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[ camera shutter clicking ]

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psihoyos: i was reading
<i>the financial times,</i>

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and it was a little, tiny,
two-paragraph story that said,

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"mankind may be causing
a mass-extinction event."

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it was, like,
buried on like page 6 or 7.

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and i thought,

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"this is how humanity
is dealing with the issue.

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they're not dealing with it."

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check your cellphone.

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if you get anywhere near this
place, he scrambles the signal.

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louie, man,
how are you?

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just curious, how many cameras
do you have on you right now?

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you mean, like,
on my table or --

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no, no. on your body.

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on my body?

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[ camera beeps ]

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less than seven,
- but probably more than two.

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[ laughter ]

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okay, so,
we're doing an order here.

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one hat cam,
two buttonhole cameras,

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sports bra, one bottle cam, 5.11
tac shirt with the vibration.

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man: whenever you're ready.
oh, yeah.

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so you're rolling right now,
so you can get the entrance.

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and make sure, of course,
the straps are gone.

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okay.

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your reservation's
in 10 minutes.

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all right.

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[ indistinct conversations ]

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woman: so, we ate codfish.
[ laughs ]

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<i>[ indistinct conversations ]</i>

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kobe beef and also
a sweet shrimp.

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woman #1:
i was raised on it.

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woman #2:
she brought me here.

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yeah.

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<i>we try to be</i>
<i>adventurous, yeah.</i>

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<i>i started eating it</i>
<i>like 10 years ago.</i>

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i've been having sashimi
a lot at my grandpa's.

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oh, yeah.

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we would go out.

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thank you.

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this is a special
tamari soy sauce from the chef.

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hambleton:
i don't know.

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yeah, three pieces.

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we got it.
it's a bingo.

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the owners and chef of one of
america's trendiest restaurants

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are facing federal charges
tonight,

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all because of what they
put on customers' plates --

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an endangered species.

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and behind the undercover sting,

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some movie makers
who went right back to work.

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♪♪

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we're making
our own road here.

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pretty big, the side
of the skull here, yeah.

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psihoyos: i did four stories
about extinction for

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<i>national geographic</i> magazine.

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[ camera shutter clicks ]

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you go to these
beautiful landscapes.

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[ camera shutter clicks ]

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there's dinosaurs
from horizon to horizon.

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[ camera shutter clicks ]

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and you think,
"that was so far back then,

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what if it's going on right now
and everybody's missing it?"

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pimm: each year,
about one in a million species

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should expire naturally.

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in the next few decades,

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we'll be driving species
to extinction

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a thousand times faster
than they should be.

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novacek:
it's difficult to estimate

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precisely how many species
we're gonna lose.

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in a hundred years or so,

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we could lose up to 50%
of all the species on earth.

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psihoyos: i remember thinking,

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"this is the biggest story
in the world."

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it's like we're living
in the age of dinosaurs,

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but we can do something
about it.

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--<font color="#ffff00"> captions by vitac</font> --
<font color="#00ffff">www.vitac.com</font>

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captions paid for by
discovery communications

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[ dolphin vocalizing ]

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[ cheering ]

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[ indistinct radio chatter ]

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man: a friend of mine just
reported up in that area.

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roger.

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the blue whale
is the biggest creature

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that ever lived on the planet.

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bigger than any dinosaur ever.

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just like dinosaurs,
they're going extinct.

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it's coming in hot!

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there it is!

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ooh, ooh, ooh!
look at him.

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back in the days of whaling,

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they were hunted
to near-extinction,

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down to about 2%
of their population.

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now they're getting decimated
by shipping traffic.

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go for it.

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he's coming up to the right.

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to the right.

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my hope is that
if you can show people

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the beauty of these animals,

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there's a chance
to save these things.

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♪♪

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one of the cool things
about a blue whale

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is that it has the loudest song
in the animal kingdom,

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but you can't hear it,

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because it's below
our threshold for hearing.

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we look out at the world through
these eyes and these ears,

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and you think, "oh, that's it.

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that's everything
that there is to see."

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but there's this hidden world
on almost every level.

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what i want to do is
get people to see it.

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♪♪

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[ laughs ]

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oh!

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we get off the boat,

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and this fisherman comes up
to our interpreter

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and says, "can you give me $500?

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i found this buoy.
there's a $500 reward.

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it needs to be returned
up to america."

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[ beeping ]

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and i said, "just a minute.

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let me take a look
at this buoy."

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[ beeping ]

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and i look at it, and it says,

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"return to chris clark,
cornell bioacoustic laboratory."

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i said, "i know this guy."

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[ geese honking ]

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chris had been pioneering
new ways to record whales

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for 30 years.

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[ whale vocalizes ]

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he basically proved
that these animals

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could hear themselves
across oceans.

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and so, to me,
finding that buoy

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was like finding a message
in a bottle.

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clark: we built these
recording systems.

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we dropped them in the ocean,
and they record continuously.

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[ devices beeping ]

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whales and dolphins
and anything that's out there

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we try and record.

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clark: so, the first time,

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i knew there was a blue whale
singing nearby.

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i could see it on the display,
but i couldn't hear it.

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so what do you have to do?
you have to speed it up.

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[ tape whirring ]

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[ whale vocalizing ]

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and still, the hair goes up
on the back of my neck,

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and it just, like --
it's like,

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"damn! that's fabulous."

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[ whale vocalizing ]

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as we listen more and more

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around different parts
of the planet,

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whether it's
frozen, arctic ocean

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or the deepest jungles
of central africa,

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the whole world
is singing --

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[ vocalizing ]

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clicking and grinding
and whistling and thumping.

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[ animals calling ]

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but we've stopped
listening.

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[ birds chirping,
metal squeaking ]

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psihoyos: the cornell
bioacoustical laboratory

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has the largest repository
of animal sounds on the planet.

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they've been collecting them
since the 1930s.

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clark:
so there's this range of sounds

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from the largest animal
ever to live on this planet

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to the tiniest, little insects.

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[ 'o'o chirping ]

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this is a song recording

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of a male 'o'o singing
on kaua'i.

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[ bird chirping ]

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these birds mate for life,

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so he would be singing
a duet with his mate,

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where he sings, and then
she sings back and forth.

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here comes
the male's song.

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[ bird chirping ]

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there's no response.

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here's the male's song
again.

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[ bird chirping ]

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that's the last male
of a species,

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singing for a female
who will never come.

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he is totally alone.

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[ bird chirping ]

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and now his voice is gone.

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in the brief lifetime
of this collection,

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70 years or so,

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many of the species that
were recorded are now extinct,

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so the repository
is a living example

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of the massive rate
of extinction that's happening.

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♪♪

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psihoyos: there's been
five major extinctions

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in the history of the planet.

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there's the ordovician,

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the devonian,

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the permian,

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there was the triassic-jurassic,

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and then the k-t extinction,

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the one that killed
the dinosaurs.

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it's very difficult
to comprehend deep time --

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you know, 4.6 billion years
of earth's history.

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so if you take, say,
the history of the earth

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and try to squeeze it into
a 24-hour clock,

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where does man fit
on that clock?

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[ clock ticking ]

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a few seconds before midnight.
that's it.

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we're the new kid on the block.

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what we're seeing now is called
the anthropocene, the new epoch.

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anthropocene means
the time of humans.

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it's when the impact of humans
is leaving itself as a mark

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in the fossil record
of the future.

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65 million years ago,

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there was an asteroid
that struck

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and caused the dinosaurs
to go extinct.

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clark: when it comes to
the sixth extinction event,

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we have no problem
identifying the cause.

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humanity has become
the asteroid.

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we're on that tipping point now
where it's either too late

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or just the beginning
of a movement.

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woman: so, there's two pieces
of whale and one piece of horse.

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psihoyos:
at the hump restaurant,

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we knew that they were
selling whale meat.

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but there's also something
bigger going on.

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we heard that
the obama administration

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was in closed-doors negotiations
with the japanese

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to go do commercial whaling
again.

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and i thought,

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"well, if we could prove
that endangered whales

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are being served right here,
on the shores of america,

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we would stop
that conversation."

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man: stop the murder!
stop the death!

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hump restaurant is to blame!

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psihoyos: the animal-rights
community took it up,

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but the restaurant
didn't close down.

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there's this one guy
i'd never heard of before.

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his name is ady gil.

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he took some gear and put it out
in front of the hump restaurant

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as people are going in.

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so, what are you doing?

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i'm protesting.

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yesterday, there were like
200 people here, protesting,

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and i thought, you know,

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somebody needs to keep
the pressure on.

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if you look at the academy
awards and the golden globes,

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those are his screens,
and that's all his projections.

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and, so, he parks this ferrari
right next to the van,

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and the owner comes out
and tells ady.

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he says, "how long
are you gonna be doing this?"

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and he thought that
i was just some hippy, you know,

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gonna be here for
a day or two.

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i said, "listen, man.

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i can be here for a month or two
or a year or whatever.

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how long can you survive
while i am here?"

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10 days later,
the restaurant closes down.

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to me,
it was a beautiful moment.

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00:14:06,813 --> 00:14:08,980
everybody had gone home,

254
00:14:08,982 --> 00:14:11,232
and this one guy with
this big, bright light,

255
00:14:11,234 --> 00:14:14,452
and keeps the light shining
on this subject.

256
00:14:14,454 --> 00:14:17,488
[ crowd chanting
"shut it down!" ]

257
00:14:23,029 --> 00:14:27,465
there are thousands of people
all over the world,

258
00:14:27,467 --> 00:14:32,804
willing and able and changing
their careers to save species.

259
00:14:36,726 --> 00:14:39,143
they go to some of
the darkest, grimmest,

260
00:14:39,145 --> 00:14:41,346
most unsafe places
on the planet.

261
00:14:41,348 --> 00:14:43,598
man: let's save the shark!
let's save the shark!

262
00:14:43,600 --> 00:14:46,317
over 800 environmental activists
have been killed

263
00:14:46,319 --> 00:14:48,886
in just the last decade,

264
00:14:48,888 --> 00:14:51,272
so these guys are doing
the tough work,

265
00:14:51,274 --> 00:14:53,274
and we never hear about them.
they're not household names.

266
00:14:55,111 --> 00:14:57,895
shawn heinrichs --
i live in boulder, colorado.

267
00:14:57,897 --> 00:15:00,298
you can't get any more
landlocked than colorado.

268
00:15:00,300 --> 00:15:01,716
[ applause ]

269
00:15:01,718 --> 00:15:04,302
and i found out that there's
this incredible ocean activist

270
00:15:04,304 --> 00:15:06,938
living right down the street

271
00:15:06,940 --> 00:15:09,807
who quit his job as a cfo
for a tech company

272
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so he could help save
endangered species.

273
00:15:13,446 --> 00:15:16,147
shawn's doing some of the best,
most groundbreaking work

274
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that i've seen anywhere
in the world.

275
00:15:20,019 --> 00:15:24,689
heinrichs: isla mujeres was
the largest shark-fishing island

276
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on the east coast of mexico.

277
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at least 20,
if not more, long-liners

278
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were targeting sharks
each and every single day.

279
00:15:31,381 --> 00:15:34,165
psihoyos: shawn helped turn
this hunting ground

280
00:15:34,167 --> 00:15:36,217
into one of the top places
in the world

281
00:15:36,219 --> 00:15:38,419
where you can actually
go and watch sharks.

282
00:15:38,421 --> 00:15:42,223
heinrichs: now you have this
community of ex-shark fishermen

283
00:15:42,225 --> 00:15:44,542
who are making much more money
taking tourists out

284
00:15:44,544 --> 00:15:48,012
to swim with whale sharks than
killing sharks on long-lines.

285
00:15:49,566 --> 00:15:52,767
it's just simple economics.

286
00:15:52,769 --> 00:15:54,852
[ indistinct conversation ]

287
00:15:54,854 --> 00:15:57,605
psihoyos: shawn often works
with his buddy paul hilton,

288
00:15:57,607 --> 00:15:59,357
an investigative
photojournalist.

289
00:15:59,359 --> 00:16:01,175
they can't help
but to get themselves

290
00:16:01,177 --> 00:16:02,660
into dangerous situations.

291
00:16:02,662 --> 00:16:03,845
traveler's paradise.

292
00:16:03,847 --> 00:16:05,129
heinrichs:
paul's a photojournalist,

293
00:16:05,131 --> 00:16:08,766
like me,
focused on endangered species.

294
00:16:08,768 --> 00:16:11,602
he's brilliant at what he does.

295
00:16:13,023 --> 00:16:18,342
psihoyos:
paul and shawn try to bust rings
selling endangered species.

296
00:16:18,344 --> 00:16:20,812
we're gonna blow the lid
off this place, right?

297
00:16:20,814 --> 00:16:23,648
hilton: shawn's pretty full-on.
i love his enthusiasm.

298
00:16:23,650 --> 00:16:25,349
he talks far too much
when we're on assignment,

299
00:16:25,351 --> 00:16:26,651
so there's always that issue

300
00:16:26,653 --> 00:16:28,486
of me having to go to him
and say, "mate, wind it up."

301
00:16:28,488 --> 00:16:29,570
i think it's
the american in him.

302
00:16:29,572 --> 00:16:34,492
heinrichs: i'm rolling.
i can distract.

303
00:16:34,494 --> 00:16:36,027
and a lot of the situations
we go into,

304
00:16:36,029 --> 00:16:37,462
it's always nice
to go in as teams,

305
00:16:37,464 --> 00:16:39,497
because you're going
into situations where

306
00:16:39,499 --> 00:16:41,416
you get caught up
in the moment with the camera,

307
00:16:41,418 --> 00:16:42,800
and you'll actually
photograph it,

308
00:16:42,802 --> 00:16:44,802
and there's no one
watching your back.

309
00:16:44,804 --> 00:16:46,220
ask for the toilet.
where's the toilet?

310
00:16:46,222 --> 00:16:47,872
psihoyos: paul and shawn
have this technique

311
00:16:47,874 --> 00:16:50,174
of they have a camera
sitting around their neck,

312
00:16:50,176 --> 00:16:51,843
and most people think you
have to put it up to your eye

313
00:16:51,845 --> 00:16:53,594
to look through it
and to shoot.

314
00:16:53,596 --> 00:16:55,313
and it's actually
a video camera,

315
00:16:55,315 --> 00:16:57,098
and it's rolling the whole time.

316
00:16:57,100 --> 00:16:58,766
so many.

317
00:16:58,768 --> 00:17:03,588
and this is the "jaws" --
movie "jaws"?

318
00:17:03,590 --> 00:17:05,156
♪ da-da, da-da,
da-da, da-da ♪

319
00:17:05,158 --> 00:17:06,424
hilton: don't push it
too much, shawn.

320
00:17:06,426 --> 00:17:08,126
okay, cool. very cool.

321
00:17:08,128 --> 00:17:10,044
i don't know about you.
that's the most fins
i've ever, ever seen.

322
00:17:10,046 --> 00:17:11,462
how did you find out
about this?

323
00:17:11,464 --> 00:17:12,714
hilton:
facebook, basically.

324
00:17:12,716 --> 00:17:14,549
i mean, colleagues,
mates --

325
00:17:14,551 --> 00:17:16,551
we just walked straight in,
basically.

326
00:17:16,553 --> 00:17:18,219
wow.

327
00:17:18,221 --> 00:17:19,771
how long were you there?

328
00:17:19,773 --> 00:17:20,855
10, 15 minutes.

329
00:17:20,857 --> 00:17:23,191
you did all this
in 10, 15 minutes?

330
00:17:23,193 --> 00:17:25,676
oh, yeah, mate.

331
00:17:25,678 --> 00:17:27,011
yeah.

332
00:17:27,013 --> 00:17:28,312
heinrichs:
- are we almost there, paul?

333
00:17:28,314 --> 00:17:29,781
yeah, so, it's the next block.
yeah, the next one.

334
00:17:29,783 --> 00:17:32,066
i didn't think that
the illegal-wildlife trade

335
00:17:32,068 --> 00:17:34,202
would be so overt.

336
00:17:34,204 --> 00:17:36,954
♪♪

337
00:17:36,956 --> 00:17:39,123
you can go down streets,

338
00:17:39,125 --> 00:17:43,294
and every other shop will be
full of endangered creatures.

339
00:17:43,296 --> 00:17:44,528
look at this one
right here.

340
00:17:44,530 --> 00:17:45,630
it's not just shark fins.

341
00:17:45,632 --> 00:17:48,466
it's just about
everything endangered

342
00:17:48,468 --> 00:17:51,636
in the world is for sale there.

343
00:17:53,673 --> 00:17:55,890
heinrichs: with the explosion
of demand in china

344
00:17:55,892 --> 00:17:57,175
for shark-fin soup,

345
00:17:57,177 --> 00:18:00,244
it was estimated
that 250,000 sharks

346
00:18:00,246 --> 00:18:02,997
are caught for the fin trade
every single day.

347
00:18:04,951 --> 00:18:06,284
psihoyos:
probably no other species

348
00:18:06,286 --> 00:18:08,503
illustrates what's going on in
the oceans right now

349
00:18:08,505 --> 00:18:10,321
better than sharks.

350
00:18:10,323 --> 00:18:12,673
sharks predate dinosaurs.

351
00:18:12,675 --> 00:18:16,427
they've survived four
mass-extinction events.

352
00:18:16,429 --> 00:18:21,499
and just this one generation
that i've been alive,

353
00:18:21,501 --> 00:18:26,053
we've cut down their ranks
about 90%.

354
00:18:26,055 --> 00:18:30,007
heinrichs: i was following
a group of shark finners

355
00:18:30,009 --> 00:18:33,861
in indonesia, and they were
moving around camp to camp.

356
00:18:33,863 --> 00:18:35,897
and, then, one morning,

357
00:18:35,899 --> 00:18:38,232
i saw something reflecting
off in the coral reef

358
00:18:38,234 --> 00:18:40,701
in the shallow water.

359
00:18:40,703 --> 00:18:45,490
and what i discovered
was just horrific.

360
00:18:45,492 --> 00:18:48,876
there's this beautiful
tawny nurse shark,

361
00:18:48,878 --> 00:18:51,996
but it had all its fins cut off.

362
00:18:51,998 --> 00:18:54,198
and it was trying to swim,
but it couldn't swim.

363
00:18:54,200 --> 00:18:56,717
and it was heartbreaking,

364
00:18:56,719 --> 00:18:59,053
'cause it's like this is
what the reality is.

365
00:18:59,055 --> 00:19:01,138
this is the thing
that nobody gets.

366
00:19:01,140 --> 00:19:03,524
♪♪

367
00:19:17,590 --> 00:19:20,208
now, are we gonna get -- any
luck with us getting in there?

368
00:19:21,761 --> 00:19:22,826
okay.

369
00:19:22,828 --> 00:19:24,295
psihoyos:
shawn has an interpreter.

370
00:19:24,297 --> 00:19:26,681
[ horn honks ]

371
00:19:26,683 --> 00:19:28,266
i don't want to say her name,

372
00:19:28,268 --> 00:19:30,518
but he's been doing
undercover work in china

373
00:19:30,520 --> 00:19:32,720
for several decades.

374
00:19:32,722 --> 00:19:35,606
the first place she took us
was a place

375
00:19:35,608 --> 00:19:38,976
that they couldn't ever
get into before.

376
00:19:38,978 --> 00:19:41,896
basically, the walmart
of the endangered-species trade

377
00:19:41,898 --> 00:19:44,815
in hong kong.

378
00:19:44,817 --> 00:19:47,785
heinrichs: over the years,

379
00:19:47,787 --> 00:19:50,621
i've actually worked really hard
to get into this facility.

380
00:19:50,623 --> 00:19:52,156
so has paul
and so has his friends.

381
00:19:52,158 --> 00:19:55,910
and we've managed to maybe
step in the door for 30 seconds.

382
00:19:55,912 --> 00:19:56,827
heinrichs: hey!

383
00:19:56,829 --> 00:19:57,861
hilton: what's wrong?

384
00:19:57,863 --> 00:19:58,880
[ shouting in native language ]

385
00:20:01,718 --> 00:20:04,335
hilton: his staff would come out
and push us away,

386
00:20:04,337 --> 00:20:06,203
threaten to call the police.

387
00:20:06,205 --> 00:20:08,306
heinrichs: hands, machete,

388
00:20:08,308 --> 00:20:10,391
kicked out the door,
"don't ever come back."

389
00:20:10,393 --> 00:20:14,312
[ indistinct shouting ]

390
00:20:14,314 --> 00:20:15,513
psihoyos:
here's what we'll do --

391
00:20:15,515 --> 00:20:17,598
we have a car waiting
with all the stuff in it.

392
00:20:17,600 --> 00:20:20,384
i brought along a couple of
colleagues from the hump bust --

393
00:20:20,386 --> 00:20:23,154
heather rally, who does
undercover work for us --

394
00:20:23,156 --> 00:20:24,739
and charles hambleton,

395
00:20:24,741 --> 00:20:27,191
who's sort of my director
of covert operations.

396
00:20:27,193 --> 00:20:29,410
woman: in the alley here,
on the right-hand side?

397
00:20:29,412 --> 00:20:31,412
we invented a cover.

398
00:20:31,414 --> 00:20:33,698
we pretended like we were
on a culinary tour

399
00:20:33,700 --> 00:20:35,700
and we were looking for
exotic product.

400
00:20:35,702 --> 00:20:37,034
heinrichs:
i think we stick to plan.

401
00:20:37,036 --> 00:20:39,236
we're going as culinary tourist
interests of mr. sawyer,

402
00:20:39,238 --> 00:20:41,789
and we're all here, learning
and taking pictures of culinary.

403
00:20:41,791 --> 00:20:43,591
you can get into
about as much trouble

404
00:20:43,593 --> 00:20:44,875
as you can possibly get into

405
00:20:44,877 --> 00:20:46,910
with a buttonhole camera
in china.

406
00:20:46,912 --> 00:20:48,045
heinrichs:
if for some reason,

407
00:20:48,047 --> 00:20:49,547
we run into people
- with badges and uniforms,

408
00:20:49,549 --> 00:20:51,582
strip off all the...

409
00:20:51,584 --> 00:20:54,435
just rip it out from under your
shirt and throw it over a wall.

410
00:20:57,222 --> 00:20:59,422
i'm gonna take a picture
of this.

411
00:20:59,424 --> 00:21:01,725
go right in.
go in, go in, go in.

412
00:21:01,727 --> 00:21:03,026
woman: hi.

413
00:21:03,028 --> 00:21:06,229
[ conversing in
native language ]

414
00:21:23,949 --> 00:21:27,584
we're starting a business
where we want to sell seafood.

415
00:21:27,586 --> 00:21:28,969
we have a seafood shop.

416
00:21:28,971 --> 00:21:30,720
well, back where we do it,

417
00:21:30,722 --> 00:21:34,507
it's mainly tuna and marlin
and swordfish.

418
00:21:34,509 --> 00:21:37,177
they want to see something
more exciting.

419
00:21:37,179 --> 00:21:39,963
'cause the chinese traveler
and the asian traveler

420
00:21:39,965 --> 00:21:42,432
has become big business now.
it's more than 50%.

421
00:21:43,769 --> 00:21:45,602
we should go.
we should probably go.

422
00:21:45,604 --> 00:21:46,436
no, no, no.

423
00:21:53,645 --> 00:21:56,179
this is nice.
yeah.

424
00:21:59,551 --> 00:22:01,768
i need to go to
the bathroom bad.

425
00:22:01,770 --> 00:22:02,602
there's the bathroom.

426
00:22:02,604 --> 00:22:04,721
oh, thank you, thank you.

427
00:22:08,393 --> 00:22:11,561
[ groaning ]

428
00:22:36,972 --> 00:22:41,758
yeah.

429
00:22:41,760 --> 00:22:43,893
yeah.

430
00:22:45,731 --> 00:22:49,015
are these expensive, also?

431
00:22:49,017 --> 00:22:53,019
yeah. biggest one is...

432
00:22:53,021 --> 00:22:56,122
$44,800 u.s. per kilo.

433
00:22:57,676 --> 00:22:59,843
no way.

434
00:23:09,354 --> 00:23:10,637
psihoyos:
we ended up going down the road

435
00:23:10,639 --> 00:23:12,472
to another warehouse
on the hong kong waterfront.

436
00:23:12,474 --> 00:23:14,891
heinrichs:
louie, look at this.

437
00:23:14,893 --> 00:23:19,429
hilton:
it must have been 10,000,
20,000 fins in one location.

438
00:23:19,431 --> 00:23:21,448
this was one of the biggest
facilities on the planet.

439
00:23:21,450 --> 00:23:22,932
hilton: look at that.
it looks like a blue.

440
00:23:22,934 --> 00:23:25,568
the scale of it was
just out of control.

441
00:23:25,570 --> 00:23:27,370
i've never seen anything like
that before in my life.

442
00:23:28,573 --> 00:23:31,541
jesus.

443
00:23:31,543 --> 00:23:34,911
♪♪

444
00:23:37,466 --> 00:23:42,385
i feel like this world
is absolutely insane.

445
00:23:54,149 --> 00:23:56,032
[ dolphins vocalizing ]

446
00:24:06,294 --> 00:24:08,428
i remember once diving

447
00:24:08,430 --> 00:24:11,080
the northernmost islands
of the galapagos,

448
00:24:11,082 --> 00:24:14,351
darwin island and wolf island --
you know, islands that darwin

449
00:24:14,353 --> 00:24:16,186
actually never had
been to before.

450
00:24:16,188 --> 00:24:19,689
♪♪

451
00:24:19,691 --> 00:24:20,974
it's the land before time.

452
00:24:20,976 --> 00:24:25,278
i mean, it's like land
before humans got there.

453
00:24:28,950 --> 00:24:33,820
and i remember
this giant whale shark came by,

454
00:24:33,822 --> 00:24:36,272
and then a pod of dolphins
came by.

455
00:24:36,274 --> 00:24:38,658
you know, this is back
when you shot film.

456
00:24:38,660 --> 00:24:44,080
and the whole frame was just
filled with wildlife.

457
00:24:45,467 --> 00:24:48,551
and this dolphin came
swimming from behind

458
00:24:48,553 --> 00:24:51,454
the front of the wale shark,
and it grabbed this tuna,

459
00:24:51,456 --> 00:24:54,424
and it brought it and looked
right at me and shook it,

460
00:24:54,426 --> 00:24:57,277
and it swallowed tail first
down its throat.

461
00:24:57,279 --> 00:24:59,195
and i thought, "you know,

462
00:24:59,197 --> 00:25:01,063
this is when you want
37 pictures

463
00:25:01,065 --> 00:25:03,065
on a 36 roll of film."

464
00:25:03,067 --> 00:25:08,621
it's just magical --
absolutely magical.

465
00:25:15,013 --> 00:25:17,614
doubilet:
- as underwater photographers,

466
00:25:17,616 --> 00:25:20,383
photojournalists really,

467
00:25:20,385 --> 00:25:25,722
we're documenting a time
and a place

468
00:25:25,724 --> 00:25:30,026
that in the future
may not be there,

469
00:25:30,028 --> 00:25:32,896
and the clock is moving.

470
00:25:32,898 --> 00:25:35,732
greenberg:
the first photographs i shot,

471
00:25:35,734 --> 00:25:39,119
the assignment for
<i>national geographic,</i> 1960,

472
00:25:39,121 --> 00:25:44,407
i took a total of 7 or 8 frames
on 2 1/4-square film,

473
00:25:44,409 --> 00:25:48,161
on ektachrome film,
and butted them together.

474
00:25:48,163 --> 00:25:50,613
it was the first underwater,
color panoramic

475
00:25:50,615 --> 00:25:54,083
ever done on the reefs.

476
00:25:54,085 --> 00:25:57,020
and this was when i came back
in 1989.

477
00:25:57,022 --> 00:26:00,824
the beautiful barrier reef
forest went to hell.

478
00:26:02,994 --> 00:26:04,911
psihoyos: now i'm looking around
and saying,

479
00:26:04,913 --> 00:26:07,330
"well, what happened here?

480
00:26:07,332 --> 00:26:12,585
it's not so far off from what
happened 65 million years ago.

481
00:26:12,587 --> 00:26:15,738
johnson: extinction
is often being driven

482
00:26:15,740 --> 00:26:17,173
by direct human activity --

483
00:26:17,175 --> 00:26:21,744
things like habitat destruction
or overfishing.

484
00:26:21,746 --> 00:26:24,514
and then there's
global climate change,

485
00:26:24,516 --> 00:26:27,917
which is happening
in a different way.

486
00:26:27,919 --> 00:26:29,552
so we have these
sort of dual things,

487
00:26:29,554 --> 00:26:32,939
like the direct hand of man,

488
00:26:32,941 --> 00:26:34,974
and the indirect hand of man
in the change of climate.

489
00:26:37,646 --> 00:26:39,595
veron: climate is controlled
by the oceans.

490
00:26:39,597 --> 00:26:41,814
the oceans are the big guy.
they're in control.

491
00:26:43,985 --> 00:26:47,203
and the oceans now
are slowly changing.

492
00:26:47,205 --> 00:26:51,491
and that is the danger
we face today.

493
00:26:51,493 --> 00:26:54,911
a mass extinction is driven
by a change of the environment,

494
00:26:54,913 --> 00:26:58,648
and we are changing
the environment precisely

495
00:26:58,650 --> 00:27:01,651
along the lines
that can trigger off

496
00:27:01,653 --> 00:27:03,186
one of these great catastrophes.

497
00:27:06,241 --> 00:27:08,074
there's been
five mass extinctions,

498
00:27:08,076 --> 00:27:10,577
and they've had
different causes,

499
00:27:10,579 --> 00:27:16,566
but there's been
one common factor in all --

500
00:27:16,568 --> 00:27:21,070
a massive increase
in carbon dioxide.

501
00:27:21,072 --> 00:27:23,423
and we've never had
a carbon-dioxide spike

502
00:27:23,425 --> 00:27:27,126
like what's happening now.

503
00:27:27,128 --> 00:27:30,680
kolbert: we are burning through
the fossil fuels laid down

504
00:27:30,682 --> 00:27:33,266
over hundreds of millions
of years,

505
00:27:33,268 --> 00:27:36,102
really reversing
geological history, basically.

506
00:27:36,104 --> 00:27:38,555
and we're doing it
really, really fast.

507
00:27:43,778 --> 00:27:46,563
peacock:
in the gulf oil spill,

508
00:27:46,565 --> 00:27:50,266
about 4.9 million barrels of oil
were spilled.

509
00:27:50,268 --> 00:27:53,319
that represents about a quarter

510
00:27:53,321 --> 00:27:56,039
of what we use every single day
in the u.s.

511
00:27:56,041 --> 00:27:59,008
psihoyos:
you look at an event

512
00:27:59,010 --> 00:28:00,810
like the gulf oil spill,
and you think,

513
00:28:00,812 --> 00:28:02,979
"this is the biggest
environmental catastrophe

514
00:28:02,981 --> 00:28:04,597
in america ever."

515
00:28:04,599 --> 00:28:08,651
but that spill is nothing
compared to the damage

516
00:28:08,653 --> 00:28:10,570
caused by us doing
everyday things

517
00:28:10,572 --> 00:28:13,556
we don't even think about.

518
00:28:13,558 --> 00:28:17,660
and i'm more guilty than anyone.

519
00:28:17,662 --> 00:28:19,245
the worst thing you can do
to the environment

520
00:28:19,247 --> 00:28:20,113
is make a film about it.

521
00:28:20,115 --> 00:28:21,414
this looks really cool.

522
00:28:21,416 --> 00:28:22,732
we did a carbon assessment

523
00:28:22,734 --> 00:28:24,751
of the first two years
of production,

524
00:28:24,753 --> 00:28:31,841
and i was horrified at how much
energy it takes to do what i do.

525
00:28:31,843 --> 00:28:34,010
man: sweet. we're gonna
turn this one on.

526
00:28:34,012 --> 00:28:35,845
we're at the point where
we're making our lives

527
00:28:35,847 --> 00:28:38,598
a lot better for us,

528
00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:41,467
but we're doing it
at the expense

529
00:28:41,469 --> 00:28:42,852
of everything going forward.

530
00:28:42,854 --> 00:28:46,889
[ horns honking ]

531
00:28:46,891 --> 00:28:49,442
we have many, many ways
to fix this problem.

532
00:28:49,444 --> 00:28:52,779
the question is,
are we gonna do it fast enough?

533
00:28:55,283 --> 00:28:57,300
hall-spencer:
what we know at the moment

534
00:28:57,302 --> 00:28:59,535
is we're driving this
out of control,

535
00:28:59,537 --> 00:29:02,722
and the ocean's chemistry
is changing really rapidly --

536
00:29:02,724 --> 00:29:05,058
scarily fast.

537
00:29:05,060 --> 00:29:08,144
when we put carbon dioxide
into the atmosphere,

538
00:29:08,146 --> 00:29:10,596
it doesn't all stay there.

539
00:29:10,598 --> 00:29:14,383
between a third and a half
gets absorbed by the oceans.

540
00:29:14,385 --> 00:29:17,904
peacock:
the co2 reacts with water

541
00:29:17,906 --> 00:29:20,556
to form something
called carbonic acid,

542
00:29:20,558 --> 00:29:23,359
and each year, the ocean
becomes more and more acidic.

543
00:29:23,361 --> 00:29:27,497
pimm: if you want to know
what that does,

544
00:29:27,499 --> 00:29:32,368
get a seashell and drop it in,
you know, a glass of vinegar.

545
00:29:36,841 --> 00:29:42,845
a whole variety of creatures
will simply dissolve

546
00:29:42,847 --> 00:29:45,965
into the acid ocean
that we have created.

547
00:29:45,967 --> 00:29:48,134
♪♪

548
00:29:48,136 --> 00:29:52,488
barton: each year, we harvest
7 to 10 billion oyster larvae

549
00:29:52,490 --> 00:29:54,273
that we send out to growers

550
00:29:54,275 --> 00:29:56,642
throughout
the pacific northwest.

551
00:29:56,644 --> 00:30:00,763
i still remember the day
all of the larvae essentially

552
00:30:00,765 --> 00:30:03,282
in our entire hatchery
were on the bottom of the tanks.

553
00:30:03,284 --> 00:30:06,903
so 6 billion larvae all died
in a single day.

554
00:30:08,106 --> 00:30:09,822
dewey:
that deep-ocean water

555
00:30:09,824 --> 00:30:12,375
off the coast of washington
and oregon

556
00:30:12,377 --> 00:30:16,295
comes into
the hatchery intakes,

557
00:30:16,297 --> 00:30:17,714
and they can't grow
their shell.

558
00:30:17,716 --> 00:30:19,966
it's dissolving faster
than they can grow it.

559
00:30:22,286 --> 00:30:25,388
it seemed outlandish to think
that the ocean [laughs]

560
00:30:25,390 --> 00:30:28,341
could be acidified enough to
cause these kinds of problems.

561
00:30:28,343 --> 00:30:30,292
it just seemed like something
from the distant future

562
00:30:30,294 --> 00:30:34,013
and nothing we ever had
to pay attention to.

563
00:30:34,015 --> 00:30:36,432
dewey: the rate of change
that we're seeing in the ocean

564
00:30:36,434 --> 00:30:40,353
and the change that it's gonna
create in our food chain --

565
00:30:40,355 --> 00:30:44,323
it's gonna be dramatic, and it's
gonna be in our lifetimes.

566
00:30:44,325 --> 00:30:46,275
the things
that we're used to eating

567
00:30:46,277 --> 00:30:48,611
may not be available anymore,

568
00:30:48,613 --> 00:30:50,329
and we may need to transition
to, you know,

569
00:30:50,331 --> 00:30:52,615
eating jellyfish
or something like that.

570
00:30:53,868 --> 00:30:56,552
[ cow moos ]

571
00:30:56,554 --> 00:30:59,255
veron:
it sounds a bit silly --

572
00:30:59,257 --> 00:31:02,358
change your diet
and save the planet --

573
00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:07,230
but if humans could
become vegetarians now,

574
00:31:07,232 --> 00:31:09,482
you would make
a massive difference.

575
00:31:09,484 --> 00:31:12,034
novacek: by far and away,

576
00:31:12,036 --> 00:31:15,571
the biggest factor in terms
of this mass extinction

577
00:31:15,573 --> 00:31:19,108
is destroying natural habitat
or converting natural habitat

578
00:31:19,110 --> 00:31:22,545
into land for food.

579
00:31:22,547 --> 00:31:25,414
the more dependent we are
on meat, milk, and eggs,

580
00:31:25,416 --> 00:31:29,919
the greater the co2
and methane emissions.

581
00:31:29,921 --> 00:31:35,308
cattle and brahmanas of all kind

582
00:31:35,310 --> 00:31:40,963
produce methane as a byproduct
of breaking down grass

583
00:31:40,965 --> 00:31:43,316
and other things
that they feed on.

584
00:31:47,188 --> 00:31:49,355
woman:
so, the contractions

585
00:31:49,357 --> 00:31:52,358
are pushing this gas
out from the stomach,

586
00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:54,360
going through here and the
one-way valve and into that?

587
00:31:54,362 --> 00:31:56,762
berra: yes. and after this,
we collect inside the bag.

588
00:31:56,764 --> 00:31:59,048
so, how long has that bag
been collecting gas?

589
00:31:59,050 --> 00:32:00,349
only two hours.

590
00:32:00,351 --> 00:32:04,971
brown: methane is something
like 22 times more potent

591
00:32:04,973 --> 00:32:08,941
as a climate-changing gas
than is co2,

592
00:32:08,943 --> 00:32:11,694
so it doesn't take very much
methane to make a difference.

593
00:32:11,696 --> 00:32:16,732
psihoyos: a cow can basically
fill up a 55-gallon garbage bag

594
00:32:16,734 --> 00:32:20,953
full of methane every day.

595
00:32:20,955 --> 00:32:24,407
one cow's not a problem, but now
we have 1.5 billion of them.

596
00:32:24,409 --> 00:32:26,943
and it's an incredibly
inefficient way

597
00:32:26,945 --> 00:32:28,911
of producing food.

598
00:32:30,748 --> 00:32:32,748
three-quarters
of agricultural land

599
00:32:32,750 --> 00:32:35,451
is used just to feed livestock.

600
00:32:35,453 --> 00:32:37,303
when you factor in everything --

601
00:32:37,305 --> 00:32:39,788
the clearing of the land
for grazing, feeding,

602
00:32:39,790 --> 00:32:43,476
and transporting -- livestock
causes more greenhouse gases

603
00:32:43,478 --> 00:32:44,960
than all the direct emissions

604
00:32:44,962 --> 00:32:48,964
from the entire
transportation sector.

605
00:32:48,966 --> 00:32:51,317
hall-spencer:
i don't think it's a competition
between these problems.

606
00:32:51,319 --> 00:32:53,269
i don't think one could
be put above the other.

607
00:32:53,271 --> 00:32:54,937
it's like saying,
"well, is global warming

608
00:32:54,939 --> 00:32:57,273
worse than ocean acidification?"

609
00:32:57,275 --> 00:32:59,909
or, "is fishing all
the big fish in the sea

610
00:32:59,911 --> 00:33:01,844
worse than polluting it?"

611
00:33:01,846 --> 00:33:04,347
i think it'd be foolish
to try and single out

612
00:33:04,349 --> 00:33:06,716
any one of them to say
this is how we're gonna

613
00:33:06,718 --> 00:33:08,083
fix the planet's problems.

614
00:33:08,085 --> 00:33:10,019
we need to fight them
on all fronts.

615
00:33:10,021 --> 00:33:13,022
[ indistinct conversations ]

616
00:33:18,429 --> 00:33:20,780
[ geese honking,
ducks quacking ]

617
00:33:20,782 --> 00:33:22,064
[ rodents squeaking ]

618
00:33:22,066 --> 00:33:23,733
heinrichs:
look at all the rodents.

619
00:33:23,735 --> 00:33:25,434
[ cats meowing ]

620
00:33:25,436 --> 00:33:27,870
they're like house cats.

621
00:33:30,124 --> 00:33:33,326
man: look at this one.
it's still alive.

622
00:33:35,413 --> 00:33:36,829
a lot of doors closing.

623
00:33:36,831 --> 00:33:38,714
heinrichs:
lights going off.

624
00:33:38,716 --> 00:33:39,999
that's scary, man.

625
00:33:40,001 --> 00:33:42,752
yeah, we're definitely
not welcome here.

626
00:33:42,754 --> 00:33:46,055
in 2003, the government clamped
down on the wildlife markets

627
00:33:46,057 --> 00:33:49,342
across southern china, so things
started to go underground,

628
00:33:49,344 --> 00:33:51,477
so operating
in early hours of the morning.

629
00:33:51,479 --> 00:33:54,764
and it's horrific.

630
00:33:54,766 --> 00:33:55,948
rally:
they're shutting down.

631
00:33:55,950 --> 00:33:56,832
psihoyos: what?

632
00:33:56,834 --> 00:33:57,783
they're shutting down.

633
00:33:57,785 --> 00:33:58,784
man: that's crazy.

634
00:33:58,786 --> 00:34:01,570
they're hiding them now.

635
00:34:01,572 --> 00:34:03,673
heinrichs:
oh, my gosh!

636
00:34:03,675 --> 00:34:06,241
[ speaking native language ]

637
00:34:06,243 --> 00:34:09,962
this is a market that had to
switch places twice that year.

638
00:34:09,964 --> 00:34:11,347
oh. what are they doing?

639
00:34:11,349 --> 00:34:13,265
i mean, they know they're
not supposed to be doing

640
00:34:13,267 --> 00:34:16,251
what they're doing.

641
00:34:16,253 --> 00:34:18,087
that's hardcore.

642
00:34:18,089 --> 00:34:19,939
[ speaking native language ]

643
00:34:23,027 --> 00:34:25,594
the more endangered it is,
the more illegal it is,

644
00:34:25,596 --> 00:34:29,482
the more we have to go
to the back rooms.

645
00:34:29,484 --> 00:34:32,434
go straight up.

646
00:34:32,436 --> 00:34:34,370
heinrichs: so, louie...

647
00:34:34,372 --> 00:34:37,573
i want to show you
something right here.

648
00:34:37,575 --> 00:34:40,776
you're looking at
a dozen manta rays

649
00:34:40,778 --> 00:34:43,212
sitting right in
these bags right there.

650
00:34:43,214 --> 00:34:45,665
when you consider that each
of these animals

651
00:34:45,667 --> 00:34:48,450
has one pup every couple years,

652
00:34:48,452 --> 00:34:52,505
you're looking at literally
an entire generation wiped out,

653
00:34:52,507 --> 00:34:54,223
just in these bags.

654
00:34:56,327 --> 00:34:58,727
a few years ago, i started
noticing species

655
00:34:58,729 --> 00:35:02,498
of manta and mobula ray
lined up in the streets

656
00:35:02,500 --> 00:35:04,617
in areas that used to be
predominantly shark ports.

657
00:35:04,619 --> 00:35:07,953
and it was really confusing
to me, because i understood

658
00:35:07,955 --> 00:35:09,789
that you can't use their wings
for shark-fin soup,

659
00:35:09,791 --> 00:35:13,042
and the meat from these rays
is very pungent.

660
00:35:13,044 --> 00:35:15,177
it's not worth the time
of bringing in

661
00:35:15,179 --> 00:35:18,514
these huge, heavy animals.

662
00:35:18,516 --> 00:35:20,883
hilton: i couldn't believe
when i walked in.

663
00:35:20,885 --> 00:35:23,853
there's just giant, oceanic
mantas all lined up in a row.

664
00:35:23,855 --> 00:35:27,756
and just wanted to know
what was going on,

665
00:35:27,758 --> 00:35:30,192
and then i started watching them
cutting out the gills.

666
00:35:30,194 --> 00:35:32,928
the gills are missing.
where did they put them?

667
00:35:32,930 --> 00:35:35,264
where did they take the gills?

668
00:35:35,266 --> 00:35:36,732
heinrichs:
and it came down to this --

669
00:35:36,734 --> 00:35:41,153
it was an old cultural remedy
in a very small, coastal town

670
00:35:41,155 --> 00:35:43,789
in southern china,
and that was over 50 years ago.

671
00:35:43,791 --> 00:35:46,709
and that had
largely disappeared,

672
00:35:46,711 --> 00:35:49,245
but i think it was just
following the sars outbreak,

673
00:35:49,247 --> 00:35:50,329
somebody got it
in their mind that

674
00:35:50,331 --> 00:35:52,498
"hey, we're running out
of sharks.

675
00:35:52,500 --> 00:35:54,884
what other products
can we move into the pipeline?"

676
00:36:08,449 --> 00:36:10,916
hilton:
the gills of manta rays ended up

677
00:36:10,918 --> 00:36:14,069
in all the traditional
chinese medicine stores

678
00:36:14,071 --> 00:36:16,705
and the dried-seafood stores.

679
00:36:41,732 --> 00:36:46,235
i remember my first encounter
with a manta in the water.

680
00:36:46,237 --> 00:36:49,771
it's something
i'll never forget.

681
00:36:49,773 --> 00:36:52,458
i'm sitting in the water,
and, then, just out of the blue,

682
00:36:52,460 --> 00:36:57,096
this manta ray does
this huge flyby, right past,

683
00:36:57,098 --> 00:37:00,182
and then goes back
into the blue.

684
00:37:00,184 --> 00:37:03,686
and then i'm just left
breathless, waiting.

685
00:37:09,944 --> 00:37:13,696
heinrichs:
just recently, we were in bali.

686
00:37:13,698 --> 00:37:16,231
at the end of the last dive,
everyone's out of the water.

687
00:37:16,233 --> 00:37:18,534
and i look down,

688
00:37:18,536 --> 00:37:21,120
and this one manta comes
right underneath me

689
00:37:21,122 --> 00:37:22,588
and then just stops,
and it hovers,

690
00:37:22,590 --> 00:37:24,957
and it's about 15 feet down,
and it just -- it's not moving.

691
00:37:24,959 --> 00:37:29,745
and i'm like,
"that's interesting."

692
00:37:29,747 --> 00:37:33,966
i look, and there's fishing line
tailing off the top of its body.

693
00:37:36,137 --> 00:37:38,187
and the first thing i did
is i swam down.

694
00:37:38,189 --> 00:37:39,772
i snipped the line off
the top of its head,

695
00:37:39,774 --> 00:37:43,108
right just above the hook.

696
00:37:48,115 --> 00:37:53,953
and swam up.

697
00:37:53,955 --> 00:37:55,237
she didn't swim away.

698
00:37:55,239 --> 00:37:57,089
she was just hovering
right underneath me.

699
00:38:04,182 --> 00:38:06,015
so i swim back down to her
one more time,

700
00:38:06,017 --> 00:38:08,567
and i put my hand gently
right on the front of her head,

701
00:38:08,569 --> 00:38:10,853
and i put my hand on the hook,

702
00:38:10,855 --> 00:38:15,658
and i slowly worked that hook
right out of its top jaw.

703
00:38:20,781 --> 00:38:22,114
and i thought, "that's it.

704
00:38:22,116 --> 00:38:23,365
you know, she's gonna
swim off now."

705
00:38:23,367 --> 00:38:24,700
she's been saved.

706
00:38:24,702 --> 00:38:28,737
i look down, and she's
circling right under my feet.

707
00:38:28,739 --> 00:38:31,740
so i swim back down to her
one more time,

708
00:38:31,742 --> 00:38:34,260
and i put my hand right next
to where the injury was,

709
00:38:34,262 --> 00:38:36,178
as if sort of rubbing it
and saying, "hey, listen.

710
00:38:36,180 --> 00:38:41,100
you're gonna be okay."

711
00:38:41,102 --> 00:38:43,418
and i put my head
right next to her eye,

712
00:38:43,420 --> 00:38:45,420
and i just remember her eye
moving back and forth

713
00:38:45,422 --> 00:38:50,309
between my mask,
looking at both my eyes,

714
00:38:50,311 --> 00:38:53,762
and realized that she knew
i was trying to help her.

715
00:38:53,764 --> 00:38:56,765
♪♪

716
00:39:03,224 --> 00:39:06,058
often, people say, "how can
one person make a difference?"

717
00:39:07,478 --> 00:39:11,397
announcer: what if you could see
how shark-fin soup is made?

718
00:39:12,767 --> 00:39:14,817
if you could see how each year,

719
00:39:14,819 --> 00:39:19,321
up to 70 million sharks
are killed to end up in soup,

720
00:39:19,323 --> 00:39:20,906
could you still eat it?

721
00:39:20,908 --> 00:39:22,908
heinrichs: i shared the footage
of a live, finned shark

722
00:39:22,910 --> 00:39:24,860
in indonesia with wildaid,

723
00:39:24,862 --> 00:39:26,946
an organizer that has been
working on shark conservation

724
00:39:26,948 --> 00:39:28,163
in china.

725
00:39:28,165 --> 00:39:31,233
the film went to
over a billion people in asia.

726
00:39:31,235 --> 00:39:33,735
80% who were surveyed who saw it

727
00:39:33,737 --> 00:39:36,121
said they were either gonna
quit eating shark-fin soup

728
00:39:36,123 --> 00:39:38,958
or drastically reduce
their consumption of it.

729
00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:42,962
remember, when the buying stops,
the killing can, too.

730
00:39:48,752 --> 00:39:50,585
psihoyos:
as a still photographer,

731
00:39:50,587 --> 00:39:53,755
i can see the power of an image.

732
00:39:53,757 --> 00:39:55,641
it was transformative.

733
00:39:59,146 --> 00:40:02,764
but i think it's in our dna to
take care of future generations,

734
00:40:02,766 --> 00:40:08,737
and if you can find that way in,

735
00:40:08,739 --> 00:40:13,542
you can reach people
really quickly and change them.

736
00:40:15,663 --> 00:40:18,213
richards: the human eye
is so limited.

737
00:40:18,215 --> 00:40:20,299
we see only a tiny,
little sliver

738
00:40:20,301 --> 00:40:22,251
of the electromagnetic
spectrum.

739
00:40:22,253 --> 00:40:24,786
it's like if you owned
a grand piano in your house,

740
00:40:24,788 --> 00:40:27,056
but you could only hear
one note on it.

741
00:40:28,342 --> 00:40:32,127
normally, carbon dioxide gas
is invisible to the human eye,

742
00:40:32,129 --> 00:40:34,430
but certain wavelengths
of infrared will be

743
00:40:34,432 --> 00:40:37,816
absorbed by gases
like co2 or methane.

744
00:40:37,818 --> 00:40:39,518
so that's what's
going on here.

745
00:40:39,520 --> 00:40:42,154
this camera has a very
particular color filter on it,

746
00:40:42,156 --> 00:40:44,973
enabling us to visualize
the co2 gas

747
00:40:44,975 --> 00:40:47,443
that's coming out of
our noses and mouths.

748
00:40:49,947 --> 00:40:52,164
we had two cameras --

749
00:40:52,166 --> 00:40:54,533
one camera that sees
what your eye sees,

750
00:40:54,535 --> 00:40:57,353
and the other,
what the fossil-fuel companies

751
00:40:57,355 --> 00:41:00,222
don't want the rest
of the world to see --

752
00:41:00,224 --> 00:41:01,857
the carbon dioxide world.

753
00:41:01,859 --> 00:41:04,026
psihoyos: let's do
this one coming at us.

754
00:41:04,028 --> 00:41:05,477
[ indistinct radio chatter ]

755
00:41:05,479 --> 00:41:08,731
3...2...1.

756
00:41:14,372 --> 00:41:17,072
i mean, it's disgusting,
but it's beautiful.

757
00:41:18,159 --> 00:41:19,658
psihoyos: so, let's
just go up left here.

758
00:41:19,660 --> 00:41:21,210
stepanek: on the left here?
real slow here.

759
00:41:21,212 --> 00:41:22,961
where these guys are gonna be --
a slow creep.

760
00:41:22,963 --> 00:41:24,213
slowly, slowly,
slow down.

761
00:41:24,215 --> 00:41:26,165
slowly, slowly, slowly,
slowly, slowly, slowly.

762
00:41:26,167 --> 00:41:28,083
wow.

763
00:41:39,180 --> 00:41:43,348
just about everything
that we do emits carbon dioxide,

764
00:41:43,350 --> 00:41:46,351
from the way we heat
and air-condition our houses,

765
00:41:46,353 --> 00:41:49,354
the way we do
our transportation systems,

766
00:41:49,356 --> 00:41:51,323
whether it's planes,
trains, or automobiles.

767
00:41:53,327 --> 00:41:55,244
[ train whistle blows ]

768
00:41:55,246 --> 00:41:59,381
just about everything pumps out
vast amounts of carbon dioxide.

769
00:41:59,383 --> 00:42:04,085
but you can't see it.

770
00:42:04,087 --> 00:42:06,054
to be able to see
this hidden world

771
00:42:06,056 --> 00:42:09,641
was like you were let in on
this magic trick,

772
00:42:09,643 --> 00:42:12,978
but the magic trick was
actually killing the planet.

773
00:42:14,865 --> 00:42:17,483
this looks like a big parade
of crap, doesn't it?

774
00:42:17,485 --> 00:42:20,502
just filth.

775
00:42:23,273 --> 00:42:24,406
[ siren chirps ]

776
00:42:24,408 --> 00:42:25,958
yep.

777
00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:27,626
oh.

778
00:42:27,628 --> 00:42:29,277
so, what are you
working on, buddy?

779
00:42:29,279 --> 00:42:30,546
come on in.
i will show you.

780
00:42:30,548 --> 00:42:32,113
is this your
flux capacitor?

781
00:42:32,115 --> 00:42:33,215
psihoyos: it's close.

782
00:42:33,217 --> 00:42:34,282
oh, right here,
actually.

783
00:42:34,284 --> 00:42:35,467
i can spin this.
you see this?

784
00:42:35,469 --> 00:42:36,468
it's just carbon dioxide.

785
00:42:36,470 --> 00:42:37,786
i mean, what,
the government hiring you?

786
00:42:37,788 --> 00:42:38,804
whose doing it?

787
00:42:38,806 --> 00:42:40,288
you just doing
your own thing or what?

788
00:42:40,290 --> 00:42:41,924
-it's like a science project.
-yeah. just a science project.

789
00:42:41,926 --> 00:42:42,925
science project?

790
00:42:50,133 --> 00:42:51,800
johnson: in many ways,

791
00:42:51,802 --> 00:42:55,354
our generation is the one with
the last hand on the throttle

792
00:42:55,356 --> 00:42:59,074
that just pushes
that throttle down.

793
00:42:59,076 --> 00:43:01,760
we're putting
so much carbon dioxide

794
00:43:01,762 --> 00:43:04,780
and so much methane
into the atmosphere,

795
00:43:04,782 --> 00:43:07,432
it's quite possible,
if you think about it,

796
00:43:07,434 --> 00:43:10,469
that the baby boom generation
itself

797
00:43:10,471 --> 00:43:12,921
is the single most impactful
generation

798
00:43:12,923 --> 00:43:15,023
of mammals this planet
has ever seen.

799
00:43:19,563 --> 00:43:22,097
worm: in the anthropocene,
we're changing every parameter.

800
00:43:22,099 --> 00:43:24,449
we're changing the geology
of the planet.

801
00:43:24,451 --> 00:43:27,653
we're changing the chemistry
of the ocean.

802
00:43:27,655 --> 00:43:31,790
the anthropocene means
that what happens to this planet

803
00:43:31,792 --> 00:43:33,792
is now in our own hands.

804
00:43:39,800 --> 00:43:42,801
when you take any drop
off the ocean anywhere

805
00:43:42,803 --> 00:43:45,787
and you look under a microscope,

806
00:43:45,789 --> 00:43:49,424
there's so much beauty there
on this tiny scale,

807
00:43:49,426 --> 00:43:54,146
this miniature architecture
that i never tire of looking at.

808
00:43:54,148 --> 00:43:57,065
man:
our first speaker is boris worm,

809
00:43:57,067 --> 00:43:59,167
and he's published
a number of important

810
00:43:59,169 --> 00:44:01,420
and controversial papers
in recent years

811
00:44:01,422 --> 00:44:03,255
on the decline of phytoplankton.

812
00:44:03,257 --> 00:44:04,756
[ applause ]

813
00:44:04,758 --> 00:44:07,175
worm: when i give a talk on
plankton, i say, first of all,

814
00:44:07,177 --> 00:44:09,077
let's take a breath,
and let's take a second breath,

815
00:44:09,079 --> 00:44:10,379
and then contemplate the fact

816
00:44:10,381 --> 00:44:12,581
that that second breath
came from the ocean,

817
00:44:12,583 --> 00:44:15,017
because it was produced
ultimately by phytoplankton,

818
00:44:15,019 --> 00:44:19,254
which produce half of the oxygen
we breathe.

819
00:44:19,256 --> 00:44:23,308
we're aware that we are changing
the ocean at a global scale.

820
00:44:23,310 --> 00:44:24,860
there's multiple human impacts,

821
00:44:24,862 --> 00:44:27,896
ranging from fishing to climate
change and acidification,

822
00:44:27,898 --> 00:44:33,535
implying that no part of the
ocean is free from human impact.

823
00:44:33,537 --> 00:44:36,705
psihoyos: using satellite
imagery and other data,

824
00:44:36,707 --> 00:44:38,607
dr. worm determined
that we have may have lost

825
00:44:38,609 --> 00:44:42,995
40% of plankton production
in just the last 50 years.

826
00:44:42,997 --> 00:44:46,781
worm:
it's happening primarily as
a consequence of climate change,

827
00:44:46,783 --> 00:44:49,585
and there is
a lot of controversy,

828
00:44:49,587 --> 00:44:51,336
because it's a big question.

829
00:44:51,338 --> 00:44:54,139
and if this plankton decline
pans out to be as dramatic

830
00:44:54,141 --> 00:44:57,276
as we think it is,
then that would be a big deal.

831
00:45:00,063 --> 00:45:04,449
veron: your life depends on
the oceans breathing.

832
00:45:04,451 --> 00:45:08,287
and, in fact, animals could
only exist on land

833
00:45:08,289 --> 00:45:13,125
after plankton in the oceans
had produced enough oxygen

834
00:45:13,127 --> 00:45:15,377
for them to live by.

835
00:45:21,969 --> 00:45:23,769
psihoyos: we have this illusion
that it's the big things

836
00:45:23,771 --> 00:45:26,104
in the environment that count.

837
00:45:26,106 --> 00:45:30,142
but if you lose
the small things...

838
00:45:30,144 --> 00:45:32,060
everything else fails.

839
00:45:32,062 --> 00:45:33,895
♪♪

840
00:45:59,940 --> 00:46:02,223
it's like there's
this incredible web

841
00:46:02,225 --> 00:46:05,444
where we're all connected,

842
00:46:05,446 --> 00:46:07,245
and if you take out
one little thing,

843
00:46:07,247 --> 00:46:10,032
let's say like plankton,

844
00:46:10,034 --> 00:46:13,669
everything,
the whole web collapses.

845
00:46:13,671 --> 00:46:16,505
[ birds chirping ]

846
00:46:16,507 --> 00:46:20,375
clark:
it's like having a symphony.

847
00:46:20,377 --> 00:46:22,344
and one by one,
you just pluck

848
00:46:22,346 --> 00:46:27,883
each of the instruments
out of the orchestra...

849
00:46:27,885 --> 00:46:32,220
[ bird chirping ]

850
00:46:32,222 --> 00:46:35,524
...till your last voice
is there.

851
00:46:35,526 --> 00:46:40,028
[ chirping stops ]

852
00:46:40,030 --> 00:46:43,932
and then it's gone.

853
00:46:43,934 --> 00:46:45,400
♪♪

854
00:46:47,705 --> 00:46:50,655
heinrichs: it's really easy
for us to look east and say,

855
00:46:50,657 --> 00:46:52,440
"you know,
look what china's doing.

856
00:46:52,442 --> 00:46:54,910
they're destroying the planet.
they're polluting everything.

857
00:46:54,912 --> 00:46:57,646
they're wiping out species."

858
00:46:57,648 --> 00:47:00,766
but the west is already doing
an incredible job

859
00:47:00,768 --> 00:47:04,486
of massively depleting
and damaging the environment

860
00:47:04,488 --> 00:47:07,739
and taking out
a lot of threatened species.

861
00:47:07,741 --> 00:47:09,741
♪♪

862
00:47:09,743 --> 00:47:11,827
what's happening in china now
is they're going through

863
00:47:11,829 --> 00:47:14,830
the same growing pains
that we did,

864
00:47:14,832 --> 00:47:16,998
but when we went through
our growing pains,

865
00:47:17,000 --> 00:47:18,784
there was only a billion people
on the planet.

866
00:47:18,786 --> 00:47:22,037
with china going through
its growing pains,

867
00:47:22,039 --> 00:47:25,624
there's over 1.3 billion people
in china alone.

868
00:47:25,626 --> 00:47:30,429
we've already pushed
so many vulnerable species

869
00:47:30,431 --> 00:47:33,882
and the environment
to the brink.

870
00:47:33,884 --> 00:47:39,020
we can't afford to keep
making the same mistakes,

871
00:47:39,022 --> 00:47:43,391
because there will be
nothing left.

872
00:47:48,999 --> 00:47:51,199
ome of the world's
we can't afford to keep
makirarest amphibianskes,

873
00:47:51,201 --> 00:47:53,601
are inside that trailer.

874
00:47:56,173 --> 00:47:58,673
i've heard up to half
of all frog species

875
00:47:58,675 --> 00:48:00,408
could be gone
in the next 20 years.

876
00:48:00,410 --> 00:48:02,143
man: yeah.

877
00:48:02,145 --> 00:48:06,648
there are 7,000 species
of amphibian,

878
00:48:06,650 --> 00:48:09,417
and they're all endangered.

879
00:48:09,419 --> 00:48:11,853
photo ark's my 20-year attempt
to photograph

880
00:48:11,855 --> 00:48:14,889
every captive species
on earth --

881
00:48:14,891 --> 00:48:17,859
one guy's desperate attempt
to get people to care.

882
00:48:17,861 --> 00:48:20,395
that's it.

883
00:48:20,397 --> 00:48:21,896
there he is.

884
00:48:21,898 --> 00:48:24,666
the very last
rabbs' fringe-limbed treefrog --

885
00:48:24,668 --> 00:48:25,800
very last one.

886
00:48:25,802 --> 00:48:28,069
chytrid fungus wiped
them all out in panama,

887
00:48:28,071 --> 00:48:29,170
so he's the last one.

888
00:48:29,172 --> 00:48:30,238
that's it.

889
00:48:30,240 --> 00:48:33,274
when he's gone,
they'll be extinct.

890
00:48:33,276 --> 00:48:35,777
can we lift his chin up a little
bit for me, please?

891
00:48:35,779 --> 00:48:37,278
perfect.

892
00:48:37,280 --> 00:48:38,613
this is his big moment.

893
00:48:41,685 --> 00:48:43,651
a lot of times,
these pictures i do

894
00:48:43,653 --> 00:48:46,621
are the only national coverage
these animals will ever get

895
00:48:46,623 --> 00:48:47,922
before they go extinct.

896
00:48:47,924 --> 00:48:50,024
this is it.
this is their one chance.

897
00:48:50,026 --> 00:48:53,127
i really hope the photo ark
isn't just some sort of

898
00:48:53,129 --> 00:48:56,831
an archive of the things
we lost, but instead,

899
00:48:56,833 --> 00:48:59,234
it's a chance to get people
interested,

900
00:48:59,236 --> 00:49:04,105
look these animals in the eye,
and fall in love with them.

901
00:49:04,107 --> 00:49:08,743
goode: there's only 330,
340 species of turtles,

902
00:49:08,745 --> 00:49:12,447
and half of them
are under threat.

903
00:49:16,553 --> 00:49:20,154
if the temperature rises on
the planet just a few degrees,

904
00:49:20,156 --> 00:49:24,058
they're very susceptible
to extinction.

905
00:49:24,060 --> 00:49:28,296
so, this is really
the last line of defense,

906
00:49:28,298 --> 00:49:31,332
keeping animals
that are extinct in the wild

907
00:49:31,334 --> 00:49:33,868
in a captive situation.

908
00:49:33,870 --> 00:49:38,139
i think you could compare
something like this

909
00:49:38,141 --> 00:49:40,942
or nature in general
to the finest works of art

910
00:49:40,944 --> 00:49:43,645
on the planet,
and in my opinion more than,

911
00:49:43,647 --> 00:49:46,681
you know, the best picasso,
matisse, warhol.

912
00:49:51,221 --> 00:49:54,422
life wants to flourish.

913
00:49:54,424 --> 00:49:56,557
dna wants to go forward.

914
00:49:56,559 --> 00:49:58,493
we need to be part of that.

915
00:50:00,630 --> 00:50:03,097
schwartzberg: why would we
want to do anything to disrupt

916
00:50:03,099 --> 00:50:06,834
something that took
billions of years to evolve?

917
00:50:09,439 --> 00:50:13,274
[ wind whistling, ice cracking ]

918
00:50:17,314 --> 00:50:19,714
woman: see how the trees
are all falling into the lake?

919
00:50:19,716 --> 00:50:22,150
and they're doing that
because the permafrost

920
00:50:22,152 --> 00:50:24,786
in the ground is melting.

921
00:50:24,788 --> 00:50:27,355
psihoyos: in the arctic,

922
00:50:27,357 --> 00:50:28,990
in these cold regions
around the planet,

923
00:50:28,992 --> 00:50:32,026
underneath the lakes,
underneath the oceans,

924
00:50:32,028 --> 00:50:36,064
there's vast, vast quantities
of frozen methane

925
00:50:36,066 --> 00:50:40,034
that's been in there
for millions of years.

926
00:50:40,036 --> 00:50:43,504
this lake has a lot of
methane bubbling out of it.

927
00:50:43,506 --> 00:50:46,274
in fact, we can light
those methane bubbles on fire.

928
00:50:46,276 --> 00:50:49,477
psihoyos: schoolkids know
about the extinction event

929
00:50:49,479 --> 00:50:51,346
that killed
all the big dinosaurs,

930
00:50:51,348 --> 00:50:54,615
but paleontologists -- you know,
the connoisseurs of this --

931
00:50:54,617 --> 00:50:57,752
they look back at
the permian extinction.

932
00:50:57,754 --> 00:51:00,154
that's the biggest extinction
in the history of the planet.

933
00:51:00,156 --> 00:51:02,824
almost all life
on the planet disappeared.

934
00:51:02,826 --> 00:51:04,892
♪♪

935
00:51:04,894 --> 00:51:08,830
it's called "the great dying."

936
00:51:08,832 --> 00:51:09,931
[ camera shutter clicking ]

937
00:51:09,933 --> 00:51:12,066
you know,
the k-t is pretty obvious.

938
00:51:12,068 --> 00:51:14,469
that was caused by a meteor,
but what the hell killed

939
00:51:14,471 --> 00:51:17,905
all the animals on land and sea
back at the permian?

940
00:51:22,078 --> 00:51:24,912
and now they're coming around
to thinking,

941
00:51:24,914 --> 00:51:26,647
"it was probably methane."

942
00:51:26,649 --> 00:51:31,285
so, the arctic's
getting gradually warmer,

943
00:51:31,287 --> 00:51:32,987
and the methane
that's been locked away

944
00:51:32,989 --> 00:51:37,525
for millions of years
is starting to come out.

945
00:51:40,029 --> 00:51:41,996
when all this gets going,

946
00:51:41,998 --> 00:51:46,534
we will have what we call
a runaway effect.

947
00:51:46,536 --> 00:51:50,238
that's runaway climate change,
and that's unstoppable.

948
00:51:52,475 --> 00:51:53,441
oh!

949
00:51:54,177 --> 00:51:55,343
are you all right?

950
00:51:55,345 --> 00:51:58,045
the only way to tackle
the methane problem

951
00:51:58,047 --> 00:52:01,048
is to reduce co2 emissions,

952
00:52:01,050 --> 00:52:03,384
because that's what's
warming the arctic,

953
00:52:03,386 --> 00:52:08,456
letting this methane bubble up.

954
00:52:08,458 --> 00:52:10,958
psihoyos:
you know, the great irony
is, like, the oil companies,

955
00:52:10,960 --> 00:52:13,161
they see the melting of the ice
as an opportunity

956
00:52:13,163 --> 00:52:14,896
to go up there
and drill more holes for oil,

957
00:52:14,898 --> 00:52:17,231
and what we don't realize,
it's underneath that --

958
00:52:17,233 --> 00:52:19,901
that's what people
have to worry about.

959
00:52:19,903 --> 00:52:21,869
johnson: we do know from
the fossil record

960
00:52:21,871 --> 00:52:26,140
that even pre-human climate
changes could happen fast.

961
00:52:26,142 --> 00:52:27,842
i'm not talking
millions of years.

962
00:52:27,844 --> 00:52:30,711
i'm talking three years
or four years --

963
00:52:30,713 --> 00:52:32,580
way less than a mortgage,

964
00:52:32,582 --> 00:52:34,682
less time than it takes for
your kid to go through college.

965
00:52:34,684 --> 00:52:37,251
and what if
the world's temperature

966
00:52:37,253 --> 00:52:41,489
goes up six degrees
in three years?

967
00:52:41,491 --> 00:52:45,326
veron: it will lead to
massive death in the oceans.

968
00:52:45,328 --> 00:52:48,095
when the oceans start dying
like that,

969
00:52:48,097 --> 00:52:51,499
the planet can't function
as it used to function.

970
00:52:51,501 --> 00:52:56,671
and when that happens,
life everywhere fails.

971
00:52:56,673 --> 00:53:00,374
that is a mass extinction.

972
00:53:00,376 --> 00:53:04,212
♪♪

973
00:53:12,722 --> 00:53:16,357
heinrichs: there's this
remote island in indonesia.

974
00:53:16,359 --> 00:53:17,992
it's right at the tip,

975
00:53:17,994 --> 00:53:21,462
where the sea comes sort of
crashing into this channel,

976
00:53:21,464 --> 00:53:24,866
and through this quarter
are whales and dolphins

977
00:53:24,868 --> 00:53:30,271
and all kinds of animals.

978
00:53:30,273 --> 00:53:35,510
and at the tip of this island
is this village called lamakera.

979
00:53:35,512 --> 00:53:40,548
there's no place on earth that
we know of where more manta rays

980
00:53:40,550 --> 00:53:43,117
are being killed than
in that single village.

981
00:53:43,119 --> 00:53:47,455
[ man singing
in native language ]

982
00:53:47,457 --> 00:53:51,158
we realized if we were gonna
deal with the manta issue,

983
00:53:51,160 --> 00:53:53,361
we had to go to ground zero.

984
00:53:53,363 --> 00:53:54,996
[ laughter ]

985
00:53:54,998 --> 00:53:56,097
[ sheep bleats ]

986
00:53:56,099 --> 00:53:57,465
these are manta rays.

987
00:53:57,467 --> 00:54:00,134
they make, like,
sets of 20 or 40,

988
00:54:00,136 --> 00:54:02,303
and they're about $20 a set,

989
00:54:02,305 --> 00:54:04,539
and you get a couple of sets
off a manta maximum,

990
00:54:04,541 --> 00:54:07,975
and then you get about
$500 to $600 from the gills.

991
00:54:07,977 --> 00:54:11,979
those are gills.
- you can see the end of it.

992
00:54:11,981 --> 00:54:15,383
all the cartilage
will be sent to china

993
00:54:15,385 --> 00:54:21,188
to be crushed down into pills
for glucosamine sulfate

994
00:54:21,190 --> 00:54:23,291
for their sore joints
and stuff.

995
00:54:25,995 --> 00:54:29,497
we sat down to meet with the
kepala desa, who's the chief.

996
00:55:12,342 --> 00:55:14,642
hilton: initially,
they weren't very welcoming.

997
00:55:14,644 --> 00:55:16,811
they didn't want us to stay.

998
00:55:16,813 --> 00:55:20,448
heinrichs: but ultimately, we
managed to talk our way onto

999
00:55:20,450 --> 00:55:22,216
one of the fishing vessels.

1000
00:55:29,392 --> 00:55:31,325
heinrichs: ask them how
they caught it.

1001
00:55:31,327 --> 00:55:34,228
[ all shouting
in native language ]

1002
00:55:40,069 --> 00:55:42,269
see it?

1003
00:55:42,271 --> 00:55:44,305
[ man shouts indistinctly ]

1004
00:55:44,307 --> 00:55:46,374
hilton: a couple of hours into
the fishing trip,

1005
00:55:46,376 --> 00:55:50,778
they saw this black figure
on the surface just cruising.

1006
00:55:57,920 --> 00:56:02,523
[ conversing in
native language ]

1007
00:56:06,496 --> 00:56:09,830
paul, left.

1008
00:56:09,832 --> 00:56:11,966
blood starts to color the water.

1009
00:56:15,438 --> 00:56:17,972
[ men singing
in native language ]

1010
00:56:17,974 --> 00:56:20,074
heinrichs:
over the course of an hour,

1011
00:56:20,076 --> 00:56:23,144
this thing struggles
for its life.

1012
00:56:23,146 --> 00:56:25,713
it's big.

1013
00:56:30,119 --> 00:56:33,120
[ conversing
in native language ]

1014
00:56:55,144 --> 00:56:56,677
and i'm looking at this,
and i'm going,

1015
00:56:56,679 --> 00:57:00,915
"god, i can't do this."

1016
00:57:00,917 --> 00:57:03,350
he just sticks in the brain
of this animal,

1017
00:57:03,352 --> 00:57:04,652
and it just freaks out.

1018
00:57:10,359 --> 00:57:13,594
and i actually watched its soul
just disappear in front of me,

1019
00:57:13,596 --> 00:57:16,330
and then it went limp.

1020
00:57:16,332 --> 00:57:18,933
♪♪

1021
00:57:25,608 --> 00:57:28,075
paul, hurry.

1022
00:57:28,077 --> 00:57:31,812
no, no. don't panic,
don't panic.

1023
00:57:31,814 --> 00:57:36,884
as we're going towards
the village,

1024
00:57:36,886 --> 00:57:39,320
an armada of boats
start streaming past us,

1025
00:57:44,160 --> 00:57:47,194
and they're all triangulating
on this group of manta rays

1026
00:57:47,196 --> 00:57:49,363
that have come into
their waters.

1027
00:58:01,177 --> 00:58:04,512
and the first thing they do
is start hacking into the gills.

1028
00:58:04,514 --> 00:58:09,183
[ all conversing
in native language ]

1029
00:58:09,185 --> 00:58:13,687
with the advent of traders
providing diesel-powered engines

1030
00:58:13,689 --> 00:58:17,558
and a supply chain
all the way out to china,

1031
00:58:17,560 --> 00:58:22,696
they transitioned very quickly
to a full-on commercial outfit.

1032
00:58:25,334 --> 00:58:28,502
and it's only a few years
before the manta rays

1033
00:58:28,504 --> 00:58:31,238
would be wiped out.

1034
00:58:34,310 --> 00:58:39,046
hilton: they realize
the numbers are dropping.

1035
00:58:39,048 --> 00:58:44,485
even if we weren't here, they
realize something has to change.

1036
00:58:48,257 --> 00:58:52,860
what are their children
going to be doing?

1037
00:58:52,862 --> 00:58:57,131
they're gonna have nothing left.

1038
00:59:02,805 --> 00:59:05,072
it's just losing
a bit of magic, you know?

1039
00:59:05,074 --> 00:59:10,077
the world, without that species,
to me, it's empty, you know?

1040
00:59:14,684 --> 00:59:17,685
♪♪

1041
00:59:29,232 --> 00:59:32,166
goodall: in 200 years,

1042
00:59:32,168 --> 00:59:36,470
people will look back
on this particular period

1043
00:59:36,472 --> 00:59:38,672
and say to themselves,

1044
00:59:38,674 --> 00:59:43,377
"how did those people
at that time just allow

1045
00:59:43,379 --> 00:59:46,780
all these amazing creatures
to vanish?"

1046
00:59:52,421 --> 00:59:56,023
but it would be very little use
in me or anybody else

1047
00:59:56,025 --> 00:59:59,760
exerting all this energy
to save the wild places

1048
00:59:59,762 --> 01:00:02,763
if people are not being educated

1049
01:00:02,765 --> 01:00:05,666
into being better stewards
than we've been.

1050
01:00:15,611 --> 01:00:18,245
if we all lose hope,
there is no hope.

1051
01:00:18,247 --> 01:00:24,218
without hope,
people fall into apathy.

1052
01:00:24,220 --> 01:00:27,221
there's still a lot left
that's worth fighting for.

1053
01:00:32,862 --> 01:00:35,562
psihoyos:
about two decades ago,

1054
01:00:35,564 --> 01:00:38,432
the baiji dolphin
was extremely vulnerable.

1055
01:00:38,434 --> 01:00:41,168
there was hundreds of them left.

1056
01:00:41,170 --> 01:00:43,771
i mean, i thought, "well,
there's enough out there.

1057
01:00:43,773 --> 01:00:46,040
somebody's gonna do something
to save this animal."

1058
01:00:46,042 --> 01:00:48,742
this animal, it wasn't just
the last of its species,

1059
01:00:48,744 --> 01:00:51,145
it was the last of
an entire family of cetaceans.

1060
01:00:51,147 --> 01:00:53,847
so i thought,
"humans, somebody, somewhere,

1061
01:00:53,849 --> 01:00:55,215
has got to go out
and save these animals.

1062
01:00:55,217 --> 01:00:57,851
they have to,
because they're dying off."

1063
01:00:57,853 --> 01:01:00,054
they're all gone now.
they went extinct.

1064
01:01:00,056 --> 01:01:05,526
in my lifetime [voice breaking]
they went extinct. so...

1065
01:01:10,166 --> 01:01:13,167
we always think that
there's gonna be somebody else

1066
01:01:13,169 --> 01:01:17,738
around to save these animals.

1067
01:01:26,265 --> 01:01:30,217
sartore: this field is
one of the last places on earth

1068
01:01:30,219 --> 01:01:33,287
where you can see
a florida grasshopper sparrow.

1069
01:01:33,289 --> 01:01:37,624
and there's fewer males
singing every year.

1070
01:01:37,626 --> 01:01:40,561
we're roughly around
20 sparrows a year.

1071
01:01:40,563 --> 01:01:43,197
sartore: from 150 to 20,

1072
01:01:43,199 --> 01:01:46,300
so it's getting harder every
year to find the bird, huh?

1073
01:01:46,302 --> 01:01:47,401
[ birds chirping ]

1074
01:01:47,403 --> 01:01:48,769
did you hear something?

1075
01:01:48,771 --> 01:01:52,306
that's a grasshopper sparrow.

1076
01:01:52,308 --> 01:01:56,043
phase-out is a term you hear
sometimes by zoo keepers.

1077
01:01:56,045 --> 01:02:00,280
when a species is
no longer viable in captivity,

1078
01:02:00,282 --> 01:02:03,851
they think about phasing it out.

1079
01:02:03,853 --> 01:02:06,487
just kind of slip off
into extinction.

1080
01:02:06,489 --> 01:02:07,654
there he is.

1081
01:02:07,656 --> 01:02:09,957
psihoyos: there,
you got him, you got him.

1082
01:02:12,695 --> 01:02:14,795
right there.

1083
01:02:14,797 --> 01:02:16,397
sartore: you'll never
phase out an elephant

1084
01:02:16,399 --> 01:02:18,532
or a panda or a rhino.

1085
01:02:18,534 --> 01:02:20,167
[ camera shutter clicking ]

1086
01:02:20,169 --> 01:02:22,736
but, you know,
if it's a small, brown bird,

1087
01:02:22,738 --> 01:02:26,774
how are you ever gonna get
people excited about that?

1088
01:02:30,980 --> 01:02:36,417
my pictures of the sparrow ended
up on the cover of<i> audubon.</i>

1089
01:02:36,419 --> 01:02:39,853
and when the u.s. fish
& wildlife service saw that,

1090
01:02:39,855 --> 01:02:42,723
they went from allocating
$30,000 a year

1091
01:02:42,725 --> 01:02:44,658
towards
the grasshopper sparrow...

1092
01:02:44,660 --> 01:02:45,926
looking good.

1093
01:02:45,928 --> 01:02:51,965
...to about $1.3 million
this year to try to study it

1094
01:02:51,967 --> 01:02:54,635
and turn things around
for this bird.

1095
01:02:58,774 --> 01:03:00,140
munter: whoo!
there he goes.

1096
01:03:00,142 --> 01:03:02,309
[ birds chirping ]

1097
01:03:06,115 --> 01:03:09,450
psihoyos: to me, photography
isn't just about showing

1098
01:03:09,452 --> 01:03:13,053
somebody how beautiful
something is.

1099
01:03:13,055 --> 01:03:15,089
[ camera shutter clicks ]

1100
01:03:15,091 --> 01:03:17,891
it's a weapon.

1101
01:03:17,893 --> 01:03:20,427
[ camera shutter clicking ]

1102
01:03:20,429 --> 01:03:22,796
remember what ady gil was able
to do with that little projector

1103
01:03:22,798 --> 01:03:28,569
in front of the hump,
what he was able to achieve.

1104
01:03:28,571 --> 01:03:32,873
i thought, "well,
how can we scale this up?"

1105
01:03:37,746 --> 01:03:41,115
threlkel: when we dream,
we don't dream inside of a box.

1106
01:03:41,117 --> 01:03:43,951
we dream inside of worlds.

1107
01:03:43,953 --> 01:03:46,120
early photographs were circular.

1108
01:03:46,122 --> 01:03:48,989
even early tvs were circular.

1109
01:03:48,991 --> 01:03:51,358
but to make more
out of the medium,

1110
01:03:51,360 --> 01:03:55,195
there was a decision made
to crop it into a box.

1111
01:03:55,197 --> 01:03:58,532
and the box has a lot to do with
the way we think.

1112
01:04:00,503 --> 01:04:03,871
my way has always been
blowing up the medium

1113
01:04:03,873 --> 01:04:06,206
into a million pieces

1114
01:04:06,208 --> 01:04:08,308
and letting it become
something else.

1115
01:04:12,548 --> 01:04:14,882
[ applause ]

1116
01:04:17,219 --> 01:04:18,619
psihoyos:
travis has done projections

1117
01:04:18,621 --> 01:04:20,787
on iconic buildings
all over the world.

1118
01:04:20,789 --> 01:04:23,891
my fantasy would be
to take the work

1119
01:04:23,893 --> 01:04:26,059
of my photographer friends
at<i> national geographic</i>

1120
01:04:26,061 --> 01:04:29,830
and amplify their message
by orders of magnitude.

1121
01:04:29,832 --> 01:04:31,565
♪♪

1122
01:04:31,567 --> 01:04:34,468
psihoyos: if we would have just
had, like, a whale going by,

1123
01:04:34,470 --> 01:04:36,170
and then it jumps off
into some other building.

1124
01:04:36,172 --> 01:04:38,172
threlkel:
it'd be beautiful.

1125
01:04:38,174 --> 01:04:41,208
i still love the idea
of sharks on wall street.

1126
01:04:41,210 --> 01:04:43,210
what do you think?

1127
01:04:43,212 --> 01:04:45,245
yeah. no problem.

1128
01:04:45,247 --> 01:04:47,881
[ laughs ]

1129
01:04:52,121 --> 01:04:55,255
80% of the greenhouse gases
that are caused by cities

1130
01:04:55,257 --> 01:04:57,090
are caused
by commercial buildings.

1131
01:04:57,092 --> 01:05:00,794
tony malkin, the guy that owns
the empire state building,

1132
01:05:00,796 --> 01:05:03,297
probably the most iconic
building in the world,

1133
01:05:03,299 --> 01:05:05,199
and he's greened it.

1134
01:05:05,201 --> 01:05:07,100
everyone had written off
the empire state building

1135
01:05:07,102 --> 01:05:08,802
as outmoded and obsolete.

1136
01:05:08,804 --> 01:05:12,239
we retrofitted
6,500 windows,

1137
01:05:12,241 --> 01:05:15,075
replaced all the lights
with l.e.d.s,

1138
01:05:15,077 --> 01:05:17,110
redid the heating
and cooling systems.

1139
01:05:17,112 --> 01:05:21,715
from that, we actually
saved $4.4 million a year.

1140
01:05:21,717 --> 01:05:24,251
the best way to
move the needle

1141
01:05:24,253 --> 01:05:26,320
when people are talking
about the environment

1142
01:05:26,322 --> 01:05:29,022
is the bottom line.

1143
01:05:30,960 --> 01:05:34,094
i like to project
into the woods.

1144
01:05:34,096 --> 01:05:35,329
try to see
the whole building?

1145
01:05:35,331 --> 01:05:36,430
yeah, we'd see
the whole building.

1146
01:05:36,432 --> 01:05:37,598
and we could also, like,

1147
01:05:37,600 --> 01:05:40,200
the mobile idea,
- where we can mount projectors

1148
01:05:40,202 --> 01:05:42,669
onto trucks
and just drive with them.

1149
01:05:42,671 --> 01:05:43,971
that would be cool.

1150
01:05:43,973 --> 01:05:46,273
psihoyos: travis had
drawn up an illustration

1151
01:05:46,275 --> 01:05:48,342
of a mobile
projection vehicle.

1152
01:05:48,344 --> 01:05:49,576
just looking at the plans,

1153
01:05:49,578 --> 01:05:52,379
it opened up a whole new world
of possibility.

1154
01:05:52,381 --> 01:05:54,514
[ cheers and applause ]

1155
01:05:54,516 --> 01:05:58,285
munter: it can't just be
the environmental activists

1156
01:05:58,287 --> 01:06:03,190
that care about
getting off of fossil fuels.

1157
01:06:03,192 --> 01:06:05,125
everybody has to become
a part of it.

1158
01:06:05,127 --> 01:06:07,661
psihoyos: i heard that
there's this racecar driver

1159
01:06:07,663 --> 01:06:09,663
that was an environmentalist
in a sport

1160
01:06:09,665 --> 01:06:13,033
that traditionally doesn't care
about the environment,

1161
01:06:13,035 --> 01:06:15,702
so, like,
a living contradiction.

1162
01:06:15,704 --> 01:06:18,472
munter: when i go to
the sports-marketing companies

1163
01:06:18,474 --> 01:06:20,407
and i say,
"can you help me find sponsors?"

1164
01:06:20,409 --> 01:06:22,876
and then i give them the list
of people i won't work with --

1165
01:06:22,878 --> 01:06:25,979
no fossil fuels, no oil,
no coal, no meat,

1166
01:06:25,981 --> 01:06:29,049
no people who tested on animals,
no fur, no leather --

1167
01:06:29,051 --> 01:06:30,951
they just look at me like...

1168
01:06:30,953 --> 01:06:32,185
[ scoffs ]

1169
01:06:32,187 --> 01:06:34,354
"i don't know how you
want us to help you."

1170
01:06:34,356 --> 01:06:37,824
announcer: leilani munter
has just passed five cars

1171
01:06:37,826 --> 01:06:40,560
in the last lap and a half,
and she is real impressive...

1172
01:06:40,562 --> 01:06:42,829
munter: sometimes,
i have an environmentalist say,

1173
01:06:42,831 --> 01:06:45,065
"well, if you were really
an environmentalist, you know,

1174
01:06:45,067 --> 01:06:46,300
you'd be racing a bike."

1175
01:06:46,302 --> 01:06:48,001
and the problem with that
is then i wouldn't have

1176
01:06:48,003 --> 01:06:50,671
75 million people paying
attention to my sport.

1177
01:06:50,673 --> 01:06:53,674
[ cheers and applause ]

1178
01:06:53,676 --> 01:06:56,009
thank you.

1179
01:07:01,383 --> 01:07:03,617
psihoyos: you look at a guy
like elon musk.

1180
01:07:03,619 --> 01:07:06,920
he builds reusable rocket ships
to supply the space station.

1181
01:07:06,922 --> 01:07:10,090
he's the biggest installer
of solar in america,

1182
01:07:10,092 --> 01:07:14,728
and he built the best-rated car
ever made, and it's electric.

1183
01:07:14,730 --> 01:07:17,397
leilani knew elon musk.

1184
01:07:17,399 --> 01:07:21,835
i think we are currently doing
something very, very dumb,

1185
01:07:21,837 --> 01:07:26,306
which is to run this experiment
on how much co2

1186
01:07:26,308 --> 01:07:28,008
the oceans and atmosphere
can hold.

1187
01:07:28,010 --> 01:07:30,444
in order to have a future
that does not result

1188
01:07:30,446 --> 01:07:32,913
in an environmental
catastrophe,

1189
01:07:32,915 --> 01:07:35,382
followed by economic collapse
[laughs] which is

1190
01:07:35,384 --> 01:07:37,617
what would occur
if we didn't get off oil,

1191
01:07:37,619 --> 01:07:40,120
that's why we have to have
electric cars.

1192
01:07:40,122 --> 01:07:42,622
i think we want to put in
an order for a car today.

1193
01:07:42,624 --> 01:07:44,091
excellent.
we'll take one.

1194
01:07:44,093 --> 01:07:44,925
[ laughs ]

1195
01:07:44,927 --> 01:07:49,196
♪♪

1196
01:07:52,267 --> 01:07:54,801
man:
it's pretty quick.

1197
01:07:54,803 --> 01:07:57,003
is this gonna go that fast
with 105 pounds on it?

1198
01:07:57,005 --> 01:07:58,472
yeah.

1199
01:08:01,877 --> 01:08:03,310
oh, yeah.

1200
01:08:03,312 --> 01:08:05,645
you know, i mean,
- the focal length on it is crazy,

1201
01:08:05,647 --> 01:08:07,981
but you'll be able to
shoot really far with it.

1202
01:08:07,983 --> 01:08:10,050
threlkel: you can zoom hundreds
of feet from something

1203
01:08:10,052 --> 01:08:12,586
or like 1,000 feet
and scale it.

1204
01:08:12,588 --> 01:08:15,455
thousands of feet
with this?

1205
01:08:15,457 --> 01:08:16,289
yeah.

1206
01:08:19,294 --> 01:08:20,827
about how far
will these project?

1207
01:08:20,829 --> 01:08:22,662
a mile.

1208
01:08:22,664 --> 01:08:24,965
now, i'm building one
for you guys

1209
01:08:24,967 --> 01:08:26,600
that's three times
louder than this.

1210
01:08:26,602 --> 01:08:30,737
<i>[ whales vocalizing ]</i>

1211
01:08:30,739 --> 01:08:34,908
whoa! suddenly, there's
just this amazing sound.

1212
01:08:34,910 --> 01:08:36,543
you can't hear that?

1213
01:08:36,545 --> 01:08:40,180
<i>[ whales vocalizing ]</i>

1214
01:08:40,182 --> 01:08:44,084
we've taken inspiration from
ocean creatures, like plankton,

1215
01:08:44,086 --> 01:08:47,354
cuttlefish, that use the light
as a communication device

1216
01:08:47,356 --> 01:08:51,458
or a camouflage, and added an
electro-luminescent paint job.

1217
01:08:51,460 --> 01:08:52,726
munter:
incredible.

1218
01:08:52,728 --> 01:08:54,327
psihoyos:
with the mobile projection,

1219
01:08:54,329 --> 01:08:56,229
we can go anywhere
we want with it.

1220
01:08:56,231 --> 01:08:59,232
we can take it to the highways.
we can take it to big buildings.

1221
01:08:59,234 --> 01:09:01,234
we can take it to the streets.

1222
01:09:01,236 --> 01:09:04,337
and we'll be able to project
co2 emissions in real time

1223
01:09:04,339 --> 01:09:06,039
out of the projector
of the back of the vehicle

1224
01:09:06,041 --> 01:09:08,875
while leilani's driving.

1225
01:09:08,877 --> 01:09:10,243
man: so, that's legal.

1226
01:09:10,245 --> 01:09:11,278
that's legal?

1227
01:09:11,280 --> 01:09:12,512
until you push that.

1228
01:09:12,514 --> 01:09:14,214
[ laughter ]

1229
01:09:14,216 --> 01:09:16,216
that works, right?

1230
01:09:16,218 --> 01:09:18,218
munter: that's legal.

1231
01:09:18,220 --> 01:09:19,553
okay, it's ready to go, boss.

1232
01:09:19,555 --> 01:09:21,354
psihoyos: my feeling is that

1233
01:09:21,356 --> 01:09:25,559
by bringing nature to the city,

1234
01:09:25,561 --> 01:09:27,561
we're hopefully able
to inspire people

1235
01:09:27,563 --> 01:09:30,330
to actually help save
these creatures.

1236
01:09:31,700 --> 01:09:33,700
the only law
that we really had

1237
01:09:33,702 --> 01:09:37,037
to protect endangered species
is cites.

1238
01:09:37,039 --> 01:09:38,505
cites is the convention

1239
01:09:38,507 --> 01:09:40,173
for international trade
of endangered species.

1240
01:09:40,175 --> 01:09:41,341
[ camera shutter clicks ]

1241
01:09:41,343 --> 01:09:43,143
and there's only
a few hundred animals

1242
01:09:43,145 --> 01:09:45,779
that are actually on that list.

1243
01:09:45,781 --> 01:09:49,115
and part of the reason
is because

1244
01:09:49,117 --> 01:09:51,251
the people that control cites

1245
01:09:51,253 --> 01:09:54,521
are actually in
the trade of selling them.

1246
01:09:54,523 --> 01:09:56,690
woman:
ahead of this cites conference,

1247
01:09:56,692 --> 01:09:58,925
a new decision-making mechanism

1248
01:09:58,927 --> 01:10:01,962
to set up a centralized system
for the resumption

1249
01:10:01,964 --> 01:10:03,396
of the international trade

1250
01:10:03,398 --> 01:10:06,016
in elephant ivory.

1251
01:10:12,924 --> 01:10:15,591
[ train brakes screeching ]

1252
01:10:16,961 --> 01:10:20,596
heinrichs: there's a lot of
species that need protection.

1253
01:10:20,598 --> 01:10:25,851
most species that are deserving
never get listed.

1254
01:10:25,853 --> 01:10:27,636
after a four-year campaign,

1255
01:10:27,638 --> 01:10:31,140
we finally managed
to get mantas on the docket

1256
01:10:31,142 --> 01:10:34,092
at the 2013 cites meeting.

1257
01:10:34,094 --> 01:10:35,945
so, what i want to
show you here is a video

1258
01:10:35,947 --> 01:10:37,146
that shows what we're doing.

1259
01:10:37,148 --> 01:10:40,149
most people say
you can't beat money.

1260
01:10:40,151 --> 01:10:42,067
you can't beat politics.

1261
01:10:42,069 --> 01:10:45,371
you can't beat those things
with just hope and inspiration.

1262
01:10:45,373 --> 01:10:47,206
we have to make it
socially unacceptable

1263
01:10:47,208 --> 01:10:48,424
to consume these animals.

1264
01:10:48,426 --> 01:10:51,927
hilton: i think we live in
a very visual world.

1265
01:10:51,929 --> 01:10:53,929
imagery is very powerful.

1266
01:10:53,931 --> 01:10:56,415
'cause you can walk into a room,

1267
01:10:56,417 --> 01:10:58,267
they might speak
15 different languages.

1268
01:10:58,269 --> 01:11:02,938
but you show them a photograph,
people get it. they understand.

1269
01:11:02,940 --> 01:11:05,407
"supping on
conservation soup."

1270
01:11:05,409 --> 01:11:10,162
there we go.
- there's the hong kong rooftop.

1271
01:11:33,771 --> 01:11:38,057
psihoyos: copy that.
let's just go for it now.

1272
01:11:39,610 --> 01:11:41,060
you got your
seat belt on?

1273
01:11:41,062 --> 01:11:44,563
yeah.

1274
01:11:44,565 --> 01:11:46,031
♪♪

1275
01:11:46,033 --> 01:11:47,750
let's take a right.

1276
01:11:47,752 --> 01:11:53,172
just keep on going,
keep on going.

1277
01:11:56,844 --> 01:11:59,678
good.

1278
01:12:03,217 --> 01:12:05,267
[ siren chirps ]

1279
01:12:05,269 --> 01:12:07,152
man: so, what are you filming
in the vehicle?

1280
01:12:07,154 --> 01:12:09,188
munter: oh, it's a light
on top of the vehicle.

1281
01:12:09,190 --> 01:12:10,990
so, what are you
documenting?

1282
01:12:10,992 --> 01:12:13,776
yeah. and we're getting shots
in industrial areas.

1283
01:12:13,778 --> 01:12:15,027
why industrial areas?

1284
01:12:15,029 --> 01:12:17,396
the reflections on the car
look prettier.

1285
01:12:17,398 --> 01:12:19,665
you might want to do it
somewhere else.

1286
01:12:19,667 --> 01:12:21,500
what if we photograph
your smoke?

1287
01:12:21,502 --> 01:12:22,751
that's not smoke.

1288
01:12:22,753 --> 01:12:23,669
what is it?

1289
01:12:23,671 --> 01:12:24,536
[ laughs ]

1290
01:12:24,538 --> 01:12:25,671
that's steam.

1291
01:12:25,673 --> 01:12:27,706
so, if we film your steam,
is that okay?

1292
01:12:27,708 --> 01:12:29,758
no.

1293
01:12:29,760 --> 01:12:34,847
i want people to understand that
we're the only generation left

1294
01:12:34,849 --> 01:12:37,599
that can save these animals.

1295
01:12:37,601 --> 01:12:39,051
there's no other
future generation

1296
01:12:39,053 --> 01:12:41,470
that we can count on
to save us.

1297
01:12:41,472 --> 01:12:44,890
it's us.

1298
01:12:55,386 --> 01:12:57,386
[ cheers and applause ]

1299
01:13:03,978 --> 01:13:06,061
yes!

1300
01:13:06,063 --> 01:13:10,349
♪♪

1301
01:13:10,351 --> 01:13:12,351
heinrichs: the only way
you're gonna effect change

1302
01:13:12,353 --> 01:13:14,320
in a remote community
like lamakera

1303
01:13:14,322 --> 01:13:17,189
is to present
an alternative.

1304
01:13:17,191 --> 01:13:20,659
with the cites victory,

1305
01:13:20,661 --> 01:13:24,246
we succeeded in getting manta
rays listed for protection,

1306
01:13:24,248 --> 01:13:28,117
which led to a national ban
on all fisheries for manta rays

1307
01:13:28,119 --> 01:13:29,368
throughout all of indonesia.

1308
01:13:29,370 --> 01:13:31,203
in fact,
it's illegal to even harm one,

1309
01:13:31,205 --> 01:13:34,256
and it can result in
up to a year in prison.

1310
01:13:34,258 --> 01:13:37,426
that law --
it creates new possibilities.

1311
01:13:37,428 --> 01:13:41,213
yeah. that's our theater.
yeah. projector.

1312
01:13:41,215 --> 01:13:45,918
and, then,
where is the electric?

1313
01:13:45,920 --> 01:13:48,520
and in the world
of conservation,

1314
01:13:48,522 --> 01:13:50,856
those small opportunities
and those small doorways

1315
01:13:50,858 --> 01:13:55,494
that you open often lead to
those breakthrough moments.

1316
01:13:55,496 --> 01:13:57,546
[ speaking
foreign language ]

1317
01:14:00,334 --> 01:14:03,585
now, whether it works --
that's the next step.

1318
01:14:06,223 --> 01:14:09,892
♪♪

1319
01:15:15,810 --> 01:15:16,975
[ laughter ]

1320
01:15:16,977 --> 01:15:18,143
heinrichs:
- [ speaking foreign language ]

1321
01:15:18,145 --> 01:15:19,377
lamakera.

1322
01:15:19,379 --> 01:15:21,313
[ laughter ]

1323
01:15:21,315 --> 01:15:23,982
[ conversing
in foreign language ]

1324
01:15:23,984 --> 01:15:26,068
"there's our village."

1325
01:15:26,070 --> 01:15:28,720
[ cheers and applause ]

1326
01:15:28,722 --> 01:15:31,240
[ laughter ]

1327
01:15:41,235 --> 01:15:44,203
we want them to get
an entirely new view,

1328
01:15:44,205 --> 01:15:46,071
that the stuff they
go out in the water

1329
01:15:46,073 --> 01:15:48,056
and they see every day
and they stick a spear in

1330
01:15:48,058 --> 01:15:51,109
is worth far more
alive than dead.

1331
01:15:54,865 --> 01:15:57,449
the concept of converting
this hunting culture

1332
01:15:57,451 --> 01:16:01,286
to a tourism culture on the
surface seems pretty daunting,

1333
01:16:01,288 --> 01:16:04,823
but we show them
the success stories

1334
01:16:04,825 --> 01:16:06,525
that we've had
in these other areas,

1335
01:16:06,527 --> 01:16:10,295
places in the world
that had very little

1336
01:16:10,297 --> 01:16:12,548
and now are thriving.

1337
01:16:12,550 --> 01:16:17,386
<i>[ man speaking</i>
<i>native language ]</i>

1338
01:16:17,388 --> 01:16:20,756
[ laughing ]

1339
01:16:20,758 --> 01:16:23,141
hilton: these kids are gonna
be really influenced by this,

1340
01:16:23,143 --> 01:16:25,677
and they're gonna be
the guides of the future.

1341
01:16:28,399 --> 01:16:32,568
we're just bringing a message.

1342
01:16:32,570 --> 01:16:35,320
it's really up to them.

1343
01:16:58,395 --> 01:17:01,697
whoa, whoa, whoa.
something's up in the air.

1344
01:17:09,740 --> 01:17:11,990
oh, nice.

1345
01:17:19,583 --> 01:17:22,000
goodall:
we can make this happen.

1346
01:17:23,737 --> 01:17:28,173
as we face more
and more animal extinctions,

1347
01:17:28,175 --> 01:17:31,009
we need more and more
of these indomitable spirits.

1348
01:17:35,149 --> 01:17:40,652
and we need more people
to understand it's worth doing.

1349
01:17:44,191 --> 01:17:47,175
the small choices
we make each day

1350
01:17:47,177 --> 01:17:51,663
can lead to the kind of world
that we all want for the future.

1351
01:17:51,665 --> 01:17:54,349
[ gate squeaks open ]

1352
01:18:07,531 --> 01:18:12,284
<i>[ whales vocalizing ]</i>

1353
01:18:12,286 --> 01:18:17,990
<i>[ wolves howling ]</i>

1354
01:18:22,413 --> 01:18:24,796
<i>[ birds chirping ]</i>

1355
01:18:26,717 --> 01:18:30,035
[ "walk with me" by arak plays ]

1356
01:18:30,037 --> 01:18:31,336
<i>[ insects chirping ]</i>

1357
01:18:36,760 --> 01:18:38,844
<i>[ animals calling ]</i>

1358
01:19:08,559 --> 01:19:11,176
♪ away from ♪

1359
01:19:11,178 --> 01:19:14,813
♪ one million miles away ♪

1360
01:19:14,815 --> 01:19:17,449
♪ from home ♪

1361
01:19:17,451 --> 01:19:19,985
♪ away from ♪

1362
01:19:19,987 --> 01:19:23,155
♪ one million miles away ♪

1363
01:19:23,157 --> 01:19:26,575
heinrichs:
there was a reverend in japan.

1364
01:19:26,577 --> 01:19:28,910
he had a statement
which really struck me,

1365
01:19:28,912 --> 01:19:33,498
and it was "better to light one
candle than curse the darkness."

1366
01:19:37,471 --> 01:19:39,304
there's so many people
who sit back and say,

1367
01:19:39,306 --> 01:19:43,708
"we're screwed,"
or, you know, "why bother?"

1368
01:19:43,710 --> 01:19:46,344
♪♪

1369
01:19:46,346 --> 01:19:48,930
but you know what?

1370
01:19:48,932 --> 01:19:52,550
that candle --
that candle means something,

1371
01:19:52,552 --> 01:19:55,520
because with that one candle,

1372
01:19:55,522 --> 01:19:58,990
maybe someone else
with a candle will find you.

1373
01:20:00,861 --> 01:20:03,078
and i think that's where
movements are started.

1374
01:20:07,201 --> 01:20:11,369
<i>[ 'o'o chirping ]</i>

1375
01:20:11,371 --> 01:20:14,473
[ chirping stops ]

1376
01:20:14,475 --> 01:20:18,710
psihoyos: i know it all sounds
overwhelming.

1377
01:20:18,712 --> 01:20:23,515
but if we start with just one
thing, we can start a movement.

1378
01:20:23,517 --> 01:20:25,467
[ "one candle" plays ]

1379
01:20:25,469 --> 01:20:27,519
♪ two hands ♪

1380
01:20:27,521 --> 01:20:31,089
♪ spreading two hands ♪

1381
01:20:31,091 --> 01:20:33,258
♪ humans ♪

1382
01:20:33,260 --> 01:20:36,611
♪ humans making humans ♪

1383
01:20:36,613 --> 01:20:38,647
♪ mountains ♪

1384
01:20:38,649 --> 01:20:42,067
♪ maybe we can move them ♪

1385
01:20:42,069 --> 01:20:44,136
♪ come now ♪

1386
01:20:44,138 --> 01:20:47,572
♪ together, we can do this ♪

1387
01:20:47,574 --> 01:20:52,093
♪ together, we can ♪

1388
01:20:52,095 --> 01:20:54,846
♪ take my hand ♪

1389
01:20:54,848 --> 01:20:57,182
♪ take my hand ♪

1390
01:20:57,184 --> 01:20:58,817
♪ don't stand there
in the dark ♪

1391
01:20:58,819 --> 01:21:03,405
♪ together, we can ♪

1392
01:21:03,407 --> 01:21:05,774
♪ light our candles and stand ♪

1393
01:21:05,776 --> 01:21:08,293
♪ for those who came
before man ♪

1394
01:21:08,295 --> 01:21:09,861
♪ don't stand there
in the dark ♪

1395
01:21:09,863 --> 01:21:13,532
♪ better to light one candle ♪

1396
01:21:13,534 --> 01:21:16,535
♪ than curse the darkness ♪

1397
01:21:16,537 --> 01:21:20,738
♪ than curse the darkness ♪

1398
01:21:20,740 --> 01:21:23,959
♪ better to light one candle ♪

1399
01:21:23,961 --> 01:21:27,546
♪ than curse the darkness ♪

1400
01:21:27,548 --> 01:21:29,464
♪ than curse the darkness ♪

1401
01:21:31,935 --> 01:21:33,885
♪ we need to ♪

1402
01:21:33,887 --> 01:21:37,389
♪ give thanks,
for they have given ♪

1403
01:21:37,391 --> 01:21:39,391
♪ listen ♪

1404
01:21:39,393 --> 01:21:43,195
♪ to all the songs
they're singing ♪

1405
01:21:43,197 --> 01:21:48,166
♪ we can do something
or do nothing ♪

1406
01:21:48,168 --> 01:21:50,669
♪ so come now ♪

1407
01:21:50,671 --> 01:21:53,588
♪ strike the match,
let's do this ♪

1408
01:21:53,590 --> 01:21:58,343
♪ together, we can ♪

1409
01:21:58,345 --> 01:22:01,513
♪ take my hand ♪

1410
01:22:01,515 --> 01:22:03,431
♪ take my hand ♪

1411
01:22:03,433 --> 01:22:05,016
♪ don't stand there
in the dark ♪

1412
01:22:05,018 --> 01:22:09,571
♪ together, we can ♪

1413
01:22:09,573 --> 01:22:12,357
♪ light our candles and stand ♪

1414
01:22:12,359 --> 01:22:14,926
♪ for those who came
before man ♪

1415
01:22:14,928 --> 01:22:16,494
♪ don't stand there
in the dark ♪

1416
01:22:16,496 --> 01:22:20,398
♪ better to light one candle ♪

1417
01:22:20,400 --> 01:22:23,118
♪ than curse the darkness ♪

1418
01:22:23,120 --> 01:22:26,671
♪ than curse the darkness ♪

1419
01:22:26,673 --> 01:22:31,075
♪ oh, better to light
one candle ♪

1420
01:22:31,077 --> 01:22:34,078
♪ than curse the darkness ♪

1421
01:22:34,080 --> 01:22:38,133
♪ than curse the darkness ♪

1422
01:22:38,135 --> 01:22:42,420
♪ oh, better to light
one candle ♪

1423
01:22:42,422 --> 01:22:45,190
♪ than curse the darkness ♪

1424
01:22:45,192 --> 01:22:49,244
♪ than curse the darkness ♪

1425
01:22:49,246 --> 01:22:53,331
♪ oh, better to light
one candle ♪

1426
01:22:53,333 --> 01:22:56,234
♪ than curse the darkness ♪

1427
01:22:56,236 --> 01:22:59,905
♪ than curse the darkness ♪

1428
01:23:00,908 --> 01:23:04,209
[ "manta ray" plays ]

1428
01:23:05,305 --> 01:23:11,337
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