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- People often say that [br]there's a war against nature

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and that this is [br]the third world war.

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- It's getting more stark; [br]it's getting worse and

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the rate of change is accelerating, [br]whether we're talking about the

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extinction of species or [br]the thoroughness of the techno-culture.

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- The world right now is, [br]frankly, very frightening.

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For what we consider [br]to be industrial civilization,

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I would say is extraordinarily uncivilized,

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actually quite savage.

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- It's not an exaggeration [br]to say that we're

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living in an ecological apocalypse.

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- Between years 1980 and 2045

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we will lose more species [br]of plants and animals than

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we have lost in the [br]last 65 million years.

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We have two big-picture [br]time pressures that really mean

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we should be acting a lot [br]more urgently than most of us have.

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And one of them is peak oil, [br]or energy collapse,

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and one of them is climate change, [br]or runaway global warming.

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- I think that most people, [br]even most scientists,

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continue to underestimate how far

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down the path to climate catastrophe

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we've already travelled.

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- For the most part, [br]we're oblivious to it, we don't

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want to know about it, [br]we don't want to hear about it.

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- The one thing I'm most afraid of [br]is that we're going to

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mount a tremendous campaign [br]to sustain the unsustainable.

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- At this point, scientists [br]are saying that the Earth's

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temperature may increase [br]by as much as 10 degrees.

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At that point, there may not [br]even be bacteria left.

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- When the oil starts [br]to really run dry,

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and when those in power [br]have to assert their power

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in a time of dwindling resources,

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I think they're going [br]to turn to much more

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blunt and cruel methods [br]of enforcing their power.

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- The whole climate is [br]changing: the winds,

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the ocean currents, [br]the storm patterns,

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snow pack, snow melt,

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flooding, droughts.

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GAME OVER

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Somewhere in northern California

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- It's stunning how fast [br]the destruction is proceeding.

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Every day that passes, [br]the world is in worse shape.

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'The sad-looking man you see [br]on the screen is Derrick Jensen.

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Jensen is the best-selling author [br]of several non-fiction books

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including "A Language Older than Words" [br]and "The Culture of Make Believe".

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His books deal with topics such as [br]surveillance, child abuse, the environment,

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and something he calls "civilization".

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But it's statements like these [br]that make him so controversial:'

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They're thinking of raising [br]the Shasta Dam in California,

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and the reason that [br]Senator Feinstein gave was...

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"It is Californians' God-given [br]right to water their lawns."

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You know, there is no way [br]to argue with that...

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...except with explosives.

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'That was Mr. Jensen in 2006, the same year [br]he published a two-volume set called 'Endgame.'

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In 'Endgame' , he argues that there is an [br]urgent need to bring down civilization.'

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- If people would have brought down [br]civilization a hundred years ago

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people in the Pacific Northwest [br]could still eat salmon.

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There's going to be people sitting [br]along the Columbia fifty years from now --

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they'll be glowing for one thing -- [br]but they'll be starving to death,

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and they'll be saying,

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"I'm starving to death, because [br]you didn't take out the dams...

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...that killed salmon, and [br]those dams were used for barging,

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and for electricity, for alumninum [br]smelters for beer cans, so

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God damn you."

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He lays out his case against [br]civilization by enumerating 20 premises.

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Due to time limitations and [br]the fact that most people

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would not tolerate a twenty-hour [br]movie, we will explore

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four of these premises, [br]and accompany them

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with real-life examples.

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Premise I

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Industrial civilization, civilization itself, [br]but especially industrial civilization

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is not, and can [br]never be, sustainable.

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It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure [br]out that any way of life that's based

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on the use of nonrenewable [br]resources won't last.

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But what is civilization?

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Civilization is a way of life [br]characterized by the growth of cities.

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- So you've got groups of people living [br]in a dense enough population that

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the local landbase cannot support them.

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What that means is you have to get

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your basic resources from somewhere else

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because you've used them up where you live.

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So you're going to go out into [br]the countryside and gather up

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whatever it is you want, [br]bring it back in.

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If you require the importation of resources,

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it means you've denuded the landscape [br]of that particular resource.

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- There's no way that in the [br]long term you can continue

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to destroy the land that you need for your survival,

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or the waters that you need to drink,

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and expect to continue to live.

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- Industrial civilization requires [br]ever-increasing amounts

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of energy and ever-increasing [br]amounts of land,

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ever-increasing amounts [br]of resources of all kinds

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in order to perpetuate itself,

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in order to continue to grow,

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in order to just maintain itself.

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And we live on a finite planet,

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and those aren't available. Of course,

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unfortunately for us and most living creatures,

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that culture won't stop until [br]it's consumed as much as it can,

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or, of course, until we stop it ourselves.

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- If you have a finite amount of anything,

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if you start using it, [br]eventually you use it up.

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And so it would seem that if [br]your entire culture is based on,

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I don't know, [br]let's take a random resource...

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...oil...

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...that you would think about [br]what's going to happen

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happen when the oil runs out

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- We've found energy resources

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that have allowed us to escape

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some of the kinds of

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limits that previous cultures

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have had to face much more quickly.

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They used to collapse because [br]they ran out of resources,

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easily accessible resources.

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The limit being the distance that people

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could travel with things like horses,

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or other pack animals. [br]That ended with the beginning

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of the fossil fuel age; now [br]they can go all over the planet

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and take what they want. [br]So globalization has only

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accelerated this tremendously [br]destructive process.

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- We've poured our wealth into

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building an infrastructure for daily life

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that has no future. I do think that

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oil problem is going to accelerate

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within the next three to [br]five years, maybe even sooner.

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The numbers indicate that we've [br]probably peaked in global production.

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- Where do you find the break from that?

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I mean, all of it is a giant machine or

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ensemble that just moves forward.

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Technology, for example, never takes a step back.

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This whole thing just [br]keeps going like a cancer.

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- I don't know of any civilization [br]that's been sustainable,

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I don't believe there ever has been one.

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Technology, at its essence, [br]is really our culture's...

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...determination,

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that comes from certain

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philosophical and historical sources,

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that we will be nothing else [br]but more relentlessly technological.

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- There is no clean green path to

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living in a lifestyle that [br]we're all used to in

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industrialized nations. [br]This way of life is OVER.

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- Civilizations are often [br]cutting their own throats,

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very visibly, very obviously, [br]but they just keep on doing it.

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- Every civilization is defined by hubris,

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it's defined by its denial

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to recognize that it [br]lives in a natural world.

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As a matter of fact, every [br]civilization, in its founding lies,

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elevates itself above nature,

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and claims that it is the [br]controller of the whole world.

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Figure 1

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- The first written myth of this culture [br]is Gilgamesh deforesting the plains

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and hillsides of Iraq. [br]When people think of Iraq,

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what's the first thing they normally [br]think of? Cedar forests so thick

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that sunlight never [br]touches the ground?

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That's how it was, prior to the [br]arrival of this culture.

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Clearcuts

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So, as a longtime, grassroots, [br]environmental activist,

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and as a creature living in [br]the thrashing endgame of civilization,

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I am intimately acquainted [br]with the landscape of loss,

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and have grown accustomed to [br]carrying the daily weight of despair.

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I've walked clearcuts that [br]wrap around mountains and

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drop into valleys and [br]climb ridges to fragment

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watershed after watershed, [br]and I've sat, silent,

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near empty streams that [br]two generations ago

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were lashed into whiteness [br]by uncountable salmon

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coming home to spawn and die.

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- Here in BC, and across North America,

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when they do industrial [br]logging they actually take

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and just remove all the trees. [br]They level everything,

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they leave nothing but [br]stumps and slash piles,

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and they burn the slash piles [br]and they take out all the timber

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and what's left is a wasteland,

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and it's like they take a rainforest [br]and turn it into a desert.

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That's what a clearcut is.

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They use them for pulp; [br]they export them whole

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to the United States and to Japan.

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There's not very much milling [br]that happens anymore in BC,

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it's just getting exported for pulp and paper

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and fibreboard, and plywood, and whatever else.

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Not a lot of value added.

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This tree has been [br]selected to be cut and

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usually the company will only clearcut

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but this tree is in what they call

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a stream-side selection zone. [br]

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they've got it marked blue, [br]because it's a selection zone.

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In a clearcut they don't paint the trees

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that they're going to cut down.

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They only paint the ones [br]that they're going to leave.

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- There's still a strong push to harvest

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as much of the western [br]red cedar as they can.

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They're bringing in huge [br]helicopters to do that.

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And they're high-grading...

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...selecting only the really [br]good, high-quality timber

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and leaving the rest laying there...

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...in a junk heap.

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So, that's why we keep on,

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you know, fighting back.

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I think the last straw was when

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they wanted to log the Valley of Ista

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because of its historical and

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spiritual significance to our people.

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But they log it in spite, you know,

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just to make a point

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against our resistance, against our

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our overall position,

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you know, with regard to treaties

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or encroachment of industry development

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in our territories.

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- In a lot of these areas, [br]like this clearing behind me

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up on the hill, [br]you can see the soil is exposed,

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the ultraviolet kills [br]off all the mosses,

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the funguses that hold [br]the soil together.

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When the stumps rot [br]and the roots die,

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then the slopes slide,

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and often there's not much regrowth, [br]there's no regeneration of the forest.

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They do some replanting --

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it doesn't always work [br]because there's no soil left:

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it washes down into the streams, [br]it kills the salmon,

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it fills up the reservoirs, [br]

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all kinds of flood damage downstream.

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- That's terrorism. [br]Stripping down all the trees,

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ripping out all the [br]trees in the forest...

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...and now they're going [br]to rip out the

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guts of the land

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looking for copper and gold.

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And...

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... this has to have some [br]kind of focus to it...

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...to address the [br]injustice to our people,

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the injustice to the land, [br]to the water,

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to the wildlife; [br]the injustice to the

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marine life and the salmon life.

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And the injustice to the people [br]that want to stand up for it.

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- When we blocked the road --

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these trees are very valuable

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and the laws are all profit-driven, [br]they're all driven by

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the corporations, [br]the police are there

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to enforce the [br]corporations' right to log,

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not to enforce our [br]right to stop them

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and protect the ecosystem. [br]There's so little

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that's left of the [br]old-growth forest like

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this that we see on the sides here

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that people are putting [br]their bodies on the line,

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they are willing [br]to make huge sacrifices

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to stop the forest from being sacrificed,

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and the water, [br]and the air quality,

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and the global climate.

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Premise II

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Traditional communities do not often

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voluntarily give up [br]or sell the resources

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on which their [br]communities are based

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until their communities [br]have been destroyed.

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They also do not [br]willingly allow their

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land-bases to be damaged [br]so that other resources --

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gold, oil, and so on -- [br]can be extracted.

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It follows that those who want [br]the resources will do what they can

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to destroy traditional communities.

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- Our people, we say, have been [br]there since time immemorial.

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- Prior to invasion

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and conquest, colonization,

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lands in North America were occupied by

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populations of people [br]that had a profoundly

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different relationship with the land.

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- They live with the land, [br]all the ceremonies that have

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come up have to do with

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celebrating the renewal of seasons and

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life and affirming all of that.

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- One thing about indigenous peoples is that

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there's always the idea [br]that you have to live

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in balance, you know, emotionally,

0:18:55.000,0:18:57.000
physically, spiritually,

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you have to have balance, [br]and so this same

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philosophy was applied to the [br]natural world that they lived in.

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- The Tolowa, on whose land I now live,

0:19:08.000,0:19:10.000
weren't civilized, [br]they didn't live in cities,

0:19:10.000,0:19:12.000
they didn't require the [br]importation of resources,

0:19:12.000,0:19:13.000
they lived in villages, camps...

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...and lived there for 12,500 years if [br]you believe the myths of science.

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If you believe the myths of the Tolowa, [br]they lived there since the beginning of time.

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- I think that what we have had in

0:19:21.760,0:19:24.760
indigenous societies all along is a very,

0:19:24.760,0:19:26.760
kind of, common sense, a very practical

0:19:26.760,0:19:29.760
approach to why it's important to

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treat the world around you,

0:19:31.760,0:19:34.760
the natural world, in a good way.

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- Our people never exploited [br]more than what we needed.

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We respect the land, we respect the animals,

0:19:42.320,0:19:44.320
we respect the water, we respect the air,

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the wind, the fire, all the sacred elements.

0:19:47.400,0:19:50.400
And we believe that they all are living,

0:19:50.400,0:19:53.480
living things, so...

0:19:53.480,0:19:57.400
...I suspect that's the way [br]it was before contact.

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- The stories that we have

0:20:00.080,0:20:02.080
about our relationship to each other

0:20:02.120,0:20:05.120
and to the land and [br]to any spiritual aspect,

0:20:05.120,0:20:08.120
any deities, arise from our relationship

0:20:08.120,0:20:10.120
with the land.

0:20:10.120,0:20:12.120
The salmon were considered to be our...

0:20:12.120,0:20:16.600
...mentors, caregivers -- lifegivers.

0:20:17.000,0:20:19.000
They were equal to us, in fact,

0:20:19.000,0:20:22.000
all things that have [br]form were equal to us.

0:20:22.000,0:20:24.000
We weren't about dominating.

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- The spiritual relationship [br]that our peoples had

0:20:28.840,0:20:31.840
prior to invasion

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with all of creation, [br]and recognizing that

0:20:34.840,0:20:37.840
all beings have a spiritual essence,

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a spiritual entity, [br]and that if we want

0:20:40.840,0:20:43.840
to live in this [br]universe in a good way,

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that it was absolutely essential [br]that we learned how to

0:20:46.880,0:20:48.880
maintain respectful relations

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with all of creation.

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They made us many promises,

0:21:04.080,0:21:07.240
more than I can remember, [br]but they never kept but one;

0:21:07.240,0:21:11.440
they promised to take our land, [br]and they took it. [br]-Red Cloud

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When Europeans came to this land

0:21:21.280,0:21:24.040
it was with...

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such a rapacious appetite

0:21:28.360,0:21:31.880
it still has not been sated.

0:21:35.480,0:21:37.480
- They brought Christianity,

0:21:37.480,0:21:39.480
they brought colonization,

0:21:39.480,0:21:42.280
and, certainly, [br]they did bring civilization.

0:21:43.200,0:21:46.200
- They came in, and they [br]were sent with this,

0:21:46.200,0:21:49.200
commission, they felt, [br]apparently, to dominate the land

0:21:49.200,0:21:52.120
and it was just there for the taking -- [br]these people would accept

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beads, or just kind [br]of get out of the way,

0:21:55.520,0:21:58.920
and of course they had superior [br]firepower at that time, too.

0:21:59.920,0:22:03.160
- Right off the bat, [br]with Christopher Columbus

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landing in the Caribbean [br]region on what is

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today Haiti and [br]the Dominican Republic,

0:22:07.000,0:22:10.000
they initiated almost [br]immediately a genocide

0:22:10.000,0:22:13.000
down there that [br]depopulated most of the

0:22:13.000,0:22:15.000
nation, the Taino, [br]and the Arawaks.

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One of the main things that [br]happened was the introduction

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of diseases, which was [br]basically biological warfare.

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- The smallpox was spread through

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tobacco and blankets

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and given to the Indian people.

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So it didn't take them long to be

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decimated because they were pure.

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And the smallpox was vicious, [br]very vicious.

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- When Europeans came, [br]much of what they

0:22:42.360,0:22:46.480
were interested in was [br]rapid resource exploitation.

0:22:46.480,0:22:49.480
They wanted to get [br]wealthy in the new world.

0:22:49.480,0:22:52.480
And as they were seeking that wealth,

0:22:52.480,0:22:54.480
they worked with indigenous [br]nations to undermine

0:22:54.480,0:22:57.480
traditional economies [br]and undermine the

0:22:57.520,0:22:59.840
relationship that indigenous [br]populations have with

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the lands so that indigenous [br]peoples could then do

0:23:02.080,0:23:06.120
do the work of resource [br]exploitation and extraction

0:23:06.120,0:23:09.120
for the Europeans so that [br]they could get wealthy.

0:23:10.040,0:23:12.040
- In imposing those things [br]on indigenous peoples, of course,

0:23:12.080,0:23:15.080
they just destroyed indigenous [br]peoples and their nations and

0:23:15.080,0:23:18.120
their way of life. [br]Generally, indigenous peoples suffered

0:23:18.120,0:23:22.160
90% or more depopulation rate

0:23:22.160,0:23:25.160
upon having contact with Europeans.

0:23:25.160,0:23:28.160
It was a genocide, war for territory,

0:23:28.200,0:23:31.200
because the Europeans [br]wanted to take the resources.

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- Settler society has worked to destroy

0:23:42.040,0:23:44.040
what it needs to live,

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and that's suicidal. [br]It's a suicidal mission.

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There's no way that it can be [br]sustainable in the long term.

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Premise III

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- I gave a talk in Oregon a couple years ago,

0:24:07.520,0:24:09.520
and this guy afterwards said, [br]"You know, you talk a lot about

0:24:09.520,0:24:12.520
this culture being based [br]on violence, but I don't see it,

0:24:12.520,0:24:14.520
you know, I'm not violent".

0:24:14.520,0:24:17.520
I said, "Okay, first off, where is your shirt made?" [br]He looked and it was made in Bangladesh.

0:24:17.520,0:24:19.520
I was like, [br]"Look, do we even need to talk about that?"

0:24:20.000,0:24:22.000
- He's fucking faking he's dead!

0:24:22.000,0:24:24.000
- Yeah, he's breathing.

0:24:24.000,0:24:26.000
- He's faking he's fucking dead!

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GUNSHOT

0:24:28.560,0:24:30.560
- He's dead NOW.

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- Our way of living, [br]industrial civilization, is based on,

0:24:34.000,0:24:36.960
requires, and would [br]collapse very quickly

0:24:36.960,0:24:40.960
without persistent [br]and widespread violence.

0:24:43.120,0:24:45.120
- A large explosion! A large explosion!

0:24:47.040,0:24:48.040
- Wow.

0:24:49.680,0:24:52.680
- I'll just take a couple eggs. How many you want? [br]

0:24:52.680,0:24:54.680
- Two, two is good. [br]Okay. Now what next?

0:24:54.680,0:24:56.680
- Some ham, tomato.

0:24:56.680,0:24:58.680
- Tomato, okay, [br]how about that?

0:24:58.680,0:25:00.680
- Okay, some onion. [br]Ooh, and cheese!

0:25:00.680,0:25:04.680
- Everything, then, right, you want everything. [br]Okay. I understand, okay.

0:25:04.680,0:25:07.680
We'll just pop this on. Now watch!

0:25:07.680,0:25:09.680
I'm chopping the ham and veggies, [br]grating the cheese,

0:25:09.680,0:25:11.680
and whipping the eggs all...

0:25:11.680,0:25:13.680
...in three seconds. [br]The machine that just made

0:25:13.680,0:25:18.680
those smoothies for Verna and Fred, [br]can make an omelette.

0:25:19.600,0:25:22.600
There's not much time left to get [br]this beautiful hope diamond necklace,

0:25:22.600,0:25:24.600
less than 50 seconds. Gillian?

0:25:24.600,0:25:27.600
- Absolutely, John, you're going [br]to want to give us a call to get

0:25:27.600,0:25:29.600
this beautiful hope diamond necklace.

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This is a 45.52 carat [br]diamond surrounded by

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16 white diamonds.

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It has a platinum chain [br]bearing 46 MORE diamonds.

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- These are twelve four-ounce southern

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barbecue chicken breasts.

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These Stuffin GourmetÂŹĂ, [br]farm-fresh chicken breast;

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they come from the [br]barnyard to your backyard.

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They're wonderfully marinated [br]and guaranteed to be tender,

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juicy, and downright delicious.

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- Fine-tune those measurements, [br]we keep them on file.

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They're saved, [br]they're on our computer.

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Go back into the section [br]where you reorder,

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and fine-tune those [br]measurements for us.

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And then we'll have [br]a chance to send you

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another pair of customized jeans

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that we really believe are [br]going to fit perfectly.

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- We're going to do a countdown,

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starting from 5.

0:26:21.880,0:26:23.880
Everybody got to help me out here,

0:26:23.880,0:26:24.880
5,

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4,

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3,

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2,

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1

0:26:29.360,0:26:30.360
(explosion)

0:26:30.360,0:26:32.360
Ho!

0:26:35.920,0:26:37.920
It worked!

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Second, I said, [br]"Okay, do you pay rent?"

0:26:52.000,0:26:54.280
He's like, "Yeah..."

0:26:55.280,0:26:57.280
I said, "Why?"

0:26:57.280,0:26:59.280
He said, "Because, I don't own."

0:26:59.280,0:27:01.840
I said, "No, no, no, what would [br]happen if you didn't pay rent?"

0:27:01.840,0:27:03.640
He said, [br]"Well, the sheriff would come and evict me."

0:27:03.640,0:27:05.760
I said, "I don't know what that means. [br]What would happen? [br]

0:27:05.760,0:27:08.520
He said, "Well, the sheriff would come [br]and he would knock on the door..."

0:27:08.520,0:27:10.520
I said, "Okay, great, what happens [br]if you open the door...

0:27:12.400,0:27:15.400
...and you say, [br]'Hey! I'm just finishing up making dinner.

0:27:15.400,0:27:17.040
You want some?'

0:27:17.040,0:27:20.080
And the sheriff sits down, you feed him[br]you don't poison him

0:27:22.880,0:27:25.040
And then, after dinner you say, [br]

0:27:25.040,0:27:28.880
you've been somewhat pleasant [br]company, but not all that pleasant,

0:27:28.880,0:27:31.240
so I would like for you to leave [br]my home now.' What would happen?

0:27:31.240,0:27:33.240
He said, "Well, the sheriff would [br]pull out his gun and say,

0:27:33.240,0:27:35.240
'I'm here to evict you, [br]because you didn't pay rent.'"

0:27:35.240,0:27:39.080
I said, "Ahh. So, the reason you pay [br]rent is because if you don't,

0:27:39.080,0:27:42.120
some guy with a gun is going [br]to come take you away."

0:27:42.120,0:27:44.880
He said, "I think I get it."

0:27:44.880,0:27:46.160
I said, "Well, let's try again.

0:27:46.160,0:27:48.720
What happens if you're hungry, [br]so you go to the grocery store

0:27:48.720,0:27:51.080
and you just start eating. [br]What's going to happen?"

0:27:51.120,0:27:52.160
"someone will call the sheriff."

0:27:52.200,0:27:54.600
I said, "Yeah, it's the same guy who's going [br]to come with a gun and take you away,

0:27:54.600,0:27:56.200
he's a real asshole, isn't he?" [br]So, one of the reasons

0:27:56.240,0:27:58.240
we don't see a lot of the violence, [br]is because it's exported.

0:27:58.240,0:28:00.240
Another reason we don't see a [br]lot of the violence is because

0:28:00.280,0:28:02.280
we've been so metabolized [br]into the system

0:28:02.280,0:28:05.280
that we've bought into this [br]strange notion that it's okay

0:28:05.280,0:28:08.280
to have to pay to exist on the planet.

0:28:08.320,0:28:10.320
That's really, really weird.

0:28:10.320,0:28:12.320
And, if you don't pay, [br]then some guy with a gun is going to come

0:28:12.320,0:28:14.320
and bad things are going to happen to you.

0:28:14.480,0:28:19.480
Figure II

0:28:28.840,0:28:30.840
A few years a go, [br]I got a call from a friend of mine.

0:28:30.840,0:28:32.840
She's an environmental activist.

0:28:33.040,0:28:35.040
She was crying, and she said,

0:28:35.040,0:28:38.040
"This works just killing me, [br]it's breaking my heart."

0:28:38.920,0:28:40.920
I said, "Yeah, I know. It'll do that."

0:28:42.160,0:28:44.160
Then she said,

0:28:44.160,0:28:46.160
"The dominant culture [br]hates everything doesn't it?"

0:28:46.160,0:28:48.160
I said, "Yeah, it does. Even itself."

0:28:48.440,0:28:51.440
She said, "It has a death urge, doesn't it?" [br]I said, "Yeah, it does."

0:28:51.440,0:28:53.440
She said, "Unless it's stopped, it's going [br]to kill everything on the planet, isn't it?"

0:28:53.480,0:28:55.480
I said, "Yeah it is, unless it's stopped."

0:28:56.080,0:28:58.080
Then she said, [br]"We're not going to make it

0:28:58.080,0:29:00.080
to some great, new, [br]glorious tomorrow, are we?"

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Green is the color of money

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- 98% of the old-growth forests are gone.

0:29:21.360,0:29:24.360
99% of the prairies are gone.

0:29:24.360,0:29:29.080
80% of the rivers on this [br]planet do not support life anymore.

0:29:29.080,0:29:31.080
We are out of species, we're out of soil,

0:29:31.080,0:29:33.080
and we are out of time.

0:29:33.080,0:29:35.080
And what we are being told

0:29:35.080,0:29:37.080
by most of the environmental movement

0:29:37.080,0:29:40.040
is that the way to stop all of this

0:29:40.040,0:29:42.040
is through personal, consumer choices.

0:29:42.640,0:29:44.640
- By simply purchasing our product,

0:29:44.640,0:29:47.640
the consumer can make a small, [br]easy step to a greener Earth.

0:29:47.640,0:29:49.640
So, by taking that [br]one roll, and buying

0:29:49.680,0:29:52.160
that one roll, you can [br]help save millions of trees.

0:29:52.920,0:29:56.920
- I think we can really look at the history

0:29:56.960,0:29:58.960
of the environmental movement to tell

0:29:58.960,0:30:00.960
us a lot about why it hasn't been working.

0:30:00.960,0:30:04.960
There was a lot of pretty [br]radical and militant environmentalism

0:30:04.960,0:30:07.960
happening, especially [br]in the 70's and 80's.

0:30:07.960,0:30:10.960
In a lot of ways, that was kind of [br]a heyday for environmentalism.

0:30:10.960,0:30:12.960
You know, Greenpeace was founded.

0:30:12.960,0:30:16.960
It started to become very mainstream in [br]some quarters to be an environmentalist.

0:30:17.000,0:30:20.000
And then there was also [br]a shift around that time when...

0:30:20.000,0:30:22.000
...corporations realized that they could sell

0:30:22.040,0:30:25.040
a lot of things by calling them "green".

0:30:25.840,0:30:27.840
- Green-washing is an [br]attempt by corporations to

0:30:27.840,0:30:32.840
put labels on their [br]activity that are popular

0:30:32.840,0:30:34.840
and that appeal to [br]people's sensibility about,

0:30:34.840,0:30:38.320
and concern for, the [br]environment and for ecology.

0:30:40.520,0:30:43.520
- For the mast majority of [br]people within society today,

0:30:43.520,0:30:47.520
there's a total sense [br]of denial and disconnect

0:30:47.520,0:30:51.520
between what they [br]think is good and right

0:30:51.520,0:30:56.520
and then their actions as a [br]society or as a civilization,

0:30:56.520,0:30:59.520
especially as it relates [br]to the natural world.

0:31:02.280,0:31:07.280
- I have a real problem with a lot of the [br]"solutions" that are put forward by people

0:31:07.360,0:31:10.360
because they confuse what is [br]real with what is not real.

0:31:10.400,0:31:14.400
What they do is take the [br]industrial economy as a given.

0:31:14.400,0:31:19.600
"How can we save the industrial economy, and oh, it would be nice if we still have a planet."

0:31:21.960,0:31:24.960
- It doesn't matter if I buy,

0:31:25.040,0:31:28.040
hemp soap if there's a [br]runaway greenhouse effect

0:31:28.080,0:31:30.280
and the planet becomes uninhabitable.

0:31:30.280,0:31:32.280
- The modern mainstream [br]environmental movement of the

0:31:32.280,0:31:34.280
big environmental organizations --

0:31:34.280,0:31:37.280
Greenpeace, and Sierra Club, [br]and the others --

0:31:37.320,0:31:41.320
is rooted in that very same cultural lie

0:31:41.320,0:31:44.320
that nature is resources.

0:31:44.360,0:31:47.360
Nature is things to be used and managed.

0:31:47.360,0:31:50.360
Nature is, as the philosopher

0:31:50.360,0:31:53.360
Martin Heidegger put it, [br]just a vast gasoline station

0:31:53.360,0:31:57.680
that we can endlessly extract from.

0:31:57.680,0:32:00.680
They may say we need to [br]manage it more wisely,

0:32:00.680,0:32:03.680
but as long as they maintain the mindset that

0:32:03.680,0:32:06.680
we are the lords of creation and

0:32:06.760,0:32:09.760
creation exists for us as resources [br]to be transformed into commodities

0:32:09.800,0:32:12.800
for us to buy and sell, [br]as long as they maintain

0:32:12.800,0:32:16.800
that perspective on what it [br]means to be an environmentalist,

0:32:16.880,0:32:19.880
then they're working [br]within the same framework of

0:32:19.920,0:32:24.920
an ultimately self-destructive [br]path that the culture is on.

0:32:25.800,0:32:29.800
In May 2010, 21 logging companies signed a deal with several major environmental

0:32:29.800,0:32:33.800
organizations, including Greenpeace [br]and the David Suzuki Foundation.

0:32:33.800,0:32:37.800
The deal, known as "The Canadian Boreal [br]Forest Agreement" aimed to silence all

0:32:37.800,0:32:40.800
criticism of logging practices [br]in the boreal forest.

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The Marketplace is also [br]going to be very important

0:32:43.920,0:32:46.920
Many cusomers have been pushing for [br]change in the boreal forest.

0:32:46.960,0:32:48.960
The Forest Product Association

0:32:48.960,0:32:50.960
and its 21 member companies are

0:32:50.960,0:32:53.960
responding to the demand for greener products,

0:32:53.960,0:32:56.960
and that marketplace is [br]going to pay close attention.

0:32:56.960,0:32:59.960
If the change isn't happening, [br]then they're going to put

0:33:00.000,0:33:02.000
pressure on the parties who [br]were part of the agreement --

0:33:02.000,0:33:05.000
the environmental organizations, [br]the forest products companies --

0:33:05.000,0:33:08.000
to do the things that [br]they've set out to do.

0:33:08.000,0:33:11.000
And the will reward the companies

0:33:11.000,0:33:13.000
when things begin to be implemented and

0:33:13.000,0:33:15.960
the change happens on the ground. [br]I'm fully confident of that.

0:33:15.960,0:33:18.960
- One interesting piece of the agreement is

0:33:18.960,0:33:22.960
with Greenpeace, [br]David Suzuki, Forest Ethics,

0:33:22.960,0:33:25.960
Canadian Parks and [br]Wilderness on our side,

0:33:25.960,0:33:28.960
when someone else comes and [br]tries to bully us,

0:33:28.960,0:33:31.960
the agreement actually requires [br]that they come and

0:33:32.000,0:33:35.000
work with us in repelling the attack and we'll be

0:33:35.000,0:33:38.000
able to say, "Fight me, fight my gang."

0:33:38.040,0:33:41.040
- I personally have no use for large,

0:33:41.040,0:33:44.040
institutionalized environmental organizations;

0:33:44.080,0:33:47.080
I think they're more of a problem than a help.

0:33:47.080,0:33:49.080
They're just eco-bureaucracies.

0:33:49.000,0:33:51.000
And, you know, I won't name any [br]because I don't like to badmouth

0:33:51.000,0:33:53.000
organizations, except for one, which I

0:33:53.000,0:33:55.000
feel that I can, and that's [br]Greenpeace. And the reason I

0:33:55.040,0:33:59.040
can criticize Greenpeace is [br]I am a co-creator of Greenpeace,

0:33:59.080,0:34:03.080
and therefore I feel like Dr. Frankenstein [br]sometimes, and I feel that since I helped

0:34:03.080,0:34:05.080
create the thing I can certainly criticize it.

0:34:05.120,0:34:07.120
And I think that Greenpeace has become

0:34:07.120,0:34:10.120
the world's biggest feel-good [br]organization now. People join it

0:34:10.120,0:34:14.120
to feel good, to feel, "I'm part of [br]the solution, I'm not part of the problem."

0:34:14.120,0:34:17.120
Greenpeace brings in close [br]to $300 million a year,

0:34:17.120,0:34:19.120
and what do they do with that money?

0:34:19.120,0:34:21.120
Generate more money. And the people who

0:34:21.120,0:34:24.120
are at the top of the totem pole [br]now are not environmentalists --

0:34:24.120,0:34:26.120
they're fundraisers, [br]they're accountants,

0:34:26.120,0:34:28.120
they're lawyers, [br]they're businesspeople.

0:34:28.960,0:34:30.960
People are voting with their dollars at [br]the checkout stands. It's because

0:34:31.000,0:34:34.000
they know the polling shows that the public cares,

0:34:34.000,0:34:36.000
and ultimately they're going to care about their

0:34:36.000,0:34:40.000
profit margin and whether they can sell products.

0:34:40.360,0:34:43.160
What's happened in British Columbia with the

0:34:43.160,0:34:47.160
environmental movement, it's been stalemated.

0:34:47.200,0:34:52.920
The big leaders there compromised;

0:34:52.920,0:34:55.400
they went in bed

0:34:55.400,0:34:57.400
and it snuffed out that movement.

0:35:18.680,0:35:20.680
- So what happened was there was direct action, [br]there were blockades

0:35:20.720,0:35:22.720
there was an international market campaign

0:35:22.720,0:35:24.720
that put a lot of pressure on the companies

0:35:24.760,0:35:26.760
that were logging in the Great Bear Rainforest.

0:35:26.760,0:35:28.760
But the end result was that it all fed into

0:35:28.800,0:35:31.800
a closed-door negotiation with

0:35:31.800,0:35:34.800
Tzeporah Berman as chief negotiator

0:35:34.800,0:35:37.800
on the conservationists' side, [br]where a lot of the groups

0:35:37.840,0:35:40.840
that actually did the work, [br]the direct actions,

0:35:40.840,0:35:43.840
and did the market campaigns [br]were shut out of the process.

0:35:43.840,0:35:46.840
Public oversight was removed [br]and the protocol agreements

0:35:46.880,0:35:49.880
that were signed with First Nations [br]and with conservation groups

0:35:49.880,0:35:51.880
were basically shunted aside.

0:35:51.880,0:35:54.880
So the protocol agreements gave

0:35:54.880,0:35:56.880
the negotiators a mandate to

0:35:56.880,0:35:59.880
negotiate for 40 to 60 [br]percent conservation

0:35:59.880,0:36:03.480
but what happened was [br]they agreed to 20 percent.

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- It's not strange to me [br]when people tell me that

0:36:05.520,0:36:07.520
the former president of Greenpeace

0:36:07.520,0:36:09.520
now works for the logging industry of Canada.

0:36:09.560,0:36:11.560
The former president of Greenpeace Australia

0:36:11.560,0:36:13.560
now works for the mining industry. The former

0:36:13.720,0:36:15.720
president of Greenpeace Norway works for the

0:36:15.720,0:36:19.720
whaling industry. See, because it's [br]just one corporate job to the next.

0:36:20.840,0:36:24.840
In 1975 Greenpeace launched [br]its anti-whaling campaign,

0:36:24.880,0:36:28.880
confronting whaling fleets on the high seas.

0:36:30.640,0:36:34.640
In June 2010, Greenpeace agreed [br]to a deal that would allow

0:36:34.680,0:36:39.440
nations like Japan to continue hunting [br]whales for commercial purposes.

0:36:44.160,0:36:46.160
The only measure in which [br]we'll be judged by those

0:36:46.160,0:36:48.800
come after is the health [br]of the land and

0:36:48.800,0:36:50.800
the health of the water, [br]the health of the Earth.

0:36:50.840,0:36:53.840
They're not going to give a [br]shit as to whether we recycled;

0:36:53.840,0:36:56.840
they're not going to give a shit [br]as to whether we wrote our legislators;

0:36:56.840,0:36:59.360
they're not going to give a [br]shit as to how hard we tried.

0:36:59.360,0:37:02.360
What they're going to care about is whether they [br]can breathe the air and drink the water,

0:37:02.360,0:37:04.360
whether the land will support them.

0:37:04.360,0:37:06.360
And they're not going to [br]care how hard we tried,

0:37:06.360,0:37:09.360
they're not going to care about any of that -- [br]what they're going to care about is...

0:37:09.360,0:37:12.960
...do we live on a living planet?

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Figure III

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OK, so...

0:37:38.320,0:37:42.320
... I don't know if you know this, but

0:37:42.360,0:37:46.360
the original draft of the [br]movie Star Wars was not

0:37:46.400,0:37:49.040
written by Lucas.

0:37:49.040,0:37:52.080
The original draft was [br]written by environmentalists

0:37:52.120,0:37:54.800
and it's a little bit different.

0:38:01.200,0:38:03.040
For one thing, it wasn't [br]actually called "Star WARS".

0:38:05.000,0:38:08.000
It was called "Star [br]Non-Violent Civil Disobedience".

0:38:08.000,0:38:11.000
But the plot of Star Wars, for those [br]of you who don't remember, is that

0:38:11.000,0:38:15.000
the Empire has created this [br]giant machine called the Death Star.

0:38:15.000,0:38:19.000
And it's a machine that's [br]capable of destroying entire planets.

0:38:19.000,0:38:23.000
In the movie the rebels find a [br]way to destroy the Death Star,

0:38:23.000,0:38:25.000
and then at the very [br]end, Luke Skywalker

0:38:25.040,0:38:27.040
uses the force to get past all the

0:38:27.040,0:38:30.040
tie fighters and to drop a torpedo [br]down a thermal exhaust port,

0:38:30.040,0:38:33.320
and to blow up the Death Star.

0:38:35.120,0:38:37.120
Once again, the first draft [br]of the movie written by

0:38:37.160,0:38:39.160
environmentalists was a bit [br]different: the rebels

0:38:39.160,0:38:43.160
didn't actually blow up the [br]Death Star. Instead they used

0:38:43.160,0:38:47.160
other methods to slow the [br]intergalactic march of empire.

0:38:47.160,0:38:51.160
For example, they set up programs for [br]people on planets about to be destroyed,

0:38:51.200,0:38:54.200
to produce luxury items like hemp [br]hacky sacks and gourmet coffee

0:38:54.200,0:38:56.200
for sale to inhabitants of the Death Star.

0:38:56.200,0:38:58.200
Audience members will also [br]discover that there are plans afoot

0:38:58.200,0:39:00.200
to encourage loads of troopers [br]and other citizens of the empire

0:39:00.240,0:39:02.240
to take eco-tours of doomed planets.

0:39:02.360,0:39:05.360
The purpose will be to show to one and all [br]that these planets are economically important

0:39:05.360,0:39:07.360
to the Empire and so should not be destroyed.

0:39:07.360,0:39:11.360
In a surprise move that will get [br]viewers to the edges of their seats,

0:39:11.400,0:39:13.400
other groups of rebels will file [br]lawsuits against the Empire,

0:39:13.440,0:39:16.440
attempting to show that the Environmental [br]Impact Statement that Darth Vader

0:39:16.440,0:39:19.440
was required to file, failed [br]to adequately support its decision

0:39:19.440,0:39:22.440
that blowing up this planet would [br]cause "no significant impact".

0:39:22.480,0:39:24.480
Viewers will thrill to learn [br]of plans to boycott items produced

0:39:24.480,0:39:26.480
by corporations that have Darth [br]Vader on the board of directors,

0:39:26.520,0:39:28.520
and they'll leap to their [br]feet in theaters worldwide

0:39:28.560,0:39:32.560
when they see bags full of letters [br]written directly to Mr. Vader himself

0:39:32.600,0:39:34.600
asking that he please not [br]blow up anymore planets.

0:39:34.600,0:39:37.600
Now, we all know that all [br]would be enough not only to

0:39:37.600,0:39:40.600
bring the Empire to its knees, [br]but to make a damn fine and exciting movie.

0:39:40.600,0:39:42.600
The thing is: there's more.

0:39:42.600,0:39:45.600
Thousands of renegade rebels, [br]unhappy with what

0:39:45.600,0:39:48.600
they perceive as toadying on [br]the part of the mainstream rebels

0:39:48.600,0:39:51.600
decide, in a scene guaranteed [br]to bring tears to even the eyes

0:39:51.640,0:39:53.640
of the most cold-hearted [br]theatergoers, to stand on

0:39:53.640,0:39:57.640
the planets to be destroyed, link [br]arms, and sing "Give Peace a Chance."

0:39:57.800,0:40:00.800
They send DVDs of that [br]to Darth Vader and his

0:40:00.800,0:40:02.800
boss the Grand Moff Tarkin, to whom they

0:40:02.800,0:40:04.800
also send wave after wave of loving kindness.

0:40:04.840,0:40:06.840
A the few rebels sneak aboard [br]the Death Star and lock themselves

0:40:06.840,0:40:08.840
down to various pieces of [br]equipment. And stirring debates

0:40:08.880,0:40:11.880
are held onscreen as to [br]whether the rebels should

0:40:11.880,0:40:13.880
voluntarily surrender on approach [br]of the troopers, or whether

0:40:13.880,0:40:15.880
they should remain locked down to the end.

0:40:17.080,0:40:20.080
And in a brilliant and [br]brave touch of authenticity,

0:40:20.080,0:40:23.080
the rebels are never [br]able to come to consensus.

0:40:23.080,0:40:26.080
But there's more. Once inside the Death [br]Star, a splinter group breaks off,

0:40:26.120,0:40:30.160
they burn a couple of transporters, [br]and they etch "Galaxy Liberation Front".

0:40:30.160,0:40:33.160
And then another group breaks [br]off from that group and they

0:40:33.160,0:40:36.160
finally make it to Darth [br]Vader's private room. And when

0:40:36.160,0:40:38.160
they get there, they sneak up behind him

0:40:38.160,0:40:40.160
and then they hit [br]him with a vegan cream pie.

0:40:40.160,0:40:43.160
And the directors decided [br]to cut that because

0:40:43.160,0:40:45.160
it was way too close to

0:40:45.160,0:40:47.160
a scene in another movie they [br]were developing at the same time

0:40:47.160,0:40:49.160
called "The Plot to Pie Hitler".

0:40:49.000,0:40:51.000
As the Death Star looms directly [br]overhead, a few of the rebels

0:40:51.000,0:40:54.120
advocate picking up weapons to fight back.

0:40:54.120,0:40:56.120
And those rebels are [br]generally shouted down by

0:40:56.120,0:40:58.120
pacifist rebels who argue that attacking

0:40:58.240,0:41:00.240
those who run the Death [br]Star is "just another

0:41:00.360,0:41:02.360
example of the Empire's harmful philosophy

0:41:02.400,0:41:04.400
coming in by the back door.'

0:41:04.440,0:41:06.440
"If we want to change [br]Darth Vader," they say,

0:41:06.440,0:41:08.440
"we must all first become [br]that change ourselves.

0:41:08.480,0:41:10.480
To change Darth Vader's heart, [br]we must first change our own.

0:41:10.480,0:41:13.480
We must, above all else, [br]have compassion for

0:41:13.480,0:41:17.080
Darth Vader, and remember that [br]he, too, was once a child."

0:41:17.080,0:41:20.080
So finally Leia, Luke, Han, Chewbacca, [br]and a couple of robots show up

0:41:20.080,0:41:23.080
and tell these others they've found a [br]way to blow up the whole Death Star.

0:41:23.080,0:41:25.080
And the rest of the rebels, [br]of course, are just horrified.

0:41:25.080,0:41:28.080
A scuffle breaks out between Leia, [br]Luke, Han, and Chewbacca and the two

0:41:28.080,0:41:30.080
robots on one side and the [br]pacifists on the other.

0:41:30.080,0:41:32.080
And the pacifists chase those four [br]from the room and from the film

0:41:32.080,0:41:34.080
which is not a big deal because [br]they are minor characters anyway.

0:41:34.120,0:41:36.120
But anyway, the way the [br]movie ends is that

0:41:36.120,0:41:38.120
the Death Star looms closer [br]and closer and then you see

0:41:38.160,0:41:40.160
the Death Star, and then [br]you see the planet,

0:41:40.160,0:41:42.160
and then you see the Death Star, [br]and then you see the planet,

0:41:42.200,0:41:45.200
and then you see the Death Star [br]and you see the laser start to glow

0:41:45.200,0:41:47.200
this hellish red, and [br]then you see the planet again,

0:41:47.200,0:41:49.200
and you see this little light --

0:41:49.240,0:41:52.240
and what that is: that's the environmentalists [br]getting away before the planet gets blown up.

0:41:52.240,0:41:54.240
And then you see the Death [br]Star again and then it

0:41:54.240,0:41:56.240
blows up the planet, [br]and then, the final

0:41:56.240,0:41:59.240
shot of the movie, which reveals [br]what complete triumph this was for the

0:41:59.240,0:42:01.400
rebels, is a still showing an

0:42:01.400,0:42:04.240
article on the lower left of [br]page 43 of the New Empire Times

0:42:04.240,0:42:07.240
that devotes a full 3 sentences [br]to the destruction of the planet.

0:42:07.240,0:42:09.240
So it's like, "Yeah we got some press!"

0:42:10.800,0:42:15.800
Premise IV

0:42:19.120,0:42:22.120
The culture as a whole and

0:42:22.120,0:42:28.400
most of its members [br]are insane.

0:42:30.080,0:42:33.080
The culture is driven by a death urge,

0:42:33.080,0:42:38.080
an urge to destroy life.

0:43:01.160,0:43:04.000
- The public really needs [br]to understand that no combination

0:43:04.040,0:43:09.040
of alternative miracle fuels, [br]or biodiesel, or ethanol,

0:43:09.040,0:43:14.040
or nuclear, or sun, or solar, [br]or used french fry potato oil,

0:43:14.040,0:43:19.040
no combination of these things is going to [br]allow us to keep a happy, motoring society going.

0:43:19.560,0:43:23.560
- We are using up all the very [br]easily accessed energy sources:

0:43:23.600,0:43:27.600
and we've really built this huge way [br]of life based on cheap oil, essentially.

0:43:30.000,0:43:34.000
- The world as we know it, which [br]relies entirely on oil to function,

0:43:34.040,0:43:37.000
is nearing its end.

0:43:38.400,0:43:42.120
- We are headed for the crash. [br]That oil is not going to come again.

0:44:00.000,0:44:09.480
Fort McMurray[br]Alberta, Canada

0:44:15.520,0:44:18.520
- The tar sands are probably one [br]of the biggest industrial

0:44:18.520,0:44:21.200
projects in the history of mankind.

0:44:22.360,0:44:24.360
- The tar sands are the largest,

0:44:24.480,0:44:27.480
most destructive environmental [br]project on the planet right now.

0:44:29.600,0:44:31.600
- It's oil extraction,

0:44:31.600,0:44:34.600
it's some of the dirtiest oil on the planet,

0:44:34.600,0:44:37.600
which means that it takes [br]the most energy to extract,

0:44:37.600,0:44:41.600
and the reason that we're extracting this

0:44:41.600,0:44:43.600
this particular brand of dirty, dirty, oil

0:44:43.640,0:44:46.600
is because there's no other oil left to extract.

0:44:47.040,0:44:49.040
- Tar sands really aren't oil.

0:44:49.080,0:44:51.080
Effectively, the process by which you

0:44:51.080,0:44:53.080
mine and refine tar sands

0:44:53.120,0:44:56.120
is adding about a hundred [br]million years of development

0:44:56.120,0:44:58.120
through a synthetic process.

0:44:58.120,0:45:00.120
The tar sands deposit [br]is an area that covers

0:45:00.120,0:45:03.120
the size of the state of [br]New York, or larger than England

0:45:03.120,0:45:05.120
is already considered the largest industrial project

0:45:05.120,0:45:07.120
in human history, and it's barely begun.

0:45:08.840,0:45:11.840
- They extract it from the sand by

0:45:11.840,0:45:15.120
steaming and heating water, [br]basically boiling it...

0:45:15.120,0:45:19.920
...so the oil sits on top of the water like a froth,

0:45:19.920,0:45:22.920
then they scrape it off, and that's the bitumen.

0:45:24.080,0:45:28.080
- There's mining processes [br]and in situ processes,

0:45:28.120,0:45:30.120
and both of them are pretty [br]much trying to extract

0:45:30.120,0:45:32.120
bitumen out of the sand.

0:45:33.120,0:45:36.120
- To produce one barrel of oil

0:45:36.120,0:45:38.120
you have to first, after [br]you've cleared off the ground

0:45:38.120,0:45:40.120
and broken all the trees down [br]and so forth, then dig a pit,

0:45:40.120,0:45:43.120
which can be up to two hundred feet deep.

0:45:43.120,0:45:45.120
For each barrel of oil, there's [br]four barrels of water used,

0:45:45.120,0:45:47.120
in a process called a slurry

0:45:47.160,0:45:49.160
where you spin it at a high speed,

0:45:49.160,0:45:51.160
high velocity, with high [br]temperatures of water,

0:45:51.000,0:45:54.000
to separate the bitumen, [br]which is the pre-synthetic oil,

0:45:54.000,0:45:57.000
from the sands itself, [br]and all the clays and silts.

0:45:57.000,0:45:59.000
But that's after you've already [br]dug out what has to be

0:45:59.000,0:46:01.160
to be hundreds of tons of Earth.

0:46:02.800,0:46:06.800
- The energy that's required to [br]actually do that is approximately,

0:46:06.840,0:46:08.840
people say for almost every barrel of oil you need

0:46:08.880,0:46:11.880
about a half a barrel of energy just[br]to produce this,

0:46:11.880,0:46:13.880
so for every barrel of energy input,

0:46:13.880,0:46:15.880
two barrels of oil are produced,

0:46:15.880,0:46:17.880
whereas with conventional [br]crude it was very,

0:46:17.920,0:46:19.920
very minor in terms of the energy

0:46:19.920,0:46:22.920
that's inputted to actually [br]get the crude oil out.

0:46:22.920,0:46:25.920
So the ratio that's most important to [br]talk about is a ratio you could use

0:46:25.920,0:46:29.920
in a country like Iraq, where for [br]each barrel of oil you use to try to

0:46:29.920,0:46:34.080
get more oil you'll get about [br]a hundred barrels back.

0:46:38.000,0:46:43.000
Fort Chipewyan[br]Alberta, Canada

0:46:53.360,0:46:56.240
- The Athabasca River, which runs [br]through northern Alberta,

0:46:56.240,0:47:00.240
where you have many different native [br]communities living along the river,

0:47:00.280,0:47:05.280
is being sucked of its water to [br]fuel the tar sands operations.

0:47:06.840,0:47:09.840
- Because of the contamination of the river

0:47:09.840,0:47:12.840
from oil sands discharges

0:47:12.840,0:47:15.840
of things like oil and grease and

0:47:15.840,0:47:18.360
untreated sewage into the Athabasca River,

0:47:18.360,0:47:20.360
and sometimes there's accidents,

0:47:20.360,0:47:22.360
spills of these toxic chemicals

0:47:22.400,0:47:25.040
directly into the Athabasca Rivers.

0:47:26.960,0:47:28.960
- The community of Fort Chipewyan, [br]both the Mikisew Cree

0:47:29.000,0:47:32.000
and the Dene Chipewyan First Nation,

0:47:32.000,0:47:34.000
who have been fighting [br]and really at the front

0:47:34.000,0:47:36.000
of raising the alarm about what's happening,

0:47:36.000,0:47:39.000
and their community has been seeing all of this

0:47:39.000,0:47:43.040
rise in rare cancers, autoimmune diseases,

0:47:43.040,0:47:47.040
arsenic in the land, [br]the moose meat, the fish

0:47:47.080,0:47:50.080
are at high levels of [br]heavy metals, mercuries,

0:47:50.080,0:47:53.800
basically the whole environment [br]up there is contaminated.

0:47:55.720,0:47:57.720
- How this is effecting my community is that

0:47:57.720,0:48:00.880
it's killing off the people of Fort Chipewyan.

0:48:00.920,0:48:04.760
It's what I've called before [br]"a slow, industrial genocide."

0:48:04.760,0:48:06.760
I buried my auntie,

0:48:06.760,0:48:09.760
I buried my uncle, I got [br]an auntie living with it.

0:48:09.760,0:48:12.760
And this is a war for our lives,

0:48:12.760,0:48:14.760
because the government is allowing

0:48:14.760,0:48:17.760
the people of Fort Chip to die.

0:48:17.760,0:48:19.760
- The tar sands are not only fueling

0:48:19.760,0:48:23.800
the second fastest rate of deforestation

0:48:23.800,0:48:25.800
in the world outside of [br]the Amazon River basin,

0:48:25.800,0:48:27.800
they're already the second fastest

0:48:27.840,0:48:30.480
contributor to climate [br]change in North America.

0:48:30.480,0:48:33.480
And with the goals of production that [br]they're talking about, the CO2 emissions

0:48:33.480,0:48:35.480
will make it so the only way

0:48:35.480,0:48:38.480
you could outstrip a [br]climate change contributor

0:48:38.480,0:48:40.480
for North America would [br]be to combine all

0:48:40.520,0:48:42.520
the coal-fired power plants from

0:48:42.520,0:48:45.520
Alberta to Arizona and in between, [br]across all of North America.

0:48:47.000,0:48:49.000
- I think that the tar [br]sands is the absurdity

0:48:49.000,0:48:52.000
of still desiring oil

0:48:52.000,0:48:54.000
when we know so well

0:48:54.000,0:48:56.000
that, for example, fresh water is just

0:48:56.040,0:48:58.040
an elemental part of human existence

0:48:58.040,0:49:00.000
and they're running full force towards

0:49:00.000,0:49:03.040
extracting these last little bits of oil

0:49:03.040,0:49:05.040
to sustain this plastic culture,

0:49:05.080,0:49:07.080
this plastic civilization,

0:49:07.120,0:49:10.400
to the destruction of the environment [br]in which we can live.

0:49:11.560,0:49:13.560
- People say it's like the [br]world's addicted to crack,

0:49:13.600,0:49:17.600
and this is like the dirtiest [br]and most disgusting form of crack

0:49:17.640,0:49:19.640
that'll keep it addicted [br]for a lot longer, right.

0:49:19.680,0:49:21.680
This is actually what it is.

0:49:21.680,0:49:25.000
It is the most insane [br]thing that people are doing.

0:49:31.040,0:49:33.040
- We probably agree that civilization's

0:49:33.080,0:49:36.360
going to crash, whether or [br]not we help bring this about.

0:49:36.360,0:49:39.360
If you don't agree with this, we [br]probably have nothing to say to each other.

0:49:39.360,0:49:42.080
We probably also agree that [br]this crash will be messy.

0:49:42.120,0:49:46.680
We agree further that since industrial [br]civilization is systematically dismantling

0:49:46.680,0:49:49.040
the ecological infrastructure of the planet...

0:49:49.040,0:49:52.040
...the sooner civilization comes down, [br]whether or not we help it crash,

0:49:52.040,0:49:55.040
the more life will remain afterwards [br]to support both humans and nonhumans.

0:49:57.440,0:50:02.440
Figure IV

0:50:06.280,0:50:09.280
- The genesis of Endgame, the book,

0:50:09.280,0:50:12.040
was really because I did some talks

0:50:12.040,0:50:15.040
around the possibility of fighting back.

0:50:15.040,0:50:18.040
And the response by the [br]audience was really predictable.

0:50:18.080,0:50:21.080
If it was an audience made up of [br]sort of mainstream environmentalists

0:50:21.080,0:50:23.080
and peace and social justice activists,

0:50:23.080,0:50:27.080
often, they would put up what [br]I've taken to calling a "Gandhi shield".

0:50:27.080,0:50:30.080
Which is, they would say the names "Martin [br]Luther King", "Dalai Lama", and "Gandhi"

0:50:30.120,0:50:33.120
again and again, as fast as they can, [br]to keep all evil thoughts at bay.

0:50:34.480,0:50:37.480
And if it was grassroots environmentalists,

0:50:37.480,0:50:39.480
they would do the same thing [br]but then they would come

0:50:39.480,0:50:41.480
up to me afterwards and they would say,

0:50:41.480,0:50:44.160
WHISPERING "Thank you so much [br]for bringing this up."

0:50:44.160,0:50:47.760
Pacifying Resistance

0:50:49.040,0:50:52.040
- Especially in North America, [br]the pacifists and non-violent

0:50:52.040,0:50:56.040
advocates have had a very defining role,

0:50:56.080,0:50:58.080
and even a censoring role, in determining

0:50:58.120,0:51:00.280
what other people's participation can be

0:51:00.280,0:51:04.120
in a whole range of social struggles, and

0:51:04.160,0:51:07.160
that the way that they've [br]affected social struggles

0:51:07.160,0:51:10.160
has made it very much easier for the state

0:51:10.160,0:51:12.160
to control those social struggles,

0:51:12.160,0:51:15.160
that non-violence plays a function

0:51:15.160,0:51:17.160
of recuperating social struggles,

0:51:17.160,0:51:20.160
of taking out their teeth [br]and making them harmless,

0:51:20.160,0:51:25.160
so that they can just exist in [br]this cesspool of democratic plurality.

0:51:27.360,0:51:30.360
- I wonder, what happens to[br]that kind of energy or

0:51:30.360,0:51:34.360
idealism or faith that something[br]is about to change

0:51:34.400,0:51:37.400
when it's certainly not going to change at all?

0:51:39.040,0:51:41.040
- What are the false hopes that [br]keep us tied to the system?

0:51:41.080,0:51:43.080
What are the false [br]hopes that bind us to

0:51:43.120,0:51:46.120
unlivable situations and [br]blind us to real possibilities?

0:51:46.120,0:51:49.120
Does anybody really think that [br]Weyerhauser's going to stop,

0:51:49.160,0:51:51.200
deforesting because we asked nicely

0:51:51.200,0:51:54.200
that Monsanto will stop Monsantoing [br]because we ask nicely?

0:51:54.200,0:51:56.200
I was talking to this person in the [br]States several years ago and they said,

0:51:56.200,0:51:59.200
"If we can just get a Democrat in the [br]White House, things are going to be OK."

0:52:00.560,0:52:02.560
- We've got a couple of myths [br]on the left that I would

0:52:02.600,0:52:05.680
REALLY encourage us to get over.

0:52:05.680,0:52:09.080
The first is that social change [br]happens by moral suasion.

0:52:09.080,0:52:12.040
It doesn't. It happens by force.

0:52:13.560,0:52:16.560
- The problem with persuasion [br]as a strategy is that

0:52:16.560,0:52:19.560
it only works on people who can actually

0:52:19.600,0:52:22.600
be convinced, and who can be

0:52:22.600,0:52:24.600
relied upon to act from their position

0:52:24.600,0:52:26.600
after their minds have been changed.

0:52:26.640,0:52:29.640
And the problem is that we're not dealing with

0:52:29.640,0:52:31.640
individuals who can be convinced or persuaded,

0:52:31.640,0:52:34.640
we're dealing mostly with large,

0:52:34.640,0:52:38.640
abstract, social organizations, [br]and corporations which are

0:52:38.640,0:52:42.640
basically sociopaths made out [br]of huge numbers of people.

0:52:44.600,0:52:47.600
- You can't argue with psychopaths, [br]you can't argue with fascists,

0:52:47.600,0:52:50.160
and you can't argue with those

0:52:50.160,0:52:54.160
who are benefiting from an economic system.

0:52:54.000,0:52:56.000
You have to stop them through [br]some form of force,

0:52:56.000,0:52:58.360
and that force can be violent or nonviolent.

0:52:58.360,0:53:01.120
Could you have stopped Ted [br]Bundy by peaceful means?

0:53:03.760,0:53:06.760
- The Left, to a large extent subconsciously,

0:53:06.760,0:53:08.760
has as its primary role

0:53:08.760,0:53:11.840
to make resistance harmless.

0:53:11.840,0:53:14.640
States have recognized that

0:53:14.640,0:53:17.640
resistance will never disappear, [br]that struggles will never disappear

0:53:17.640,0:53:21.000
and in the past they [br]tried suppressing struggles

0:53:21.000,0:53:24.520
the first time that they [br]showed their heads, that there was

0:53:24.520,0:53:26.520
any sign of them, and [br]that proved ineffective.

0:53:26.560,0:53:29.560
So nowadays that way [br]that states rule is by

0:53:29.560,0:53:32.560
accepting the inevitability [br]of conflict and resistance,

0:53:32.600,0:53:35.600
and just trying to manage it permanently.

0:53:35.600,0:53:38.600
"Keep the march going, [br]there's nothing happening here!

0:53:38.600,0:53:41.600
There's nothing happening, [br]just one more line of police,

0:53:41.640,0:53:44.640
so please keep the march going!"

0:53:45.680,0:53:48.680
- Social movements in North America are locked

0:53:48.680,0:53:52.680
into this pacifist doctrine that is imposed by

0:53:52.720,0:53:54.720
the middle class reformists

0:53:54.720,0:53:57.720
who want to control [br]the movement and dictate

0:53:57.720,0:54:00.600
how it conducts itself.

0:54:03.680,0:54:06.680
- Advocates of nonviolence [br]frequently say that nonviolence

0:54:06.680,0:54:08.680
works, and the principal [br]examples that they use of that

0:54:08.680,0:54:11.680
are Gandhi in India and Martin [br]Luther King in the U.S.

0:54:11.680,0:54:14.680
The problem with that is, [br]this constitutes a really great

0:54:14.680,0:54:18.680
historical whitewashing, [br]that in fact the resistance in

0:54:18.680,0:54:20.680
India was incredibly [br]diverse, and Gandhi was

0:54:20.720,0:54:22.720
a very important figure [br]within that resistance,

0:54:22.720,0:54:27.320
but the resistance was by no [br]means pacifist in its entirety.

0:54:28.280,0:54:31.280
- Gandhi gets used as a way [br]to shut down conversation.

0:54:32.920,0:54:35.920
- Especially in the West, [br]Gandhi is used as a way

0:54:35.920,0:54:37.920
to quell any ideas of

0:54:37.920,0:54:40.920
either direct action or what's [br]perceived as violence or,

0:54:40.920,0:54:42.920
sort of, you know, resistance that

0:54:42.960,0:54:45.960
goes beyond what is seen as a sort of a

0:54:45.960,0:54:49.960
pacifist or a peaceful means of resistance.

0:54:49.960,0:54:52.960
- For years, I really bought into the whole

0:54:52.960,0:54:55.960
Gandhian myth that is really sort of

0:54:55.960,0:55:00.120
forced down the throats of [br]activists in the United States,

0:55:00.120,0:55:02.960
and the people who disabused [br]me of that myth were

0:55:02.960,0:55:04.960
when I first actually [br]met some people from India.

0:55:04.960,0:55:07.960
The people I talked to [br]certainly didn't deify him,

0:55:07.960,0:55:10.960
and many of them despised him.

0:55:10.960,0:55:13.960
And they felt he was a [br]collaborator and he was somebody

0:55:14.000,0:55:16.000
whom the British could work with.

0:55:19.640,0:55:21.640
- Gandhi's very well known in the West,

0:55:21.680,0:55:24.680
but when you go to India, there's [br]a freedom fighter and revolutionary

0:55:24.680,0:55:26.680
leader called Bhagat Singh,

0:55:26.680,0:55:30.680
who's in India probably [br]almost as well known as Gandhi

0:55:30.720,0:55:32.720
as a part of

0:55:32.760,0:55:35.760
the independence movement and a [br]leader in the independence movement.

0:55:35.760,0:55:39.760
But in the West, most people [br]probably have never heard his name.

0:55:39.760,0:55:42.760
And the reason why that is, is that he used

0:55:42.760,0:55:44.760
direct action tactics.

0:55:44.760,0:55:47.760
There were generals of the [br]British army that were killed;

0:55:47.760,0:55:50.760
there was a bomb thrown [br]in a British assembly to

0:55:50.760,0:55:53.760
basically attract the [br]attention of the public;

0:55:53.760,0:55:57.760
there were weapons that people [br]were getting off of railway cars.

0:56:00.960,0:56:02.960
- With Gandhi and the [br]Indian National Congress,

0:56:02.960,0:56:05.960
where you had the moderates [br]and the extremists,

0:56:05.960,0:56:08.960
the moderates were legal; [br]constitutional reform

0:56:08.960,0:56:10.960
was their only method,

0:56:10.960,0:56:14.960
and they were criticized for [br]being a middle class clique,

0:56:15.000,0:56:19.000
for being too slow, [br]for being too legalistic,

0:56:19.040,0:56:21.040
and for being basically ineffective.

0:56:21.040,0:56:24.040
The extremists, on the other [br]hand, were accused of being

0:56:24.040,0:56:28.040
too aggressive, of being too fast [br]and reckless and irresponsible.

0:56:29.360,0:56:32.360
- Gandhi basically got negotiating power

0:56:32.360,0:56:36.360
from the fact that there were [br]other elements in the struggle

0:56:36.400,0:56:39.400
which were even more [br]threatening to British dominance.

0:56:39.400,0:56:42.400
So the British specifically [br]chose to dialogue with

0:56:42.440,0:56:45.440
Gandhi because he was, [br]perhaps for them, the least

0:56:45.440,0:56:48.440
threatening of the important [br]elements of resistance.

0:56:48.440,0:56:52.440
- Gandhi came in as [br]being the middleman.

0:56:52.440,0:56:55.440
His theory of nonviolent, [br]passive resistance

0:56:55.440,0:56:59.440
seemed to be a bridge between [br]the extremists and the moderates.

0:56:59.480,0:57:02.320
- The British were bled white after WWII,

0:57:02.360,0:57:05.360
and didn't have the [br]morale left anymore for

0:57:05.360,0:57:08.360
a big fight, and they [br]helped choose somebody

0:57:08.400,0:57:10.400
that they could work with.

0:57:10.440,0:57:14.480
They knew a revolution was coming and they [br]wanted to blunt it as much as they could.

0:57:14.480,0:57:17.480
- India went from being [br]a colony to a neocolony.

0:57:17.480,0:57:20.480
The British were still able to [br]maintain their interests, less directly,

0:57:20.480,0:57:26.160
with Indians being in [br]positions of management.

0:57:31.080,0:57:33.080
- My problem isn't with

0:57:33.120,0:57:37.120
somebody doing nonviolent [br]actions, it never has been.

0:57:37.160,0:57:39.160
I mean, I say all the [br]time that we need it all.

0:57:39.160,0:57:42.160
My problem is that

0:57:42.160,0:57:46.160
so many pacifists, especially [br]in the United States,

0:57:46.200,0:57:50.200
end up not supporting

0:57:50.240,0:57:52.240
more radical or militant work.

0:57:53.520,0:57:56.520
- The problem when this [br]debate comes up is that

0:57:56.520,0:58:00.520
you can't just assume [br]that people that are

0:58:00.560,0:58:03.560
resisting and are using [br]a means of resistance

0:58:03.560,0:58:06.560
haven't thought about what [br]they're doing. And that's what

0:58:06.560,0:58:08.560
I think is often the [br]problem. When people

0:58:08.560,0:58:11.560
decide to take certain actions [br]and when people decide

0:58:11.560,0:58:13.560
that, "Hey, you know, [br]our marches aren't enough,"

0:58:13.560,0:58:15.560
or they're doing this or doing that,

0:58:15.560,0:58:17.560
there's this assumption [br]by a lot of people that

0:58:17.560,0:58:21.560
want to toe the Gandhi line that, [br]"Oh, they're just not thinking about it."

0:58:22.800,0:58:25.800
- What most states will choose [br]to do in similar circumstances

0:58:25.800,0:58:28.800
is to find the elements [br]of the resistance

0:58:28.800,0:58:31.800
that are most easy to control [br]and most easy to co-opt,

0:58:31.840,0:58:35.840
to negotiate with them, and then [br]to hand over power to THEM in order

0:58:35.880,0:58:39.200
to continue the system [br]that had already existed.

0:58:41.520,0:58:43.520
- So again, you have the state [br]doing the same thing it did

0:58:43.560,0:58:46.560
with Gandhi and Martin Luther [br]King it does with, for example,

0:58:46.560,0:58:49.560
the environmental movement. So [br]it invites the responsible leaders

0:58:49.600,0:58:52.600
of the environmental [br]movement into inquiries,

0:58:52.600,0:58:56.600
government commissions, [br]debates. It recognizes them --

0:58:56.640,0:58:58.640
they're the legitimate leaders -- [br]because again,

0:58:58.640,0:59:03.640
it doesn't want the movement to begin to [br]adopt more militant resistance tactics.

0:59:03.640,0:59:06.640
- The powerful do not ever [br]give up without a struggle.

0:59:06.640,0:59:08.640
Those are the famous [br]words of Frederick Douglass

0:59:08.640,0:59:12.280
when he said, "Power concedes [br]nothing without a demand.

0:59:12.280,0:59:14.280
It never has, and it never will."

0:59:21.640,0:59:25.640
Figure V

0:59:27.920,0:59:31.920
If we use more efficient electricity,

0:59:31.960,0:59:34.000
appliances, we can save this much

0:59:34.000,0:59:37.000
off of the global warming pollution that

0:59:37.040,0:59:40.040
would otherwise be put [br]into the atmosphere.

0:59:40.040,0:59:43.040
If we use other end-use [br]efficiency this much,

0:59:43.040,0:59:45.560
if we have higher-mileage [br]cars, this much.

0:59:45.600,0:59:48.120
And all these begin to add up:

0:59:48.120,0:59:51.120
other transport efficiency, [br]renewable technology.

0:59:51.120,0:59:53.960
We have everything we need,

0:59:54.000,0:59:56.760
save, perhaps, political will.

0:59:56.760,0:59:59.640
But you know what, in [br]America, political will

0:59:59.640,1:00:02.280
is a renewable resource.

1:00:04.520,1:00:06.520
- When we see solutions, [br]all the so-called solutions

1:00:06.560,1:00:08.560
put forward to global [br]warming, the thing

1:00:08.560,1:00:11.440
they all have in common [br]is that they take

1:00:11.440,1:00:14.440
industrial civilization [br]as a given, and they take

1:00:14.440,1:00:17.920
the natural world as [br]the dependent variable.

1:00:17.920,1:00:20.080
It's all about saving civilization.

1:00:20.080,1:00:22.080
And that's entirely backwards.

1:00:22.080,1:00:25.080
What it should be is: [br]we need to do whatever

1:00:25.080,1:00:28.560
it takes to save [br]life on the planet.

1:00:31.120,1:00:33.120
- In the next 40 to 50 years, [br]we're going to see the

1:00:33.160,1:00:36.160
extinction of more species [br]than we've seen in the past

1:00:36.160,1:00:38.160
65 million years.

1:00:38.160,1:00:41.160
That, to me, is a red light,

1:00:41.160,1:00:45.160
and a siren going off [br]as a call to people

1:00:45.160,1:00:47.160
who will cut through the crap and

1:00:47.200,1:00:49.200
do what is necessary [br]to protect the Earth

1:00:49.240,1:00:52.240
for here and now, and [br]for future generations.

1:00:52.240,1:00:54.240
It is you that are going [br]to have to answer to your

1:00:54.240,1:00:56.240
children, 50-75 years from now

1:00:56.240,1:00:59.400
when they ask what you [br]did during the eco-wars.

1:00:59.440,1:01:02.280
And in that sense,

1:01:02.320,1:01:05.320
each one of us has to live the life

1:01:05.320,1:01:08.320
today, at this very moment, doing the things

1:01:08.320,1:01:11.320
that we would be proud to tell our ancestors about.

1:01:12.200,1:01:14.200
If we are serious about saving life on Earth

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we've got to start fighting back

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in the ways that people do [br]when they realize they need

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to form a serious resistance movement.

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- Most indigenous populations [br]who maintain any

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sense of a traditional worldview

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know that the way of life that

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settlers society has imposed on this

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land is unsustainable.

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Yet, there has been a sense

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that we really need to kind of

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wait until it collapses,

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or wait until they're done doing,

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or they've reached their [br]limit and they can't

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continue the way that [br]they've been going on,

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and be patient.

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Fuck patience

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I think really the big problem is power,

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and that's something liberals [br]have a lot of trouble kind of

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thinking about or wrapping [br]their heads around.

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And the problem is that [br]this culture has

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clearly defined hierarchy. [br]There are people

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who are clearly in power, [br]and who benefit

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from power, and benefit [br]from destroying the planet,

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and who benefit from [br]exploiting other people,

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and they've been doing [br]that for a long time.

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And their power is more important [br]to them than anything else.

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- There is no personal [br]consumer choice that is

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going to dismantle the systems of

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power that are behind the [br]destruction of our planet.

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What we need is organized [br]political resistance.

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- You cannot just simply ask [br]the state for these reforms,

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or for any kind of gains or concessions,

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you have to force them to do it.

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And that's the power of disruption.

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It was a bloody day at the Mohawk Indian

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community in Oka, Quebec, near Montreal.

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"Provincial police in riot gear stormed

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the barricades the Mohawks had set up.

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There were clouds of tear [br]gas, a hail of bullets,

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and in the midst of the battle, a policeman

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was killed. All this because of

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a dispute over a piece of [br]forest the Indians claim is theirs,

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a forest town council wants to bulldoze

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to expand the local golf course."

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"Police retreated as [br]abruptly as they'd attacked,

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leaving behind their cruisers. [br]They also left a heavy

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front-end loader which the Mohawks

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immediately put to their own use.

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The police cruisers, crushed and useless,

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became barricades themselves."

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We treat these trees and [br]the land like our mother.

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These people are raping our mother.

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What would you do if [br]they raped your mother?

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- These politicians are servants of the

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system; it's their job to keep [br]it going, it's their job

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to keep profit rolling [br]in for the ruling class.

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And they will never, ever, act in the

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people's interests or the interests of the planet.

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It doesn't matter what we say,

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the only thing that they [br]will respond to is

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force, and the threat [br]of social disruption.

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And if we allow them to stay in power,

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they will always take back any gain

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that we manage to get from them.

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- It's really important [br]to recognize that

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no struggle is done,

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that there's not any possibility

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of any lasting victory [br]as long as the state

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still exists, but we can [br]definitely see in the histories

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of struggle, small gains have been won,

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and ways in which we've [br]empowered ourselves

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by the use of all tactics, and I think

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it's not even important to

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really say if a particular tactic is

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violent or not because this is just

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kind of a moral category [br]meant to restrict action.

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I think it's more important to look

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at which tactics can be empowering,

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and liberating, and useful.

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- Purely above-ground [br]means are designed to

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facilitate the expansion [br]of global capitalism.

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- These are serious power structures

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that are making vast sums of money.

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They are backed up by

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the power of the armed [br]state in every way imaginable.

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They've got armies on [br]their side, they own

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the mass media, the banks, [br]all the money is on their side.

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- If there's any doubt [br]about the leadership that

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our military is showing, [br]you just need to look at

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this F-18 fighter

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and the light-armored vehicle behind it.

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The army and marine [br]corps have been testing

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this vehicle on a mixture of biofuels,

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and this navy fighter jet

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appropriately called the "Green Hornet"

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will be flown for the first time in just

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a few days, on Earth Day.

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- Crazy Horse one-eight, [br]request permission to engage.

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- Picking up the wounded?

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- Yeah, we're trying to [br]get permission to engage.

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- Come on, let us shoot!

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- Bushmaster, Crazy Horse one-eight.

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- They're taking him.

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- Bushmaster, Crazy Horse one-eight.

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- This is Bushmaster seven, go ahead.

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- Roger. We have a black SUV, [br]or Bongo truck picking

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up the bodies. Request [br]permission to engage.

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- Bushmaster seven, roger. This is [br]Bushmaster seven, roger. Engage.

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- One-eight, engage. Clear.

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- Come on!

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- Clear.

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So if the law will [br]not do the right thing,

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other people will have [br]to do the right thing,

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and they'll have to do the right thing by

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breaking the law. And that

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precedent has been set many times

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throughout our history: the people

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who saved the Jews [br]from the German Nazis

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broke the law for [br]higher ethical purpose.

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The people who liberated slaves in our

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country through the [br]underground railroad system

1:07:06.760,1:07:09.760
to protect them from slave masters and a

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very barbaric law in [br]the United States at that time.

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They did the right thing. [br]They broke the law

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for higher ethical purpose.

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- We need to start and get out there

1:07:22.080,1:07:27.080
and go beyond hitting "Like" on [br]Facebook and signing online petitions.

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We need to be out there [br]in the real world fighting back.

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- I think one of the things [br]that we really have to accept

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and internalize is that [br]the majority of institutions,

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and the majority of people,

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are never going to be on our side.

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And so we have to sit down --

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as individual activists

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and as communities of resistance,

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as a culture of resistance -- [br]and we have to say

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"Okay, well, what will it take to stop [br]this culture from destroying the planet?"

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You know, part of the [br]answer is obviously that

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persuasion hasn't worked and persuasion

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is not going to work. [br]If we want to be...

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...successful, then we have to [br]look at what resistance

1:08:04.240,1:08:07.240
movements in the past have done, [br]and what they've learned

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and kind of the different phases

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that they've gone through [br]as they've tried to

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assert themselves and [br]try to be successful.

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- When I say "organize [br]political resistance,"

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I mean we need to [br]face power head-on.

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Once you name power,

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you will find that [br]power is sociopathic,

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that the people in [br]charge will do whatever

1:08:25.520,1:08:27.520
it takes to shut you up.

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- The thing about when [br]you enter into a greater

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period of social conflict,

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what you don't want [br]is people promoting

1:08:36.280,1:08:38.280
non-violence because [br]that's going to disarm

1:08:38.280,1:08:41.280
the people -- it's going to [br]disarm the people in the face

1:08:41.280,1:08:43.280
of an aggressive enemy, [br]and in the face

1:08:43.280,1:08:45.280
of hard social conditions.

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You want them to have [br]a stronger fighting spirit

1:08:48.320,1:08:50.320
because without a fighting spirit,

1:08:50.320,1:08:52.320
you lack the will to resist.

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- The smartest thing the Nazis did was

1:08:58.160,1:09:00.160
they made it so that at every [br]step of the way, it was in the Jews'

1:09:00.000,1:09:02.000
rational best interest to not resist.

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Would you rather get an ID card,

1:09:04.040,1:09:06.040
or do you want to resist [br]and possibly get killed?

1:09:06.080,1:09:08.080
Do you want to move to a ghetto,

1:09:08.080,1:09:10.080
or do you want to resist [br]and possibly get killed?

1:09:10.120,1:09:12.120
Do you want to get on a cattle car,

1:09:12.120,1:09:14.120
or do you want to resist [br]and possibly get killed?

1:09:14.160,1:09:16.160
You want to take a shower,

1:09:16.160,1:09:18.160
or do you want to resist [br]and possibly get killed?

1:09:18.200,1:09:20.200
At every step of the way, [br]it was in their

1:09:20.200,1:09:22.200
rational self-interest [br]to not resist.

1:09:22.960,1:09:24.960
But I'll tell you [br]something very important,

1:09:25.000,1:09:27.960
which is: the Jews who participated [br]in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

1:09:27.960,1:09:30.960
had a higher rate of survival [br]than those who went along.

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- I think that if any of us were [br]alive in Nazi Germany right now,

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we would know what a resistance [br]movement should be doing.

1:09:39.080,1:09:41.080
And we need to think about

1:09:41.080,1:09:43.840
the culture of industrial civilization

1:09:43.840,1:09:46.840
as if it's a culture of occupation,

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because it is.

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Figure VI

1:10:20.960,1:10:24.480
- If Nazis or other fascists [br]took over North America,

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what would we all do?

1:10:30.880,1:10:33.880
What would we do if they implemented [br]Mussolini's definition of fascism:

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"Fascism should more appropriately [br]be called corporatism

1:10:35.880,1:10:38.320
because it is a merger of [br]state and corporate power."

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What if this occupied country [br]called itself a democracy,

1:10:50.040,1:10:53.040
but most everyone understood [br]elections to be shams,

1:10:53.040,1:10:56.040
with citizens allowed to choose between [br]different wings of the same fascists,

1:10:56.080,1:10:58.080
(or, following Mussolini, Corporate) party.

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What if anti-government activity was [br]opposed by storm troopers and secret police?

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Would you fight back?

1:11:04.160,1:11:07.160
If there already existed a resistance [br]movement, would you join it?

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Would you resist if the fascists irradiated [br]the countryside, poisoned food supplies,

1:11:12.680,1:11:14.680
made rivers unfit for [br]swimming and so filthy

1:11:14.720,1:11:16.720
you wouldn't even dream [br]of drinking from anymore?

1:11:19.080,1:11:22.080
If fascists systematically [br]deforested the continent, would you join

1:11:22.080,1:11:25.080
an underground army of resistance, [br]head to the forests, and from there

1:11:25.120,1:11:28.120
to boardrooms and the halls of the [br]Reichstag to pick off the occupying deforesters

1:11:28.120,1:11:31.120
and, most especially, those that [br]give them their marching orders?

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Give me a threshold. [br]Give me a specific point

1:11:38.880,1:11:40.880
at which you'll finally take a stand.

1:11:40.880,1:11:44.880
If you can't or won't [br]give that threshold, why not?

1:11:46.720,1:11:51.840
Directed, filmed, produced, and edited [br]by Franklin Lopez

1:11:51.840,1:11:56.000
Inspired by Endgame[br]Volumes I and II by Derrick Jensen

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LYRICS: When I face the page, [br]I place the rage,

1:11:59.000,1:12:01.840
place it into stasis [br]rather than erase it.

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That's the basis [br]cover all the bases,

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watch what you say on the cell, [br]they gonna trace it.

1:12:06.880,1:12:08.880
Stacked deck[br]don't expect any aces,

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camera eyes watch you [br]in public places,

1:12:11.880,1:12:13.880
and I hate this, [br]so I take this

1:12:13.880,1:12:15.880
mic and I write [br]like these words,

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and my legs and they walk me through my paces,

1:12:17.920,1:12:20.920
people chase it, glittery lights but I've seen the heights.

1:12:20.920,1:12:22.920
My time is not wasted, I'm tracing the sky,

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I read all the smoke [br]that I toke to meet

1:12:24.920,1:12:26.920
all the spaces of mind in time.

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Look, just face it, [br]this life is mine,

1:12:29.960,1:12:31.960
that's why I'm not [br]racing the finish line.

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Will come the time, the moment designed

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to shine i won't replace it

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So I take my time, grind it up and break it,

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roll it up so fine, light it up and blaze it.

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Smoking blunts, smoke 'em up, [br]end times

1:12:43.040,1:12:45.040
on the grind training for the signs

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Take your fist and raise it up to the sky.

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See the fire in her eye.

1:12:49.080,1:12:51.080
Do or do not do there is no try.

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Hard to find what's true, that is no life.

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They clipped your wings, how you gonna fly?

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You gonna lie? [br]You gonna die,

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so until that day, [br]are you gonna try?

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One by one [br]we multiply.

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Eyes to the sun, [br]just let it shine now.

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Now get into it

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Now choose [br]your side

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We got [br]to do it,

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The time [br]is right

1:13:16.360,1:13:18.680
Now get into it

1:13:18.680,1:13:20.280
Now change[br]your life

1:13:20.280,1:13:23.480
Only you [br]can do it

1:13:23.480,1:13:25.480
The time [br]is right

1:13:34.440,1:13:36.440
Anymore pollution [br]and you're [br]going to fry,

1:13:36.440,1:13:39.440
so get into it, [br]it's do or die.

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Without action, [br]factions of crews [br]divide,

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but you can't [br]be stupid [br]if you [br]choose to ride.

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And you can't [br]ride the fence, [br]better choose [br]your side.

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Keep doing [br]what you're told, [br]or do [br]what's right.

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You going [br]to roll over [br]or you going [br]to fight?

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No justice [br]no peace, [br]the war's [br]tonight,

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and I'm a [br]poltergeist, [br]you know, [br]a violent spirit,

1:13:56.480,1:13:58.640
the product [br]of a world [br]with too much [br]violence in it.

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So many [br]people, trees, [br]animals are [br]dying a minute.

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Can't ask [br]them to stop, [br]they ain't trying [br]to hear it.

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Until we get [br]physical, [br]they ain't [br]gonna fear it.

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To go to war [br]with the machines, [br]start tryin' to kill it.

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Until it dies, [br]everyday's [br]a violent day.

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And they [br]expect you [br]to protest in [br]silence and stay

1:14:13.600,1:14:15.600
pacifist and [br]uneffective [br]while we die [br]and decay.

1:14:15.600,1:14:18.600
We need [br]to rise up, [br]fuck kneeling [br]to pray.

1:14:18.600,1:14:20.600
Preachers [br]and teachers [br]lead us astray,

1:14:20.600,1:14:22.600
politicians [br]and cops [br]all they say is:

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"Obey your [br]corporate masters, [br]buy what [br]they've got on [br]display."

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Stop buying [br]their shit [br]and start [br]making [br]them pay.

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To hell [br]with their [br]games -- [br]we ain't[br]gonna play.

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Let's fight [br]them 'till [br]they kill us or [br]they take us away.

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Start throwing [br]molotovs, [br]stop throwing [br]bouquets.

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Take it to [br]those bastards [br]like Ted Kaczynski.

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Monkeywrench machines [br]and write communiques

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on walls with spraypaint [br]just big circle A's!

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Now get into it

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Now choose your side

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We got to do it

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The time is right

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Now get into it

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Now change your life

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Only you can do it

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The time is right