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[pensive music playing]

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[Demi Moore] <i>A very long time ago...</i>

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[whooshing]

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<i>...the Earth was a much colder place.</i>

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-[gentle music playing]
-[wind rushing]

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<i>Then the Earth slowly started to warm...</i>

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<i>...by just a few degrees.</i>

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<i>That small increase in temperature</i>

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<i>completely transformed our frozen world...</i>

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[birds chirping]

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<i>...into a stable climate.</i>

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[uplifting music playing]

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<i>That changed us from hunter-gatherers...</i>

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<i>...to farmers.</i>

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<i>From farming came cities...</i>

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<i>...and, eventually, great civilizations.</i>

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<i>One after another,</i>
<i>those civilizations rose to power...</i>

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<i>...and fell.</i>

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<i>Then we learned to harness</i>
<i>the power of fossilized energy.</i>

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<i>That power allowed us to build</i>
<i>the world we live in today.</i>

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<i>But like the civilizations</i>
<i>that came before us...</i>

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<i>...our power to alter land</i>

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<i>may also be our greatest weakness.</i>

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<i>To survive and thrive</i>
<i>in the new world that's coming...</i>

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<i>...we need to change.</i>

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<i>And that change needs to happen</i>
<i>from the ground up.</i>

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<i>We need to enter a new age:</i>

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<i>the age of regeneration.</i>

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♪ ♪

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[birds chirping]

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<i>The Earth,</i>

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our beautiful home, is a living thing.

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-[gentle music playing]
-[crackling softly]

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-[birds chirping]
-[water drop echoes]

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<i>And we're all part of her.</i>

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<i>Our health and the health of our planet</i>
<i>are deeply connected.</i>

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<i>We're a microcosm of the universe.</i>

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<i>Like all forms of life,</i>
<i>we share something amazing.</i>

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<i>When our bodies become injured,</i>
<i>we have the ability to heal.</i>

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<i>We can regenerate.</i>

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[birds chirping]

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<i>And thankfully, so can the Earth.</i>

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[hopeful music playing]

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<i>Because right now...</i>

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[thunder rumbling]

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<i>...our planet has a sickness.</i>

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<i>Our mother</i>

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has a fever.

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[♪ Nelly sings "Hot in Herre"]

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[echoing] ♪ <i>It's hot in </i>♪

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♪ <i>So hot in here...</i>

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[Woody Harrelson] <i>If you've been</i>
<i>paying attention lately,</i>

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<i>you might have noticed something.</i>

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[car horns honking]

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-♪ <i>It's getting hot in here </i>♪
-♪ <i>So hot</i> ♪

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-♪ <i>So take off all your clothes</i> ♪
-♪ <i>Ay </i>♪

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<i>-It's getting hotter.</i>
-♪<i> I am getting so hot...</i>

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-2012 was the warmest year...
-2016...

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[newsman] <i>...had the warmest</i>
<i>global temperatures...</i>

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2017 was the third warmest year
on record...

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2023 will be the hottest year
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2024 is set to be even hotter than 2023.

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♪ <i>It's getting hot in here...</i>

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The Earth is now hotter
than it's ever been.

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♪ <i>I am getting so hot...</i>

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[Harrelson] <i>And all that extreme heat</i>
<i>is causing some extreme problems.</i>

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♪ <i>I am getting so hot...</i>

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[newswoman] <i>This year's fire season</i>
<i>has officially set a devastating record.</i>

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-[record scratches]
-[song stops abruptly]

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[Harrelson] <i>I know what you're thinking.</i>

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<i>"Not another depressing</i>
<i>climate documentary."</i>

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<i>This is where we usually tell you</i>
<i>the bad news</i>

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<i>and try to make you feel guilty.</i>

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[pensive music continues over laptop]

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Well...

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[music stops]

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...this film is different.

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[wind whistling softly]

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<i>It's about a solution</i>
<i>to a whole bunch of problems.</i>

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[hopeful music playing]

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<i>It's about something</i>
<i>we all have in common.</i>

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<i>It's something we all need every day.</i>

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<i>It's something we all love.</i>

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<i>This film</i>

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is about... food.

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♪ ♪

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[sizzling]

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<i>And about how changing</i>
<i>the way we grow food</i>

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<i>might be our best hope</i>
<i>to regenerate our world.</i>

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<i>Now, here's where we tend to go wrong.</i>

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<i>Humans keep trying to fix</i>
<i>our heating planet</i>

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<i>with policy and technology.</i>

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<i>And so far, that hadn't cooled</i>
<i>much of anything.</i>

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♪ ♪

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<i>Is carbon the only driver</i>
<i>of our heating planet?</i>

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<i>Or is there something else?</i>

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<i>Something equally important?</i>

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<i>Since human beings began building cities</i>
<i>and transforming landscapes,</i>

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<i>we've removed three trillion trees.</i>

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<i>That's half the trees on planet Earth.</i>

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<i>And we've scraped away nearly</i>
<i>three-quarters of the vegetation.</i>

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[somber music playing]

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[Jay Famiglietti] <i>As humans,</i>
<i>we've been pushing the landscape</i>

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towards desertification for as long
as we have been growing food.

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<i>In particular,</i>
<i>over the last few hundred years,</i>

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<i>with things like large-scale agriculture.</i>

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[Harrelson] <i>"Desertification" is a term</i>
<i>that describes when ecosystems</i>

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<i>are replaced with hot, dry deserts.</i>

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[Famiglietti] <i>Over half of the world's</i>
<i>major aquifers are being rapidly depleted.</i>

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The continents are drying out.

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[chuckles] Sh-Should I say it again?

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[wind whistling softly]

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[Harrelson] <i>As continents dry out</i>
<i>and the plant life dies,</i>

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<i>the land gets hotter.</i>

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The atmosphere is
actually heated from below,

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so whatever the temperature is here...

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<i>...on the ground, it's gonna be more.</i>

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[Harrelson] <i>In other words,</i>
<i>we've turned our lush, green planet</i>

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<i>into a hot frying pan.</i>

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[whooshing]

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<i>The drying and heating of Earth's land</i>
<i>is accelerating at an alarming rate.</i>

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[Famiglietti] <i>The areas</i>
<i>that are dry are growing at</i>

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two times the area of California
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The deserts are
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<i>destroying our ecosystem.</i>

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<i>It's like a spreading cancer.</i>

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<i>We feel like there's nothing</i>
<i>we can do to stop it.</i>

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<i>And yet...</i>

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<i>...not only can we stop it,</i>

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<i>we can actually reverse desertification</i>
<i>and go back to abundance.</i>

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[gentle music playing]

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[Harrelson] <i>It's pretty simple.</i>

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<i>The fewer trees and plants,</i>
<i>the hotter it is.</i>

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<i>And the more green on the ground,</i>

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<i>the cooler the planet is.</i>

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<i>To fix our warming planet</i>
<i>and feed our growing numbers,</i>

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<i>perhaps we need to begin with a solution</i>
<i>that's not based on human intellect</i>

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<i>but rather on the wisdom of nature.</i>

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[birds chirping]

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[Moore] <i>There is one solution</i>
<i>to fix our heating planet.</i>

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[♪ Cosmo Sheldrake
featuring Nature sing "Soil"]

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[wind blowing]

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<i>It's an ancient technology</i>
<i>that's highly scalable.</i>

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<i>It already exists everywhere in the world.</i>

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♪ <i>I want to be ground...</i>

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<i>It can hold more carbon</i>
<i>than the atmosphere.</i>

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♪ <i>I want to be fed on...</i>

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<i>And when it's managed right,</i>
<i>it regulates water,</i>

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<i>which, in turn, regulates the climate.</i>

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[birds chirping]

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♪ <i>I want to be soil...</i>

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Soil is such an important carbon sink.

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♪ <i>I want to be soil...</i>

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[Natalie Topa] <i>When we have</i>
<i>healthy living soils,</i>

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we're allowing soil to actually inhale
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<i>the carbon from the atmosphere.</i>

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[Asmeret Asefaw Berhe] <i>There's more carbon</i>
<i>in soil than there is</i>

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<i>in all of the world's vegetation</i>

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plus all the carbon
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<i>Some carbon is deposited</i>
<i>in deeper soil layers.</i>

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It can persist there for
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<i>building up over time the amount of carbon</i>
<i>that you have in soil.</i>

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♪ <i>Well, it would never get lonely...</i>

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[Winowiecki] <i>When we have</i>
<i>a healthy, functioning soil,</i>

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we can also store a lot of water.

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♪ <i>with everyone round </i>♪

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[Topa] <i>The soil is</i>
<i>the largest and cheapest</i>

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water storage tank that exists.

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♪ <i>I want to go downwards...</i>

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<i>We can harvest water</i>
<i>into the soils, hold it,</i>

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<i>slow it, spread it</i>
<i>and sink it into the ground</i>

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<i>so that it can hydrate and quench</i>
<i>those thirsty landscapes.</i>

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♪ <i>I want to be ground...</i>

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[Berhe] <i>Soil is</i>
<i>what makes the difference between</i>

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<i>life and lifelessness on planet Earth.</i>

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♪ <i>I want to be soil </i>♪

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[birds chirping]

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♪ <i>I want to be sound...</i>

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<i>Every living thing</i>

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on the face of the planet

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<i>depends on soil.</i>

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♪ <i>And I would never...</i>

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<i>For food, feed, fiber,</i>

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<i>for delivery and purification of water,</i>

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<i>for recycling our waste,</i>

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<i>soil being the most important</i>
<i>reservoir of life that we know of.</i>

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♪ <i>I want to be soil...</i>

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[Arizona Muse] <i>There are trillions of</i>
<i>microorganisms in a teaspoon of soil.</i>

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So how many microorganisms are there
in a whole garden full of soil?

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♪ <i>live upside down...</i>

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<i>These things are</i>
<i>supposed to blow our minds.</i>

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<i>It's made of teeny tiny little things</i>
<i>that are alive.</i>

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Inside there are
trillions of microorganisms.

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[gasps] Whoa!

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So, soil is a complex cosmos in itself

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<i>that we have so much to learn about</i>
<i>and so much to love</i>

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<i>and so much to respect.</i>

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<i>We just really never want</i>
<i>to treat our soil like dirt.</i>

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♪ <i>that I want to be soil </i>♪

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♪ <i>that I want to be ground </i>♪♪

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-[song ends]
-[wind whistling softly]

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[Savory] <i>Soil is sand until life is added.</i>

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-[gentle music playing]
-[birds chirping]

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<i>Once life is added, the sand becomes soil.</i>

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<i>The source of energy</i>

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to feed all those different life-forms
is photosynthesis.

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[intriguing music playing]

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<i>All that photosynthesis is feeding</i>
<i>the soil microorganisms.</i>

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<i>And that all becomes food</i>

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for everything else that depends on it.

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[Harrelson] <i>Although nature</i>
<i>is infinitely complex,</i>

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<i>life on land is made of</i>
<i>three main components.</i>

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[Nicolette Hahn Niman] <i>Every ecosystem</i>

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<i>has fungi, plants and animals.</i>

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All of the functions that are
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<i>are mediated by these three components.</i>

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[Harrelson] <i>There are</i>
<i>two kinds of agriculture.</i>

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<i>One utilizes these natural components.</i>

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<i>The other seeks to eliminate them.</i>

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<i>We call these two kinds</i>
<i>regenerative agriculture</i>

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<i>and industrial agriculture.</i>

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-[gentle music playing]
-[cattle mooing]

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<i>Regenerative agriculture is</i>
<i>a way of growing food</i>

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<i>that puts carbon into the ground</i>
<i>and builds the soil.</i>

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[Jonathan Lundgren] <i>Industrial agriculture</i>
<i>is actually a source</i>

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<i>-of carbon emissions,</i>
-[cattle mooing]

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<i>so it's sending carbon dioxide and</i>
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It's a part of the problem.

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<i>Regenerative agriculture actually takes</i>
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<i>and puts it back down into the ground.</i>

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It's a solution to the problem.

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[Harrelson] <i>Industrial agriculture</i>
<i>tills and breaks up the soil.</i>

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[Topa]<i> When you start tilling the land,</i>
<i>break it all up,</i>

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<i>release all that carbon,</i>
<i>kill all those soil organisms,</i>

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<i>let that heat get in</i>
<i>and really bake the soil...</i>

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<i>...it makes the entire landscape</i>
<i>completely vulnerable to hot temperatures.</i>

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[Harrelson] <i>Regenerative agriculture</i>
<i>leaves the soil intact</i>

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<i>so life can thrive.</i>

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A central basis of
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is promoting biodiversity of life.

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[Harrelson] <i>Regenerative agriculture</i>
<i>utilizes a diversity of plants,</i>

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<i>not a singular species, aka a monocrop.</i>

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[Lundgren] <i>The main tools of a</i>
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Plants can't survive without animals.

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<i>From honeybees to bison.</i>

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[Harrelson] <i>From the smallest insects</i>
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<i>regenerative agriculture</i>
<i>integrates animals</i>

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<i>directly into crop fields and orchards.</i>

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Regenerative agriculture promotes life.

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<i>Industrial agriculture seeks</i>
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<i>fertilizers or insecticides or herbicides.</i>

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[Savory] <i>If you look at all of</i>
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<i>it's based on</i>
<i>kill, kill, kill, kill, kill.</i>

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[Harrelson] <i>Regenerative agriculture</i>

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<i>doesn't use toxic herbicides</i>
<i>or pesticides.</i>

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[Kara Boyd] <i>The best benefit</i>
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<i>we're decreasing synthetic fertilizer use,</i>

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<i>we're reversing damage that's been done</i>

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and putting more money
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[Harrelson] <i>Scientists are studying</i>
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<i>and the results are surprising.</i>

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We set out to study thousands of farms
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<i>We've amassed the largest database of</i>
<i>regenerative farming systems in existence.</i>

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[Harrelson] <i>Regenerative farms store</i>
<i>37% more carbon than industrial farms.</i>

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<i>On regenerative farms, soils hold</i>
<i>the water and keep it from running off.</i>

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<i>There are three to six times more</i>
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<i>Regenerative farmers are often</i>
<i>twice as profitable.</i>

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<i>Industrial farmers have 2,000 times the</i>
<i>national average in Parkinson's disease...</i>

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<i>...they have ten times the cancer rate,</i>

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<i>and they have</i>
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[intriguing music playing]

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[John Boyd] <i>My parents and grandfather,</i>

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<i>they didn't have tons of fertilizer</i>
<i>and harmful chemicals.</i>

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<i>They were doing</i>
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They-they just didn't have the name
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[Harrelson] <i>Today, our survival</i>
<i>may once again depend on</i>

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<i>embracing the practices</i>
<i>of regenerative agriculture.</i>

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[Topa] <i>We can heal</i>

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the entire world with our food.

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[hopeful music playing]

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<i>Or we can totally destroy the world</i>
<i>with the way we grow food.</i>

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[Lundgren] <i>Farmers that are focusing</i>

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on life and soil health
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[Harrelson] <i>But to affect</i>
<i>the global climate and feed humanity...</i>

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<i>...regeneration would need to scale</i>
<i>throughout the world.</i>

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<i>Each continent could play a role.</i>

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<i>Each type of ecosystem and watershed</i>
<i>could be regenerated.</i>

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<i>The only way to know if such a massive</i>
<i>global undertaking is possible...</i>

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[♪ Men at Work sing "Down Under"]

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<i>...is to go on a massive global journey.</i>

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<i>Let's call it a regeneration road trip.</i>

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♪ <i>Traveling in a fried-out Kombi </i>♪

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♪ <i>on a hippie trail, head full of zombie</i> ♪

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♪ <i>I met a strange lady </i>♪

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♪ <i>She made me nervous </i>♪

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-♪ <i>She took me in and gave me breakfast </i>♪
-Camera speed. And... mark.

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♪ <i>And she said,</i>
<i>"Do you come from a land down under </i>♪

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♪ <i>where women glow and men plunder?" </i>♪

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<i>In Australia,</i>
<i>the effects of a heating planet...</i>

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♪ <i>"You better run,</i>
<i>you better take cover"</i> ♪♪

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<i>...have been severe in recent years.</i>

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♪ ♪

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-[song ends]
-[fire crackling]

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<i>But what if Australia's environment</i>
<i>could be healed?</i>

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[Paul Girrawah House
speaking native language]

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[House]<i> Our people have been</i>

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First Nation Indigenous custodians
of our ancestral country

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for over 60,000 years.

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[pensive music playing]

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<i>When Europeans arrived here,</i>
<i>they experienced a pristine landscape.</i>

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[Carolyn Hall]<i> Beautiful,</i>
<i>fertile floodplains.</i>

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<i>Lush, wonderful land.</i>

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A very different landscape
to what we see today.

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[intriguing music playing]

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<i>But when the Europeans came here,</i>
<i>they disturbed the landscape,</i>

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<i>removing large tracts of vegetation.</i>

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<i>And with no vegetation,</i>
<i>we've got degraded soil.</i>

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[Ashley Silver]<i> And when soil is degraded,</i>

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it loses its water-holding capacity,

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so Australia is dehydrated.

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[Hall] <i>And the ultimate endpoint of that</i>
<i>is desertification.</i>

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[gentle music playing]

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[Harrelson] <i>Farmers are starting</i>
<i>to come together to figure out</i>

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<i>how to rehydrate Australia's soils.</i>

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[low chatter]

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<i>And one of those farmers is Gabe Brown.</i>

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<i>In 2021, Gabe was diagnosed with ALS,</i>

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<i>known as the farmer's disease.</i>

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<i>It can be caused by exposure</i>
<i>to toxic pesticides.</i>

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[Gabe Brown] <i>Physically, it's harder</i>
<i>for me to make these trips.</i>

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<i>My health is degrading,</i>

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<i>but my life is sharing my story.</i>

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<i>If I can do that and help someone else</i>

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get further down their
regenerative journey, that's a win-win.

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[Lyndsey Douglas] Our keynote speaker
this morning is

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one of the pioneers
of the soil health movement.

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<i>One of the 25 most influential</i>
<i>agriculture leaders.</i>

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Please give a big Australian welcome
to Gabe Brown.

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[cheering and applause]

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As I've gone down this path
of regeneration,

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I've come to the understanding
that it all starts in healthy soil.

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When we go onto a degraded landscape

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<i>and we take an infrared thermometer,</i>

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<i>we saw over a 50-degree temperature swing</i>

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<i>between bare soil</i>

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<i>and covered soil.</i>

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[Harrelson] <i>This temperature difference</i>
<i>between soil that is bare</i>

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<i>and soil that is covered in plant life</i>

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<i>is the difference between</i>
<i>dehydration and rehydration.</i>

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<i>There's one key element needed</i>
<i>to rehydrate a landscape.</i>

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[Brown] <i>In order to hydrate</i>

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an ecosystem, we have to move carbon
back into the soil.

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[Harrelson] <i>The more carbon there is</i>
<i>in soil, the more water the soil can hold.</i>

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[Brown] <i>For every one percent increase</i>
<i>in soil organic matter,</i>

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<i>we're gonna be able to hold approximately</i>

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<i>20,000 more gallons of water</i>
<i>per foot per acre.</i>

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[lighthearted music playing]

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[Harrelson] <i>So, how do we encourage people</i>
<i>to put carbon into the ground?</i>

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<i>To help incentivize carbon farming,</i>

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<i>the Australian government created</i>
<i>a carbon market.</i>

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So, what is a carbon market?

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[wind whistling softly]

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[Carl Binning] <i>What</i>
<i>the carbon market does,</i>

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it offers farmers the opportunity
to generate another revenue stream.

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<i>Soil is one of the most important</i>
<i>stores of carbon on the planet.</i>

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<i>And plants are the most effective way</i>

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<i>of pulling carbon</i>
<i>out of our atmosphere at scale.</i>

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[Silver] <i>Livestock producers who put</i>
<i>more carbon into the soil can be paid</i>

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within the carbon markets.

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[Harrelson] <i>To receive carbon credits,</i>

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<i>a farmer must show</i>
<i>they've stored carbon in their soil.</i>

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<i>And getting started is</i>
<i>as simple as a soil test.</i>

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[Hugh McMurtrie] Just heading out into the
paddock now to do our first soil sample

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and get tested for
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[♪ Sandia and Yellow play
"Nothing Feels Better Than Now"]

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<i>The carbon improves</i>
<i>the health of the soil.</i>

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<i>It'll also make us more resilient.</i>

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If we get carbon credits for it,
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[Harrelson] <i>To increase soil carbon,</i>

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<i>farmers must incorporate</i>
<i>regenerative principles.</i>

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<i>The more regeneration that occurs,</i>
<i>the more carbon that can be stored,</i>

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<i>and the more money they can make.</i>

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We've been performing
regenerative farming,

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<i>and our soil test showed</i>
<i>positive carbon sequestration.</i>

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<i>And we were issued carbon credits.</i>

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<i>And we have certainly seen</i>
<i>our grasslands regenerate</i>

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<i>and our soils regenerate.</i>

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<i>And we have seen nature recover.</i>

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[Harrelson]<i> If Australia sequestered</i>
<i>one ton of carbon per acre per year</i>

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<i>in its 380 million agriculture acres,</i>

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<i>the Aussie carbon market would increase</i>
<i>from one billion dollars</i>

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<i>to 15 billion dollars annually.</i>

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<i>And that would pay farmers and ranchers</i>
<i>to rehydrate and regenerate...</i>

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<i>...the entire Australian continent.</i>

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[Brown]<i> I've been asked the question</i>
<i>over and over:</i>

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<i>"Gabe, this is Australia.</i>
<i>Can it work here?"</i>

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<i>By adopting these regenerative practices,</i>

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of course it can.

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[song ends]

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[Moore] <i>Across the world</i>
<i>in another dry environment,</i>

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<i>regeneration begins with the people</i>

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<i>who have been working the land</i>
<i>for centuries.</i>

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[♪ Oscar Sulley and The Uhuru Dance Band
sing "Olufeme"]

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[song continues with lyrics
in native language]

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[song ends]

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<i>Every regeneration project</i>
<i>begins with one powerful thing.</i>

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<i>Seeds.</i>

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[gentle music playing]

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<i>There's one ancient tribe</i>
<i>that's trying to bring back</i>

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<i>some of Africa's most important</i>
<i>seed-spreading creatures.</i>

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[upbeat percussive music playing]

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[Robert Lemayian] <i>We are called Samburu.</i>

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Our staple food is blood, milk and meat.

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<i>So our livestock means</i>
<i>everything to us as a tribe.</i>

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That is our livelihood.

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[pensive music playing]

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[bleating]

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[Moore] <i>Herd animals need food,</i>

425
00:27:05,166 --> 00:27:09,086
<i>and that food usually comes</i>
<i>in the form of grasslands.</i>

426
00:27:10,379 --> 00:27:12,465
[Titus Letaapo] <i>The livestock</i>
<i>relies on grass.</i>

427
00:27:12,548 --> 00:27:15,384
So when the, when the grassland
is doing very well, uh,

428
00:27:15,468 --> 00:27:17,928
then, uh, the ecosystem is supportive, uh,

429
00:27:18,012 --> 00:27:20,306
<i>to wildlife and also to the community.</i>

430
00:27:22,641 --> 00:27:27,104
[Moore] <i>But to figure out how to get</i>
<i>the grasses back into northern Kenya,</i>

431
00:27:27,188 --> 00:27:29,899
<i>we first have to address...</i>

432
00:27:29,982 --> 00:27:32,610
<i>the elephant in the room.</i>

433
00:27:32,693 --> 00:27:34,737
[lighthearted music playing]

434
00:27:35,780 --> 00:27:39,992
[Lemayian] <i>So, elephants are really,</i>
<i>really special in the Samburu culture.</i>

435
00:27:43,788 --> 00:27:48,292
[Katie Rowe]<i> They're such keystone species</i>
<i>in creating grasslands.</i>

436
00:27:48,376 --> 00:27:51,170
When they spend
an amount of time in an area,

437
00:27:51,253 --> 00:27:53,631
you see how impactful they are.

438
00:27:55,591 --> 00:27:59,512
This is an acacia tree that has been
pulled and pushed down by an elephant.

439
00:28:00,930 --> 00:28:05,726
<i>They have reduced the speed of water</i>
<i>running off the surface of the soil.</i>

440
00:28:05,810 --> 00:28:08,437
It helps to catch the grass seeds.

441
00:28:09,647 --> 00:28:13,484
<i>As a result of that elephant</i>
<i>pushing down this tree,</i>

442
00:28:13,567 --> 00:28:16,237
life bounces back
and everything regenerates.

443
00:28:19,156 --> 00:28:23,911
[Moore] <i>Elephants also fertilize the land</i>
<i>with something that contains</i>

444
00:28:23,994 --> 00:28:25,663
<i>yet more seeds.</i>

445
00:28:26,664 --> 00:28:30,459
Elephant dung, as it is here,
is life in itself.

446
00:28:30,668 --> 00:28:33,879
You can just see it's full of fiber,

447
00:28:33,963 --> 00:28:35,714
and there are loads of insects.

448
00:28:35,798 --> 00:28:39,760
It's holding loads
of different types of seeds.

449
00:28:39,844 --> 00:28:43,097
The importance of this poop
is just enormous.

450
00:28:44,098 --> 00:28:46,100
[pensive music playing]

451
00:28:47,601 --> 00:28:51,522
[Lemayian] <i>The people,</i>
<i>their livestock and the wildlife</i>

452
00:28:51,605 --> 00:28:55,401
<i>lived alongside each other</i>
<i>for many, many years.</i>

453
00:28:56,777 --> 00:28:57,778
<i>And then...</i>

454
00:28:59,572 --> 00:29:00,573
<i>...poaching.</i>

455
00:29:05,453 --> 00:29:06,829
[Moore] <i>Over many years,</i>

456
00:29:06,912 --> 00:29:12,543
<i>poaching eliminated vast numbers</i>
<i>of Kenya's rhinos and elephants,</i>

457
00:29:12,626 --> 00:29:18,007
<i>which, in turn, caused the grasslands</i>
<i>to turn to dust and scrubby brush.</i>

458
00:29:21,969 --> 00:29:23,387
[Lemayian] <i>We are doomed.</i>

459
00:29:25,097 --> 00:29:26,098
<i>Unless...</i>

460
00:29:26,307 --> 00:29:27,766
[upbeat music playing]

461
00:29:28,476 --> 00:29:33,355
<i>...we start to protect</i>
<i>and regenerate our land.</i>

462
00:29:33,439 --> 00:29:39,403
<i>And the only way that this can happen</i>
<i>is if we can bring back the elephants.</i>

463
00:29:40,988 --> 00:29:45,201
<i>So we rescue and rehabilitate</i>
<i>the elephant.</i>

464
00:29:46,577 --> 00:29:48,120
[Moore] <i>Through their sanctuary,</i>

465
00:29:48,204 --> 00:29:54,710
<i>the Samburu have successfully saved</i>
<i>and rehabilitated thousands of elephants.</i>

466
00:29:54,793 --> 00:29:56,795
-[insects chirring]
-[birds chirping]

467
00:29:58,631 --> 00:30:01,634
[♪ Mark Bradshaw and Roo Pigott
sing "Awololo"]

468
00:30:05,346 --> 00:30:08,140
[song continues
with lyrics in native language]

469
00:30:22,655 --> 00:30:26,283
[Lemayian] <i>As a result of</i>
<i>conservation work that we are doing,</i>

470
00:30:26,367 --> 00:30:29,578
<i>the elephant numbers have</i>
<i>really, really bounced back.</i>

471
00:30:31,288 --> 00:30:33,290
♪ ♪

472
00:30:37,127 --> 00:30:40,923
<i>I do see a very, very positive impact</i>
<i>on the land,</i>

473
00:30:41,006 --> 00:30:43,634
<i>with the number of elephants</i>
<i>now increasing.</i>

474
00:30:44,593 --> 00:30:45,636
Look at this grass.

475
00:30:45,719 --> 00:30:49,890
This is actually, uh, very, very exciting
for us as a tribe.

476
00:30:50,474 --> 00:30:53,477
You know, we haven't seen this
for quite a very, very long time.

477
00:30:53,561 --> 00:30:55,938
We see that there is hope, and we see that

478
00:30:56,021 --> 00:31:00,359
<i>we are going to regenerate our land</i>
<i>back into grasslands.</i>

479
00:31:00,442 --> 00:31:02,444
♪ ♪

480
00:31:17,751 --> 00:31:22,506
[Moore] <i>As people have fled</i>
<i>climate chaos and conflicts,</i>

481
00:31:22,590 --> 00:31:26,093
<i>northern Uganda has become</i>
<i>a haven for refugees.</i>

482
00:31:30,806 --> 00:31:34,435
<i>With the number of refugees</i>
<i>growing globally,</i>

483
00:31:34,518 --> 00:31:38,647
<i>can regeneration be a tool</i>
<i>to bring land back to life?</i>

484
00:31:38,731 --> 00:31:40,899
-[song ends]
-[pensive music playing]

485
00:31:44,612 --> 00:31:47,239
[in Acholi] The reason I left South Sudan
is because of the war.

486
00:31:49,950 --> 00:31:51,785
[in Acholi] That is the main reason
why I came here,

487
00:31:51,869 --> 00:31:54,121
because of death and gunshots.

488
00:31:54,788 --> 00:31:57,041
[Abwo in Acholi] <i>What happened</i>
<i>in my village in war,</i>

489
00:31:57,124 --> 00:31:59,418
<i>people were being shot and killed.</i>

490
00:32:01,170 --> 00:32:06,508
[Moore] <i>The climate of sub-Saharan Africa</i>
<i>is indeed changing.</i>

491
00:32:06,592 --> 00:32:10,387
<i>And the reason it's changing</i>
<i>should come as no surprise.</i>

492
00:32:14,058 --> 00:32:17,561
[Topa]<i> A lot of what is happening is</i>
<i>because of ecological collapse,</i>

493
00:32:17,645 --> 00:32:21,732
<i>hydrological collapse and carbon</i>
<i>and nutrient cycle collapse.</i>

494
00:32:21,815 --> 00:32:23,192
<i>[clicks, beeps]</i>

495
00:32:23,275 --> 00:32:24,902
<i>Hundred and fifty-three degrees.</i>

496
00:32:24,985 --> 00:32:27,696
<i>Sixty-seven point five degrees</i>
<i>Celsius, okay?</i>

497
00:32:27,780 --> 00:32:32,618
<i>This is not an enabling environment</i>
<i>for any plant growth.</i>

498
00:32:32,701 --> 00:32:36,580
<i>I've seen in farms</i>
<i>in all parts of Africa</i>

499
00:32:36,664 --> 00:32:39,458
farmers who have bought into this model

500
00:32:39,541 --> 00:32:41,502
<i>of chemical farming.</i>

501
00:32:41,585 --> 00:32:47,341
<i>They take a totally intact fertile system,</i>
<i>dismantle that</i>

502
00:32:47,424 --> 00:32:52,012
<i>and now start applying</i>
<i>synthetic fertilizers, pesticides.</i>

503
00:32:54,264 --> 00:32:59,561
<i>And it's expanding, the Sahara Desert</i>
<i>and the entire area below that.</i>

504
00:32:59,645 --> 00:33:02,147
[Thomas Cole] <i>What we're seeing</i>
<i>over these years is</i>

505
00:33:02,231 --> 00:33:03,691
a pretty stark increase

506
00:33:03,774 --> 00:33:06,110
<i>in human population in sub-Saharan Africa.</i>

507
00:33:06,235 --> 00:33:10,823
<i>At the same time, you've had</i>
<i>a steady decline in soil fertility.</i>

508
00:33:10,906 --> 00:33:15,285
<i>So that means the land</i>
<i>that more and more people are living on</i>

509
00:33:15,369 --> 00:33:16,912
<i>is producing less food.</i>

510
00:33:20,374 --> 00:33:22,668
[Miriam Lakot Kibwota] <i>When the refugees</i>
<i>come to Uganda,</i>

511
00:33:22,751 --> 00:33:24,837
<i>you are supposed to depend on food</i>

512
00:33:24,920 --> 00:33:26,463
that is distributed to you.

513
00:33:28,006 --> 00:33:31,260
If it is not there, you have to go hungry.

514
00:33:31,635 --> 00:33:34,263
[Linda Eckerbom Cole] <i>How do we show</i>
<i>that a refugee camp</i>

515
00:33:34,346 --> 00:33:37,683
<i>can actually be a place of regeneration?</i>

516
00:33:44,356 --> 00:33:47,192
[Thomas Cole] <i>We said</i>
<i>we'd love to start a farm.</i>

517
00:33:47,276 --> 00:33:49,695
[♪ Mel Dean sings "Under African Skies"]

518
00:33:49,778 --> 00:33:51,864
[song continues
with lyrics in native language]

519
00:33:55,701 --> 00:33:58,662
<i>We did a design to figure out</i>
<i>what do we want.</i>

520
00:34:00,622 --> 00:34:04,042
<i>First thing we need to do</i>
<i>is control the water.</i>

521
00:34:04,126 --> 00:34:08,380
<i>Every time it rains,</i>
<i>the water is just washing through here.</i>

522
00:34:08,464 --> 00:34:09,923
<i>[Kibwota speaks native language]</i>

523
00:34:10,007 --> 00:34:12,134
Letter "A."

524
00:34:12,217 --> 00:34:15,804
[Thomas Cole] <i>We have these simple tools,</i>
<i>an A-frame that we use</i>

525
00:34:15,888 --> 00:34:18,891
<i>to map out the contour of their land,</i>

526
00:34:18,974 --> 00:34:22,102
<i>knowing where to put</i>
<i>these water-harvesting structures.</i>

527
00:34:26,315 --> 00:34:29,735
<i>In West Africa,</i>
<i>they're called demi-lunes, half-moons.</i>

528
00:34:30,235 --> 00:34:31,737
[Evelyne Lalwedo] <i>The open part,</i>

529
00:34:31,820 --> 00:34:33,864
it is facing up the slope.

530
00:34:34,448 --> 00:34:36,533
[Thomas Cole] <i>Some people</i>
<i>call them smile berms,</i>

531
00:34:36,617 --> 00:34:40,245
so we say, "Okay, the tip of the smile
always needs to be pointing up."

532
00:34:40,329 --> 00:34:41,914
<i>You have to smile.</i>

533
00:34:41,997 --> 00:34:43,332
♪ ♪

534
00:34:45,167 --> 00:34:47,419
[Lalwedo] <i>So, as part of our designing,</i>

535
00:34:47,503 --> 00:34:52,216
<i>we incorporated the pond into the farm</i>
<i>to help us capture</i>

536
00:34:52,299 --> 00:34:53,967
the excess water.

537
00:34:54,593 --> 00:34:58,305
[Thomas Cole] <i>When it does rain,</i>
<i>these systems are welcoming that rain</i>

538
00:34:58,388 --> 00:35:00,933
<i>and really banking that water in the soil.</i>

539
00:35:01,725 --> 00:35:05,521
[Lalwedo] <i>We ensure that we direct</i>
<i>the running water where we need it.</i>

540
00:35:05,896 --> 00:35:07,898
[Thomas Cole] <i>Apart from</i>
<i>a few native trees,</i>

541
00:35:07,981 --> 00:35:12,611
<i>all of this growth is</i>
<i>within the last 18 months' rainfall.</i>

542
00:35:16,448 --> 00:35:17,866
[song fades]

543
00:35:18,867 --> 00:35:21,954
[Moore] <i>The principles of regeneration</i>
<i>could offer hope</i>

544
00:35:22,037 --> 00:35:26,333
<i>to the nearly one billion people</i>
<i>in sub-Saharan Africa.</i>

545
00:35:26,416 --> 00:35:28,585
[♪ Johan Hugo and Lazarus play "Angelo"]

546
00:35:29,336 --> 00:35:32,840
[Lalwedo] <i>I started learning,</i>
<i>how can I build on the soil?</i>

547
00:35:32,923 --> 00:35:36,593
<i>We have all the materials</i>
<i>within our means.</i>

548
00:35:39,304 --> 00:35:41,598
[Thomas Cole] <i>You walk into</i>
<i>someone's piece of land,</i>

549
00:35:41,682 --> 00:35:42,766
you're like, "Whoa."

550
00:35:42,850 --> 00:35:45,185
[song continues
with lyrics in native language]

551
00:35:54,111 --> 00:35:56,738
[Lalwedo] <i>Behind me here is a food forest.</i>

552
00:35:56,822 --> 00:36:01,410
We have over 20-plus
different kind of plant species.

553
00:36:01,493 --> 00:36:03,453
They are doing very okay together.

554
00:36:07,749 --> 00:36:09,167
[Santa Aber in Acholi] <i>My life</i>
<i>has changed because</i>

555
00:36:09,251 --> 00:36:10,919
<i>I don't go asking neighbors for food.</i>

556
00:36:13,130 --> 00:36:15,132
<i>But the neighbors come ask me for food</i>

557
00:36:15,215 --> 00:36:17,092
and also provide me with money.

558
00:36:17,509 --> 00:36:18,677
[speaks Acholi]

559
00:36:20,262 --> 00:36:23,599
[Abwo in Acholi] <i>I have</i>
<i>mango, avocado, guava,</i>

560
00:36:23,682 --> 00:36:28,145
lemons, arrowroots and many more.

561
00:36:28,228 --> 00:36:30,856
<i>I am very happy, very happy.</i>

562
00:36:30,939 --> 00:36:32,149
[laughing]

563
00:36:32,232 --> 00:36:34,109
♪ ♪

564
00:36:44,620 --> 00:36:47,247
[Linda Eckerbom Cole] <i>The majority</i>
<i>of the people that we work with</i>

565
00:36:47,331 --> 00:36:49,082
<i>become food secure.</i>

566
00:36:49,166 --> 00:36:52,461
<i>They have enough money where they can</i>
<i>send their children to school.</i>

567
00:36:52,544 --> 00:36:55,339
That's economic empowerment and change.

568
00:36:55,422 --> 00:36:57,382
♪ ♪

569
00:37:00,886 --> 00:37:03,263
[Salina Abraha] <i>I have seen</i>
<i>endless examples</i>

570
00:37:03,347 --> 00:37:05,891
where all of this restoration
is happening.

571
00:37:05,974 --> 00:37:07,309
<i>It's working in different countries.</i>

572
00:37:07,392 --> 00:37:09,353
<i>It's working in Ethiopia.</i>
<i>It's working in Nigeria.</i>

573
00:37:09,436 --> 00:37:11,355
<i>It's working in Kenya and Uganda.</i>

574
00:37:11,438 --> 00:37:15,067
<i>And all of it's different,</i>
<i>but it's a movement that is undeniable</i>

575
00:37:15,150 --> 00:37:16,860
and is really connected.

576
00:37:16,944 --> 00:37:18,487
[Topa] <i>Farm by farm,</i>

577
00:37:18,570 --> 00:37:19,696
we can actually heal

578
00:37:19,780 --> 00:37:23,450
<i>that band that covers</i>
<i>the Great Green Wall.</i>

579
00:37:23,533 --> 00:37:25,369
[Abraha]<i> This mosaic</i>
<i>of different landscapes</i>

580
00:37:25,452 --> 00:37:27,996
<i>that cuts across the entire continent.</i>

581
00:37:30,248 --> 00:37:36,171
[Topa]<i> It takes many farmers,</i>
<i>many gardeners, many ecosystem actors</i>

582
00:37:36,254 --> 00:37:38,757
<i>to take restorative action.</i>

583
00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:41,927
<i>By integrating regenerative practices,</i>

584
00:37:42,010 --> 00:37:45,430
<i>by working together with communities</i>
<i>for citizen engineering,</i>

585
00:37:45,514 --> 00:37:52,396
<i>farm by farm, we're actually stopping</i>
<i>the Sahara Desert from inching southward,</i>

586
00:37:52,479 --> 00:37:56,108
<i>to bring that desert back to life.</i>

587
00:37:57,275 --> 00:38:00,195
[Abraha] <i>The Great Green Wall,</i>
<i>for me, is something that is</i>

588
00:38:00,278 --> 00:38:03,991
<i>vital to our survival,</i>
<i>to our growth and our future.</i>

589
00:38:15,210 --> 00:38:19,172
[Harrelson] <i>As Africa builds</i>
<i>a Green Wall to heal its deserts,</i>

590
00:38:19,256 --> 00:38:22,676
<i>there's another densely populated country</i>

591
00:38:22,759 --> 00:38:27,014
<i>that's using the principles of</i>
<i>regeneration to heal its landscapes.</i>

592
00:38:27,097 --> 00:38:30,142
[upbeat Indian music playing]

593
00:38:33,311 --> 00:38:37,858
[Agam Khare] <i>The only culture in India</i>
<i>that has existed for 5,000 years</i>

594
00:38:37,941 --> 00:38:39,234
is agriculture.

595
00:38:43,113 --> 00:38:48,577
<i>In India, there are about</i>
<i>100 million farming families.</i>

596
00:38:48,660 --> 00:38:53,165
Almost 50% of the families
are completely dependent

597
00:38:53,248 --> 00:38:55,500
on the traditional means of agriculture.

598
00:39:00,630 --> 00:39:04,342
[Harrelson] <i>India was once</i>
<i>a thriving agricultural land</i>

599
00:39:04,426 --> 00:39:06,511
<i>rich with natural resources.</i>

600
00:39:06,595 --> 00:39:07,929
[pensive music playing]

601
00:39:08,013 --> 00:39:10,557
[Khare] <i>India was the epicenter</i>
<i>of agriculture production.</i>

602
00:39:11,641 --> 00:39:14,853
[Vandana Shiva] <i>In India,</i>
<i>we never had monocultures.</i>

603
00:39:14,936 --> 00:39:16,438
<i>The principle of diversity,</i>

604
00:39:16,521 --> 00:39:19,566
<i>that's the very core of Indian farming.</i>

605
00:39:19,649 --> 00:39:21,943
You work with nature,

606
00:39:22,027 --> 00:39:24,905
and then you produce
high-quality diverse food.

607
00:39:26,823 --> 00:39:28,700
[Khare] <i>Then fast-forward.</i>

608
00:39:28,784 --> 00:39:30,243
<i>Industrialization started happening.</i>

609
00:39:33,205 --> 00:39:37,626
[Shiva] <i>So, the first thing was,</i>
<i>colonialism was converting agriculture</i>

610
00:39:37,709 --> 00:39:40,504
into plantation economies

611
00:39:40,587 --> 00:39:42,547
<i>for exporting commodities.</i>

612
00:39:43,548 --> 00:39:48,804
[Harrelson] <i>When the British left,</i>
<i>India shifted to industrial agriculture,</i>

613
00:39:48,887 --> 00:39:53,183
<i>and the new industrial agriculture</i>
<i>was given a special name.</i>

614
00:39:54,768 --> 00:39:59,773
The green revolution was the name given
to the introduction of chemical farming.

615
00:39:59,856 --> 00:40:01,942
[upbeat Indian music playing]

616
00:40:02,025 --> 00:40:04,694
[Shaan Bhargava] <i>People brought in all</i>
<i>sorts of scientists from other countries.</i>

617
00:40:05,862 --> 00:40:08,657
<i>We were introduced to hybrid seed,</i>

618
00:40:08,740 --> 00:40:10,659
<i>insecticides and pesticides.</i>

619
00:40:11,743 --> 00:40:14,079
People really did get amazing crops

620
00:40:14,162 --> 00:40:15,747
<i>for a decade or two.</i>

621
00:40:17,290 --> 00:40:18,625
<i>But as time goes on,</i>

622
00:40:18,708 --> 00:40:20,252
we see the flip side of that coin.

623
00:40:20,335 --> 00:40:21,795
[tense music playing]

624
00:40:21,878 --> 00:40:25,507
<i>All this monocropping encourages people</i>
<i>to cut down their trees.</i>

625
00:40:26,842 --> 00:40:31,263
[Khare] <i>We have lost about</i>
<i>6,500 hectares of forest.</i>

626
00:40:32,931 --> 00:40:35,600
[Shiva] <i>And with it,</i>
<i>the diversity has disappeared.</i>

627
00:40:36,184 --> 00:40:41,148
[Khare]<i> We rank number two in the world</i>
<i>in the loss of biodiversity.</i>

628
00:40:41,648 --> 00:40:43,984
[somber music playing]

629
00:40:44,067 --> 00:40:46,653
[Harrelson] <i>The empty promises</i>
<i>of the green revolution</i>

630
00:40:46,736 --> 00:40:49,865
<i>left India's agriculture in ruins.</i>

631
00:40:54,161 --> 00:40:56,288
[Khare] <i>Over the late 1990s,</i>

632
00:40:56,371 --> 00:40:58,582
<i>soil health was depleting rapidly.</i>

633
00:40:59,583 --> 00:41:03,378
<i>The same soil which was earlier</i>
<i>responsible for sequestering carbon...</i>

634
00:41:04,713 --> 00:41:06,798
<i>...is now giving out carbon.</i>

635
00:41:08,383 --> 00:41:10,927
[Shiva]<i> So the soils are desertified.</i>

636
00:41:11,011 --> 00:41:13,930
<i>The chemical farms have lost</i>

637
00:41:14,014 --> 00:41:16,641
their soil fertility
and their soil nutrients.

638
00:41:16,725 --> 00:41:21,229
We're using more and more and more
to produce less and less and less

639
00:41:21,313 --> 00:41:24,357
<i>with agriculture</i>
<i>that destroys biodiversity,</i>

640
00:41:24,441 --> 00:41:27,235
<i>destroys soil and water,</i>

641
00:41:27,319 --> 00:41:29,946
while the farmer is being squeezed out.

642
00:41:32,449 --> 00:41:34,659
<i>What farmers are earning is collapsing,</i>

643
00:41:34,743 --> 00:41:38,455
<i>so, every year, the farmers had to borrow.</i>

644
00:41:38,538 --> 00:41:39,915
Every one of them is in debt.

645
00:41:42,209 --> 00:41:46,087
<i>From 1995 to about 2016,</i>

646
00:41:46,171 --> 00:41:50,217
<i>400,000 farmers committed suicide.</i>

647
00:41:54,554 --> 00:41:56,556
<i>[crowd singing in native language]</i>

648
00:41:58,892 --> 00:42:01,853
[Harrelson] <i>The result:</i>
<i>a new crop of people</i>

649
00:42:01,937 --> 00:42:07,025
<i>committed to safeguarding India's farmers</i>
<i>by safeguarding the soil.</i>

650
00:42:09,653 --> 00:42:11,655
[singing continues]

651
00:42:14,532 --> 00:42:18,411
<i>And for some, that work begins</i>
<i>with measuring carbon.</i>

652
00:42:19,579 --> 00:42:21,957
[hopeful Indian music playing]

653
00:42:23,708 --> 00:42:28,338
Soil today is the largest terrestrial sink
for carbon.

654
00:42:29,631 --> 00:42:33,802
<i>We are setting up</i>
<i>2,000 of these soil testing centers</i>

655
00:42:33,885 --> 00:42:35,220
<i>all across the country.</i>

656
00:42:37,305 --> 00:42:40,767
<i>It measures organic carbon content</i>
<i>in the soil,</i>

657
00:42:40,850 --> 00:42:45,105
<i>ensuring the carbon can be sequestered</i>
<i>and put back to where it belongs.</i>

658
00:42:49,067 --> 00:42:54,406
[Harrelson] <i>And when organic carbon</i>
<i>increases, the yield of farms increase.</i>

659
00:42:55,991 --> 00:43:00,287
<i>In other words,</i>
<i>more carbon equals more food.</i>

660
00:43:00,370 --> 00:43:03,039
[hopeful music playing]

661
00:43:03,123 --> 00:43:06,543
[Khare] <i>The organic carbon levels</i>
<i>can be improved in the soil.</i>

662
00:43:06,626 --> 00:43:13,049
<i>The yields of the farms can go up</i>
<i>by anywhere between 20 to 35 percent,</i>

663
00:43:13,133 --> 00:43:16,136
<i>which directly translates</i>
<i>into the income of the farmers.</i>

664
00:43:18,013 --> 00:43:22,392
<i>You're talking about elevating</i>
<i>billions of people out of poverty.</i>

665
00:43:24,936 --> 00:43:27,397
<i>It's not just an opportunity.</i>

666
00:43:27,480 --> 00:43:30,275
I also think of it as a moral obligation.

667
00:43:34,195 --> 00:43:36,698
-[crowd chanting in distance]
-[birds chirping]

668
00:43:42,787 --> 00:43:44,956
[Harrelson]<i> For one spiritual leader</i>
<i>in India,</i>

669
00:43:45,040 --> 00:43:49,419
<i>saving hundreds of millions of lives</i>
<i>begins with saving soil.</i>

670
00:43:49,502 --> 00:43:52,130
[woman] <i>Groundswell, </i>Sadhguru, take two.

671
00:43:54,507 --> 00:43:56,634
[Sadhguru] <i>Soil is not your property.</i>

672
00:43:57,635 --> 00:44:00,764
It's a legacy that you received
from previous generations.

673
00:44:01,348 --> 00:44:03,141
<i>And it's your fundamental responsibility</i>

674
00:44:03,224 --> 00:44:06,519
<i>to pass it on as a living entity</i>
<i>to next generations.</i>

675
00:44:06,603 --> 00:44:08,438
[whooshing]

676
00:44:08,521 --> 00:44:11,900
<i>I've grown up on farms for many years.</i>

677
00:44:11,983 --> 00:44:14,778
<i>When you work on the soil,</i>
<i>you must know you're part of the soil.</i>

678
00:44:14,861 --> 00:44:15,987
<i>You are soil.</i>

679
00:44:17,530 --> 00:44:22,827
<i>There are only 55 to 60 years of soil</i>
<i>left on the planet for agriculture.</i>

680
00:44:22,911 --> 00:44:24,746
[pensive music playing]

681
00:44:24,829 --> 00:44:28,083
<i>So, what to do? How to wake up the world?</i>

682
00:44:28,166 --> 00:44:29,501
[wind whistling]

683
00:44:29,584 --> 00:44:31,086
[engine revs]

684
00:44:31,169 --> 00:44:33,421
-[♪ Conscious Planet sings "Soil Song"]
-♪ <i>La, la, le, le, le, le, le</i> ♪

685
00:44:33,505 --> 00:44:36,508
♪ <i>La, la, le, le, le, le, le, le</i> ♪

686
00:44:36,591 --> 00:44:38,718
♪ <i>La, la, le, le, le, le, le</i> ♪

687
00:44:38,802 --> 00:44:42,222
♪ <i>La, le, le, le, le, le </i>♪

688
00:44:42,305 --> 00:44:46,059
<i>So I decided to ride from London</i>
<i>to southern India.</i>

689
00:44:46,142 --> 00:44:47,310
[Josie Gibson] <i>And talking about soil,</i>

690
00:44:47,394 --> 00:44:49,312
you are on a mission.

691
00:44:49,396 --> 00:44:51,272
[Phillip Schofield] <i>This hundred-day</i>
<i>motorcycle journey.</i>

692
00:44:51,356 --> 00:44:54,651
The hundred-day journey
spanning 30,000 kilometers.

693
00:44:54,734 --> 00:45:00,198
[Sadhguru] <i>Riding nonstop through</i>
<i>the rain, through snow, through desert.</i>

694
00:45:04,119 --> 00:45:07,705
You know, I'm 65 years of age.
Hope I survive. [laughs]

695
00:45:07,789 --> 00:45:09,207
[crowd cheering and whistling]

696
00:45:11,418 --> 00:45:15,588
<i>My aim is if we can get the people to say,</i>

697
00:45:15,672 --> 00:45:19,134
<i>"We are concerned about</i>
<i>the quality of soil,"</i>

698
00:45:19,217 --> 00:45:22,137
<i>then the political leaders will act.</i>

699
00:45:22,220 --> 00:45:25,557
So I thought I should get that statement
from the people.

700
00:45:25,640 --> 00:45:26,975
Hello. Can you hear me?

701
00:45:27,058 --> 00:45:28,935
[crowd] Yes!

702
00:45:29,018 --> 00:45:31,479
♪ <i>La, la, le, le, le, le, le</i> ♪

703
00:45:31,563 --> 00:45:34,524
♪ <i>La, la, le, le, le, le, le, le, le, le</i> ♪

704
00:45:34,607 --> 00:45:36,985
♪ <i>Le, le, le, le, le</i> ♪

705
00:45:37,068 --> 00:45:39,779
♪ <i>La, le, le, le, le, le...</i>

706
00:45:39,863 --> 00:45:46,619
[Harrelson] <i>Sadhguru attended</i>
<i>691 events across 27 countries,</i>

707
00:45:46,703 --> 00:45:49,956
<i>reaching billions of people</i>
<i>with his message.</i>

708
00:45:50,039 --> 00:45:52,917
[Sadhguru] <i>Once the political leaders saw</i>

709
00:45:53,001 --> 00:45:55,170
<i>that so many people</i>
<i>are concerned about it,</i>

710
00:45:55,253 --> 00:45:59,632
<i>suddenly everybody was concerned about it</i>
<i>and many countries responded.</i>

711
00:45:59,716 --> 00:46:02,010
♪ <i>La, la, le, le, le, le, le </i>♪

712
00:46:02,093 --> 00:46:03,761
♪ <i>La, le, le, le, le, le</i> ♪♪

713
00:46:03,845 --> 00:46:05,805
[singer vocalizing]

714
00:46:05,889 --> 00:46:07,724
-[crowd cheering]
-[song ends]

715
00:46:08,766 --> 00:46:11,769
<i>But is the problem fixed?</i>

716
00:46:11,853 --> 00:46:13,521
No.

717
00:46:13,605 --> 00:46:16,149
Very little has happened on the ground.

718
00:46:16,733 --> 00:46:21,613
Still, it looks like we don't understand
the magnitude of the problem.

719
00:46:21,696 --> 00:46:23,114
[pensive music playing]

720
00:46:27,994 --> 00:46:29,037
[horns honking]

721
00:46:29,120 --> 00:46:31,164
[♪ Robin Datta and William Baker
play "Epic Dawn"]

722
00:46:31,247 --> 00:46:33,958
[Harrelson] <i>Just as soil</i>
<i>can be turned to dust,</i>

723
00:46:34,042 --> 00:46:36,252
<i>soil can be healed.</i>

724
00:46:36,336 --> 00:46:41,466
<i>And sometimes it's as simple as capturing</i>
<i>water instead of letting it run off.</i>

725
00:46:41,549 --> 00:46:43,551
♪ ♪

726
00:46:47,347 --> 00:46:48,932
[Manvendra Singh Shekhawat] <i>In all</i>
<i>these years that I have lived here,</i>

727
00:46:49,015 --> 00:46:51,684
I've never seen rains like this.

728
00:46:51,809 --> 00:46:54,103
♪ ♪

729
00:46:56,064 --> 00:47:00,276
<i>We are in Jaisalmer, which</i>
<i>most of the world writes off as a desert.</i>

730
00:47:00,735 --> 00:47:04,113
<i>It is one of the most arid parts</i>
<i>of the country.</i>

731
00:47:04,197 --> 00:47:07,492
<i>It rains less than</i>
<i>15 centimeters annually.</i>

732
00:47:08,284 --> 00:47:10,870
[Jatan Shekhawat] <i>Right now,</i>
<i>we are in a place called Dhun.</i>

733
00:47:10,954 --> 00:47:12,539
It's a man-made eco-reserve,

734
00:47:12,622 --> 00:47:16,459
which we have been working on rewilding
for last ten years.

735
00:47:17,669 --> 00:47:20,338
[Manvendra] <i>We have designed</i>
<i>the entire structure of this place,</i>

736
00:47:20,505 --> 00:47:23,675
<i>keeping in mind</i>
<i>a once-in-30-year rain event.</i>

737
00:47:23,758 --> 00:47:25,260
I think that this is it.

738
00:47:28,137 --> 00:47:31,057
<i>When you have events like this,</i>

739
00:47:31,140 --> 00:47:35,311
<i>you can capture this entire precipitation</i>
<i>and utilize it</i>

740
00:47:35,395 --> 00:47:37,981
in period when you don't have water.

741
00:47:39,816 --> 00:47:43,152
<i>We have created about 60 ponds</i>
<i>in the nearby region.</i>

742
00:47:44,070 --> 00:47:45,780
[traditional Indian music playing]

743
00:47:52,161 --> 00:47:55,248
<i>What was here before was</i>
<i>a semiarid piece of land,</i>

744
00:47:55,331 --> 00:47:56,958
<i>completely deserted.</i>

745
00:47:57,041 --> 00:48:00,503
<i>And what you see now is a verdant oasis.</i>

746
00:48:02,422 --> 00:48:04,799
And then here you can see this was dust,

747
00:48:04,882 --> 00:48:08,219
and now it is two-meter-tall grass.

748
00:48:10,138 --> 00:48:12,557
<i>When you plant grasses,</i>
<i>when you plant trees,</i>

749
00:48:12,640 --> 00:48:14,726
<i>it acts as a big sponge.</i>

750
00:48:14,809 --> 00:48:17,979
<i>Because of the porosity of soil,</i>
<i>it just permeates.</i>

751
00:48:18,896 --> 00:48:21,149
<i>Grasses are important for climate because</i>

752
00:48:21,232 --> 00:48:23,985
each one of this straw is a carbon pump

753
00:48:24,068 --> 00:48:26,738
sequestering carbon in the ground.

754
00:48:29,365 --> 00:48:33,161
[Harrelson] <i>Grasses are</i>
<i>a key component to regeneration.</i>

755
00:48:33,244 --> 00:48:38,374
<i>For grasses to keep growing,</i>
<i>they need four-legged creatures.</i>

756
00:48:45,381 --> 00:48:48,426
[Manvendra] <i>Without all the cattle here,</i>

757
00:48:48,509 --> 00:48:51,220
<i>there was no way that we could have</i>
<i>regenerated this land.</i>

758
00:48:52,430 --> 00:48:56,267
<i>So, animals, land with water,</i>

759
00:48:56,351 --> 00:48:59,270
<i>that virtuous cycle really starts life</i>

760
00:48:59,354 --> 00:49:01,981
in even the most arid places.

761
00:49:03,399 --> 00:49:08,780
<i>This is what can happen in just ten years,</i>
<i>if you just allow the land to heal itself.</i>

762
00:49:09,572 --> 00:49:11,741
It's a miracle.

763
00:49:12,742 --> 00:49:15,036
♪ ♪

764
00:49:30,885 --> 00:49:34,931
[Moore] <i>In India, regenerative pioneers</i>
<i>are trying to reverse</i>

765
00:49:35,014 --> 00:49:37,433
<i>the effects of industrial agriculture.</i>

766
00:49:41,646 --> 00:49:43,648
<i>Meanwhile, in the southern hemisphere...</i>

767
00:49:43,731 --> 00:49:45,108
[♪ Guillermo Portabales sings "Cumbiamba"]

768
00:49:45,191 --> 00:49:48,111
<i>...there's one country</i>
<i>that's using a new model</i>

769
00:49:48,194 --> 00:49:52,156
<i>to regenerate forests</i>
<i>and bring back biodiversity.</i>

770
00:49:52,240 --> 00:49:55,118
[song continues with lyrics in Spanish]

771
00:49:55,201 --> 00:49:57,745
<i>Their efforts could determine</i>
<i>the future of a food item</i>

772
00:49:57,829 --> 00:50:01,082
<i>used by over one billion people every day.</i>

773
00:50:03,710 --> 00:50:07,463
<i>And it all boils down to a cup of joe.</i>

774
00:50:09,966 --> 00:50:12,051
[Ana María Gil Duran in Spanish]
<i>Coffee here in Colombia</i>

775
00:50:12,135 --> 00:50:14,470
is the economic base for many families.

776
00:50:15,513 --> 00:50:18,433
[Juan Carlos Ardila]<i> We say in Colombia,</i>
<i>coffee does not create wealth</i>

777
00:50:18,516 --> 00:50:20,351
but stops poverty.

778
00:50:23,062 --> 00:50:25,398
<i>Coffee is very intensive labor.</i>

779
00:50:26,232 --> 00:50:27,692
It's not automatic. [chuckles]

780
00:50:30,111 --> 00:50:31,112
<i>You plant it.</i>

781
00:50:32,321 --> 00:50:34,073
<i>You harvest it.</i>

782
00:50:34,157 --> 00:50:35,783
<i>You remove the skin.</i>

783
00:50:35,867 --> 00:50:37,201
<i>Ferment it.</i>

784
00:50:37,285 --> 00:50:38,786
<i>You wash it.</i>

785
00:50:38,870 --> 00:50:40,580
<i>Dry it.</i>

786
00:50:40,663 --> 00:50:42,290
<i>Pack it.</i>

787
00:50:42,373 --> 00:50:44,208
<i>Roast it.</i>

788
00:50:44,292 --> 00:50:46,043
<i>Grind it.</i>

789
00:50:46,127 --> 00:50:47,170
<i>Prepare it.</i>

790
00:50:48,212 --> 00:50:51,048
At the end, you have
the perfect cup of coffee.

791
00:50:51,549 --> 00:50:52,675
[song ends]

792
00:50:52,759 --> 00:50:54,635
[pensive music playing]

793
00:50:55,845 --> 00:50:58,389
[Moore] <i>Like most agricultural regions,</i>

794
00:50:58,473 --> 00:51:02,351
<i>Colombia is facing severe deforestation.</i>

795
00:51:04,353 --> 00:51:08,065
<i>Industrial coffee plantations</i>
<i>clear-cut forests,</i>

796
00:51:08,149 --> 00:51:10,777
<i>thereby killing off biodiversity.</i>

797
00:51:11,736 --> 00:51:16,157
[Jose Castaño] <i>When they started</i>
<i>cutting the trees to plant more coffee,</i>

798
00:51:16,240 --> 00:51:17,700
there was a big loss of habitat.

799
00:51:19,911 --> 00:51:21,704
[Moore] <i>The problem is so severe</i>

800
00:51:21,788 --> 00:51:27,126
<i>that industrial coffee is a significant</i>
<i>cause of deforestation worldwide.</i>

801
00:51:32,548 --> 00:51:35,218
[Viviana Gutierrez] You can really see
across the way what's happening.

802
00:51:35,301 --> 00:51:37,386
<i>This is completely barren.</i>

803
00:51:45,102 --> 00:51:47,313
[Ruth Bennett]<i> Coffee's under threat</i>
<i>right now.</i>

804
00:51:47,396 --> 00:51:50,691
<i>Soils that have been exposed</i>
<i>to full-sun coffee monocultures</i>

805
00:51:50,775 --> 00:51:52,401
<i>for the past 20 or 30 years</i>

806
00:51:52,485 --> 00:51:55,029
no longer have the nutrients necessary

807
00:51:55,112 --> 00:51:57,406
to keep coffee growing on those lands.

808
00:51:59,075 --> 00:52:04,163
<i>We need coffee agriculture to move away</i>
<i>from these intensified monocultures,</i>

809
00:52:04,247 --> 00:52:06,082
<i>or we won't have coffee.</i>

810
00:52:10,378 --> 00:52:12,839
[upbeat music playing]

811
00:52:14,757 --> 00:52:17,802
[Moore] <i>But there is</i>
<i>a better way to grow coffee.</i>

812
00:52:17,885 --> 00:52:23,224
<i>And not surprisingly, it has to do</i>
<i>with farming regeneratively.</i>

813
00:52:26,727 --> 00:52:30,898
[in Spanish] I have 11,200 coffee trees.

814
00:52:33,192 --> 00:52:36,904
So we are working with some good practices

815
00:52:36,988 --> 00:52:38,906
<i>of regenerative agriculture.</i>

816
00:52:42,660 --> 00:52:45,162
[Moore] <i>Regenerative coffee farms</i>
<i>mimic a forest,</i>

817
00:52:45,246 --> 00:52:50,376
<i>where they plant a mix of trees,</i>
<i>including banana and plantain trees.</i>

818
00:52:51,752 --> 00:52:53,921
<i>The giant leaves provide shade</i>

819
00:52:54,005 --> 00:52:56,757
<i>for the smaller coffee trees,</i>

820
00:52:56,841 --> 00:53:00,011
<i>regulating the temperature</i>
<i>and holding water in the soil.</i>

821
00:53:02,972 --> 00:53:05,308
[Darío in Spanish] <i>The banana trees</i>
<i>make shade for the soil.</i>

822
00:53:06,517 --> 00:53:09,937
<i>All of these leaves decompose</i>
<i>and produce organic material.</i>

823
00:53:10,021 --> 00:53:12,523
<i>We are making the most</i>
<i>of the organic material.</i>

824
00:53:13,024 --> 00:53:15,151
[Bennett]<i> Shade-grown systems</i>
<i>produce better</i>

825
00:53:15,234 --> 00:53:18,279
<i>and higher quality coffee</i>
<i>than sun-grown systems.</i>

826
00:53:19,155 --> 00:53:21,782
Every year, that shade
interacts with temperature

827
00:53:21,866 --> 00:53:23,034
in a slightly different way.

828
00:53:23,117 --> 00:53:27,413
<i>The seeds are denser,</i>
<i>and so they pack more complex flavors in.</i>

829
00:53:27,496 --> 00:53:30,791
<i>And all of that is linked</i>
<i>with the microbial life in the soil.</i>

830
00:53:31,500 --> 00:53:33,210
[in Spanish] Look at
the quality of the soil

831
00:53:33,294 --> 00:53:34,295
that you can create.

832
00:53:35,755 --> 00:53:37,632
<i>Clean soil,</i>

833
00:53:37,715 --> 00:53:40,384
because it doesn't contain
agrochemicals of any kind.

834
00:53:40,468 --> 00:53:43,346
<i>This is what makes</i>
<i>the quality of the coffee</i>

835
00:53:43,429 --> 00:53:45,598
<i>recognized worldwide.</i>

836
00:53:49,977 --> 00:53:53,648
[Moore] <i>Regenerative coffee farms</i>
<i>have another benefit.</i>

837
00:53:53,731 --> 00:53:56,734
<i>They protect the biodiversity</i>
<i>of the rainforest.</i>

838
00:53:57,735 --> 00:54:01,489
<i>Among the many species</i>
<i>that thrive on these farms</i>

839
00:54:01,572 --> 00:54:04,116
<i>is one that's easy to observe.</i>

840
00:54:04,200 --> 00:54:05,826
[pensive music playing]

841
00:54:05,910 --> 00:54:10,581
[Gutierrez] <i>If you close your eyes</i>
<i>and you go to a regenerative coffee farm,</i>

842
00:54:10,665 --> 00:54:14,919
<i>you immediately feel a difference,</i>
<i>because of all the birds that you hear.</i>

843
00:54:15,002 --> 00:54:16,003
[birds chirping and calling]

844
00:54:23,970 --> 00:54:25,930
[birdsong continues]

845
00:54:30,434 --> 00:54:33,020
Birds are literally
the canary in the coal mine.

846
00:54:34,313 --> 00:54:37,191
<i>They can tell us</i>
<i>how healthy an ecosystem is.</i>

847
00:54:38,192 --> 00:54:42,446
<i>The more similar that you can make</i>
<i>your coffee farm to a forest,</i>

848
00:54:42,530 --> 00:54:45,366
<i>the more that you're able</i>
<i>to contribute to biodiversity.</i>

849
00:54:47,159 --> 00:54:48,786
<i>Using birds as indicators,</i>

850
00:54:48,869 --> 00:54:53,708
<i>we've been able to evaluate</i>
<i>about 84,000 farms worldwide.</i>

851
00:54:53,791 --> 00:54:58,504
<i>What we've seen is that the levels</i>
<i>of biodiversity in those coffee farms</i>

852
00:54:58,587 --> 00:55:03,467
<i>are really similar to other levels</i>
<i>of biodiversity in protected areas.</i>

853
00:55:04,719 --> 00:55:10,891
<i>So the potential of coffee to contribute</i>
<i>to conservation is really unmatched.</i>

854
00:55:14,270 --> 00:55:16,063
<i>The coffee regions around the world</i>

855
00:55:16,147 --> 00:55:20,776
<i>overlap greatly with</i>
<i>the biodiversity hot spots in the world.</i>

856
00:55:22,653 --> 00:55:27,408
<i>So it's really vital to grow coffee</i>
<i>in ways that create the conditions</i>

857
00:55:27,491 --> 00:55:32,621
<i>for biodiversity to thrive as you're able</i>
<i>to create a livelihood for yourself.</i>

858
00:55:36,000 --> 00:55:38,753
[upbeat Latin music playing]

859
00:55:40,921 --> 00:55:43,466
[Moore] <i>Like so many of our food choices,</i>

860
00:55:43,549 --> 00:55:48,220
<i>every cup of coffee is a vote</i>
<i>that directly affects the future.</i>

861
00:55:50,765 --> 00:55:54,060
[Gutierrez] <i>There's so much more</i>
<i>that could be in our cup of coffee.</i>

862
00:55:54,143 --> 00:55:56,729
<i>There could be healthy rivers,</i>

863
00:55:56,812 --> 00:55:58,731
<i>healthier soils.</i>

864
00:55:58,814 --> 00:56:02,109
<i>There could be</i>
<i>increased resilience to drought.</i>

865
00:56:02,193 --> 00:56:05,613
<i>As you're drinking coffee,</i>
<i>as you're watching birds in your backyard,</i>

866
00:56:05,696 --> 00:56:08,532
<i>think about,</i>
<i>"Where were those birds all winter?</i>

867
00:56:08,616 --> 00:56:11,202
And how does my cup of coffee influence

868
00:56:11,285 --> 00:56:13,287
<i>if my birds are gonna come back or not?"</i>

869
00:56:14,330 --> 00:56:17,041
[Bennett] <i>When we choose</i>
<i>regenerative coffee,</i>

870
00:56:17,124 --> 00:56:20,753
we are giving farmers
an economic reason and opportunity

871
00:56:20,836 --> 00:56:25,382
<i>to maintain those forests,</i>
<i>those shade trees and that biodiversity.</i>

872
00:56:26,092 --> 00:56:28,677
[Ardila] <i>If you, as a coffee drinker,</i>

873
00:56:28,761 --> 00:56:31,305
<i>choose a brand that is working on</i>

874
00:56:31,388 --> 00:56:33,599
regenerative agriculture,

875
00:56:33,682 --> 00:56:38,312
<i>you will achieve something</i>
<i>that is beyond the product itself,</i>

876
00:56:38,395 --> 00:56:39,480
<i>for the planet...</i>

877
00:56:41,482 --> 00:56:43,400
<i>...for yourself</i>

878
00:56:43,484 --> 00:56:46,070
<i>and for the people trying</i>
<i>to do things differently.</i>

879
00:56:55,746 --> 00:56:58,874
[Moore] <i>Just across the border,</i>
<i>to the south of Colombia,</i>

880
00:56:58,958 --> 00:57:02,253
<i>is one of the most important</i>
<i>ecosystems on Earth...</i>

881
00:57:02,336 --> 00:57:03,879
[♪ Sofi Tukker sings "Drinkee"]

882
00:57:03,963 --> 00:57:05,673
<i>...which has become a battleground</i>

883
00:57:05,756 --> 00:57:09,385
<i>for industrial versus</i>
<i>regenerative agriculture.</i>

884
00:57:09,468 --> 00:57:11,428
♪ ♪

885
00:57:18,811 --> 00:57:21,814
[song continues with lyrics in Portuguese]

886
00:57:21,897 --> 00:57:27,570
<i>As of late, the world has watched</i>
<i>while Brazil's beauty is set on fire.</i>

887
00:57:43,794 --> 00:57:47,840
<i>There's a growing number of people</i>
<i>fighting to regenerate</i>

888
00:57:47,923 --> 00:57:51,468
<i>Brazil's biodiversity and its soils.</i>

889
00:57:51,552 --> 00:57:53,554
[song ends]

890
00:57:53,637 --> 00:57:56,098
[birds chirping]

891
00:57:58,309 --> 00:58:00,644
[♪ Poranguí plays "Illuminar"]

892
00:58:00,728 --> 00:58:05,649
[Moore] <i>The heart of Brazil's</i>
<i>natural biodiversity lies in the Amazon.</i>

893
00:58:09,320 --> 00:58:13,449
<i>This magnificent rainforest</i>
<i>not only provides habitat</i>

894
00:58:13,532 --> 00:58:16,744
<i>to 40% of Earth's species,</i>

895
00:58:16,827 --> 00:58:18,662
<i>it also does something else.</i>

896
00:58:18,746 --> 00:58:20,247
♪ ♪

897
00:58:25,753 --> 00:58:27,379
[thunder rumbling softly]

898
00:58:30,633 --> 00:58:33,969
The scientists call the Amazon,
like, uh, a green ocean.

899
00:58:38,557 --> 00:58:40,893
<i>And it's working like a pump...</i>

900
00:58:42,144 --> 00:58:47,858
<i>...bringing water from the ocean</i>
<i>into the continent.</i>

901
00:58:47,942 --> 00:58:51,946
<i>This is a giant irrigation system.</i>

902
00:58:52,029 --> 00:58:53,864
<i>When you have this process happen,</i>

903
00:58:53,948 --> 00:58:57,368
you have a lot of moisture in the air.

904
00:58:59,286 --> 00:59:01,205
<i>You have flying rivers.</i>

905
00:59:01,288 --> 00:59:03,290
[wind whistling softly]

906
00:59:05,084 --> 00:59:08,379
[Moore] <i>The Amazon works</i>
<i>like the heart of our planet,</i>

907
00:59:08,462 --> 00:59:11,298
<i>pumping water to other continents.</i>

908
00:59:12,383 --> 00:59:17,471
[Moutinho] <i>Its roots distributing water</i>
<i>and rain for different places</i>

909
00:59:17,554 --> 00:59:18,931
beyond the Amazon.

910
00:59:22,309 --> 00:59:25,312
[Txai Suruí in Portuguese] <i>The Amazon</i>
<i>is connected with the other biomes.</i>

911
00:59:27,231 --> 00:59:30,067
We are connected to this planet.

912
00:59:33,320 --> 00:59:34,571
Who can live without water?

913
00:59:35,489 --> 00:59:36,615
Who can live without air?

914
00:59:39,702 --> 00:59:44,039
<i>Show me anything here</i>
<i>that does not come from nature.</i>

915
00:59:47,626 --> 00:59:50,838
<i>That's why we Indigenous women</i>
<i>speak a lot about</i>

916
00:59:50,921 --> 00:59:53,882
<i>reforesting the heart and mind.</i>

917
00:59:56,802 --> 01:00:00,055
<i>Because today this is necessary</i>
<i>for the people to understand</i>

918
01:00:00,139 --> 01:00:02,308
<i>the moment which we are living.</i>

919
01:00:08,147 --> 01:00:09,773
[song ends]

920
01:00:09,857 --> 01:00:11,859
[birds chirping]

921
01:00:13,736 --> 01:00:15,738
[mellow music playing]

922
01:00:23,787 --> 01:00:27,583
The Cerrado is the second biggest
ecosystem in Brazil

923
01:00:27,666 --> 01:00:29,752
<i>after the Amazon.</i>

924
01:00:29,835 --> 01:00:33,172
<i>And it's the most biodiverse savannah</i>
<i>in the world.</i>

925
01:00:38,218 --> 01:00:41,472
[Hannah Simmons]<i> Over 50%</i>
<i>of the Cerrado has been deforested</i>

926
01:00:41,555 --> 01:00:43,515
for agricultural use.

927
01:00:46,977 --> 01:00:53,275
[Figueiredo] <i>We are substituting</i>
<i>10,000 species for only one plant:</i>

928
01:00:53,359 --> 01:00:54,777
<i>soybean.</i>

929
01:00:58,238 --> 01:01:03,452
<i>Stopping the advance of soy frontier</i>
<i>is a very difficult task,</i>

930
01:01:03,535 --> 01:01:08,332
<i>because it depends on all those</i>
<i>investments that come from abroad.</i>

931
01:01:09,124 --> 01:01:13,170
[Moore]<i> All told, about 20% of the Cerrado</i>

932
01:01:13,253 --> 01:01:16,131
<i>and Amazon has been deforested.</i>

933
01:01:17,549 --> 01:01:21,261
<i>Because the demand for soy</i>
<i>and corn is growing,</i>

934
01:01:21,345 --> 01:01:26,809
<i>Brazil now makes up one-quarter</i>
<i>of the soy and corn grown globally.</i>

935
01:01:28,602 --> 01:01:30,729
[intriguing music playing]

936
01:01:30,813 --> 01:01:34,149
[Figueiredo] <i>The tipping point</i>
<i>is approaching very fast,</i>

937
01:01:34,233 --> 01:01:37,194
<i>and then all the ecosystem will collapse.</i>

938
01:01:38,195 --> 01:01:41,365
[Moore] <i>If Brazil's soy frontier</i>
<i>keeps expanding...</i>

939
01:01:42,825 --> 01:01:46,078
<i>...deforestation may reach</i>
<i>a critical level.</i>

940
01:01:47,454 --> 01:01:51,708
[in Portuguese] If we continue with
the same model of development...

941
01:01:53,001 --> 01:01:56,213
<i>...we will increase</i>
<i>the vulnerability of Brazil.</i>

942
01:01:58,048 --> 01:02:02,261
<i>That's why we will put in place</i>

943
01:02:02,344 --> 01:02:07,057
<i>a new way of making</i>
<i>our agriculture viable.</i>

944
01:02:14,731 --> 01:02:16,733
[insects chirring]

945
01:02:18,652 --> 01:02:23,240
[Moore]<i> The best way to regenerate</i>
<i>a forest may be to learn from the people</i>

946
01:02:23,323 --> 01:02:26,452
<i>who've lived there for thousands of years.</i>

947
01:02:26,535 --> 01:02:29,037
-[percussive tribal music playing]
-[group singing in native language]

948
01:02:35,461 --> 01:02:38,338
[Hotixá Sumané in Portuguese] <i>All of</i>
<i>this restoration secures</i>

949
01:02:38,422 --> 01:02:41,175
<i>and preserves our nature.</i>

950
01:02:41,258 --> 01:02:43,510
This is our inspiration.

951
01:02:44,261 --> 01:02:46,305
[music and singing continue]

952
01:02:47,222 --> 01:02:49,600
<i>We also have traditional technology</i>

953
01:02:49,683 --> 01:02:52,936
<i>to protect our territory.</i>

954
01:02:54,438 --> 01:02:56,732
[♪ Barbatuques sing "Baianá"]

955
01:02:56,815 --> 01:02:58,817
[song continues with lyrics in Portuguese]

956
01:03:00,360 --> 01:03:04,615
[Moore] <i>The Xavante use</i>
<i>a technique they call muvuca,</i>

957
01:03:04,698 --> 01:03:10,329
<i>which involves mixing native seeds</i>
<i>and throwing them onto the soil.</i>

958
01:03:14,541 --> 01:03:19,838
<i>This creates resilient native forests</i>
<i>that restore biodiversity.</i>

959
01:03:19,922 --> 01:03:22,257
♪ ♪

960
01:03:39,107 --> 01:03:41,235
[song ends]

961
01:03:41,318 --> 01:03:43,028
[pensive music playing]

962
01:03:43,111 --> 01:03:47,658
[Moore] <i>The Xavante seeds</i>
<i>are also brought to a seed bank</i>

963
01:03:47,741 --> 01:03:52,371
<i>that sells seeds across Brazil</i>
<i>to help replant forests.</i>

964
01:04:01,171 --> 01:04:05,634
<i>A new model pays farmers</i>
<i>to use those seeds, regrow forests</i>

965
01:04:05,717 --> 01:04:08,387
<i>and safeguard them</i>
<i>from being chopped down.</i>

966
01:04:09,012 --> 01:04:11,014
[intriguing music playing]

967
01:04:14,184 --> 01:04:16,478
[in Portuguese] Thirteen years ago,

968
01:04:16,562 --> 01:04:18,772
this looked the same as this.

969
01:04:20,440 --> 01:04:24,152
We will bring your forest
into the carbon market

970
01:04:24,236 --> 01:04:27,322
<i>and pay you to keep the forest standing.</i>

971
01:04:27,406 --> 01:04:30,784
[Moore] <i>Just like in Australia,</i>
<i>the Brazilian carbon market</i>

972
01:04:30,867 --> 01:04:34,246
<i>pays farmers</i>
<i>to put carbon into the ground.</i>

973
01:04:35,247 --> 01:04:36,748
[Trovo in Portuguese] <i>Today</i>
<i>you can see that we have</i>

974
01:04:36,832 --> 01:04:39,710
<i>a lot of organic material.</i>

975
01:04:39,793 --> 01:04:43,589
<i>We have a lot of native vegetation.</i>

976
01:04:43,672 --> 01:04:45,340
<i>Today there are lots of animals.</i>

977
01:04:45,424 --> 01:04:47,259
<i>There are capybaras.</i>

978
01:04:49,386 --> 01:04:52,556
<i>People don't believe</i>
<i>that this is possible.</i>

979
01:04:52,639 --> 01:04:57,311
<i>It is possible,</i>
<i>and it is lucrative to do this.</i>

980
01:04:58,645 --> 01:05:00,647
[Simmons]<i> The farmer</i>
<i>doesn't have to do anything,</i>

981
01:05:00,731 --> 01:05:04,610
and he's now getting money
from his forest.

982
01:05:04,693 --> 01:05:07,696
<i>From the 400,000 carbon credits</i>
<i>that we've generated,</i>

983
01:05:07,779 --> 01:05:10,157
<i>we've paid farmers four million dollars.</i>

984
01:05:10,240 --> 01:05:12,659
<i>So that's real money in their pockets.</i>

985
01:05:15,412 --> 01:05:17,414
[birds chirping]

986
01:05:19,625 --> 01:05:22,753
[Moore] <i>What if farmers</i>
<i>could get paid to grow their food</i>

987
01:05:22,836 --> 01:05:26,506
<i>and put carbon into the ground</i>
<i>inside the forest?</i>

988
01:05:26,590 --> 01:05:28,008
[hopeful music playing]

989
01:05:28,842 --> 01:05:31,136
[Pedro Diniz] <i>People say</i>
<i>we're never gonna be able</i>

990
01:05:31,219 --> 01:05:33,847
<i>to feed the world with a food forest.</i>

991
01:05:35,098 --> 01:05:36,433
And I ask all the time, why?

992
01:05:38,352 --> 01:05:42,022
[Winowiecki] <i>Agroforestry is</i>
<i>when you incorporate trees</i>

993
01:05:42,105 --> 01:05:43,732
into a farming system.

994
01:05:43,815 --> 01:05:49,821
<i>Agroforestry systems are providing</i>
<i>nutritious food, such as fruits or nuts,</i>

995
01:05:49,905 --> 01:05:52,240
<i>as well as providing shade.</i>

996
01:05:52,324 --> 01:05:54,785
<i>It actually can regulate climate.</i>

997
01:05:57,162 --> 01:06:00,415
[Diniz] The original soil from the farm,
very sandy.

998
01:06:00,499 --> 01:06:02,376
Completely different color.

999
01:06:02,459 --> 01:06:05,212
This is all sand.
This is all organic material.

1000
01:06:05,295 --> 01:06:09,508
<i>Probably three times more carbon here</i>
<i>than original soil.</i>

1001
01:06:09,591 --> 01:06:11,677
That's nature magic.

1002
01:06:12,678 --> 01:06:15,055
[upbeat music playing]

1003
01:06:16,682 --> 01:06:20,060
[in Portuguese] My work is
to create abundant systems

1004
01:06:20,143 --> 01:06:21,895
through agroforestry.

1005
01:06:23,188 --> 01:06:26,024
<i>This is the abundance</i>
<i>we procure and create.</i>

1006
01:06:32,072 --> 01:06:33,907
<i>On the farm, we have</i>

1007
01:06:33,990 --> 01:06:40,580
<i>banana, mango, avocado,</i>
<i>cupuaçu, cacao, açaí.</i>

1008
01:06:40,664 --> 01:06:43,375
<i>A lot of species.</i>

1009
01:06:43,458 --> 01:06:47,045
<i>Today I counted 156 species.</i>

1010
01:06:55,721 --> 01:06:58,140
[laughs] It's a forest!

1011
01:07:04,479 --> 01:07:07,482
[Harrelson] <i>The deforestation</i>
<i>in the Amazon is associated</i>

1012
01:07:07,566 --> 01:07:09,943
<i>with one particular food item.</i>

1013
01:07:10,026 --> 01:07:12,028
[intriguing music playing]

1014
01:07:15,323 --> 01:07:18,076
<i>That's because most of the corn and soy</i>

1015
01:07:18,160 --> 01:07:21,037
<i>grown in the world goes to feed animals.</i>

1016
01:07:23,290 --> 01:07:26,042
<i>And that corn and soy contains</i>

1017
01:07:26,126 --> 01:07:29,463
<i>unhealthy oils</i>
<i>that negatively impact our health.</i>

1018
01:07:32,174 --> 01:07:37,387
[Eric Smith] <i>We have been breeding for</i>
<i>the past 80 years for a single outcome.</i>

1019
01:07:38,388 --> 01:07:39,431
Yield.

1020
01:07:42,517 --> 01:07:44,686
<i>We pay based on the volume of the food.</i>

1021
01:07:44,770 --> 01:07:46,521
<i>It's a very simple equation.</i>

1022
01:07:47,522 --> 01:07:49,441
<i>Dollar per pound.</i>

1023
01:07:50,609 --> 01:07:53,361
<i>So, everything we've done</i>
<i>in animal agriculture</i>

1024
01:07:53,445 --> 01:07:56,323
<i>has been for getting big, fat animals.</i>

1025
01:07:57,324 --> 01:07:59,993
<i>When you have these animals</i>
<i>that are in confinement</i>

1026
01:08:00,076 --> 01:08:04,956
<i>being force-fed grain to fatten them up</i>
<i>as large as possible,</i>

1027
01:08:05,040 --> 01:08:10,295
you are getting very unhealthy
fat profiles out of these animals.

1028
01:08:12,130 --> 01:08:14,591
[Harrelson] <i>There are</i>
<i>two primary types of fat we eat:</i>

1029
01:08:14,674 --> 01:08:18,220
<i>omega-3 and omega-6.</i>

1030
01:08:18,303 --> 01:08:21,932
[Smith] <i>The omega-6's</i>
<i>tend to come primarily from seed,</i>

1031
01:08:22,015 --> 01:08:26,812
<i>whereas the omega-3's</i>
<i>primarily come from grass.</i>

1032
01:08:26,895 --> 01:08:31,066
Omega-3 fatty acids are
typically anti-inflammatory.

1033
01:08:31,149 --> 01:08:34,069
<i>Omega-6 fatty acids</i>
<i>can be pro-inflammatory</i>

1034
01:08:34,152 --> 01:08:36,279
<i>when we consume them in excess.</i>

1035
01:08:36,363 --> 01:08:38,114
<i>In the American diet, we're consuming</i>

1036
01:08:38,198 --> 01:08:39,908
<i>way too many omega-6's</i>

1037
01:08:39,991 --> 01:08:42,452
<i>and way too few omega-3's.</i>

1038
01:08:42,536 --> 01:08:45,247
The fat quality has gotten so far off,

1039
01:08:45,330 --> 01:08:48,250
<i>and it's why everyone is inflamed.</i>

1040
01:08:48,333 --> 01:08:50,752
<i>We've done that to our animals,</i>

1041
01:08:50,836 --> 01:08:52,796
<i>we've done that to our foods,</i>

1042
01:08:52,879 --> 01:08:55,257
<i>and we've done it to ourselves.</i>

1043
01:08:58,802 --> 01:09:04,349
[Harrelson] <i>Corn and soy grown to feed</i>
<i>animals contributes to deforestation.</i>

1044
01:09:05,141 --> 01:09:09,896
<i>Then force-feeding cows</i>
<i>makes the meat unhealthy.</i>

1045
01:09:09,980 --> 01:09:11,773
<i>This begs the question:</i>

1046
01:09:11,857 --> 01:09:15,443
<i>Does animal farming</i>
<i>always have to be unhealthy?</i>

1047
01:09:15,527 --> 01:09:17,696
[Niman]<i> You can't give</i>
<i>a simple answer to the question</i>

1048
01:09:17,779 --> 01:09:21,366
<i>"What is animal production's</i>
<i>impact on climate?"</i>

1049
01:09:22,367 --> 01:09:23,952
<i>It's really varied.</i>

1050
01:09:24,035 --> 01:09:26,454
It depends entirely
on how you're doing it.

1051
01:09:27,539 --> 01:09:30,792
<i>The first thing to challenge is this idea</i>

1052
01:09:30,876 --> 01:09:34,379
that you have to have
this modern factory farm system

1053
01:09:34,462 --> 01:09:36,298
in order to feed the population.

1054
01:09:37,382 --> 01:09:42,137
<i>But the truth is we haven't tried,</i>
<i>in the modern era,</i>

1055
01:09:42,220 --> 01:09:47,017
<i>producing animals at scale any other way.</i>

1056
01:09:47,100 --> 01:09:50,270
<i>We went down this road</i>

1057
01:09:50,353 --> 01:09:54,316
<i>of getting farming and agriculture</i>
<i>looking more and more like factories.</i>

1058
01:09:54,399 --> 01:09:56,318
[cattle mooing]

1059
01:09:56,401 --> 01:09:59,821
<i>We've convinced people</i>
<i>this is the only way to do it,</i>

1060
01:09:59,905 --> 01:10:03,283
<i>but there are so many good examples</i>

1061
01:10:03,366 --> 01:10:05,619
<i>where it's being done</i>
<i>a very different way.</i>

1062
01:10:07,787 --> 01:10:10,081
[Harrelson]<i> And maybe</i>
<i>there is a better way,</i>

1063
01:10:10,165 --> 01:10:14,127
<i>one that doesn't involve</i>
<i>deforestation and feedlots</i>

1064
01:10:14,210 --> 01:10:17,172
<i>but instead builds soil.</i>

1065
01:10:17,255 --> 01:10:20,675
<i>Because maybe it's like</i>
<i>they say in the South.</i>

1066
01:10:20,759 --> 01:10:23,678
<i>It ain't the cow, it's the how.</i>

1067
01:10:23,762 --> 01:10:25,221
[cattle mooing]

1068
01:10:25,305 --> 01:10:28,099
[♪ Creedence Clearwater Revival
sings "Fortunate Son"]

1069
01:10:41,821 --> 01:10:45,283
♪ <i>Some folks are born</i>
<i>made to wave the flag </i>♪

1070
01:10:45,367 --> 01:10:48,703
♪ <i>Ooh, they're red, white and blue </i>♪

1071
01:10:49,037 --> 01:10:52,457
♪ <i>And when the band plays</i>
<i>"Hail to the Chief" </i>♪

1072
01:10:52,540 --> 01:10:55,752
-♪ <i>Ooh, they point the cannon</i>
<i>at you, Lord...</i>
-[snorting]

1073
01:10:55,835 --> 01:10:57,045
How are y'all?

1074
01:10:57,128 --> 01:10:59,255
-[woman] Looking good.
-Aw, shucks.

1075
01:10:59,339 --> 01:11:03,176
[Will Harris] <i>People say</i>
<i>three kind of people in Bluffton.</i>

1076
01:11:03,259 --> 01:11:05,762
<i>There's good people that go to church,</i>

1077
01:11:05,845 --> 01:11:08,098
<i>there's bad people</i>
<i>that don't go to church,</i>

1078
01:11:08,181 --> 01:11:10,725
and there's the Harrises.

1079
01:11:10,809 --> 01:11:14,771
♪ <i>It ain't me, it ain't me </i>♪

1080
01:11:14,854 --> 01:11:18,316
♪ <i>I ain't no fortunate one, no </i>♪

1081
01:11:18,400 --> 01:11:19,526
-♪ <i>It ain't me </i>♪
-[calling]

1082
01:11:19,609 --> 01:11:21,444
♪ <i>It ain't me </i>♪

1083
01:11:21,528 --> 01:11:25,073
♪ <i>I ain't no senator's son, no </i>♪

1084
01:11:25,156 --> 01:11:28,368
♪ <i>It ain't me, it ain't me </i>♪♪

1085
01:11:28,451 --> 01:11:29,703
[song fades]

1086
01:11:29,786 --> 01:11:33,289
All I ever wanted to do was be
an industrial cattleman just like my dad.

1087
01:11:33,373 --> 01:11:35,834
[♪ Glenn Sutton and Lloyd Green
play "Green Bluegrass"]

1088
01:11:42,132 --> 01:11:46,928
<i>My dad took over the farm</i>
<i>post-World War II, 1945.</i>

1089
01:11:47,012 --> 01:11:52,017
<i>And he changed the farm to be</i>
<i>a monoculture of only cattle.</i>

1090
01:11:53,018 --> 01:11:56,896
Part of that was getting rid
of anything that was not a cow.

1091
01:11:56,980 --> 01:12:00,025
<i>So we started using ammonium nitrate.</i>

1092
01:12:00,108 --> 01:12:01,943
<i>We started confinement feeding.</i>

1093
01:12:02,027 --> 01:12:05,155
<i>We used growth hormones and steroids,</i>

1094
01:12:05,238 --> 01:12:06,740
<i>subtherapeutic antibiotics.</i>

1095
01:12:06,823 --> 01:12:11,411
All the tools that science gives you
to make meat production

1096
01:12:11,494 --> 01:12:15,373
affordable and efficient,
we subscribed to.

1097
01:12:15,457 --> 01:12:17,375
[song ends]

1098
01:12:17,459 --> 01:12:19,878
-[cattle mooing]
-[pensive music playing]

1099
01:12:19,961 --> 01:12:23,715
[Will Harris] <i>When I was an</i>
<i>industrial monocultural cattle producer,</i>

1100
01:12:23,798 --> 01:12:28,136
<i>I thought good animal welfare was</i>
<i>you keep them well-fed,</i>

1101
01:12:28,219 --> 01:12:29,929
<i>you keep them well-watered.</i>

1102
01:12:30,013 --> 01:12:32,348
<i>And that's-that's good animal welfare.</i>
<i>That's-that's fine.</i>

1103
01:12:32,432 --> 01:12:34,309
You can check that box.

1104
01:12:34,934 --> 01:12:37,562
But we loaded out
a load of cattle one day,

1105
01:12:37,645 --> 01:12:40,482
and I'd done it hundreds of times, so...

1106
01:12:40,565 --> 01:12:42,358
<i>A two-level truck, the ones on top</i>

1107
01:12:42,442 --> 01:12:45,695
<i>urinating and defecating</i>
<i>on the ones on the bottom.</i>

1108
01:12:45,779 --> 01:12:51,076
<i>They'd be on it for 30 hours</i>
<i>going to Nebraska or somewhere.</i>

1109
01:12:51,159 --> 01:12:52,702
<i>Didn't bother me a bit.</i>

1110
01:12:53,703 --> 01:12:55,872
But that day it did.

1111
01:12:55,955 --> 01:12:58,374
And, uh, I didn't want to do it anymore.

1112
01:13:02,921 --> 01:13:05,882
[♪ Matthew Sanchez, Matthew James Parker
and Sam Taylor play "On Our Way"]

1113
01:13:07,383 --> 01:13:10,804
[Jenni Harris] <i>My dad started</i>
<i>transitioning our farm away from</i>

1114
01:13:10,887 --> 01:13:14,390
<i>an industrialized model</i>
<i>that it had been for decades.</i>

1115
01:13:14,474 --> 01:13:19,020
<i>That transition led him towards</i>
<i>regenerative agriculture.</i>

1116
01:13:19,104 --> 01:13:23,274
<i>He started finding that</i>
<i>the best way to graze pasture</i>

1117
01:13:23,358 --> 01:13:26,319
<i>without the use of chemical fertilizers</i>

1118
01:13:26,402 --> 01:13:27,946
is a multispecies approach.

1119
01:13:30,031 --> 01:13:31,866
<i>And so that led him to integrate</i>

1120
01:13:31,950 --> 01:13:35,161
<i>hogs, poultry and rabbits.</i>

1121
01:13:35,245 --> 01:13:37,497
<i>And all of a sudden, we just became</i>

1122
01:13:37,580 --> 01:13:41,501
<i>this very polycultural production system</i>

1123
01:13:41,584 --> 01:13:43,795
<i>that survived in balance.</i>

1124
01:13:43,878 --> 01:13:45,672
[faint chatter]

1125
01:13:45,755 --> 01:13:47,757
[singers vocalizing]

1126
01:13:52,345 --> 01:13:55,974
[Will Harris] <i>These cattle will move</i>
<i>from one paddock to the next every day,</i>

1127
01:13:56,057 --> 01:13:59,519
<i>and that has a lot of different benefits.</i>

1128
01:13:59,602 --> 01:14:01,479
[Harrelson] <i>In industrial agriculture,</i>

1129
01:14:01,563 --> 01:14:06,401
<i>cows are kept in confinement</i>
<i>and fed corn and soy.</i>

1130
01:14:06,484 --> 01:14:08,153
<i>In regenerative agriculture,</i>

1131
01:14:08,236 --> 01:14:11,656
<i>cows are moved quickly across the land</i>
<i>like herd animals,</i>

1132
01:14:11,739 --> 01:14:14,492
<i>and they eat grass.</i>

1133
01:14:14,576 --> 01:14:16,870
<i>And that builds soil carbon.</i>

1134
01:14:17,871 --> 01:14:20,874
[Brown] <i>A lot of pastures are overgrazed.</i>

1135
01:14:20,957 --> 01:14:25,378
<i>In other words, they've left the animals</i>
<i>in a given pasture for too long,</i>

1136
01:14:25,461 --> 01:14:29,632
<i>and then the animal has eaten</i>
<i>the plant down to the ground.</i>

1137
01:14:29,716 --> 01:14:30,967
Plants have stopped growing.

1138
01:14:31,050 --> 01:14:33,636
We're not photosynthesizing anymore.

1139
01:14:33,720 --> 01:14:37,599
<i>So they need to move the animals</i>
<i>from one pasture to another</i>

1140
01:14:37,682 --> 01:14:41,311
<i>in order to allow those plants to regrow.</i>

1141
01:14:41,394 --> 01:14:43,980
[Harrelson] <i>Keeping cows</i>
<i>in smaller paddocks,</i>

1142
01:14:44,063 --> 01:14:48,776
<i>moving them often and not letting them</i>
<i>return for six months</i>

1143
01:14:48,860 --> 01:14:54,157
<i>ensures that grass isn't eaten down</i>
<i>too much and it has time to regrow.</i>

1144
01:14:55,408 --> 01:14:59,037
The plant, the energy from the sun
and the water from the rain,

1145
01:14:59,120 --> 01:15:04,209
<i>is breathing in carbon dioxide,</i>
<i>and it's growing foliage.</i>

1146
01:15:04,292 --> 01:15:07,921
<i>But there's an equal amount</i>
<i>under the surface of the soil</i>

1147
01:15:08,004 --> 01:15:12,467
<i>that is roots that slough off</i>
<i>because the top's been bit off.</i>

1148
01:15:12,550 --> 01:15:16,512
<i>Much of that carbon is sequestered</i>
<i>for a long time.</i>

1149
01:15:16,596 --> 01:15:19,098
So it's adding carbon every day.

1150
01:15:19,182 --> 01:15:21,184
[song ends]

1151
01:15:21,267 --> 01:15:23,269
[birds chirping]

1152
01:15:24,270 --> 01:15:26,314
This is very flat country here.

1153
01:15:26,397 --> 01:15:30,401
We don't get this kind of
severe elevation difference.

1154
01:15:32,570 --> 01:15:36,366
[Jenni Harris] <i>Our farm is</i>
<i>literally higher than our neighbor's,</i>

1155
01:15:36,449 --> 01:15:38,243
<i>and the only difference is</i>

1156
01:15:38,326 --> 01:15:41,162
the type of agriculture
that happens on the soil.

1157
01:15:41,246 --> 01:15:47,043
<i>We're putting carbon back, and commodity</i>
<i>agriculture is steady taking away.</i>

1158
01:15:47,126 --> 01:15:48,628
[pensive music playing]

1159
01:15:50,755 --> 01:15:53,383
[Will Harris] <i>An environmental</i>
<i>consulting group did</i>

1160
01:15:53,466 --> 01:15:55,802
an in-depth study here on the farm,

1161
01:15:55,885 --> 01:16:01,641
<i>and they found that White Oak Pastures</i>
<i>sequesters three and a half pounds</i>

1162
01:16:01,724 --> 01:16:06,229
<i>of carbon dioxide equivalent</i>
<i>to every pound of beef we produce.</i>

1163
01:16:07,146 --> 01:16:09,107
[Harrelson] <i>Sequestering carbon into soil</i>

1164
01:16:09,190 --> 01:16:13,611
<i>is the basis for the regeneration</i>
<i>of entire ecosystems.</i>

1165
01:16:14,487 --> 01:16:19,158
<i>And it turns out that cows</i>
<i>can play a big role in that.</i>

1166
01:16:19,242 --> 01:16:22,620
When you get these cycles of nature

1167
01:16:22,704 --> 01:16:26,291
operating in a system like
White Oak Pastures,

1168
01:16:26,374 --> 01:16:28,584
it spins off an abundance.

1169
01:16:28,668 --> 01:16:31,337
[lively music playing]

1170
01:16:35,133 --> 01:16:38,511
You know, everything we do here
is an emulation of nature.

1171
01:16:38,594 --> 01:16:44,142
It's a very imperfect emulation of nature,
so we strive to do the best we can

1172
01:16:44,225 --> 01:16:46,811
to make it as perfect
an emulation as possible.

1173
01:16:48,229 --> 01:16:50,481
[Jenni Harris] <i>And so</i>
<i>the looming question is:</i>

1174
01:16:50,565 --> 01:16:55,653
Can we feed the population
with these regenerative practices?

1175
01:16:55,737 --> 01:16:58,740
People think,
"Well, if we move to regenerative,

1176
01:16:58,823 --> 01:17:00,533
we're not gonna have enough food."

1177
01:17:00,616 --> 01:17:03,661
<i>I would come right back to them and say,</i>

1178
01:17:03,745 --> 01:17:06,664
<i>"If you don't adopt</i>
<i>the regenerative model,</i>

1179
01:17:06,748 --> 01:17:08,875
<i>there's no way</i>
<i>you're gonna feed the world."</i>

1180
01:17:09,876 --> 01:17:11,502
<i>My neighbor's farm,</i>

1181
01:17:11,586 --> 01:17:16,924
<i>they may grow slightly more</i>
<i>bushels of corn per acre than I.</i>

1182
01:17:17,008 --> 01:17:20,428
<i>Well, now not only do I produce corn</i>
<i>on those acres,</i>

1183
01:17:20,511 --> 01:17:25,224
<i>I can run cows on those acres,</i>
<i>we can have our hogs on those acres,</i>

1184
01:17:25,308 --> 01:17:26,934
<i>we can have our sheep,</i>

1185
01:17:27,018 --> 01:17:29,562
<i>we can have our laying hens,</i>
<i>our honeybees.</i>

1186
01:17:29,645 --> 01:17:34,567
<i>Now who's producing</i>
<i>more nutrient-dense food per acre?</i>

1187
01:17:34,650 --> 01:17:36,736
<i>There's no comparison.</i>

1188
01:17:37,945 --> 01:17:41,324
[Jenni Harris] <i>There's no reason</i>
<i>that there can't be</i>

1189
01:17:41,407 --> 01:17:47,330
<i>a farm in every agricultural county</i>
<i>that feeds their local community.</i>

1190
01:17:48,331 --> 01:17:51,626
There's no doubt about it,
there will be no change

1191
01:17:51,709 --> 01:17:55,004
until consumers want change.

1192
01:17:55,088 --> 01:17:58,007
<i>Without consumers demanding it,</i>
<i>it will not happen.</i>

1193
01:17:58,091 --> 01:18:00,593
[Jenni Harris] <i>All farmers need</i>
<i>is support.</i>

1194
01:18:04,806 --> 01:18:07,600
[♪ Bicep plays "Glue"]

1195
01:18:12,188 --> 01:18:16,484
[Moore] <i>There's one pop star DJ</i>
<i>who's using his fame</i>

1196
01:18:16,567 --> 01:18:19,278
<i>to change what we buy</i>
<i>at the grocery store.</i>

1197
01:18:20,363 --> 01:18:22,448
[crowd cheering]

1198
01:18:22,532 --> 01:18:24,409
[song continues louder]

1199
01:18:29,330 --> 01:18:31,958
♪ <i>When I'm alone...</i>

1200
01:18:32,041 --> 01:18:35,044
[Andy Cato]<i> I was very lucky</i>
<i>in that I spent 25 years</i>

1201
01:18:35,128 --> 01:18:36,838
<i>making music, touring, deejaying.</i>

1202
01:18:36,921 --> 01:18:39,048
♪ <i>When I'm alone...</i>

1203
01:18:39,132 --> 01:18:41,342
<i>A job that so many people dream of doing.</i>

1204
01:18:42,969 --> 01:18:44,429
<i>I'm a very, very lucky man.</i>

1205
01:18:44,512 --> 01:18:46,514
♪ <i>When I'm alone...</i>

1206
01:18:46,597 --> 01:18:50,017
<i>I substituted playing records</i>
<i>and making music</i>

1207
01:18:50,101 --> 01:18:51,811
<i>for the hardest profession in the world.</i>

1208
01:18:51,894 --> 01:18:53,271
-[song ends]
-[cheering fades]

1209
01:18:53,354 --> 01:18:54,439
<i>Farming.</i>

1210
01:18:54,522 --> 01:18:56,524
[gentle music playing]

1211
01:18:57,733 --> 01:19:01,028
<i>I was coming back from a gig,</i>
<i>and I picked up an article.</i>

1212
01:19:01,112 --> 01:19:04,198
It was talking about the environmental
consequences of food production.

1213
01:19:05,867 --> 01:19:09,412
<i>It said, "If you don't like the system,</i>
<i>don't depend on it."</i>

1214
01:19:11,956 --> 01:19:14,876
<i>And from the first moment</i>
<i>that I planted seeds</i>

1215
01:19:14,959 --> 01:19:18,004
<i>and witnessed that miraculous cycle...</i>

1216
01:19:19,380 --> 01:19:20,590
...there was just no turning back for me.

1217
01:19:24,719 --> 01:19:28,181
Six weeks of no rain, we can,
uh, still get the spade in the ground.

1218
01:19:28,264 --> 01:19:29,891
It's encouraging.

1219
01:19:29,974 --> 01:19:32,477
Driest spring for 103 years.

1220
01:19:32,560 --> 01:19:34,645
You wouldn't know it
looking at that, would you?

1221
01:19:34,729 --> 01:19:36,606
[birds chirping]

1222
01:19:36,689 --> 01:19:40,818
It's quite amazing what a bit of plant
diversity can do given half a chance.

1223
01:19:45,448 --> 01:19:49,494
[Moore] <i>Andy's journey from DJ to farmer</i>
<i>has given him a chance</i>

1224
01:19:49,577 --> 01:19:54,415
<i>to talk about regenerative agriculture</i>
<i>to a prime-time audience.</i>

1225
01:19:54,499 --> 01:19:56,417
[lighthearted music playing]

1226
01:19:56,501 --> 01:20:00,046
[Cato] <i>Being involved in </i>Clarkson's Farm
<i>happened by accident.</i>

1227
01:20:00,129 --> 01:20:01,464
<i>He asked me over for a cup of tea,</i>

1228
01:20:01,547 --> 01:20:04,300
<i>and then the cameras were rolling,</i>
<i>and then we were kind of off.</i>

1229
01:20:05,301 --> 01:20:06,636
[Jeremy Clarkson] Andy, Kaleb.

1230
01:20:07,220 --> 01:20:08,346
-How you doing?
-Kaleb, Andy.

1231
01:20:08,429 --> 01:20:09,555
Are you in a band?

1232
01:20:09,639 --> 01:20:11,432
-I was in a band.
-I can tell.

1233
01:20:11,516 --> 01:20:12,600
Because?

1234
01:20:12,683 --> 01:20:14,519
Because you've left your tractor running
at a pound a liter.

1235
01:20:14,602 --> 01:20:16,312
-[laughter]
-[upbeat music playing]

1236
01:20:17,313 --> 01:20:18,981
[Cato] <i>In 25 years of music,</i>

1237
01:20:19,065 --> 01:20:21,359
<i>I occasionally got asked</i>
<i>for the odd selfie.</i>

1238
01:20:21,442 --> 01:20:25,363
I got asked for a thousand times
more selfies than the previous 25 years.

1239
01:20:25,446 --> 01:20:27,949
<i>People would say,</i>
<i>"The soil guy off </i>Clarkson's."

1240
01:20:29,992 --> 01:20:34,038
The fact that those things are being used
as phrases is fantastic, you know.

1241
01:20:34,121 --> 01:20:35,957
[Clarkson] I know it's called
regenerative farming,

1242
01:20:36,040 --> 01:20:37,250
-isn't it?
-Mm.

1243
01:20:37,333 --> 01:20:40,127
But I'd really like to understand
what it is.

1244
01:20:40,211 --> 01:20:44,924
Regenerative farming is a way of farming
which tries to copy natural systems.

1245
01:20:45,007 --> 01:20:47,760
So what we've got to get away from
is monocultures.

1246
01:20:47,843 --> 01:20:50,763
By putting two plant families
in the same field,

1247
01:20:50,846 --> 01:20:54,725
we're starting that process
of feeding the soil

1248
01:20:54,809 --> 01:20:56,269
with a diversity of plants.

1249
01:21:00,940 --> 01:21:04,068
[Moore] <i>It's understood</i>
<i>that pop stars have been known</i>

1250
01:21:04,151 --> 01:21:06,404
<i>to make some pretty good bread.</i>

1251
01:21:06,487 --> 01:21:09,949
<i>But this guy does it literally.</i>

1252
01:21:10,032 --> 01:21:12,326
So, Wildfarmed is a food
and farming business

1253
01:21:12,410 --> 01:21:14,870
that grows food in nature-rich landscapes.

1254
01:21:14,954 --> 01:21:17,582
<i>Better for you and better for the planet.</i>

1255
01:21:17,665 --> 01:21:19,750
-[♪ Groove Armada sings "My Friend"]
-♪ <i>I call on you...</i>

1256
01:21:19,834 --> 01:21:23,421
[Moore] <i>The Wildfarmed bread company</i>
<i>pays farmers a premium</i>

1257
01:21:23,504 --> 01:21:27,341
<i>to take some of their land</i>
<i>and grow regenerative wheat.</i>

1258
01:21:27,425 --> 01:21:29,218
♪ ♪

1259
01:21:37,768 --> 01:21:40,313
[Cato] <i>This enormous process happened</i>

1260
01:21:40,396 --> 01:21:44,066
<i>despite the market</i>
<i>not recognizing any value</i>

1261
01:21:44,150 --> 01:21:45,818
in all the things
that those farmers are doing.

1262
01:21:50,990 --> 01:21:54,744
[Moore] <i>The best thing</i>
<i>since sliced bread may just be...</i>

1263
01:21:56,370 --> 01:21:57,913
<i>...regenerative sliced bread.</i>

1264
01:21:59,915 --> 01:22:02,877
[Cato] <i>We can empower customers</i>
<i>with this hopeful message</i>

1265
01:22:02,960 --> 01:22:06,047
<i>that your food choices are</i>
<i>your greatest point of agency.</i>

1266
01:22:06,756 --> 01:22:09,508
[Brown] <i>We've seen a lot of interest</i>
<i>in the retail space.</i>

1267
01:22:09,592 --> 01:22:11,969
<i>You can't hardly pick up</i>
<i>any type of advertisement</i>

1268
01:22:12,053 --> 01:22:13,929
<i>without them talking about regenerative.</i>

1269
01:22:14,013 --> 01:22:17,642
<i>We're getting momentum</i>
<i>from not only industry</i>

1270
01:22:17,725 --> 01:22:20,144
<i>but momentum from farmers.</i>

1271
01:22:23,314 --> 01:22:24,940
[song ends]

1272
01:22:25,024 --> 01:22:27,026
[wind whistling softly]

1273
01:22:27,109 --> 01:22:28,653
[hopeful music playing]

1274
01:22:28,736 --> 01:22:30,988
[Harrelson] <i>The U.K. is home</i>
<i>to one of the largest</i>

1275
01:22:31,072 --> 01:22:33,908
<i>regenerative agriculture conferences</i>
<i>in the world.</i>

1276
01:22:35,826 --> 01:22:40,539
<i>And what do they call this movement</i>
<i>that is wildly gaining momentum?</i>

1277
01:22:40,623 --> 01:22:41,832
<i>They call it...</i>

1278
01:22:43,501 --> 01:22:45,336
<i>...Groundswell.</i>

1279
01:22:48,547 --> 01:22:52,760
<i>The headliners for this event</i>
<i>aren't pop stars or actors.</i>

1280
01:22:54,762 --> 01:22:56,263
<i>They're farmers.</i>

1281
01:22:58,307 --> 01:23:01,352
<i>The farmers are so important, in fact,</i>

1282
01:23:01,435 --> 01:23:04,271
<i>they're now being given a royal welcome.</i>

1283
01:23:04,355 --> 01:23:07,066
Please welcome His Royal Highness
to the stage.

1284
01:23:07,149 --> 01:23:08,984
[applause]

1285
01:23:11,237 --> 01:23:12,655
[Prince William] Good morning, everyone.

1286
01:23:12,738 --> 01:23:14,657
There's not many moments
that I'm the warm-up act,

1287
01:23:14,740 --> 01:23:18,035
but I'm very happy to be
Gabe Brown's warm-up act today.

1288
01:23:18,119 --> 01:23:19,662
[applause]

1289
01:23:19,745 --> 01:23:22,540
We come together to reaffirm
our commitment to a brighter,

1290
01:23:22,623 --> 01:23:24,750
resilient and regenerative future.

1291
01:23:27,628 --> 01:23:29,338
[Brown] <i>I tell you,</i>
<i>it's really good to be here.</i>

1292
01:23:29,422 --> 01:23:31,590
<i>I have to be honest with you.</i>

1293
01:23:31,674 --> 01:23:34,719
I'm a bit nervous following
that warm-up act, but, uh...

1294
01:23:34,802 --> 01:23:36,429
[laughter]

1295
01:23:36,512 --> 01:23:41,559
Let's change the production model
into one that is truly regenerative.

1296
01:23:43,144 --> 01:23:46,355
And I've been in this
approximately 30 years.

1297
01:23:46,439 --> 01:23:51,944
The first 26 years, man, we were pushing
that snowball straight up the hill.

1298
01:23:52,027 --> 01:23:55,489
<i>This past year,</i>
<i>I saw more positive movement</i>

1299
01:23:55,573 --> 01:23:58,576
<i>than I did the 26 before that combined.</i>

1300
01:23:59,869 --> 01:24:03,122
<i>I really think,</i>
<i>in the not too distant future,</i>

1301
01:24:03,205 --> 01:24:05,666
we won't even have to talk about
regenerative agriculture

1302
01:24:05,750 --> 01:24:07,042
because it'll be the norm.

1303
01:24:08,836 --> 01:24:11,213
[Moore] <i>In 2020, when </i>Kiss the Ground,

1304
01:24:11,297 --> 01:24:14,216
<i>the first film in this trilogy,</i>
<i>was released,</i>

1305
01:24:14,300 --> 01:24:18,721
<i>there was less than five million acres</i>
<i>of land in regenerative agriculture</i>

1306
01:24:18,804 --> 01:24:20,389
<i>in the United States.</i>

1307
01:24:20,473 --> 01:24:21,974
[Harrelson] <i>I'll make you a deal.</i>

1308
01:24:22,057 --> 01:24:25,352
I won't give up, and neither should you.

1309
01:24:25,436 --> 01:24:26,771
[Moore] <i>In 2023,</i>

1310
01:24:26,854 --> 01:24:30,566
<i>when </i>Common Ground,
<i>the second film in this trilogy, launched,</i>

1311
01:24:30,649 --> 01:24:34,153
<i>brands started committing</i>
<i>to going regenerative.</i>

1312
01:24:34,236 --> 01:24:37,156
<i>And third-party certifications</i>
<i>began to ensure</i>

1313
01:24:37,239 --> 01:24:42,661
<i>that regenerative products mean</i>
<i>that carbon is going into the soil.</i>

1314
01:24:42,745 --> 01:24:45,080
[Ian Somerhalder] <i>Within three years,</i>
<i>we transitioned</i>

1315
01:24:45,164 --> 01:24:47,875
30 million acres
from conventional to regen.

1316
01:24:47,958 --> 01:24:51,045
This is a real movement.
It's happening right now as we speak.

1317
01:24:52,630 --> 01:24:59,345
[Moore] <i>Today, regenerative agriculture</i>
<i>has grown to 250 million acres globally.</i>

1318
01:24:59,428 --> 01:25:04,391
<i>But to reach the tipping point, where</i>
<i>regenerative agriculture truly takes hold,</i>

1319
01:25:04,475 --> 01:25:08,437
<i>we need to regenerate</i>
<i>one billion acres globally.</i>

1320
01:25:08,521 --> 01:25:13,651
<i>That's about ten percent</i>
<i>of all agriculture on planet Earth.</i>

1321
01:25:13,734 --> 01:25:16,904
<i>It's a big mission,</i>
<i>and it's well underway.</i>

1322
01:25:19,865 --> 01:25:21,492
[Cato] <i>All of this stuff is doable.</i>

1323
01:25:21,575 --> 01:25:24,411
<i>We don't need any inventions.</i>
<i>We don't need any technology.</i>

1324
01:25:24,495 --> 01:25:27,039
<i>And for the movement to build</i>
<i>at the speed and scale</i>

1325
01:25:27,122 --> 01:25:29,542
<i>that the ecological reality demands,</i>

1326
01:25:29,625 --> 01:25:31,836
we just need to choose to do it.

1327
01:25:33,921 --> 01:25:36,090
[Abraha]<i> There's no world</i>
<i>in which I'm living</i>

1328
01:25:36,173 --> 01:25:39,844
<i>where this regeneration movement</i>
<i>doesn't work.</i>

1329
01:25:39,927 --> 01:25:41,220
This needs to work.

1330
01:25:43,514 --> 01:25:45,933
-[Sadhguru] <i>Time is running out.</i>
-[crowd cheering]

1331
01:25:46,016 --> 01:25:47,768
Let's stand up and let's make it happen.

1332
01:25:48,769 --> 01:25:50,563
[hopeful music swells]

1333
01:25:53,482 --> 01:25:56,277
[♪ Coldplay sings "Paradise"]

1334
01:25:58,737 --> 01:26:02,283
[Harrelson] <i>Saving our soils,</i>
<i>our climate and our future</i>

1335
01:26:02,366 --> 01:26:05,578
<i>begins with the groundswell</i>
<i>of regeneration</i>

1336
01:26:05,661 --> 01:26:07,663
<i>that's spreading across the globe.</i>

1337
01:26:11,375 --> 01:26:14,128
[Lemayian] <i>I always say</i>
<i>hope is not a plan.</i>

1338
01:26:14,795 --> 01:26:17,548
<i>So, to protect and regenerate our land...</i>

1339
01:26:18,382 --> 01:26:21,093
...the Samburu people have got a plan.

1340
01:26:22,052 --> 01:26:24,597
♪ <i>When she was just a girl...</i>

1341
01:26:24,930 --> 01:26:28,183
It is all about tuning our mind
to regeneration.

1342
01:26:29,393 --> 01:26:32,605
<i>If you regenerate soil,</i>
<i>you're also regenerating</i>

1343
01:26:32,688 --> 01:26:34,315
your own life.

1344
01:26:34,899 --> 01:26:36,275
♪ <i>and dreamed of para...</i>

1345
01:26:36,775 --> 01:26:40,362
[Khare] <i>Regeneration is not about</i>
<i>just safeguarding what we have.</i>

1346
01:26:40,446 --> 01:26:42,364
It's about elevating humanity.

1347
01:26:42,781 --> 01:26:45,951
♪ <i>dream of para, para, paradise </i>♪

1348
01:26:46,035 --> 01:26:49,705
♪ <i>Oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh-oh </i>♪

1349
01:26:52,041 --> 01:26:53,500
[Harrelson] <i>For most of my adult life,</i>

1350
01:26:53,584 --> 01:26:56,378
<i>I've been an advocate</i>
<i>of protecting our environment.</i>

1351
01:26:56,462 --> 01:26:59,423
[newswoman] <i>That man scaling</i>
<i>the cables in bright yellow</i>

1352
01:26:59,506 --> 01:27:02,217
<i>is </i>Cheers<i> TV star Woody Harrelson.</i>

1353
01:27:02,301 --> 01:27:05,387
[newswoman 2] <i>Harrelson was doing it,</i>
<i>he says, for the redwoods.</i>

1354
01:27:05,471 --> 01:27:07,640
[Harrelson] <i>My reasons are simple.</i>

1355
01:27:07,723 --> 01:27:09,099
I'm a parent.

1356
01:27:09,183 --> 01:27:10,643
I have three daughters.

1357
01:27:10,726 --> 01:27:13,312
So I'm gonna keep up that fight.

1358
01:27:13,395 --> 01:27:18,108
♪ <i>When she was just a girl,</i>
<i>she expected...</i>

1359
01:27:18,192 --> 01:27:22,321
[Moore] <i>I love being a mother</i>
<i>and now a grandmother.</i>

1360
01:27:22,404 --> 01:27:26,367
<i>When I look into her eyes,</i>
<i>I can see generations into the future.</i>

1361
01:27:28,035 --> 01:27:30,162
<i>But what will that future be?</i>

1362
01:27:31,664 --> 01:27:34,249
♪ <i>This could be paradise...</i>

1363
01:27:34,333 --> 01:27:35,334
[laughing]

1364
01:27:35,417 --> 01:27:38,671
<i>We want our children to be healthy</i>
<i>and to thrive.</i>

1365
01:27:38,754 --> 01:27:42,466
<i>And the best way to do that</i>
<i>is growing our food</i>

1366
01:27:42,549 --> 01:27:47,680
<i>so it regenerates our soil,</i>
<i>our communities and our planet.</i>

1367
01:27:50,265 --> 01:27:54,728
<i>The answer to so many of our problems</i>
<i>is in the ground beneath our feet.</i>

1368
01:27:58,816 --> 01:28:01,402
<i>Nature has the ability to heal herself.</i>

1369
01:28:03,862 --> 01:28:05,948
But she can't do it alone.

1370
01:28:06,031 --> 01:28:07,616
♪ <i>set to rise </i>♪

1371
01:28:07,700 --> 01:28:11,537
♪ <i>This could be para, para, paradise </i>♪

1372
01:28:11,620 --> 01:28:14,415
♪ <i>para, para, paradise </i>♪

1373
01:28:14,498 --> 01:28:18,627
♪ <i>This could be para, para, paradise </i>♪

1374
01:28:18,711 --> 01:28:21,380
♪ <i>Oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh-oh </i>♪

1375
01:28:21,463 --> 01:28:25,676
♪ <i>This could be para, para, paradise </i>♪

1376
01:28:25,759 --> 01:28:28,470
♪ <i>para, para, paradise </i>♪

1377
01:28:28,554 --> 01:28:32,433
♪ <i>This could be para, para, paradise </i>♪

1378
01:28:32,516 --> 01:28:36,186
♪ <i>Oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh-oh </i>♪

1379
01:28:36,270 --> 01:28:39,356
♪ ♪

1380
01:28:49,033 --> 01:28:53,078
♪ <i>This could be para, para, paradise </i>♪

1381
01:28:53,162 --> 01:28:55,873
♪ <i>para, para, paradise </i>♪

1382
01:28:55,956 --> 01:28:59,877
♪ <i>This could be para, para, paradise </i>♪

1383
01:28:59,960 --> 01:29:03,380
♪ <i>Oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh-oh </i>♪

1384
01:29:03,464 --> 01:29:06,842
♪ <i>Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh </i>♪

1385
01:29:06,925 --> 01:29:09,011
♪ <i>Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh </i>♪

1386
01:29:09,094 --> 01:29:10,471
♪ <i>ooh-ooh-ooh </i>♪

1387
01:29:10,554 --> 01:29:13,891
♪ <i>Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh </i>♪

1388
01:29:13,974 --> 01:29:17,895
♪ <i>Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh </i>♪♪

1389
01:29:17,978 --> 01:29:19,980
[song fades]

1390
01:29:22,900 --> 01:29:24,902
♪ ♪

1391
01:29:54,389 --> 01:29:56,391
♪ ♪

1392
01:30:26,421 --> 01:30:28,423
♪ ♪

1393
01:30:58,453 --> 01:31:00,455
♪ ♪

1394
01:31:30,485 --> 01:31:32,487
♪ ♪

1395
01:32:02,517 --> 01:32:04,519
♪ ♪

1396
01:32:34,549 --> 01:32:36,551
♪ ♪

1397
01:32:56,571 --> 01:32:58,573
♪ ♪

1398
01:33:26,226 --> 01:33:28,228
[music fades]




