
China is the knew
bad guy because they

00:35:13.660 --> 00:35:17.180
are building a new power
station every four days.

00:35:17.180 --> 00:35:20.940
But a quarter of that
energy makes stuff for us.

00:35:20.940 --> 00:35:23.760
Western companies pay
Chinese workers crap wages

00:35:23.760 --> 00:35:26.260
to make crap plastic toys,
then ship them to Europe

00:35:26.260 --> 00:35:29.620
and wrap them in more plastic.

00:35:29.620 --> 00:35:31.720
Punters drive to the
out of town mega-store

00:35:31.720 --> 00:35:33.030
in their gas guzzlers.

00:35:33.030 --> 00:35:36.630
Plastic toy in plastic
box goes into plastic bag.

00:35:36.630 --> 00:35:38.660
Two days later, toy
is broken, and plastic

00:35:38.660 --> 00:35:40.640
goes to a Chinese
landfill where it

00:35:40.640 --> 00:35:43.410
stays for about 50,000 years.

00:35:43.410 --> 00:35:44.835
[MUSIC PLAYING]

00:35:44.835 --> 00:35:46.990
(SINGING) Water
from the bottle's

00:35:46.990 --> 00:35:48.922
much better than the tap.

00:35:58.110 --> 00:36:01.810
800 times more energy wasted
and 10,000 times more expensive

00:36:01.810 --> 00:36:04.200
for you, it's a tricky decision.

00:36:11.190 --> 00:36:13.320
[SPEAKING FRENCH]

00:37:33.210 --> 00:37:35.170
[SPEAKING ARABIC]

00:37:57.466 --> 00:38:01.450
[MUSIC "THESE BOOTS ARE MADE FOR
WALKIN'"]

00:38:41.010 --> 00:38:43.980
[NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]

00:40:29.420 --> 00:40:32.700
Lots of ideas have tried
to take over the world,

00:40:32.700 --> 00:40:35.600
but there's only one winner.

00:40:35.600 --> 00:40:38.955
3,000 adverts bombard
us every day telling us

00:40:38.955 --> 00:40:40.530
we'll be happier,
more attractive,

00:40:40.530 --> 00:40:43.878
and with better skin if
only we buy their products.

00:40:43.878 --> 00:40:47.410
Together, they create within
us an insatiable desire

00:40:47.410 --> 00:40:49.750
to buy more and more stuff.

00:40:49.750 --> 00:40:52.290
Americans have been
advertised at longer,

00:40:52.290 --> 00:40:56.650
and they now each consume twice
as much energy as a European,

00:40:56.650 --> 00:40:58.310
nine time more than
a Chinese person,

00:40:58.310 --> 00:41:01.770
15 time more than an Indian,
and 50 times more than someone

00:41:01.770 --> 00:41:03.780
from Kenya.

00:41:03.780 --> 00:41:06.410
If all 6 and 1/2 billion
people here on Earth

00:41:06.410 --> 00:41:09.280
consumed like
Europeans or Japanese,

00:41:09.280 --> 00:41:12.330
we'd need two more planets
worth of resources.

00:41:12.330 --> 00:41:15.230
If everyone consumed like
Americans, Australians,

00:41:15.230 --> 00:41:17.970
and Canadians, we'd
need another four.

00:41:17.970 --> 00:41:21.840
And in 2040 or so when there's
about nine billion of us,

00:41:21.840 --> 00:41:23.830
we'll need two more again.

00:41:23.830 --> 00:41:26.870
Capitalism's only goal
is ever expanding growth.

00:41:26.870 --> 00:41:29.270
But ever expanding
growth on just the one

00:41:29.270 --> 00:41:32.350
not expanding planet
is impossible.

00:41:32.350 --> 00:41:35.330
The current economic
system is disastrous

00:41:35.330 --> 00:41:38.280
not just for the planet,
but for most people too.

00:41:38.280 --> 00:41:41.710
400 years of capitalism
has allowed the richest 1%

00:41:41.710 --> 00:41:45.630
to take 40% for
themselves, leaving just 1%

00:41:45.630 --> 00:41:48.050
for the poorest half.

00:41:48.050 --> 00:41:49.900
But anyone wanting
to live differently

00:41:49.900 --> 00:41:53.020
is thwarted at every turn.

00:41:53.020 --> 00:41:56.940
With profit the only measuring
stick, destroying the planet

00:41:56.940 --> 00:41:58.770
is written into the system.

00:41:58.770 --> 00:42:03.386
And runaway climate change is
a not very surprising result.

00:42:03.386 --> 00:42:07.370
[MUSIC DEPECHE MODE, "JUST CAN'T
GET ENOUGH"]

00:42:22.340 --> 00:42:24.130
The logo, effectively, is color.

00:42:24.130 --> 00:42:25.610
Like today, orange is Telecom.

00:42:25.610 --> 00:42:27.320
They have orange and black.

00:42:27.320 --> 00:42:29.200
Our logo is
[INAUDIBLE] and color.

00:42:34.289 --> 00:42:36.080
Everything changes in
an economy the minute

00:42:36.080 --> 00:42:38.496
you have an airline moving in
because people can basically

00:42:38.496 --> 00:42:41.767
do business a lot faster.

00:42:41.767 --> 00:42:42.975
Businesses grow a lot faster.

00:42:42.975 --> 00:42:45.020
People have more
disposable income.

00:42:45.020 --> 00:42:47.150
Then consumerism sets in.

00:42:47.150 --> 00:42:49.580
And we're on the verge
where basic consumerism is

00:42:49.580 --> 00:42:52.040
setting in.

00:42:52.040 --> 00:42:53.430
It is moving a lot like America.

00:42:59.010 --> 00:43:02.080
I am not up to living
this kind of life.

00:43:02.080 --> 00:43:02.580
I'm 23.

00:43:02.580 --> 00:43:05.480
I should be in a better place.

00:43:05.480 --> 00:43:09.240
Alice wants her place
to be like in America.

00:43:09.240 --> 00:43:13.430
In a comfortable house, flashy
cars, drinking good water,

00:43:13.430 --> 00:43:15.180
eating good food.

00:43:15.180 --> 00:43:18.160
I just want at
least my people, me

00:43:18.160 --> 00:43:21.130
myself, to live
that kind of life.

00:43:21.130 --> 00:43:22.260
It's a beautiful life.

00:43:22.260 --> 00:43:23.760
If you are living
that kind of life,

00:43:23.760 --> 00:43:25.460
you won't even like to die.

00:43:25.460 --> 00:43:27.270
You just want to stay
on Earth forever.

00:43:49.640 --> 00:43:50.880
Wide slope.

00:43:50.880 --> 00:43:51.970
Wide slope.

00:43:51.970 --> 00:43:54.940
Here Jeh travels to Airbus
headquarters in France,

00:43:54.940 --> 00:43:58.330
as they'll be supplying him with
26 planes in his first three

00:43:58.330 --> 00:44:00.070
years.

00:44:00.070 --> 00:44:02.820
We have only 200 aircraft
commercially flying in India.

00:44:02.820 --> 00:44:05.720
China has 800.

00:44:05.720 --> 00:44:08.072
Ultimately, we have a
very long way to go.

00:44:08.072 --> 00:44:10.280
Playing catch up with China,
or catch up with Europe,

00:44:10.280 --> 00:44:11.420
or say America.

00:44:11.420 --> 00:44:14.454
One airline, Southwest,
has 417 aircraft.

00:44:14.454 --> 00:44:16.870
That's double the amount of
aircraft we have as a country.

00:44:20.654 --> 00:44:23.390
This is not, of course,
your final design choice.

00:44:23.390 --> 00:44:25.836
One simple sentence for
me summarizes it all.

00:44:25.836 --> 00:44:26.960
Things can only get better.

00:45:03.620 --> 00:45:06.080
My main house had
10 feet of water,

00:45:06.080 --> 00:45:11.330
and it marinated in that
sludge for three weeks almost.

00:45:11.330 --> 00:45:14.260
So the current state of my
house, it has been demolished.

00:45:14.260 --> 00:45:16.710
It's a flat piece of property
waiting for another house

00:45:16.710 --> 00:45:19.430
to go on it.

00:45:19.430 --> 00:45:22.630
I lost everything,
everything that I owned.

00:45:22.630 --> 00:45:25.170
I mean everything
from family heirlooms

00:45:25.170 --> 00:45:27.960
to the paper towels sitting
on your kitchen counter,

00:45:27.960 --> 00:45:29.460
and everything in between.

00:45:29.460 --> 00:45:30.688
It goes on and on.

00:45:40.150 --> 00:45:43.910
Two beautiful, beautiful
oak trees, I did not lose.

00:45:43.910 --> 00:45:47.470
Local, indigenous, quercus
virginiana live oaks,

00:45:47.470 --> 00:45:49.130
that sprawl all over the place.

00:45:49.130 --> 00:45:50.400
Beautiful, beautiful.

00:45:50.400 --> 00:45:53.780
That's what I had left, two
oak trees and an empty lot.

00:45:53.780 --> 00:45:56.730
Everything else is gone.

00:45:56.730 --> 00:45:57.295
That sucks.

00:46:02.840 --> 00:46:08.822
Losing everything you
have, it's so overwhelming.

00:46:08.822 --> 00:46:12.250
The grief that comes with
that, it's just profound.

00:46:17.840 --> 00:46:20.220
We had an unspoken
collective pact

00:46:20.220 --> 00:46:22.400
to pretend climate
change wasn't happening.

00:46:22.400 --> 00:46:25.157
It was as thought as long as
we ignored it hard enough,

00:46:25.157 --> 00:46:25.990
it wouldn't be true.

00:46:30.350 --> 00:46:32.640
Not absolutely everyone.

00:46:32.640 --> 00:46:34.110
A few were shouting fire.

00:46:40.450 --> 00:46:40.950
Hello.

00:46:40.950 --> 00:46:42.470
Come on in.

00:46:42.470 --> 00:46:44.900
One of the greatest
difficulties with climate change

00:46:44.900 --> 00:46:48.080
is that the effects
of our emission today

00:46:48.080 --> 00:46:50.920
are not actually realized in
terms of the temperature for 30

00:46:50.920 --> 00:46:51.710
to 40 years.

00:46:51.710 --> 00:46:53.940
So there's this time
lag in the system, which

00:46:53.940 --> 00:46:56.740
makes it difficult for us
humans to respond because we're

00:46:56.740 --> 00:46:59.830
evolutionarily equipped to deal
with very immediate threats

00:46:59.830 --> 00:47:02.020
like advancing armies
or dangerous animals.

00:47:02.020 --> 00:47:04.560
We're not so well equipped
with dealing rationally

00:47:04.560 --> 00:47:07.869
with very long term problems
like climate change.

00:47:07.869 --> 00:47:09.410
So, we have act now
to stop something

00:47:09.410 --> 00:47:11.134
happening in the future.

00:47:11.134 --> 00:47:13.550
If you wait until the full
temperature effects are already

00:47:13.550 --> 00:47:16.520
upon us, then it's
far too late to stop.

00:47:16.520 --> 00:47:19.310
If you remember one single
number above all else,

00:47:19.310 --> 00:47:21.150
make it two degrees.

00:47:21.150 --> 00:47:23.220
Now everyone in the
world, pretty much--

00:47:23.220 --> 00:47:26.160
the European Union, big
multinational corporations,

00:47:26.160 --> 00:47:28.250
Greenpeace, political
parties-- all

00:47:28.250 --> 00:47:31.380
agree that we have to
stabilize global temperatures

00:47:31.380 --> 00:47:33.960
within two degrees above
pre-industrial levels.

00:47:33.960 --> 00:47:36.240
And the reason for
that is because if you

00:47:36.240 --> 00:47:37.920
cross that threshold,
then there are

00:47:37.920 --> 00:47:39.832
tipping points in
the Earth's system

00:47:39.832 --> 00:47:42.040
which could drive the warming
process essentially out

00:47:42.040 --> 00:47:43.170
of control.

00:47:43.170 --> 00:47:45.060
Huge amounts of carbon
could be coming out

00:47:45.060 --> 00:47:46.810
of the world's
trees and the soils.

00:47:46.810 --> 00:47:49.470
[INAUDIBLE] will be coming out
of the permafrost in Siberia.

00:47:49.470 --> 00:47:51.970
And it's that extra
input of greenhouse gases

00:47:51.970 --> 00:47:53.920
into the atmosphere
which then leads us

00:47:53.920 --> 00:47:56.260
up the worst case scenarios
to six or more degrees

00:47:56.260 --> 00:48:00.170
and the eventual wipe out
of most of life on Earth.

00:48:00.170 --> 00:48:02.950
So, our emissions have
been going up between,

00:48:02.950 --> 00:48:05.930
let's say, 1950 and now.

00:48:05.930 --> 00:48:10.490
They need to level out,
stabilize, and then decline

00:48:10.490 --> 00:48:12.800
just as rapidly to
sustainable levels,

00:48:12.800 --> 00:48:15.640
about an 80% cut by 2050.

00:48:15.640 --> 00:48:17.840
But crucially, to keep
the temperature rise

00:48:17.840 --> 00:48:22.090
within two degrees, this
point of stabilization

00:48:22.090 --> 00:48:25.390
needs to be at around 2015.

00:48:25.390 --> 00:48:27.620
So that means
really the timeline

00:48:27.620 --> 00:48:31.914
we've got-- ticking clock--
is that we have to stabilize

00:48:31.914 --> 00:48:33.580
global emissions
within just seven years

00:48:33.580 --> 00:48:38.630
from now, as we speak in 2008.

00:48:38.630 --> 00:48:41.970
And the scale of this task,
to achieve transformation

00:48:41.970 --> 00:48:46.710
to a low carbon economy for the
entirety of human civilization,

00:48:46.710 --> 00:48:48.449
is obviously a huge,
monumental task.

00:48:48.449 --> 00:48:50.490
Probably the greatest that
humanity's ever faced.

00:49:00.100 --> 00:49:03.180
Remember the English family
who went to see the glacier?

00:49:03.180 --> 00:49:06.400
They're back home in Cornwall,
southwest England, inspired

00:49:06.400 --> 00:49:09.942
to start tackling their
own energy wasting.

00:49:09.942 --> 00:49:12.490
It says that the average
individual in the UK

00:49:12.490 --> 00:49:17.360
is responsible for emitting 10
tons of greenhouse gas a year.

00:49:17.360 --> 00:49:20.270
They're calculating exactly
how much climate change

00:49:20.270 --> 00:49:23.110
gases their family
currently produces

00:49:23.110 --> 00:49:24.289
and how it can be reduced.

00:49:24.289 --> 00:49:25.955
Yeah, but that's the
average individual.

00:49:25.955 --> 00:49:27.240
There are five of us.

00:49:30.980 --> 00:49:33.428
Whichever way you look
at it, this isn't good.

00:49:36.290 --> 00:49:39.060
We produce about
half of our food.

00:49:39.060 --> 00:49:42.727
And we try and keep our
consumption of meat and dairy

00:49:42.727 --> 00:49:43.226
down.

00:49:45.980 --> 00:49:48.140
My car runs on chip fat.

00:49:48.140 --> 00:49:51.810
And we do cycle where we can.

00:49:51.810 --> 00:49:54.290
We've just got our own wind
turbine which will produce all

00:49:54.290 --> 00:49:57.230
our own electricity.

00:49:57.230 --> 00:50:00.280
We're aiming to cut down
to about one ton each

00:50:00.280 --> 00:50:03.240
per year which is
apparently the sustainable

00:50:03.240 --> 00:50:07.090
amount that the world's trees
and plants can reabsorb.

00:50:07.090 --> 00:50:09.210
But the big problem is flying.

00:50:09.210 --> 00:50:12.750
Just one return flight,
say London to New York,

00:50:12.750 --> 00:50:14.440
would blow our
entire carbon budget

00:50:14.440 --> 00:50:17.350
for about 3 and 1/2 years.

00:50:17.350 --> 00:50:20.500
Apparently other than setting
fire to a forest, flying

00:50:20.500 --> 00:50:22.890
is the single worst thing
an ordinary individual

00:50:22.890 --> 00:50:24.910
can do to cause climate change.

00:50:24.910 --> 00:50:27.780
So it's a bit of a dilemma
because we've just been

00:50:27.780 --> 00:50:30.050
invited to go skiing in France.

00:50:30.050 --> 00:50:31.482
Then they are
flying from Newquay,

00:50:31.482 --> 00:50:32.940
which is our nearest
airport-- it's

00:50:32.940 --> 00:50:36.670
like 40 minutes from
here-- to Bergerac,

00:50:36.670 --> 00:50:41.480
which is like an hour and a
half or something from it.

00:50:41.480 --> 00:50:43.720
And literally, we could
leave here in the morning.

00:50:43.720 --> 00:50:45.670
We live in Cornwall.

00:50:45.670 --> 00:50:48.390
We could leave
Cornwall in the morning

00:50:48.390 --> 00:50:52.610
and be in Bergerac after lunch.

00:50:52.610 --> 00:50:54.821
But if you actually
think this is

00:50:54.821 --> 00:50:56.320
going to cause the
death of people--

00:50:56.320 --> 00:50:59.000
it's actually going to
affect people-- and make

00:50:59.000 --> 00:51:04.450
that direct connection, than
it is a really scary thought.

00:51:04.450 --> 00:51:07.570
Obviously, us not
flying to France

00:51:07.570 --> 00:51:10.830
or not flying wherever is hardly
going to solve the problem,

00:51:10.830 --> 00:51:15.544
but it's down to what you think
is the correct thing to do.

00:51:15.544 --> 00:51:16.960
Because everyone
else is doing it,

00:51:16.960 --> 00:51:19.095
that's not a good
reason to do anything.

00:51:19.095 --> 00:51:22.435
You have to look at the
terrible things in our history

00:51:22.435 --> 00:51:24.690
that everyone regrets now.

00:51:24.690 --> 00:51:27.506
Massacres, the Holocaust, etc.

00:51:27.506 --> 00:51:29.290
A lot of that was
just going along

00:51:29.290 --> 00:51:32.482
with what was the predominant
thinking at the time.

00:51:35.920 --> 00:51:39.265
I'm almost jealous
of the time, 5,

00:51:39.265 --> 00:51:42.880
10 years ago, when I could just
jump on a plane with impunity.

00:51:42.880 --> 00:51:44.110
I didn't even think about it.

00:51:44.110 --> 00:51:44.990
I was just blissful.

00:51:44.990 --> 00:51:47.785
There's no moral dilemma
there whatsoever.

00:51:50.920 --> 00:51:54.140
Needless to say, they
didn't take that flight.

00:51:54.140 --> 00:51:57.000
And joining a climate
change protest march

00:51:57.000 --> 00:51:59.870
may not be everybody's idea
of a 10th wedding anniversary,

00:51:59.870 --> 00:52:02.510
but Piers and Lisa
have shared ideals

00:52:02.510 --> 00:52:04.630
from the moment they met.

00:52:04.630 --> 00:52:07.240
My friend-- we went along
to the party together--

00:52:07.240 --> 00:52:09.720
and she just basically took
me straight over to Piers

00:52:09.720 --> 00:52:12.355
and said, Piers, this is Lisa.

00:52:15.210 --> 00:52:16.220
And that was it.

00:52:16.220 --> 00:52:17.150
That was it.

00:52:17.150 --> 00:52:23.235
We just spent the whole thing
talking about wind turbines.

00:52:27.890 --> 00:52:31.700
Piers has been developing
wind farms in Africa, America,

00:52:31.700 --> 00:52:34.070
and Britain for over 15 years.

00:52:34.070 --> 00:52:36.550
But he knows that they will
only help solve the climate

00:52:36.550 --> 00:52:39.585
crisis as a small part
of a total reordering

00:52:39.585 --> 00:52:40.658
of Western society.

00:52:43.940 --> 00:52:46.110
There's still this
idea that somehow we

00:52:46.110 --> 00:52:49.330
have to find the solution,
the silver bullet.

00:52:49.330 --> 00:52:51.900
No single renewable source
is going to be the solution.

00:52:51.900 --> 00:52:53.112
Absolutely not.

00:52:55.760 --> 00:52:59.480
Piers doesn't think much of the
other option, whereby everyone

00:52:59.480 --> 00:53:02.460
crosses their fingers and hopes
that a miracle technology will

00:53:02.460 --> 00:53:04.951
be invented in time.

00:53:04.951 --> 00:53:07.200
I'm not saying we shouldn't
be developing other stuff.

00:53:07.200 --> 00:53:08.880
Absolutely, we should be.

00:53:08.880 --> 00:53:10.970
We should be throwing
everything at it,

00:53:10.970 --> 00:53:14.950
but you've got to make use
of what's available now.

00:53:14.950 --> 00:53:18.220
And in the UK, we've
got great wind results.

00:53:18.220 --> 00:53:20.650
We just got to bite the
bullet and go for it.

00:53:20.650 --> 00:53:22.460
Piers has proposed
a new wind farm

00:53:22.460 --> 00:53:25.580
at Airfield Farm in
Bedfordshire, central England.

00:53:25.580 --> 00:53:28.190
He could have 15
turbines installed

00:53:28.190 --> 00:53:32.480
and generating 30 megawatts
of electricity within a year.

00:53:32.480 --> 00:53:35.580
We're the leaders of the
revolution, aren't we?

00:53:35.580 --> 00:53:36.824
That's it, outraged faces.

00:53:36.824 --> 00:53:38.240
Edward, I've lost
your face again.

00:53:38.240 --> 00:53:39.290
Sorry, chap.

00:53:39.290 --> 00:53:39.790
That's it.

00:53:39.790 --> 00:53:41.750
Good man.

00:53:41.750 --> 00:53:43.780
The process balloon
is now going up.

00:53:43.780 --> 00:53:46.500
But while that's happening,
I'll just explain where we are.

00:53:46.500 --> 00:53:49.200
This is the sight of an old
World War II bomber base.

00:53:49.200 --> 00:53:49.740
[PHONE RING]

00:53:49.740 --> 00:53:51.150
Phone, bollocks.

00:53:51.150 --> 00:53:55.160
Can we all have our
thumbs down as well?

00:53:55.160 --> 00:53:58.550
UK wide surveys point
to about 70% to 80%

00:53:58.550 --> 00:54:01.390
in favor of wind
farms as a concept.

00:54:01.390 --> 00:54:04.040
The difficulty is when you've
got one on your own doorstep.

00:54:04.040 --> 00:54:07.970
And then it's the not in
my back yard syndrome.

00:54:07.970 --> 00:54:10.060
Jim, what's the problem?

00:54:10.060 --> 00:54:11.810
The problem really
is that this is

00:54:11.810 --> 00:54:14.022
one of the least windy
sites in the country.

00:54:14.022 --> 00:54:15.980
I hope it's not going to
get too windy tomorrow

00:54:15.980 --> 00:54:17.850
and it wraps itself
around the church.

00:54:17.850 --> 00:54:20.420
Well, I live in
Coddington, and we're

00:54:20.420 --> 00:54:24.580
going to be absolutely
surrounded by these high masts.

00:54:24.580 --> 00:54:26.550
They're going to
obliterate the view.

00:54:26.550 --> 00:54:28.910
What it normally always
comes down to with wind farms

00:54:28.910 --> 00:54:31.020
is the aesthetics.

00:54:31.020 --> 00:54:33.530
Everything else is
basically put together

00:54:33.530 --> 00:54:35.740
to try and back up
the ultimate thing.

00:54:35.740 --> 00:54:37.240
And the ultimate
thing is they don't

00:54:37.240 --> 00:54:39.380
want it to spoil their view.

00:54:39.380 --> 00:54:43.880
I'm a bit concerned about
the low level noise as well.

00:54:43.880 --> 00:54:46.180
The wind farm site is
right next to the world

00:54:46.180 --> 00:54:48.675
famous Santa Pod
drag racing strip.

00:54:53.600 --> 00:54:56.050
Anybody you ask here,
nobody's against wind energy.

00:54:56.050 --> 00:54:57.110
That's the point.

00:54:57.110 --> 00:55:00.360
It's against inappropriate
wind energy use.

00:55:00.360 --> 00:55:01.825
Hypnotic.

00:55:01.825 --> 00:55:03.490
If you were driving
along, and you

00:55:03.490 --> 00:55:05.050
turned to see the
sails revolving,

00:55:05.050 --> 00:55:09.150
and you're not concentrating
on the driving.

00:55:09.150 --> 00:55:11.620
Ernie Braddock will
benefit financially

00:55:11.620 --> 00:55:14.170
having turbines on
his farm, but now he's

00:55:14.170 --> 00:55:17.320
in conflict with his
neighbor, Victoria Reeves.

00:55:17.320 --> 00:55:19.216
Everyone is very
unhappy about it.

00:55:19.216 --> 00:55:21.215
We're going to lose the
value on our properties.

00:55:21.215 --> 00:55:22.330
We're not going to
be able to sleep.

00:55:22.330 --> 00:55:23.570
It will make a difference.

00:55:23.570 --> 00:55:25.290
Ernie, you have no idea.

00:55:25.290 --> 00:55:26.190
Believe me.

00:55:26.190 --> 00:55:29.630
According to Victoria,
they stopped a wind farm

00:55:29.630 --> 00:55:33.420
on their other estate in
Scotland back in the mid '90s.

00:55:33.420 --> 00:55:34.875
And that was a great victory.

00:55:34.875 --> 00:55:36.447
It can't rely on the wind.

00:55:36.447 --> 00:55:37.280
It can only deliver.

00:55:37.280 --> 00:55:38.890
It's only an additive.

00:55:38.890 --> 00:55:40.470
An additive?

00:55:40.470 --> 00:55:41.880
Do you mean additional?

00:55:41.880 --> 00:55:42.380
Yes.

00:55:42.380 --> 00:55:43.088
It is additional.

00:55:43.088 --> 00:55:44.330
It prolongs the resources.

00:55:44.330 --> 00:55:45.320
Put it that way.

00:55:45.320 --> 00:55:46.360
No Ernie, it doesn't.

00:55:46.360 --> 00:55:46.904
It's got to.

00:55:46.904 --> 00:55:48.070
It does nothing of the sort.

00:55:48.070 --> 00:55:48.570
It's got to.

00:55:48.570 --> 00:55:49.110
Believe me.

00:55:49.110 --> 00:55:50.690
It's got to.

00:55:50.690 --> 00:55:51.990
It's an emotional campaign.

00:55:51.990 --> 00:55:57.030
It's about fear, mostly based
on complete bollocks, frankly.

00:55:57.030 --> 00:55:59.690
But never mind, facts
are not our problem.

00:55:59.690 --> 00:56:01.665
It's a fair fight.

00:56:01.665 --> 00:56:03.411
And I hope you lose.

00:56:03.411 --> 00:56:03.911
All right.

00:56:10.980 --> 00:56:16.060
This is August 2005, just after
Mumbai's worst ever floods

00:56:16.060 --> 00:56:18.515
and a couple of months
before Jeh's first flight.

00:56:25.219 --> 00:56:27.600
Show Daddy how good
you are at this.

00:56:27.600 --> 00:56:30.010
Show Daddy how fast you can go.

00:56:30.010 --> 00:56:31.810
Come on.

00:56:31.810 --> 00:56:33.894
Press this.

00:56:33.894 --> 00:56:34.560
No more pushing.

00:56:34.560 --> 00:56:37.262
It's battery operated.

00:56:37.262 --> 00:56:39.154
I can't see an issue there.

00:56:39.154 --> 00:56:40.100
It's Grandpa!

00:56:40.100 --> 00:56:41.530
I see you, Grandpa.

00:56:41.530 --> 00:56:44.040
Jeh is descended from one
of India's richest and most

00:56:44.040 --> 00:56:45.656
powerful business dynasties.

00:56:45.656 --> 00:56:47.655
They have pioneered
everything from shipbuilding

00:56:47.655 --> 00:56:51.810
in the 18th century to
internet services in the 21st.

00:56:51.810 --> 00:56:54.790
In a roundabout way, his
privileged upbringing

00:56:54.790 --> 00:56:57.210
sparked the idea for
the low cost airline.

00:56:57.210 --> 00:56:58.320
What do you want me to do?

00:56:58.320 --> 00:57:01.410
I have to go to the airport.

00:57:01.410 --> 00:57:04.530
Throughout basically my
life, from a young age,

00:57:04.530 --> 00:57:07.390
I used to hang out with
basically the servant's kids.

00:57:07.390 --> 00:57:08.800
You know that sort of stuff.

00:57:08.800 --> 00:57:12.336
When you go home, you
suddenly think, why the hell

00:57:12.336 --> 00:57:15.750
do I have so much and
these guys have nothing.

00:57:15.750 --> 00:57:16.500
That sort of shit.

00:57:16.500 --> 00:57:19.300
And that constantly, constantly,
constantly ate me up.

00:57:22.300 --> 00:57:24.210
Everyone is here for a purpose.

00:57:24.210 --> 00:57:27.540
The idea is to realize what
your higher purpose is and then

00:57:27.540 --> 00:57:30.990
understand how you're
going to fulfill it.

00:57:30.990 --> 00:57:33.660
Eventually, I realized
what my higher purpose was.

00:57:33.660 --> 00:57:35.800
It was to ensure that
I eradicated poverty.

00:57:45.420 --> 00:57:48.340
Jeh volunteers at a charity
which helps villages

00:57:48.340 --> 00:57:50.260
lift themselves out of poverty.

00:57:50.260 --> 00:57:52.820
But even by private
jet and jeep,

00:57:52.820 --> 00:57:56.910
it's a five hour, 900
kilometer journey.

00:57:56.910 --> 00:57:59.450
Hiring a private jet
basically costs as much

00:57:59.450 --> 00:58:02.452
as a village does to take a
village from below the poverty

00:58:02.452 --> 00:58:03.660
and put it about the poverty.

00:58:03.660 --> 00:58:08.120
So effectively, it
defeats the purpose.

00:58:08.120 --> 00:58:11.000
And therefore, I decided
to try the train.

00:58:11.000 --> 00:58:13.150
From Bombay it takes
about 26 hours.

00:58:13.150 --> 00:58:14.180
I said to myself, wow.

00:58:14.180 --> 00:58:15.480
This is just incredible.

00:58:15.480 --> 00:58:18.050
People pay good money and
still have to basically put up

00:58:18.050 --> 00:58:18.986
with this rubbish.

00:58:21.800 --> 00:58:24.630
15 million people
travel by train in India

00:58:24.630 --> 00:58:26.600
every single day.

00:58:26.600 --> 00:58:29.590
Jeh's dream is to get
them all off the train

00:58:29.590 --> 00:58:30.480
and into the skies.

00:58:32.990 --> 00:58:34.530
We're not at war at the moment.

00:58:34.530 --> 00:58:38.810
It's not a war, but if actually
recognize the full implications

00:58:38.810 --> 00:58:41.780
of what's in store for us, they
will be treating it like a war.

00:58:48.330 --> 00:58:50.370
You only got to take
Airfield Farm, for example.

00:58:50.370 --> 00:58:52.190
That was a US air base.

00:58:52.190 --> 00:58:54.240
People flew out
of there and died

00:58:54.240 --> 00:58:57.520
for a cause, which was massive
at the time, a global problem.

00:58:57.520 --> 00:59:02.350
And we have ourselves now
a real global problem that

00:59:02.350 --> 00:59:04.000
needs that level of commitment.

00:59:06.580 --> 00:59:08.380
There are many, many
other industries

00:59:08.380 --> 00:59:11.740
that need to be looked
into first before aviation.

00:59:11.740 --> 00:59:14.240
It's not a question about
choosing one industry

00:59:14.240 --> 00:59:15.300
to target.

00:59:15.300 --> 00:59:18.190
Ultimately, we all contribute
to greenhouse gases.

00:59:18.190 --> 00:59:21.434
We all contribute to the
crisis that we have today

00:59:21.434 --> 00:59:22.100
with the planet.

00:59:22.100 --> 00:59:24.700
Ultimately, in terms of
ensuring that our planet is

00:59:24.700 --> 00:59:31.860
safe and healthy is
each one's job, task.

00:59:31.860 --> 00:59:34.882
Whether you do it in your own
way by using less tissue paper

00:59:34.882 --> 00:59:36.465
or using less papers
or the cheese not

00:59:36.465 --> 00:59:40.720
cut, buying green
cars, or not flying.

00:59:40.720 --> 00:59:43.530
Obviously, if you're not doing
it, the demand goes down.

00:59:43.530 --> 00:59:46.370
If the demand goes down,
the supply goes down.

00:59:46.370 --> 00:59:48.960
Life is about demand and
supply, or supply and demand.

00:59:53.610 --> 00:59:55.880
We don't catch a
lot of fish anymore.

00:59:55.880 --> 00:59:59.340
So, I decide to join
into another business,

00:59:59.340 --> 01:00:04.542
a diesel business to make
quick cash for my college.

01:00:21.420 --> 01:00:25.290
Right now, because of
the fire and scarcity,

01:00:25.290 --> 01:00:28.670
most of the filling
stations have all

01:00:28.670 --> 01:00:32.600
shut down because
there's nothing to sell.

01:00:32.600 --> 01:00:34.980
So people get it from
the black market.

01:00:39.170 --> 01:00:41.580
I buy these every Thursday.

01:00:41.580 --> 01:00:46.010
I sell them to
Amisis and Rebecca.

01:00:46.010 --> 01:00:47.680
She sells it to her customers.

01:00:47.680 --> 01:00:50.240
I don't really know
about that, but I

01:00:50.240 --> 01:00:53.290
know she sells them
to her customers.

01:00:53.290 --> 01:00:56.020
It is stressful, but
it has a larger profit

01:00:56.020 --> 01:00:57.580
than selling the fish.

01:01:11.920 --> 01:01:15.385
Strange, watching
these film fragments.

01:01:15.385 --> 01:01:18.130
It's like looking
through binoculars,

01:01:18.130 --> 01:01:20.510
observing people
on a far off beach,

01:01:20.510 --> 01:01:23.140
running around in
circles, fixated

01:01:23.140 --> 01:01:26.740
on the small area of
sand under their feet

01:01:26.740 --> 01:01:28.810
as a tsunami races
towards the shore.

01:01:42.680 --> 01:01:43.890
Here's Alvin.

01:01:43.890 --> 01:01:47.040
He's just taken early retirement
after 30 years on an oil

01:01:47.040 --> 01:01:50.120
industry salary and is planning
to spend his later years

01:01:50.120 --> 01:01:53.060
outside enjoying nature.

01:01:53.060 --> 01:01:55.665
Certainly, I'm an ecologist
and an environmentalist.

01:01:58.410 --> 01:02:00.300
I really don't have
a problem squaring

01:02:00.300 --> 01:02:05.030
that working for an
oil company that I feel

01:02:05.030 --> 01:02:12.601
has done a pretty good job in
being environmentally friendly.

01:02:16.290 --> 01:02:21.015
When I started working in
the oil industry in about

01:02:21.015 --> 01:02:24.555
the mid-70s, it was a clear
path as a scientist coming out

01:02:24.555 --> 01:02:27.300
of college.

01:02:27.300 --> 01:02:29.470
And I didn't know
the detail of what

01:02:29.470 --> 01:02:33.730
goes on in the industry,
the goods and the bad.

01:02:33.730 --> 01:02:37.600
But indeed, every industry has
that, the goods and the bad.

01:02:37.600 --> 01:02:40.450
Would I do it again
knowing what I know now?

01:02:40.450 --> 01:02:42.420
Of course I would do it again.

01:02:42.420 --> 01:02:43.524
I mean you need the work.

01:02:43.524 --> 01:02:44.565
You need to do something.

01:03:01.990 --> 01:03:03.195
Message one.

01:03:03.195 --> 01:03:05.925
There's a [INAUDIBLE] overhead.

01:03:05.925 --> 01:03:07.750
It's a piece of
cake to sabotage.

01:03:07.750 --> 01:03:08.890
It will be destroyed.

01:03:08.890 --> 01:03:12.784
It will help provide
electricity into the grid.

01:03:12.784 --> 01:03:15.718
Our direct action
will prevent it.

01:03:15.718 --> 01:03:18.163
So that's the end of that.

01:03:18.163 --> 01:03:22.013
There is a group of us who will
make sure that it is completely

01:03:22.013 --> 01:03:22.513
destroyed.

01:03:26.950 --> 01:03:29.720
The worst example I've
had is an old lady

01:03:29.720 --> 01:03:32.250
came up to me in a
public exhibition

01:03:32.250 --> 01:03:36.560
and gave me a cutting
from a newspaper

01:03:36.560 --> 01:03:38.175
with a picture of
a guy being shot.

01:03:40.840 --> 01:03:43.850
Local anti campaigns are one
of the key factors stopping

01:03:43.850 --> 01:03:47.882
about 80% of the proposed wind
energy projects in Britain.

01:03:47.882 --> 01:03:50.710
Had they all been built,
10% of our electricity

01:03:50.710 --> 01:03:51.960
would have been non-polluting.

01:03:55.600 --> 01:03:58.030
How the heck are we
meant to persuade people

01:03:58.030 --> 01:04:00.540
like India and China
that they should develop

01:04:00.540 --> 01:04:02.550
in a more sustainable
way when we're not

01:04:02.550 --> 01:04:07.080
prepared to even accept the
old wind farm in the landscape?

01:04:07.080 --> 01:04:07.820
How is it going?

01:04:07.820 --> 01:04:09.540
All right.

01:04:09.540 --> 01:04:10.950
Not too much trouble?

01:04:10.950 --> 01:04:12.030
Not really, no.

01:04:12.030 --> 01:04:15.550
Nobody's punched
me up yet anyway.

01:04:15.550 --> 01:04:17.790
Piers has come back to
Ernie's farm with a plan

01:04:17.790 --> 01:04:20.240
to make the turbines
less visible,

01:04:20.240 --> 01:04:21.770
trying to kick
start the planning

01:04:21.770 --> 01:04:26.420
process that the anti campaign
has now held up for 18 months.

01:04:26.420 --> 01:04:28.930
Another 18 months
of climate change.

01:04:28.930 --> 01:04:30.400
Another 18 months
where I've been

01:04:30.400 --> 01:04:34.180
able to do nothing about it.

01:04:34.180 --> 01:04:37.552
I feel really, really
fucked off with it.

01:04:37.552 --> 01:04:39.010
You must be feeling
the same as me.

01:04:39.010 --> 01:04:41.790
It's just how long have we got?

01:04:41.790 --> 01:04:45.440
Piers' compromise reduces the
number of turbines from 15

01:04:45.440 --> 01:04:47.240
down to nine.

01:04:47.240 --> 01:04:51.360
This is still the
covenant electrical power

01:04:51.360 --> 01:04:56.590
for 11,000 homes, so there's
still a lot of power.

01:04:56.590 --> 01:04:59.460
Exactly the opposite is
happening to the very thing

01:04:59.460 --> 01:05:00.500
that needs to happen.

01:05:00.500 --> 01:05:02.010
These things need to be sped up.

01:05:02.010 --> 01:05:06.370
And actually, they're
getting slowed down.

01:05:06.370 --> 01:05:08.340
Plenty of politicians
are talking about it,

01:05:08.340 --> 01:05:11.235
but when it comes down to
it, it's just not happening.

01:05:11.235 --> 01:05:12.940
It is just not happening, folks.

01:05:15.790 --> 01:05:19.690
Governments will only go as
far as the population demands.

01:05:19.690 --> 01:05:26.350
And that means mass protest
on an unprecedented scale.

01:05:26.350 --> 01:05:28.920
Direct action like
this is essential

01:05:28.920 --> 01:05:31.050
if you're going to
turn an issue around

01:05:31.050 --> 01:05:32.330
in a short period of time.

01:05:32.330 --> 01:05:35.280
We found that many,
many times in the past,

01:05:35.280 --> 01:05:36.630
from the suffragettes onwards.

01:05:42.180 --> 01:05:44.600
The very fact that the
crisis is taking place

01:05:44.600 --> 01:05:48.440
within our generation--
it's happening right now--

01:05:48.440 --> 01:05:51.310
means that we are
tremendously powerful people.

01:05:51.310 --> 01:05:54.520
So this position of despair
and I can't do anything

01:05:54.520 --> 01:05:57.620
and there's no point,
it's completely illogical.

01:05:57.620 --> 01:05:59.005
It's exactly the opposite.

01:06:10.610 --> 01:06:13.120
[SPEAKING FRENCH]

01:07:14.590 --> 01:07:19.400
There's no shortage of
gray matter in the species.

01:07:19.400 --> 01:07:20.810
We can do some amazing things.

01:07:23.710 --> 01:07:26.430
But I don't think we've
been very smart about how

01:07:26.430 --> 01:07:30.530
we use our resources, how
we quite literally burn up

01:07:30.530 --> 01:07:34.600
something as beautiful
and useful as oil.

01:07:34.600 --> 01:07:35.510
Literally burn it up.

01:07:35.510 --> 01:07:36.010
That's it.

01:07:36.010 --> 01:07:36.458
It's gone.

01:07:36.458 --> 01:07:36.957
It's done.

01:07:39.506 --> 01:07:40.880
I think most people
were becoming

01:07:40.880 --> 01:07:44.080
disenchanted by this point.

01:07:44.080 --> 01:07:45.760
We'd stopped believing
that this was

01:07:45.760 --> 01:07:48.420
the golden era of
human civilization

01:07:48.420 --> 01:07:50.545
and started questioning
our collective values.

01:07:54.870 --> 01:07:58.160
All I can hope is incredible
disasters like Katrina

01:07:58.160 --> 01:08:00.190
and the horrible
wars and whatnot

01:08:00.190 --> 01:08:03.539
that are going on around the
world will snap us out of it.

01:08:03.539 --> 01:08:05.580
I'd like to see us heading
in the right direction

01:08:05.580 --> 01:08:09.040
for the good of mankind.

01:08:09.040 --> 01:08:12.520
[MUSIC - "HERE'S TO LIFE"]

01:08:13.420 --> 01:08:14.220
Hey, how you doing?

01:08:14.220 --> 01:08:14.720
You got me.

01:08:14.720 --> 01:08:15.664
Jack on the rocks.

01:08:15.664 --> 01:08:16.164
Perfect.

01:08:16.164 --> 01:08:16.664
I do.

01:08:16.664 --> 01:08:18.108
You know what I like.

01:08:37.020 --> 01:08:40.300
Before this disaster,
I had a lot of stuff.

01:08:40.300 --> 01:08:44.270
I was a classic consumer.

01:08:44.270 --> 01:08:48.196
Two years later, I've
learned a lot about happiness

01:08:48.196 --> 01:08:49.154
and the pursue thereof.

01:09:02.720 --> 01:09:06.939
Happiness is not in the
latest gadget, the latest

01:09:06.939 --> 01:09:10.529
electric toothbrush,
or something like that.

01:09:10.529 --> 01:09:14.930
All that stuff is just not just
the stuff of life, not for me

01:09:14.930 --> 01:09:15.430
anymore.

01:09:35.080 --> 01:09:37.038
Come on, you stupid computer.

01:09:47.517 --> 01:09:51.509
[MUSIC PLAYING]

01:09:54.520 --> 01:09:56.460
Climate scientists
can estimate how much

01:09:56.460 --> 01:10:00.160
of the remaining fossil
fuels we can safely burn.

01:10:00.160 --> 01:10:01.715
This amount is called
the global cap.

01:10:04.377 --> 01:10:06.210
Under this proposal,
the world's governments

01:10:06.210 --> 01:10:08.230
would make a binding
international agreement

01:10:08.230 --> 01:10:10.720
detailing how to
distribute the global cap.

01:10:10.720 --> 01:10:12.600
The earlier the start
date, the greater

01:10:12.600 --> 01:10:15.650
the chance of not triggering
runaway climate change.

01:10:15.650 --> 01:10:18.920
The total global emissions
for the first year, say 2012,

01:10:18.920 --> 01:10:20.900
will be set at
their current level.

01:10:20.900 --> 01:10:24.340
Every year following, they'd
shrink until, by about 2065,

01:10:24.340 --> 01:10:27.270
they're almost zero.

01:10:27.270 --> 01:10:30.730
Initially, each country would
be allocated an emissions quota

01:10:30.730 --> 01:10:33.385
according to how much
they currently consume.

01:10:33.385 --> 01:10:36.410
But this would change over time.

01:10:36.410 --> 01:10:39.300
America would slash its
emissions 90% from its current

01:10:39.300 --> 01:10:41.205
over consuming position.

01:10:41.205 --> 01:10:45.020
Europe, too, would decrease
massively, as would China.

01:10:45.020 --> 01:10:49.051
But India and Africa would
increase until, by about 2025,

01:10:49.051 --> 01:10:51.300
each human being on the
planet would have equal rights

01:10:51.300 --> 01:10:53.550
to the Earth's resources.

01:10:53.550 --> 01:10:56.100
Equity is the only option
morally, and also practically,

01:10:56.100 --> 01:11:00.260
as developing countries won't
sign up to anything less.

01:11:00.260 --> 01:11:03.210
The total emissions would then
keep decreasing every year

01:11:03.210 --> 01:11:05.730
until, by 2065, we'll
have weaned ourselves

01:11:05.730 --> 01:11:07.660
off fossil fuels and
prevented the worst

01:11:07.660 --> 01:11:10.560
impacts of climate change.

01:11:10.560 --> 01:11:13.690
As to how each country divvies
up its share to its citizens,

01:11:13.690 --> 01:11:15.507
there are various
options on the table.

01:11:15.507 --> 01:11:17.965
The most promising of which is
individual carbon rationing.

01:11:21.960 --> 01:11:24.710
Mr. WS Morrison is
here to explain.

01:11:24.710 --> 01:11:28.840
If in the course of the war,
we are short for a time of this

01:11:28.840 --> 01:11:32.270
or that article
of food, rationing

01:11:32.270 --> 01:11:34.950
will give everyone,
rich and poor

01:11:34.950 --> 01:11:38.880
alike, an equal
share all that going.

01:11:38.880 --> 01:11:40.970
Under this scheme,
everyone in the UK

01:11:40.970 --> 01:11:43.800
would be allocated an
annual carbon allowance.

01:11:43.800 --> 01:11:46.230
Stored electronically, rather
like a supermarket loyalty

01:11:46.230 --> 01:11:49.390
card, points would be deducted
every time we buy or use

01:11:49.390 --> 01:11:50.390
non-renewable energy.

01:11:50.390 --> 01:11:54.040
For example, using electricity
to power appliances.

01:11:54.040 --> 01:11:56.130
Or travelling
somewhere by plane.

01:11:56.130 --> 01:11:57.990
Or even buying
petrol for your car.

01:11:57.990 --> 01:12:01.600
The best way you can help
is by rationing yourselves.

01:12:01.600 --> 01:12:05.320
I'm sure that all of you
will buy your fair share

01:12:05.320 --> 01:12:06.000
and no more.

01:12:09.270 --> 01:12:11.850
Airports were expanding
all over the world

01:12:11.850 --> 01:12:14.680
to cope with the exploding
number of cheap flights

01:12:14.680 --> 01:12:16.410
we were all demanding.

01:12:16.410 --> 01:12:21.260
And Jeh was doing everything
he could to join the party.

01:12:21.260 --> 01:12:25.440
Ultimately the art is
to hug and then kick.

01:12:25.440 --> 01:12:27.110
She thinks that PSF is payable.

01:12:27.110 --> 01:12:28.970
You are saying that
PSF is not payable.

01:12:28.970 --> 01:12:30.416
What's wrong with you?

01:12:30.416 --> 01:12:32.600
Now.

01:12:32.600 --> 01:12:34.084
Yes or no?

01:12:34.084 --> 01:12:35.940
Did I ask you that
question, or did I

01:12:35.940 --> 01:12:37.520
not ask you that question?

01:12:37.520 --> 01:12:38.520
You asked this question.

01:12:38.520 --> 01:12:40.186
Both of you come to
my office right now.

01:12:42.138 --> 01:12:45.066
Does it take more than
30 minutes to clean this?

01:12:45.066 --> 01:12:47.506
Get bent with you.

01:12:47.506 --> 01:12:50.832
It's all in a day's work.

01:12:50.832 --> 01:12:53.730
Maintaining my brand
means something to me.

01:12:53.730 --> 01:12:54.696
OK?

01:12:54.696 --> 01:13:00.030
If I see my stepladder like
this, and if I find one dirt,

01:13:00.030 --> 01:13:01.310
you'll be fired.

01:13:01.310 --> 01:13:01.810
OK?

01:13:10.130 --> 01:13:10.630
Now!

01:13:18.960 --> 01:13:26.870
Mr. Jeh Wadia, I would like to
give you your air operator's

01:13:26.870 --> 01:13:27.850
permit to start--

01:13:27.850 --> 01:13:29.620
[APPLAUSE]

01:13:37.300 --> 01:13:41.690
June 11, 2007 in a hotel
room in Bedford, Piers

01:13:41.690 --> 01:13:43.940
is polishing his speech
for tonight's showdown

01:13:43.940 --> 01:13:47.150
with the local
planning committee.

01:13:47.150 --> 01:13:50.900
This committee can
approve this application.

01:13:50.900 --> 01:13:54.575
If you do, you will show
courage and leadership.

01:13:54.575 --> 01:13:57.200
He has just six
minutes to convince

01:13:57.200 --> 01:13:59.860
them to approve his wind farm.

01:13:59.860 --> 01:14:03.994
I'm absolutely confident that
if you approve this project,

01:14:03.994 --> 01:14:05.410
you will look back
on the decision

01:14:05.410 --> 01:14:08.540
and say, thank
goodness we said yes.

01:14:08.540 --> 01:14:10.970
But the committee rejected
Piers' application,

01:14:10.970 --> 01:14:14.130
saying that his wind farm would
be conspicuous and out of place

01:14:14.130 --> 01:14:15.870
in the Bedfordshire landscape.

01:14:15.870 --> 01:14:18.550
That it would decrease
enjoyment of nearby foot paths

01:14:18.550 --> 01:14:20.780
and negatively impact
the listed building

01:14:20.780 --> 01:14:22.470
and an ancient monument.

01:14:22.470 --> 01:14:25.740
In other words, it
would spoil the view.

01:14:25.740 --> 01:14:27.660
We're delighted that
it's been refuse, yes.

01:14:27.660 --> 01:14:29.130
It's a wonderful result.

01:14:29.130 --> 01:14:31.955
It just shows if you work hard,
if you look at all the facts,

01:14:31.955 --> 01:14:34.680
if you do it fair
and with balance, you

01:14:34.680 --> 01:14:36.630
can get a good outcome.

01:14:36.630 --> 01:14:38.484
10 against and one in favor.

01:14:38.484 --> 01:14:40.650
It might have even been 11
against and one in favor.

01:14:40.650 --> 01:14:46.955
But there was only one guy that
actually voted in favor of it.

01:14:46.955 --> 01:14:47.937
Cheers, mate.

01:14:56.141 --> 01:14:56.640
Hi, Mom.

01:14:56.640 --> 01:14:57.780
It's Piers.

01:14:57.780 --> 01:15:02.424
I think it was 10-1
or 11-1 against.

01:15:02.424 --> 01:15:05.826
Yeah, it's just a
fucking waste of time.

01:15:05.826 --> 01:15:06.798
That's the thing.

01:15:13.602 --> 01:15:15.310
I could have said
anything, to be honest.

01:15:15.310 --> 01:15:17.710
I don't think it would
have made any difference.

01:15:20.326 --> 01:15:22.200
Of course we're worried
about global warming.

01:15:22.200 --> 01:15:24.600
I mean, that's got
to be something

01:15:24.600 --> 01:15:25.930
that we're all concerned about.

01:15:25.930 --> 01:15:28.825
I mean, we're all doing
our bit to try and conserve

01:15:28.825 --> 01:15:30.670
and looking at renewable energy.

01:15:30.670 --> 01:15:32.150
Of course, absolutely.

01:15:32.150 --> 01:15:38.870
Yeah, I mean we're
part of the-- yes.

01:15:38.870 --> 01:15:41.070
And it is global warming.

01:15:41.070 --> 01:15:42.790
For the first time,
scientists confirm

01:15:42.790 --> 01:15:45.510
the link between climate
change and our awful weather.

01:15:45.510 --> 01:15:48.310
Emergency services
scramble to Bedford

01:15:48.310 --> 01:15:50.190
as the flood waters
finally work their way

01:15:50.190 --> 01:15:51.560
along the [INAUDIBLE].

01:15:51.560 --> 01:15:54.321
Other parts of Bedfordshire
didn't escape either.

01:15:54.321 --> 01:15:57.267
We've lived up
here for 40 years,

01:15:57.267 --> 01:16:01.450
and we've never, ever
had anything like this.

01:16:01.450 --> 01:16:04.070
At least 80,000
fatalities in Burma today

01:16:04.070 --> 01:16:05.280
after Cyclone Nargis--

01:16:05.280 --> 01:16:07.070
Drought of emergency
across Western Europe

01:16:07.070 --> 01:16:08.611
with drinking water
strictly rationed

01:16:08.611 --> 01:16:10.310
in Holland, France, Germany--

01:16:10.310 --> 01:16:12.635
Forest fires which are still
sweeping across Spain--

01:16:12.635 --> 01:16:15.460
30 billion pounds, a price worth
paying for motorists' right

01:16:15.460 --> 01:16:17.448
to drive said Lord Clarkson--

01:16:17.448 --> 01:16:20.430
Good news for the
UK wine industry--

01:16:20.430 --> 01:16:23.412
New Orleans will not be
rebuilt a third time,

01:16:23.412 --> 01:16:24.683
said the Louisiana governor--

01:16:24.683 --> 01:16:26.891
Nothing less than the total
destruction of these dams

01:16:26.891 --> 01:16:28.879
would end Pakistan's
drinking water crisis.

01:16:28.879 --> 01:16:31.861
As US President Chelsea
Clinton refuses help--

01:16:31.861 --> 01:16:34.843
Sales of air conditioning
units in India--

01:16:34.843 --> 01:16:36.831
San Francisco's
extraordinary heat wave

01:16:36.831 --> 01:16:38.819
continues into Los Angeles.

01:16:38.819 --> 01:16:40.972
Now we're seeing extreme
weather events somewhere

01:16:40.972 --> 01:16:42.795
on the planet every single day.

01:16:42.795 --> 01:16:44.783
Estimated 35 million
Chinese refugees--

01:16:44.783 --> 01:16:46.591
Skiing in the Alps is over.

01:16:46.591 --> 01:16:49.007
A new Channel 4 documentary
asks, is global warming really

01:16:49.007 --> 01:16:51.149
happening, or are naturalists--

01:16:51.149 --> 01:16:53.232
Degrees centigrade, the
highest land temperature--

01:16:53.232 --> 01:16:55.910
More than 100 million people
are homeless tonight as--

01:16:55.910 --> 01:16:57.898
Massive meat emissions--

01:16:57.898 --> 01:17:00.880
Today, the last Indonesian
tree fell, but fuel prices--

01:17:00.880 --> 01:17:02.868
The European Union
today permanently

01:17:02.868 --> 01:17:05.353
closed all of its borders.

01:17:05.353 --> 01:17:07.838
Must be reserved for
food production--

01:17:07.838 --> 01:17:11.068
London is under water as
last night's 30 foot storm

01:17:11.068 --> 01:17:12.311
surge overcame the Thames--

01:17:12.311 --> 01:17:14.299
New Zealand has also
now closed its borders

01:17:14.299 --> 01:17:17.778
leaving 22 million Australians--

01:17:17.778 --> 01:17:21.257
100 million refugees from the
Middle East and continental

01:17:21.257 --> 01:17:22.251
Europe--

01:17:22.251 --> 01:17:24.736
Species are now extinct,
scientists estimate.

01:17:24.736 --> 01:17:26.227
An ecosystem of collapsing--

01:17:26.227 --> 01:17:27.718
We have now passed two degrees.

01:17:27.718 --> 01:17:29.566
We cannot now stop
runaway climate change.

01:17:29.566 --> 01:17:32.191
There are simply too many people
to feed on Ireland's remaining

01:17:32.191 --> 01:17:32.691
farmland.

01:17:32.691 --> 01:17:34.676
Suicide rates increasing 800%--

01:17:34.676 --> 01:17:36.664
The Amazon rainforest
is still burning.

01:17:36.664 --> 01:17:40.143
And anyone who cannot bear to
eat their own cats and dogs--

01:17:40.143 --> 01:17:42.628
Entering the eighth
world food crisis--

01:17:42.628 --> 01:17:45.610
World temperatures today
passing four degrees--

01:17:45.610 --> 01:17:47.598
A nuclear strike--

01:17:47.598 --> 01:17:51.077
[MUSIC PLAYING]

01:17:59.600 --> 01:18:03.571
We wouldn't be the first
life form to wipe itself out.

01:18:03.571 --> 01:18:07.350
But what would be unique about
us is that we did it knowingly.

01:18:10.390 --> 01:18:13.020
What does that say about us?

01:18:13.020 --> 01:18:17.310
The question I've been asking
is why didn't we save ourselves

01:18:17.310 --> 01:18:19.460
when we have the chance?

01:18:19.460 --> 01:18:23.000
Is the answer because,
on some level,

01:18:23.000 --> 01:18:24.870
we weren't sure if
we were worth saving?

01:18:30.359 --> 01:18:33.852
[MUSIC PLAYING]

01:19:04.350 --> 01:19:07.145
[SPEAKING FRENCH]

01:19:32.150 --> 01:19:34.650
Please proceed
near the aircraft,

01:19:34.650 --> 01:19:38.150
and take care of the
responsibilities.

01:19:38.150 --> 01:19:40.222
If all of us stood
united, in terms,

01:19:40.222 --> 01:19:42.180
the world would be very
different in every way.

01:19:42.180 --> 01:19:44.650
But unfortunately
that's not a reality.

01:19:44.650 --> 01:19:47.550
If we can't even stand
united on eradicating poverty

01:19:47.550 --> 01:19:51.225
in the world, what does health
of the planet have any chance?

01:19:55.118 --> 01:19:56.860
It's true being
a medical doctor.

01:19:56.860 --> 01:19:59.270
I really want to be famous.

01:19:59.270 --> 01:20:00.650
It's not easy.

01:20:00.650 --> 01:20:05.312
I have to work, but
that's my dream.

01:20:05.312 --> 01:20:09.296
I should say congratulations.

01:20:09.296 --> 01:20:12.284
Your documents are OK
to give you admission.

01:20:12.284 --> 01:20:13.778
Thank you, sir.

01:20:28.730 --> 01:20:32.550
In my opinion, our use,
or misuse, of resources

01:20:32.550 --> 01:20:37.370
the last 100 years or so, I
probably would rename that.

01:20:37.370 --> 01:20:42.235
Something like the Age of
Ignorance, the Age of Stupid.

01:20:45.205 --> 01:20:49.165
[NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]

01:21:07.578 --> 01:21:11.546
[MUSIC PLAYING]

01:22:05.160 --> 01:22:07.240
[SPEAKING FRENCH]

01:22:31.060 --> 01:22:37.450
I just find it surprising
that after so much effort,

01:22:37.450 --> 01:22:43.120
the final part of our
existence should be suicide.

01:22:43.120 --> 01:22:45.610
So why did I build this archive?

01:22:45.610 --> 01:22:47.602
It's a cautionary tale.

01:22:47.602 --> 01:22:49.720
Not for us.

01:22:49.720 --> 01:22:51.600
It's too late for us.

01:22:51.600 --> 01:22:58.730
But for, well, for whoever,
whatever, eventually

01:22:58.730 --> 01:22:59.630
finds this recording.

01:23:14.264 --> 01:23:14.930
And away you go.

01:23:49.430 --> 01:23:53.380
[MUSIC PLAYING]