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Listen to me, please.

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You're like me, a homo sapiens,

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a wise human.

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Life,

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a miracle in the universe,
appeared around 4 billion years ago.

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And we humans
only 200,000 years ago.

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Yet we have succeeded in disrupting
the balance so essential to life.

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Listen carefully to this
extraordinary story, which is yours,

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and decide
what you want to do with it.

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These are traces of our origins.

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At the beginning, our planet
was no more than a chaos of fire,

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a cloud
of agglutinated dust particles,

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like so many similar clusters
in the universe.

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Yet this is where
the miracle of life occurred.

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Today, life, our life,

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is just a link in a chain
of innumerable living beings

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that have succeeded one another
on Earth over nearly 4 billion years.

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And even today,

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new volcanoes continue
to sculpt our landscapes.

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They offer a glimpse of what
our Earth was like at its birth,

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molten rock surging from the depths,

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solidifying, cracking, blistering
or spreading in a thin crust,

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before falling dormant for a time.

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These wreathes of smoke
curling from the bowels of the Earth

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bear witness
to the Earth's original atmosphere.

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An atmosphere devoid of oxygen.

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A dense atmosphere,
thick with water vapor,

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full of carbon dioxide.

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A furnace.

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The Earth cooled.

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The water vapor condensed
and fell in torrential downpours.

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At the right distance from the sun,
not too far, not too near,

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the Earth's perfect balance
enabled it to conserve water

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in liquid form.

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The water cut channels.

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They are like the veins of a body,
the branches of a tree,

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the vessels of the sap
that the water gave to the Earth.

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The rivers tore minerals from rocks,
adding them to the oceans' freshwater.

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And the oceans became heavy with salt.

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Where do we come from?

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Where did life
first spark into being?

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A miracle of time,

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primitive life forms still exist
in the globe's hot springs.

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They give them their colors.
They're called archeobacteria.

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They all feed off the Earth's heat.

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All except the cyanobacteria,

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or blue-green algae.

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They alone have the capacity
to turn to the sun

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to capture its energy.

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They are a vital ancestor of all
yesterday's and today's plant species.

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These tiny bacteria
and their billions of descendants

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changed the destiny of our planet.

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They transformed its atmosphere.

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What happened to the carbon
that poisoned the atmosphere?

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It's still here,
imprisoned in the Earth's crust.

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Here, there once was a sea,
inhabited by micro-organisms.

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They grew shells by tapping into
the atmosphere's carbon

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now dissolved in the ocean.

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These strata
are the accumulated shells

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of those billions and billions
of micro-organisms.

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Thanks to them, the carbon drained
from the atmosphere

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and other life forms could develop.

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It is life
that altered the atmosphere.

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Plant life fed off the sun's energy,

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which enabled it to break apart
the water molecule and take the oxygen.

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And oxygen filled the air.

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The Earth's water cycle
is a process of constant renewal.

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Waterfalls, water vapor,

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clouds, rain,

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springs, rivers,

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seas, oceans, glaciers...

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The cycle is never broken.

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There's always the same quantity
of water on Earth.

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All the successive species on Earth
have drunk the same water.

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The astonishing matter that is water.

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One of the most unstable of all.

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It takes a liquid form
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gaseous as vapor,
or solid as ice.

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In Siberia, the frozen surfaces
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contain the trace of the forces
that water deploys when it freezes.

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Lighter than water, the ice floats.

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It forms a protective mantle
against the cold,

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under which life can go on.

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The engine of life is linkage.

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Everything is linked.

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Nothing is self-sufficient.

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Water and air are inseparable,

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united in life
and for our life on Earth.

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Sharing is everything.

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The green expanse through the clouds
is the source of oxygen in the air.

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70% of this gas,

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without which our lungs
cannot function,

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comes from the algae that tint
the surface of the oceans.

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Our Earth relies on a balance,

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in which every being
has a role to play

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and exists only through the existence
of another being.

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A subtle, fragile harmony
that is easily shattered.

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Thus, corals are born
from the marriage of algae and shells.

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Coral reefs cover
less than 1% of the ocean floor,

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but they provide a habitat for thousands
of species of fish, mollusks and algae.

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The equilibrium of every ocean
depends on them.

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The Earth counts time
in billions of years.

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It took more than 4 billion years
for it to make trees.

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In the chain of species,
trees are a pinnacle,

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a perfect, living sculpture.

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Trees defy gravity.

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They are the only natural element
in perpetual movement toward the sky.

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They grow unhurriedly toward the sun
that nourishes their foliage.

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They have inherited
from these miniscule cyanobacteria

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the power to capture light's energy.

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They store it and feed off it,

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turning it into wood and leaves,

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which then decompose
into a mixture of water, mineral,

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vegetable and living matter.

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And so,

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gradually,

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soils are formed.

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Soils teem with the incessant activity
of micro-organisms,

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feeding, digging,
aerating and transforming.

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They make the humus, the fertile layer
to which all life on land is linked.

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What do we know about life on Earth?

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How many species are we aware of?
A tenth of them?

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A hundredth perhaps?

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What do we know
about the bonds that link them?

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The Earth is a miracle.

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Life remains a mystery.

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Families of animals form,
united by customs and rituals

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that are handed down
through the generations.

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Some adapt
to the nature of their pasture

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and their pasture adapts to them.

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And both gain.

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The animal sates its hunger
and the tree can blossom again.

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In the great adventure
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every species has a role to play,

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every species has its place.

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None is futile or harmful.

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They all balance out.

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And that's where you,

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homo sapiens, wise human,

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enter the story.

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You benefit from a fabulous
4-billion-year-old legacy

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bequeathed by the Earth.

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You are only 200,000 years old,

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but you have changed
the face of the world.

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Despite your vulnerability, you have
taken possession of every habitat

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and conquered swathes of territory,
like no other species before you.

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After 180,000 nomadic years,

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and thanks to a more clement climate,

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humans settled down.

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They no longer depended
on hunting for survival.

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They chose to live in wet environments
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game and wild plants.

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There where land,
water and life combine.

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Even today,

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the majority of humankind
lives on the continents' coastlines

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or the banks of rivers and lakes.

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Across the planet,
one person in four

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lives as humankind did
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their only energy that which nature
provides season after season.

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It's the way of life
of 1.5 billion people,

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more than the combined population
of all the wealthy nations.

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But life expectancy is short
and hard labor takes its toll.

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The uncertainties of nature
weigh on daily life.

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Education is a rare privilege.

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Children are a family's only asset

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as long as every extra pair of hands

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is a necessary contribution
to its subsistence.

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Humanity's genius

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is to have always had a sense
of its weakness.

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The physical strength, with which
nature insufficiently endowed humans,

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is found in animals that help them
to discover new territories.

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But how can you conquer the world
on an empty stomach?

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The invention of agriculture
turned our history on end.

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It was less than 10,000 years ago.

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Agriculture
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It resulted in the first surpluses

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and gave birth to cities
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The memory of thousands of years
scrabbling for food faded.

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Having made grain the yeast of life,
we multiplied the number of varieties

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and learned to adapt them
to our soils and climates.

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We are like every species on Earth.

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Our principal daily concern
is to feed ourselves.

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When the soil is less than generous

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and water becomes scarce,

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we are able
to deploy prodigious efforts to extract

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from the land
enough to live on.

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Humans shaped the land with the patience
and devotion the Earth demands

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in an almost sacrificial ritual
performed over and over.

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Agriculture is still
the world's most widespread occupation.

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Half of humankind tills the soil,

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over three-quarters of them by hand.

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Agriculture is like a tradition handed
down from generation to generation

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 in sweat, graft and toil,

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because for humanity
it is a prerequisite of survival.

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But after relying on muscle-power
for so long, humankind found a way

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to tap into the energy
buried deep in the Earth.

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These flames are also from plants.
A pocket of sunlight.

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Pure energy.
The energy of the sun,

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captured over millions of years
by millions of plants

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more than 100 million years ago.

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It's coal. It's gas.

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And, above all, it's oil.

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And this pocket of sunlight freed
humans from their toil on the land.

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With oil began the era of humans

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who break free
of the shackles of time.

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With oil, some of us
acquired unprecedented comforts.

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And in 50 years, in a single lifetime,

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the Earth has been
more radically changed

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than by all previous generations
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Faster and faster.
In the last 60 years,

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the Earth's population
has almost tripled.

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And over 2 billion people
have moved to the cities.

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Faster and faster.

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Shenzhen, in China,

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with hundreds of skyscrapers
and millions of inhabitants,

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was just a small fishing village
barely 40 years ago.

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Faster and faster.

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In Shanghai,
3,000 towers and skyscrapers

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have been built in 20 years.
Hundreds more are under construction.

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Today, over half of the world's
7 billion inhabitants

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live in cities.

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New York.

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The world's first megalopolis

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is the symbol of the exploitation
of the energy the Earth supplies

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to human genius.
The manpower of millions of immigrants,

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the energy of coal,
the unbridled power of oil.

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America was the first
to harness the phenomenal,

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revolutionary power of "black gold".

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In the fields,
machines replaced men.

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A liter of oil
generates as much energy

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as 100 pairs of hands in 24 hours.

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In the United States,
only 3 million farmers are left.

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They produce enough grain
to feed 2 billion people.

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But most of that grain
is not used to feed people.

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Here, and in all other
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it is transformed into livestock feed
or biofuels.

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The pocket of sunshine's energy
chased away the specter of drought

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that stalked farmland.

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No spring escapes
the demands of agriculture,

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which accounts for 70%
of humanity's water consumption.

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In nature, everything is linked.

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The expansion of cultivated land
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encouraged
the development of parasites.

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Pesticides, another gift
of the petrochemical revolution,

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exterminated them.

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Bad harvests and famine
became a distant memory.

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The biggest headache now

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was what to do with the surpluses
engendered by modern agriculture.

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But toxic pesticides
seeped into the air,

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soil, plants,
animals, rivers and oceans.

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They penetrated the heart of cells

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similar to the mother cell
shared by all forms of life.

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Are they harmful to the humans
they released from hunger?

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These farmers
in their yellow protective suits

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probably have a good idea.

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Then came fertilizers,
another petrochemical discovery.

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They produced unprecedented results
on plots of land thus far ignored.

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Crops adapted to soils and climates

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gave way to the most productive
varieties and easiest to transport.

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And so, in the last century,

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three-quarters of the varieties
developed by farmers

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over thousands of years
have been wiped out.

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As far as the eye can see,
fertilizer below, plastic on top.

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The greenhouses of Almeria, Spain,
are Europe's vegetable garden.

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A city of uniformly sized vegetables
waits every day

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for hundreds of trucks to take them
to the continent's supermarkets.

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The more a country develops,
the more meat its inhabitants consume.

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How can growing worldwide demand
be satisfied without recourse

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to concentration camp-style
cattle farms?

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Faster and faster.

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Like the life cycle of livestock,
which may never see a meadow.

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Manufacturing meat faster than
the animal has become a daily routine.

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In these vast foodlots,
trampled by millions of cattle,

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not a blade of grass grows.

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A fleet of trucks from every corner
of the country brings tons of grain,

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soy meal and protein-rich granules

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that will become tons of meat.

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The result is that
it takes 100 liters of water

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to produce 1 kilogram of potatoes,

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4,000 liters for 1 kilo of rice

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and 13,000 liters for 1 kilo of beef.

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Not to mention the oil guzzled
in the production process and transport.

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Our agriculture
has become oil-powered.

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It feeds
twice as many humans on Earth,

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but has replaced diversity
with standardization.

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It gives many of us comforts
we could only dream of,

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but it makes our way of life
totally dependent on oil.

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This is the new measure of time.

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Our world's clock now beats
to the rhythm of indefatigable machines

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tapping into the pocket of sunlight.

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The whole planet is attentive
to these metronomes

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of our hopes and illusions.

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The same hopes and illusions
that proliferate along with our needs,

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increasingly insatiable desires
and profligacy.

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We know that the end of cheap oil
is imminent,

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but we refuse to believe it.

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For many of us,

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the American dream is embodied
by a legendary name.

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Los Angeles.

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In this city
that stretches over 100 kilometers,

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the number of cars is almost equal
to the number of inhabitants.

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Here, energy puts on a fantastic show
every night.

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The days seem no more
than a pale reflection of nights

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that turn the city into a starry sky.

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Faster and faster.

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Distances are no longer
counted in miles, but in minutes.

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The automobile shapes new suburbs,
where every home is a castle,

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a safe distance
from the asphyxiated city centers,

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and where neat rows of houses
huddle around dead-end streets.

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The model of a lucky-few countries

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has become a universal dream
preached by TVs all over the world.

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Even here in Beijing,

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it is cloned, copied and reproduced
in these formatted houses

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that have wiped pagodas off the map.

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The automobile has become the symbol
of comfort and progress.

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If this model were followed
by every society,

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the planet wouldn't have 900 million
vehicles, as it does today,

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but 5 billion.

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Faster and faster.

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The more the world develops,
the greater its thirst for energy.

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Everywhere, machines dig, bore
and rip from the Earth

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the pieces of stars buried
in its depths since its creation...

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Minerals.

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As a privilege of power,
80% of this mineral wealth

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is consumed
by 20% of the world's population.

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Before the end of this century,

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excessive mining will have exhausted
nearly all the planet's reserves.

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Faster and faster.

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Shipyards churn out oil tankers,
container ships and gas tankers

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to cater for the demands
of globalized industrial production.

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Most consumer goods travel
thousands of kilometers

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from the country of production
to the country of consumption.

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Since 1950, the volume of international
trade has increased 20 times over.

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90% of trade goes by sea.

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500 million containers
are transported every year.

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Headed for the world's major hubs
of consumption,

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such as Dubai.

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Dubai is a sort of culmination
of the Western model,

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a country where the impossible
becomes possible.

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Building artificial islands in the sea,
for example.

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Dubai has few natural resources,

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but with oil money it can bring in
millions of tons of material

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and workers from all over the planet.

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Dubai has no farmland,
but it can import food.

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Dubai has no water, but it can afford
to expend immense amounts of energy

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to desalinate seawater and build
the world's highest skyscrapers.

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Dubai has endless sun,
but no solar panels.

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It is the totem to total modernity
that never fails to amaze the world.

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Dubai is like the new beacon
for all the world's money.

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Nothing seems further removed
from nature than Dubai,

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although nothing depends on nature
more than Dubai.

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Dubai is a sort of culmination
of the Western model.

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We haven't understood that
we're depleting what nature provides.

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Since 1950, fishing catches
have increased fivefold

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from 18 to 100 million metric tons
a year.

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Thousands of factory ships
are emptying the oceans.

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Three-quarters of fishing grounds
are exhausted,

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depleted or in danger of being so.

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00:38:16,083 --> 00:38:19,041
Most large fish have been fished
out of existence

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since they have no time to reproduce.

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We are destroying the cycle of a life
that was given to us.

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At the current rate, all fish stocks
are threatened with exhaustion.

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Fish is the staple diet
of one in five humans.

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We have forgotten
that resources are scarce.

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500 million humans
live in the world's desert lands,

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more than the combined population
of Europe.

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They know the value of water.

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They know how to use it sparingly.

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00:39:42,041 --> 00:39:46,000
Here, they depend on wells
replenished by fossil water,

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which accumulated underground
back when it rained on these deserts.

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25,000 years ago.

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Fossil water also enables crops
to be grown in the desert

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to provide food for local populations.

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The fields' circular shape derives

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from the pipes that irrigate them
around a central pivot.

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00:40:12,125 --> 00:40:13,958
But there is a heavy price to pay.

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Fossil water
is a non-renewable resource.

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In Saudi Arabia,

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the dream of industrial farming
in the desert has faded.

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As if on a parchment map,

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the light spots on this patchwork
show abandoned plots.

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The irrigation equipment
is still there.

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The energy to pump water also.

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00:40:48,708 --> 00:40:52,666
But the fossil water reserves
are severely depleted.

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00:41:00,333 --> 00:41:03,708
Israel turned the desert
into arable land.

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00:41:08,708 --> 00:41:12,500
Even though these hothouses
are now irrigated drop by drop,

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00:41:12,666 --> 00:41:17,000
water consumption continues
to increase along with exports.

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00:41:22,416 --> 00:41:26,041
The once mighty River Jordan
is now just a trickle.

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00:41:26,208 --> 00:41:29,500
Its water has flown to supermarkets
all over the world

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00:41:29,666 --> 00:41:32,125
in crates of fruit and vegetables.

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00:41:48,125 --> 00:41:50,666
The Jordan's fate is not unique.

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Across the planet,
one major river in ten

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00:41:54,791 --> 00:41:58,583
no longer flows into the sea
for several months of the year.

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00:42:08,708 --> 00:42:11,041
Deprived of the Jordan's water,

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00:42:11,208 --> 00:42:16,041
the level of the Dead Sea goes down
by over one meter per year.

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00:42:39,583 --> 00:42:42,416
India risks being the country
that suffers most

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00:42:42,583 --> 00:42:45,333
from lack of water
in the coming century.

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00:42:45,500 --> 00:42:48,708
Massive irrigation
has fed the growing population

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00:42:49,458 --> 00:42:54,750
and in the last 50 years,
21 million wells have been dug.

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In many parts of the country,

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00:42:57,083 --> 00:43:00,708
the drill has to sink every deeper
to hit water.

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00:43:01,416 --> 00:43:06,458
In western India,
30% of wells have been abandoned.

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00:43:07,291 --> 00:43:10,916
The underground aquifers
are drying out.

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00:43:14,416 --> 00:43:19,333
Vast reservoirs will catch monsoon rains
to replenish the aquifers.

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00:43:22,125 --> 00:43:27,125
In the dry season, local village women
dig them with their bare hands.

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00:43:46,291 --> 00:43:48,250
Thousands of kilometers away,

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00:43:48,416 --> 00:43:51,750
800 to 1,000 liters of water
are consumed

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00:43:51,916 --> 00:43:54,291
per person per day.

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00:43:54,458 --> 00:43:57,666
Las Vegas was built out of the desert.

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00:43:57,833 --> 00:44:00,125
Millions of people live there.

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00:44:00,291 --> 00:44:02,833
Thousands more arrive every month.

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00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:07,458
Its inhabitants are among the biggest
water consumers in the world.

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00:44:18,916 --> 00:44:22,583
Palm Springs is another desert city
with tropical vegetation

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00:44:22,750 --> 00:44:24,708
and lush golf courses.

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00:44:27,875 --> 00:44:31,625
How long can this mirage
continue to prosper?

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00:44:35,583 --> 00:44:38,375
The Earth cannot keep up.

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00:44:39,333 --> 00:44:42,541
The Colorado River,
which brings water to these cities,

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00:44:42,708 --> 00:44:45,708
is one of those rivers
that no longer reaches the sea.

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00:44:47,333 --> 00:44:52,416
Water levels in the catchment lakes
along its course are plummeting.

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00:45:03,791 --> 00:45:09,666
Water shortages could affect nearly
2 billion people before 2025.

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00:45:36,333 --> 00:45:40,625
The wetlands represent
6% of the surface of the planet.

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00:45:41,083 --> 00:45:44,375
Under their calm waters
lies a veritable factory,

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00:45:44,541 --> 00:45:48,500
where plants and micro-organisms
patiently filter the water

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00:45:48,666 --> 00:45:51,125
and digest all the pollution.

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00:45:52,083 --> 00:45:56,083
These marshes are indispensable
environments for the regeneration

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00:45:56,250 --> 00:45:58,833
and purification of water.

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00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:02,916
They are sponges
that regulate the flow of water.

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00:46:03,083 --> 00:46:04,958
They absorb it in the wet season

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00:46:05,125 --> 00:46:07,625
and release it in the dry season.

430
00:46:37,416 --> 00:46:39,666
In our race to conquer more land,

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00:46:39,833 --> 00:46:43,291
we have reclaimed them
as pasture for livestock,

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00:46:43,583 --> 00:46:46,916
or as land for agriculture or building.

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00:46:48,708 --> 00:46:53,208
In the last century,
half the world's marshes were drained.

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00:46:53,541 --> 00:46:57,666
We know neither their richness
nor their role.

435
00:47:03,375 --> 00:47:05,916
All living matter is linked.

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00:47:06,083 --> 00:47:10,875
Water, air, soil, trees.

437
00:47:11,041 --> 00:47:15,666
The world's magic
is right in front of our eyes.

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00:47:26,208 --> 00:47:30,666
Trees breathe groundwater
into the atmosphere as light mist.

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00:47:30,833 --> 00:47:35,125
They form a canopy that alleviates
the impact of heavy rains.

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00:47:35,291 --> 00:47:39,500
The forests provide the humidity
that is necessary for life.

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00:47:42,083 --> 00:47:43,583
They store carbon,

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00:47:43,750 --> 00:47:47,208
containing more
than all the Earth's atmosphere.

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00:47:48,000 --> 00:47:53,791
They are the cornerstone of the climatic
balance on which we all depend.

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00:48:02,250 --> 00:48:05,083
The primary forests provide a habitat

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00:48:05,250 --> 00:48:08,416
for three-quarters
of the planet's biodiversity,

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00:48:08,750 --> 00:48:12,375
that is to say,
of all life on Earth.

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00:48:21,416 --> 00:48:24,916
These forests provide the remedies
that cure us.

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00:48:25,083 --> 00:48:30,125
The substances secreted by these plants
can be recognized by our bodies.

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00:48:30,291 --> 00:48:33,041
Our cells talk the same language.

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00:48:33,208 --> 00:48:36,125
We are of the same family.

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00:48:54,583 --> 00:48:57,708
But in barely 40 years,
the world's largest rainforest,

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00:48:58,541 --> 00:49:02,833
the Amazon,
has been reduced by 20%.

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00:49:15,208 --> 00:49:19,083
The forest gives way to cattle ranches
or soybean farms.

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00:49:19,250 --> 00:49:23,666
95% of these soybeans are used
to feed livestock and poultry

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00:49:23,833 --> 00:49:25,583
in Europe and Asia.

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00:49:25,750 --> 00:49:28,875
And so, a forest is turned into meat.

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00:49:40,708 --> 00:49:44,208
Barely 20 years ago, Borneo,
the 4th largest island

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00:49:44,375 --> 00:49:48,375
in the world,
was covered by a vast primary forest.

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00:49:48,541 --> 00:49:50,875
At the current rate of deforestation,

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00:49:51,041 --> 00:49:54,333
it will have disappeared
within 10 years.

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00:50:00,208 --> 00:50:04,041
Living matter
bonds water, air, earth and the sun.

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00:50:05,541 --> 00:50:08,708
In Borneo, this bond has been broken

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00:50:08,875 --> 00:50:13,625
in what was one of the Earth's
greatest reservoirs of biodiversity.

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00:50:23,291 --> 00:50:27,166
This catastrophe was provoked
by the decision to produce palm oil,

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one of the most productive and consumed
oils in the world, on Borneo.

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00:50:32,625 --> 00:50:36,666
Palm oil not only caters
to our growing demand for food,

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00:50:36,833 --> 00:50:42,208
but also cosmetics, detergents
and, increasingly, alternative fuels.

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00:50:42,750 --> 00:50:47,791
The forest's diversity was replaced
by a single species, the oil palm.

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00:50:47,958 --> 00:50:50,583
For local people,
it provides employment.

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00:50:50,750 --> 00:50:53,666
It's an agricultural industry.

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00:50:57,791 --> 00:51:01,750
Another example of massive deforestation
is the eucalyptus.

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00:51:01,916 --> 00:51:04,750
Eucalyptus is used to make paper pulp.

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00:51:04,916 --> 00:51:08,208
Plantations are growing
as demand for paper has increased

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00:51:08,375 --> 00:51:10,750
fivefold in 50 years.

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00:51:11,083 --> 00:51:14,625
One forest
does not replace another forest.

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00:51:15,041 --> 00:51:17,041
At the foot of these eucalyptus trees,

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00:51:17,208 --> 00:51:22,416
nothing grows because their leaves form
a toxic bed for most other plants.

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00:51:25,500 --> 00:51:29,541
They grow quickly,
but exhaust water reserves.

479
00:51:31,333 --> 00:51:33,583
Soybeans, palm oil,

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00:51:33,750 --> 00:51:35,791
eucalyptus trees...

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00:51:35,958 --> 00:51:41,041
Deforestation destroys the essential
to produce the superfluous.

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00:51:41,208 --> 00:51:42,458
But elsewhere,

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00:51:42,833 --> 00:51:46,250
deforestation is a last resort
to survive.

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00:51:55,208 --> 00:51:57,041
Over 2 billion people,

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00:51:57,875 --> 00:52:00,333
almost one third
of the world's population,

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00:52:00,500 --> 00:52:03,250
still depend on charcoal.

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00:52:04,041 --> 00:52:05,208
In Haiti,

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00:52:05,375 --> 00:52:07,666
one of the world's poorest countries,

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00:52:07,833 --> 00:52:11,416
charcoal is one of the population's
main consumables.

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00:52:13,291 --> 00:52:15,750
Once the "pearl of the Caribbean",

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00:52:15,916 --> 00:52:20,541
Haiti can no longer feed
its population without foreign aid.

492
00:52:24,458 --> 00:52:29,000
On the hills of Haiti,
only 2% of the forests are left.

493
00:52:30,541 --> 00:52:32,333
Stripped bare,

494
00:52:32,500 --> 00:52:34,333
nothing holds the soils back.

495
00:52:34,916 --> 00:52:38,875
The rainwater washes them
down the hillsides as far as the sea.

496
00:52:39,041 --> 00:52:42,916
What's left is increasingly
unsuitable for agriculture.

497
00:52:50,375 --> 00:52:54,833
In some parts of Madagascar,
the erosion is spectacular.

498
00:52:55,208 --> 00:52:59,791
Whole hillsides bear deep gashes
hundreds of meters wide.

499
00:53:00,375 --> 00:53:04,166
Thin and fragile,
soil is made by living matter.

500
00:53:04,708 --> 00:53:07,500
With erosion,
the fine layer of humus,

501
00:53:07,666 --> 00:53:11,583
which took thousands of years to form,
disappears.

502
00:53:38,458 --> 00:53:41,625
Here's one theory of the story
of the Rapanui,

503
00:53:41,791 --> 00:53:43,750
the inhabitants of Easter Island,

504
00:53:43,916 --> 00:53:46,625
that could perhaps
give us pause for thought.

505
00:53:47,125 --> 00:53:50,166
Living on the most isolated island
in the world,

506
00:53:50,333 --> 00:53:54,750
the Rapanui exploited their resources
until there was nothing left.

507
00:53:55,250 --> 00:53:58,500
Their civilization did not survive.

508
00:53:58,958 --> 00:54:02,833
On these lands stood
the highest palm trees in the world.

509
00:54:03,000 --> 00:54:04,750
They have disappeared.

510
00:54:04,916 --> 00:54:07,875
The Rapanui
chopped them all down for lumber.

511
00:54:08,041 --> 00:54:10,333
They then faced
widespread soil erosion.

512
00:54:13,375 --> 00:54:18,583
The Rapanui could no longer go fishing.
There were no trees to build canoes.

513
00:54:24,166 --> 00:54:29,000
Yet the Rapanui formed one of the most
brilliant civilizations in the Pacific.

514
00:54:29,166 --> 00:54:33,125
Innovative farmers, sculptors,
exceptional navigators,

515
00:54:33,291 --> 00:54:37,833
they were caught in the vise of
overpopulation and dwindling resources.

516
00:54:38,791 --> 00:54:43,250
They experienced social unrest,
revolts and famine.

517
00:54:43,416 --> 00:54:46,791
Many did not survive the cataclysm.

518
00:55:06,000 --> 00:55:11,000
The real mystery of Easter Island is not
how its strange statues got there,

519
00:55:11,166 --> 00:55:12,541
we know now.

520
00:55:12,708 --> 00:55:16,083
It is why the Rapanui
didn't react in time.

521
00:55:23,791 --> 00:55:29,250
It's only one of a number of theories,
but it has particular relevance today.

522
00:55:47,166 --> 00:55:52,166
Since 1950, the world's population
has almost tripled.

523
00:55:52,333 --> 00:55:53,875
And since 1950,

524
00:55:54,041 --> 00:55:57,708
we have more fundamentally
altered our island, the Earth,

525
00:55:57,875 --> 00:56:02,166
than in all
of our 200,000-year history.

526
00:56:02,333 --> 00:56:06,125
Nigeria is the biggest oil exporter
in Africa,

527
00:56:06,291 --> 00:56:11,041
yet 70% of the population
lives under the poverty line.

528
00:56:12,000 --> 00:56:17,125
The wealth is there, but the country's
inhabitants don't have access to it.

529
00:56:17,291 --> 00:56:19,583
The same is true all over the globe.

530
00:56:19,750 --> 00:56:24,208
Half the world's poor
live in resource-rich countries.

531
00:56:28,500 --> 00:56:32,666
Our mode of development
has not fulfilled its promises.

532
00:56:32,833 --> 00:56:38,708
In 50 years, the gap between rich
and poor has grown wider than ever.

533
00:56:39,375 --> 00:56:40,375
Today,

534
00:56:40,541 --> 00:56:46,708
half the world's wealth is in the hands
of the richest 2% of the population.

535
00:56:53,958 --> 00:56:56,458
Can such disparities be maintained?

536
00:56:57,208 --> 00:56:59,708
They are the cause
of population movements

537
00:56:59,875 --> 00:57:02,833
whose scale we have yet
to fully realize.

538
00:57:03,250 --> 00:57:08,416
The city of Lagos
had a population of 700,000 in 1960.

539
00:57:09,083 --> 00:57:13,666
That will rise to 16 million by 2025.

540
00:57:13,833 --> 00:57:18,000
Lagos is one of the fastest growing
megalopolises in the world.

541
00:57:18,166 --> 00:57:21,708
The new arrivals are mostly farmers
forced off the land

542
00:57:21,875 --> 00:57:26,708
for economic or demographic reasons,
or because of diminishing resources.

543
00:57:26,875 --> 00:57:29,833
This is a radically new type
of urban growth,

544
00:57:30,000 --> 00:57:34,291
driven by the urge to survive
rather than to prosper.

545
00:57:39,541 --> 00:57:45,333
Every week, over a million people swell
the populations of the world's cities.

546
00:57:50,458 --> 00:57:56,291
1 human in 6 now lives in a precarious,
unhealthy, overpopulated environment

547
00:57:56,458 --> 00:58:02,250
without access to daily necessities,
such as water, sanitation, electricity.

548
00:58:37,083 --> 00:58:39,125
Hunger is spreading once more.

549
00:58:39,291 --> 00:58:42,500
It affects nearly 1 billion people.

550
00:59:14,416 --> 00:59:19,208
All over the planet, the poorest
scrabble to survive, while we continue

551
00:59:19,375 --> 00:59:23,083
to dig for resources
that we can no longer live without.

552
00:59:23,250 --> 00:59:25,458
We look farther and farther afield

553
00:59:25,625 --> 00:59:28,041
in previously unspoilt territory

554
00:59:28,208 --> 00:59:32,500
and in regions that are
increasingly difficult to exploit.

555
00:59:39,125 --> 00:59:41,250
We're not changing our model.

556
00:59:42,250 --> 00:59:44,500
Oil might run out?

557
00:59:44,666 --> 00:59:48,500
We can still extract oil
from the tar sands of Canada.

558
00:59:48,666 --> 00:59:53,500
The biggest trucks in the world
move thousands of tons of sand.

559
00:59:53,833 --> 00:59:57,166
The process of heating
and separating bitumen from the sand

560
00:59:57,333 --> 01:00:00,583
requires millions
of cubic meters of water.

561
01:00:00,750 --> 01:00:03,166
Colossal amounts of energy are needed.

562
01:00:03,333 --> 01:00:06,041
The pollution is catastrophic.

563
01:00:06,208 --> 01:00:08,541
The most urgent priority, apparently,

564
01:00:08,708 --> 01:00:12,208
is to pick every pocket of sunlight.

565
01:00:45,291 --> 01:00:48,125
Our oil tankers
are getting bigger and bigger.

566
01:00:48,291 --> 01:00:51,541
Our energy requirements
are constantly increasing.

567
01:00:51,708 --> 01:00:54,791
We try to power growth
like a bottomless oven

568
01:00:54,958 --> 01:00:58,333
that demands more and more fuel.

569
01:01:14,166 --> 01:01:15,916
It's all about carbon.

570
01:01:16,083 --> 01:01:20,083
In a few decades, the carbon
that made our atmosphere a furnace

571
01:01:20,250 --> 01:01:25,250
and that nature captured over millions
of years, allowing life to develop,

572
01:01:25,416 --> 01:01:28,000
will have largely been pumped back out.

573
01:01:28,166 --> 01:01:31,500
The atmosphere is heating up.

574
01:01:31,666 --> 01:01:36,500
It would have been inconceivable for
a boat to be here just a few years ago.

575
01:01:37,208 --> 01:01:41,583
Transport, industry,
deforestation, agriculture...

576
01:01:42,000 --> 01:01:46,125
Our activities release gigantic
quantities of carbon dioxide.

577
01:01:46,791 --> 01:01:50,250
Without realizing it,
molecule by molecule,

578
01:01:50,416 --> 01:01:53,916
we have upset
the Earth's climatic balance.

579
01:01:57,416 --> 01:02:00,250
All eyes are on the poles,

580
01:02:01,166 --> 01:02:04,791
where the effects of global warming
are most visible.

581
01:02:06,208 --> 01:02:08,541
It's happening fast, very fast.

582
01:02:09,125 --> 01:02:14,083
The north-west passage that connects
America, Europe and Asia via the pole,

583
01:02:14,250 --> 01:02:15,666
is opening up.

584
01:02:16,333 --> 01:02:18,833
The arctic ice cap is melting.

585
01:02:21,583 --> 01:02:23,625
Under the effect of global warming,

586
01:02:23,791 --> 01:02:28,833
the ice cap has lost
40% of its thickness in 40 years.

587
01:02:29,000 --> 01:02:33,708
Its surface area in the summer
shrinks year by year.

588
01:02:34,583 --> 01:02:38,208
It could disappear
in the summer months by 2030.

589
01:02:38,375 --> 01:02:41,000
Some say 2015.

590
01:02:52,791 --> 01:02:56,250
The sunbeams that the ice sheet
previously reflected back

591
01:02:56,416 --> 01:02:59,916
now penetrate the dark water,
heating it up.

592
01:03:00,083 --> 01:03:03,291
The warming process gathers pace.

593
01:03:11,916 --> 01:03:15,333
This ice contains the records
of our planet.

594
01:03:15,500 --> 01:03:19,000
The concentration of carbon dioxide
hasn't been so high

595
01:03:19,166 --> 01:03:21,875
for several hundred thousand years.

596
01:03:23,666 --> 01:03:27,958
Humanity has never lived
in an atmosphere like this.

597
01:03:39,458 --> 01:03:44,791
Is excessive exploitation of resources
threatening the lives of every species?

598
01:03:45,333 --> 01:03:46,750
Climate change

599
01:03:46,916 --> 01:03:48,500
accentuates the threat.

600
01:03:48,666 --> 01:03:52,375
By 2050,
a quarter of the Earth's species

601
01:03:52,541 --> 01:03:55,125
could be threatened with extinction.

602
01:03:55,958 --> 01:03:57,500
In these polar regions,

603
01:03:57,666 --> 01:04:01,166
the balance of nature
has already been disrupted.

604
01:05:36,375 --> 01:05:37,708
Around the North Pole,

605
01:05:37,875 --> 01:05:43,250
the ice cap has lost 30%
of its surface area in 30 years.

606
01:05:44,666 --> 01:05:47,041
But as Greenland
rapidly becomes warmer,

607
01:05:47,208 --> 01:05:52,625
the freshwater of a whole continent
flows into the salt water of the oceans.

608
01:06:04,291 --> 01:06:09,708
Greenland's ice contains 20%
of the freshwater of the whole planet.

609
01:06:10,708 --> 01:06:15,583
If it melts,
sea levels will rise by nearly 7 meters.

610
01:06:30,833 --> 01:06:33,666
But there is no industry here.

611
01:06:34,458 --> 01:06:37,375
Greenland's ice sheet suffers
from greenhouse gases

612
01:06:37,541 --> 01:06:39,666
emitted elsewhere on Earth.

613
01:06:42,916 --> 01:06:46,166
Our ecosystem doesn't have borders.

614
01:06:46,333 --> 01:06:47,583
Wherever we are,

615
01:06:47,750 --> 01:06:51,166
our actions have repercussions
on the whole Earth.

616
01:06:51,333 --> 01:06:55,375
Our planet's atmosphere
is an indivisible whole.

617
01:06:55,541 --> 01:06:58,625
It is an asset we share.

618
01:07:01,416 --> 01:07:04,791
In Greenland,
lakes are appearing on the landscape.

619
01:07:05,708 --> 01:07:10,166
The ice cap is melting at a speed
even the most pessimistic scientists

620
01:07:10,333 --> 01:07:13,541
did not envision 10 years ago.

621
01:07:22,500 --> 01:07:26,166
More and more of these glacier-fed
rivers are merging together

622
01:07:26,333 --> 01:07:28,666
and burrowing though the surface.

623
01:07:29,083 --> 01:07:33,041
It was thought the water would freeze
in the depths of the ice.

624
01:07:33,208 --> 01:07:36,041
On the contrary,
it flows under the ice,

625
01:07:36,208 --> 01:07:41,000
carrying the ice sheet into the sea,
where it breaks into icebergs.

626
01:08:26,666 --> 01:08:29,250
As the freshwater
of Greenland's ice sheet

627
01:08:29,416 --> 01:08:32,000
seeps into the salt water of the oceans,

628
01:08:32,166 --> 01:08:35,750
low-lying lands around the globe
are threatened.

629
01:08:39,957 --> 01:08:41,957
Sea levels are rising.

630
01:08:42,125 --> 01:08:44,625
Water expanding as it gets warmer

631
01:08:44,791 --> 01:08:46,958
caused, in the 20th century alone,

632
01:08:47,125 --> 01:08:49,458
a rise of 20 centimeters.

633
01:08:50,041 --> 01:08:53,125
Everything becomes unstable.

634
01:08:53,291 --> 01:08:58,000
Coral reefs are extremely sensitive
to the slightest change

635
01:08:58,166 --> 01:09:01,791
in water temperature.
30% have disappeared.

636
01:09:01,957 --> 01:09:06,207
They are an essential link
in the chain of species.

637
01:09:10,291 --> 01:09:14,708
In the atmosphere, major wind streams
are changing direction.

638
01:09:15,666 --> 01:09:18,541
Rain cycles are altered.

639
01:09:18,707 --> 01:09:21,957
The geography of climates is modified.

640
01:09:22,125 --> 01:09:24,666
The inhabitants of low-lying islands,

641
01:09:24,832 --> 01:09:28,124
here in the Maldives, for example,
are on the front line.

642
01:09:28,750 --> 01:09:31,250
They are increasingly concerned.

643
01:09:31,416 --> 01:09:35,291
Some are already looking for new,
more hospitable lands.

644
01:09:41,041 --> 01:09:44,666
If sea levels continue to rise
faster and faster,

645
01:09:44,832 --> 01:09:49,540
what will major cities like Tokyo,
the world's most populous city, do?

646
01:09:50,750 --> 01:09:55,125
Every year, scientists' predictions
become more alarming.

647
01:09:57,083 --> 01:10:02,291
70% of the world's population
lives on coastal plains.

648
01:10:02,458 --> 01:10:05,125
11 of the 15 biggest cities

649
01:10:05,291 --> 01:10:08,666
stand on a coastline or river estuary.

650
01:10:09,708 --> 01:10:13,083
As the seas rise,
salt will invade the water table,

651
01:10:13,250 --> 01:10:16,500
depriving inhabitants
of drinking water.

652
01:10:16,958 --> 01:10:19,708
Migratory phenomena are inevitable.

653
01:10:19,875 --> 01:10:23,333
The only uncertainty
concerns their scale.

654
01:10:54,375 --> 01:10:58,583
In Africa,
Mount Kilimanjaro is unrecognizable.

655
01:10:59,208 --> 01:11:01,958
80% of its glaciers have disappeared.

656
01:11:02,125 --> 01:11:05,208
In summer,
the rivers no longer flow.

657
01:11:05,375 --> 01:11:08,833
Local peoples are affected
by the lack of water.

658
01:11:09,541 --> 01:11:14,083
Even on the world's highest peaks,
in the heart of the Himalayas,

659
01:11:14,250 --> 01:11:17,625
eternal snows and glaciers
are receding.

660
01:11:19,625 --> 01:11:23,458
Yet these glaciers play
an essential role in the water cycle.

661
01:11:23,875 --> 01:11:26,916
They trap the water
from the monsoons as ice

662
01:11:27,083 --> 01:11:30,208
and release it in the summer
when the snows melt.

663
01:11:43,291 --> 01:11:47,541
The Himalayan glaciers are the source
of all the great Asian rivers,

664
01:11:47,708 --> 01:11:51,541
the Indus, Ganges,
Mekong, Yangtze Kiang...

665
01:11:52,458 --> 01:11:56,625
2 billion people depend on them
for drinking water

666
01:11:56,791 --> 01:12:00,625
and to irrigate their crops,
as in Bangladesh.

667
01:12:01,750 --> 01:12:04,833
On the delta
of the Ganges and Brahmaputra,

668
01:12:05,000 --> 01:12:09,500
Bangladesh is directly affected
by phenomena occurring in the Himalayas

669
01:12:09,666 --> 01:12:10,916
and at sea level.

670
01:12:11,375 --> 01:12:15,500
This is one of the most populous
and poorest countries in the world.

671
01:12:15,666 --> 01:12:18,500
It is already hit by global warming.

672
01:12:18,833 --> 01:12:23,208
The combined impact of increasingly
dramatic floods and hurricanes

673
01:12:23,375 --> 01:12:26,791
could make
a third of its land mass disappear.

674
01:12:27,125 --> 01:12:30,958
When populations are subjected
to these devastating phenomena,

675
01:12:31,125 --> 01:12:33,666
they eventually move away.

676
01:12:39,416 --> 01:12:41,916
Wealthy countries will not be spared.

677
01:12:42,083 --> 01:12:44,750
Droughts are occurring
all over the planet.

678
01:12:44,916 --> 01:12:49,375
In Australia,
half of farmland is already affected.

679
01:13:01,333 --> 01:13:05,500
We are in the process of compromising
the climatic balance

680
01:13:05,666 --> 01:13:10,041
that has allowed us to develop
over 12,000 years.

681
01:13:17,958 --> 01:13:22,166
More and more wildfires
encroach on major cities.

682
01:13:23,291 --> 01:13:26,708
In turn,
they exacerbate global warming.

683
01:13:26,875 --> 01:13:29,666
As the trees burn,
they release carbon dioxide.

684
01:13:31,166 --> 01:13:36,000
The system that controls our climate
has been severely disrupted.

685
01:13:36,166 --> 01:13:40,333
The elements on which it relies
have been disrupted.

686
01:14:11,375 --> 01:14:16,291
The clock of climate change is ticking
in these magnificent landscapes.

687
01:14:16,833 --> 01:14:20,250
Here in Siberia,
and elsewhere across the globe,

688
01:14:20,416 --> 01:14:24,041
it is so cold
that the ground is constantly frozen.

689
01:14:24,958 --> 01:14:27,875
It's known as permafrost.

690
01:14:28,041 --> 01:14:32,083
Under its surface
lies a climatic time-bomb.

691
01:14:32,250 --> 01:14:33,625
Methane,

692
01:14:33,791 --> 01:14:38,416
a greenhouse gas 20 times
more powerful than carbon dioxide.

693
01:14:53,416 --> 01:14:55,083
If the permafrost melts,

694
01:14:55,250 --> 01:14:58,583
the methane releases would cause
the greenhouse effect

695
01:14:58,750 --> 01:15:03,000
to race out of control
with consequences no one can predict.

696
01:15:08,416 --> 01:15:13,000
We would literally
be in unknown territory.

697
01:15:20,625 --> 01:15:24,625
Humanity has no more than 10 years
to reverse the trend

698
01:15:24,791 --> 01:15:27,750
and avoid
crossing into this territory...

699
01:15:28,500 --> 01:15:31,500
Life on Earth
as we have never known it.

700
01:15:59,958 --> 01:16:03,500
We have created phenomena
we cannot control.

701
01:16:03,666 --> 01:16:05,000
Since our origins,

702
01:16:05,166 --> 01:16:09,750
water, air and forms of life
are intimately linked.

703
01:16:11,875 --> 01:16:15,500
But recently
we have broken those links.

704
01:16:17,000 --> 01:16:18,791
Let's face the facts.

705
01:16:18,958 --> 01:16:21,375
We must believe what we know.

706
01:16:24,333 --> 01:16:28,666
All we have just seen is a reflection
of human behavior.

707
01:16:30,208 --> 01:16:33,458
We have shaped the Earth in our image.

708
01:16:34,041 --> 01:16:36,708
We have very little time to change.

709
01:16:37,291 --> 01:16:41,875
How can this century carry the burden
of 9 billion human beings

710
01:16:42,041 --> 01:16:44,666
if we refuse to be called to account

711
01:16:44,833 --> 01:16:48,000
for everything we alone have done?

712
01:16:55,416 --> 01:17:01,000
20% of the world's population
consumes 80% of its resources

713
01:17:20,708 --> 01:17:24,958
The world spends
12 times more on military expenditures

714
01:17:25,125 --> 01:17:27,791
than on aid to developing countries

715
01:17:40,708 --> 01:17:45,041
5,000 people a day die
because of dirty drinking water

716
01:17:45,208 --> 01:17:49,583
1 billion people
have no access to safe drinking water

717
01:18:00,458 --> 01:18:05,291
Nearly 1 billion people are going hungry

718
01:18:19,625 --> 01:18:24,625
Over 50% of grain
traded around the world

719
01:18:24,791 --> 01:18:29,083
is used for animal feed or biofuels

720
01:18:42,125 --> 01:18:47,083
40% of arable land
has suffered long-term damage

721
01:19:00,000 --> 01:19:04,500
Every year,
13 million hectares of forest disappear

722
01:19:16,416 --> 01:19:22,250
1 mammal in 4, 1 bird in 8, 1 amphibian
in 3 are threatened with extinction

723
01:19:22,416 --> 01:19:27,791
Species are dying out at a rhythm
1,000 times faster than the natural rate

724
01:19:37,583 --> 01:19:42,000
Three quarters of fishing grounds
are exhausted,

725
01:19:42,166 --> 01:19:44,916
depleted or in dangerous decline

726
01:19:54,750 --> 01:19:58,083
The average temperature
of the last 15 years

727
01:19:58,250 --> 01:20:00,666
has been the highest ever recorded

728
01:20:15,250 --> 01:20:20,708
The ice cap is 40% thinner
than 40 years ago

729
01:20:32,958 --> 01:20:41,000
There may be at least 200 million
climate refugees by 2050

730
01:20:48,708 --> 01:20:50,791
The cost of our actions is high.

731
01:20:50,958 --> 01:20:54,458
Others pay the price
without having been actively involved.

732
01:20:54,916 --> 01:20:56,916
I have seen refugee camps

733
01:20:57,083 --> 01:21:00,041
as big as cities,
sprawling in the desert.

734
01:21:00,625 --> 01:21:02,833
How many men,
women and children

735
01:21:03,000 --> 01:21:05,083
will be left by the wayside tomorrow?

736
01:21:06,000 --> 01:21:09,875
Must we always build walls
to break the chain of human solidarity,

737
01:21:10,041 --> 01:21:11,333
separate peoples

738
01:21:11,500 --> 01:21:15,166
and protect the happiness of some
from others' misery?

739
01:21:15,333 --> 01:21:17,083
It's too late to be a pessimist.

740
01:21:17,833 --> 01:21:21,416
I know that a single human
can knock down every wall.

741
01:21:21,583 --> 01:21:23,458
It's too late to be a pessimist.

742
01:21:23,625 --> 01:21:27,125
Worldwide,
4 children out of 5 attend school.

743
01:21:27,291 --> 01:21:30,375
Never has learning been given
to so many human beings.

744
01:21:30,541 --> 01:21:34,208
Everyone, from richest to poorest,
can make a contribution.

745
01:21:34,375 --> 01:21:36,875
Lesotho,
one of the world's poorest countries,

746
01:21:37,041 --> 01:21:41,541
is proportionally the one that invests
most in its people's education.

747
01:21:41,708 --> 01:21:46,583
Qatar, one of the richest states,
has opened up to the best universities.

748
01:21:46,750 --> 01:21:49,791
Culture, education,
research and innovation

749
01:21:49,958 --> 01:21:52,166
are inexhaustible resources.

750
01:21:52,333 --> 01:21:54,083
In the face of misery and suffering,

751
01:21:54,250 --> 01:21:57,458
millions of NGOs prove that solidarity

752
01:21:57,625 --> 01:22:01,416
between peoples is stronger
than the selfishness of nations.

753
01:22:01,958 --> 01:22:04,625
In Bangladesh,
a man thought the unthinkable

754
01:22:04,791 --> 01:22:07,416
and founded a bank
that lends only to the poor.

755
01:22:07,583 --> 01:22:12,666
In 30 years, it has changed
the lives of 150 million people.

756
01:22:12,833 --> 01:22:16,583
Antarctica is a continent
with immense natural resources

757
01:22:16,750 --> 01:22:19,125
that no country can claim for itself,

758
01:22:19,291 --> 01:22:22,916
a natural reserve
devoted to peace and science.

759
01:22:23,083 --> 01:22:25,375
A treaty signed by 49 states

760
01:22:25,541 --> 01:22:28,458
has made it a treasure
shared by all humanity.

761
01:22:28,625 --> 01:22:30,625
It's too late to be a pessimist.

762
01:22:30,791 --> 01:22:35,291
Governments have acted to protect
nearly 2% of territorial waters.

763
01:22:35,458 --> 01:22:39,083
It's not much but it's 2 times more
than 10 years ago.

764
01:22:39,250 --> 01:22:42,875
The first natural parks were created
just over a century ago.

765
01:22:43,041 --> 01:22:46,208
They cover over 13% of the continents.

766
01:22:46,375 --> 01:22:48,250
They create spaces
where human activity

767
01:22:48,416 --> 01:22:53,041
is in step with the preservation
of species, soils and landscapes.

768
01:22:53,208 --> 01:22:57,083
This harmony between humans and nature
can become the rule,

769
01:22:57,250 --> 01:22:59,041
no longer the exception.

770
01:22:59,208 --> 01:23:03,041
In the US, New York has realized
what nature does for us.

771
01:23:03,208 --> 01:23:06,541
These forests and lakes
supply all the city's drinking water.

772
01:23:07,666 --> 01:23:11,708
In South Korea,
the forests had been devastated by war.

773
01:23:11,875 --> 01:23:14,541
Thanks to
a national reforestation program,

774
01:23:14,708 --> 01:23:17,750
they once more cover
65% of the country.

775
01:23:17,916 --> 01:23:21,333
More than 75% of paper is recycled.

776
01:23:21,625 --> 01:23:26,791
Costa Rica has made a choice between
military spending and land conservation.

777
01:23:26,958 --> 01:23:28,625
The country no longer has an army.

778
01:23:28,791 --> 01:23:32,416
It prefers to devote its resources
to education, ecotourism

779
01:23:32,583 --> 01:23:35,083
and the protection
of its primary forest.

780
01:23:35,250 --> 01:23:38,375
Gabon is one of the world's
leading producers of wood.

781
01:23:38,541 --> 01:23:43,250
It enforces selective logging.
Not more than 1 tree every hectare.

782
01:23:43,416 --> 01:23:47,041
Its forests are one of the country's
most important resources,

783
01:23:47,208 --> 01:23:49,583
but they have time to regenerate.

784
01:23:49,750 --> 01:23:53,541
Programs exist that guarantee
sustainable forest management.

785
01:23:53,708 --> 01:23:55,666
They must become mandatory.

786
01:23:56,583 --> 01:24:00,625
For consumers and producers,
justice is an opportunity to be seized.

787
01:24:01,458 --> 01:24:05,041
When trade is fair,
when both buyer and seller benefit,

788
01:24:05,208 --> 01:24:08,791
everybody can prosper
and earn a decent living.

789
01:24:09,625 --> 01:24:11,833
How can there be justice and equity

790
01:24:12,000 --> 01:24:15,125
between people
whose only tools are their hands

791
01:24:15,291 --> 01:24:19,375
and those who harvest their crops
with a machine and state subsidies?

792
01:24:22,625 --> 01:24:25,375
Let's be responsible consumers.

793
01:24:25,541 --> 01:24:27,791
Think about what we buy!

794
01:24:31,166 --> 01:24:32,958
It's too late to be a pessimist.

795
01:24:33,625 --> 01:24:36,375
I have seen agriculture
on a human scale.

796
01:24:36,541 --> 01:24:38,791
It can feed the whole planet

797
01:24:38,958 --> 01:24:42,875
if meat production doesn't take
the food out of people's mouths.

798
01:24:43,500 --> 01:24:46,666
I have seen fishermen
who take care what they catch

799
01:24:46,833 --> 01:24:49,375
and care for the riches of the ocean.

800
01:24:50,250 --> 01:24:52,958
I have seen houses
producing their own energy.

801
01:24:53,125 --> 01:24:55,375
5,000 people live in the world's

802
01:24:55,541 --> 01:24:59,000
first ever eco-friendly district
in Freiburg, Germany.

803
01:24:59,166 --> 01:25:01,291
Other cities partner the project.

804
01:25:01,458 --> 01:25:04,208
Mumbai is the thousandth to join them.

805
01:25:04,541 --> 01:25:09,333
The governments of New Zealand, Iceland,
Austria, Sweden and other nations

806
01:25:09,500 --> 01:25:12,625
have made the development
of renewable energy sources

807
01:25:12,791 --> 01:25:14,458
a top priority.

808
01:25:15,333 --> 01:25:20,541
80% of the energy we consume
comes from fossil energy sources.

809
01:25:20,708 --> 01:25:21,541
Every week,

810
01:25:21,708 --> 01:25:25,958
two new coal-fired generating plants
are built in China alone.

811
01:25:26,166 --> 01:25:30,375
But I have also seen, in Denmark,
a prototype of a coal-fired plant

812
01:25:30,541 --> 01:25:34,250
that releases carbon into the soil
rather than the air.

813
01:25:34,416 --> 01:25:37,416
A solution for the future?
Nobody knows yet.

814
01:25:37,583 --> 01:25:39,541
I have seen, in Iceland,

815
01:25:39,708 --> 01:25:42,333
an electricity plant
powered by the Earth's heat.

816
01:25:42,500 --> 01:25:44,000
Geothermal power.

817
01:25:44,208 --> 01:25:46,083
I have seen a sea snake

818
01:25:46,250 --> 01:25:49,375
lying on the swell
to absorb the energy of the waves

819
01:25:49,541 --> 01:25:51,458
and produce electricity.

820
01:25:52,333 --> 01:25:54,958
I have seen wind farms
off Denmark's coast

821
01:25:55,125 --> 01:25:58,375
that produce 20%
of the country's electricity.

822
01:25:58,541 --> 01:26:04,125
The USA, China, India, Germany
and Spain are the biggest investors

823
01:26:04,375 --> 01:26:05,958
in renewable energy.

824
01:26:06,125 --> 01:26:09,791
They have already created
over 2.5 million jobs.

825
01:26:10,291 --> 01:26:12,916
Where on earth
doesn't the wind blow?

826
01:26:14,041 --> 01:26:18,125
I have seen desert expanses
baking in the sun.

827
01:26:18,625 --> 01:26:21,000
Everything on Earth is linked,

828
01:26:21,166 --> 01:26:25,291
and the Earth is linked to the sun,
its original energy source.

829
01:26:25,458 --> 01:26:28,666
Can humans not imitate plants
and capture its energy?

830
01:26:29,416 --> 01:26:33,833
In one hour, the sun gives the Earth
the same amount of energy

831
01:26:34,000 --> 01:26:37,750
as that consumed
by all humanity in one year.

832
01:26:37,916 --> 01:26:42,458
As long as the Earth exists,
the sun's energy will be inexhaustible.

833
01:26:42,625 --> 01:26:43,625
All we have to do

834
01:26:43,791 --> 01:26:46,958
is stop drilling the Earth
and start looking to the sky.

835
01:26:47,125 --> 01:26:50,208
All we have to do
is learn to cultivate the sun.

836
01:26:50,375 --> 01:26:52,791
All these experiments
are only examples,

837
01:26:52,958 --> 01:26:55,250
but they testify to a new awareness.

838
01:26:55,416 --> 01:26:58,583
They lay down markers
for a new human adventure

839
01:26:58,750 --> 01:27:02,708
based on moderation,
intelligence and sharing.

840
01:27:18,958 --> 01:27:21,416
It's time to come together.

841
01:27:22,333 --> 01:27:24,125
What's important

842
01:27:24,291 --> 01:27:26,125
is not what's gone,

843
01:27:26,291 --> 01:27:28,666
but what remains.

844
01:27:30,416 --> 01:27:33,375
We still have
half the world's forests,

845
01:27:33,541 --> 01:27:38,916
thousands of rivers, lakes and glaciers,
and thousands of thriving species.

846
01:27:42,208 --> 01:27:45,750
We know that the solutions
are there today.

847
01:27:46,833 --> 01:27:49,750
We all have the power to change.

848
01:27:51,458 --> 01:27:53,833
So what are we waiting for?

849
01:28:21,875 --> 01:28:26,041
It's up to us to write
what happens next

850
01:28:27,791 --> 01:28:31,250
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851
01:32:50,916 --> 01:32:55,458
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852
01:32:56,666 --> 01:32:58,916
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