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I'm in big trouble.

I'm lost. Nine hundred miles off the coast
of Ecuador, in the middle of the Pacific.

I haven't seen a boat in hours
and it's starting to get dark.

It's just me, my buddy Doug,
a shiver of silky sharks and a camera.

I set out to make a film to save sharks
and I'm in way over my head.

Because it's not about
sharks, it's about us.

We have a decision to make,
and we don't have much time.

So I'm taking you on a quest,
through our evolution,

to find out
how we're going to survive this extinction.

This is our story,
the fight for the future.

Here is a turtle. A turtle. A turtle.

As a nerdy kid,
animals were my best friends.

My parents brought me
on vacation with them to the Caribbean,

where I played on coral reefs
and learned about the ocean.

The oceans cover two-thirds of our planet,

and are home to 80% of life on Earth
and lots of amazing animals.

Underwater, it didn't matter
if I was chubby, or stuttered,

underwater I could fly.

3.5 billion years ago our planet came
alive, when life evolved in the ocean.

But it took another three billion years for
life to really take off, when plants evolved.

Plants consume carbon dioxide
and sunlight through photosynthesis,

building life out of carbon,
and releasing oxygen into the atmosphere.

With plants to start the food chain,
and oxygen as energy,

Earth became
a much better place for animals,

and soon, animals started
getting plants to work for them.

Corals harness tiny plants
within their tissues.

The plants provide energy
and corals provide the home,

building skeletons out of limestone.

Millions of coral polyps striving for
sunlight for thousands of years build reefs,

the largest living things on Earth.

Reefs cover less than 1% of the sea floor,
but are home to 25% of the species

and are the basis
for 60% of the world's fisheries.

When reefs evolved 500 million years ago,

they created structures, providing habitats
and food for other organisms,

and life exploded in diversity.

Soon, vertebrates evolved
with a backbone and a nervous system.

The first to evolve a set of jaws
was the shark,

more than 400 million years ago.

Sharks proliferated in every ocean and
have been the dominant predator ever since,

controlling life on reefs
and shaping evolution.

They've survived five major extinctions
that have wiped most life off the planet.

I met my first shark when I was nine
and it was afraid of me,

which meant
I didn't have to be afraid of them anymore.

I went to school to study marine biology
and learn more about them.

But sharks are being wiped out
for shark fin soup, a Chinese delicacy.

Their populations have dropped 90%
because shark fins are worth $400 a pound.

This fishing port landed more than
5,000 sharks in a single day,

and they're being hunted in every country
with a coastline,

destroying the framework for life
in the oceans.

If people knew the truth,
they'd do something.

So I borrowed as much money as I could,
bought two books on how to make movies,

and set out to make a film
to expose the shark fin industry.

We went up against a billion
dollar industry and survived.

Then we set out to show Sharkwater
to the world.

We wanted to speak to
as many people as possible

about what was happening to sharks,

but it was the youth that were listening.

What happens to sharks' teeth
when they fall out?

Youth were excited about sharks.

Sharks are endangered.
It's really important,

because we, human beings,
everybody depends on the ocean to survive.

It was working. People cared.

All of a sudden I was on a plane
every few days, talking about sharks.

But there was still China,
ground zero for shark fins.

This is the most exciting trip of my life,
six years culminating in this one event.

Sharkwater's release in China
for 120 million people.

This was our chance to curb the demand
for shark fins, where it matters most.

Thank you everybody so much for watching.
Hope you enjoyed it.

I'd love to answer any questions
you guys have.

- Yes.
- Hi, Rob.

I want to thank you for
creating this movie. It's beautiful.

And I want to thank you actually
for promoting it here in Hong Kong,

where we can actually
make a really big difference.

So, my question for you is, what's the
point of actually stopping shark finning

if the UN predicts that by 2048

the fisheries are actually
going to be all wiped out?

Good question.

What's the point
of stopping sharks from being finned

if all the fish are gonna be gone by 2048?

You know, pretty good question.

Difficult to answer that.
I think it's sort of pick your battles...

I didn't know what to say.

If she was right,
my last six years meant nothing.

In all of our studies of world fisheries,

we see this continuous trend
of collapse of fish stocks,

no matter how you slice or dice the data.

With every year there is a higher
proportion of fish stocks collapse.

There's really no place on the planet anymore
that's not impacted by the effects of fishing.

Sharks, tuna and billfish, cod and halibut,
whales, seals, manatees, sea turtles, even.

Everything large
that you can find in the ocean

has been depleted on average by almost 90%.

We predicted
that if this trend of species collapse,

through fisheries and overfishing,
would continue,

we could run out of sea food supply
in the year 2048.

Bony fish evolved 430 million
years ago and diversified quickly.

There are now
at least 30,000 different species of fish.

Sailfish are some of
the most highly evolved.

They're only five million years old,
but they're intelligent

and they coordinate attacks with each other

by flashing colors
on the sides of their bodies.

Their swords evolved so they could
injure or isolate fish from the school.

They're also
some of the fastest fish in the sea.

Fish are the main protein source for a third
of us humans, but we're wiping them out.

Every year we discard as much as
40 billion pounds of dead fish as by-catch

because it wasn't the species
we were targeting.

To try and save the fish, I set out for the
one place I knew would still be thriving,

the Great Barrier Reef
Marine Park, Australia.

You might have seen reefs during the day,

but it's in darkness
that corals really come to life.

Nighttime brings
the largest migration on Earth,

from the dark depths of the ocean
into the shallows

to feed on the rich phytoplankton
at the surface.

Zooplankton is the term for the thousands,
likely millions, of tiny species

that call the open ocean home.

Some are the larval stages of large animals
like sailfish or crabs,

while others spend their entire lifecycle
as zooplankton.

Corals don't just synthesize sunlight,

corals are also deadly predators,

and they come alive every night
to feast on zooplankton.

They're armed with stringing nematocysts
to paralyze their victims

and eat plankton, small
fish, and even squid.

But many of the corals weren't feeding,

they were dying.

The fish were gone.

Everywhere I looked,
reefs were turning to rubble.

I needed to know what
was killing the corals,

so I went to go visit one of my mentors,
Dave Hannan,

the guy who taught me
how to film underwater.

I've been out of the water for four years.
What's happened?

Four years, the whole landscape
of ocean issues has changed,

and what we should be worried about.

You've been involved
in this incredibly, amazing shark campaign

and it just doesn't mean anything
unless you get on top of this other issue.

We are going to lose
everything in our oceans, not just sharks.

I know sharks are going down,
but you've got to look sideways.

It's a thing called ocean acidification.

So in 100 years, that ocean out there
has gotten 30% more acidic.

That's having a huge implication
for all marine life.

The oceans have the potential
to go belly up in the next 20 years

completely in a way that hasn't happened
for millions of years.

I couldn't believe it.

The last time the oceans went down
was 65 million years ago,

and it took almost
all life on Earth with it.

Dave and I set out on an expedition
to New Guinea

to meet the godfather of coral,
and figure out how to save the oceans.

New Guinea is the last frontier,

one of the least explored but most
culturally diverse places on Earth.

There are more than 800 languages,

with cultures that have lived in balance
with the natural world for 10,000 years.

I've been dreaming of coming to New Guinea
ever since I was a kid.

It took four million years for corals
to rebuild reefs after the last extinction,

and when they recovered,

the place with the greatest diversity
of habitats, currents and life,

was the area around New Guinea, coral Eden.

There are more species here
than anywhere else on Earth.

3,000 species live on one reef,
and everything relies on the coral.

It's a competitive
and dangerous place to live.

But one tiny creature
has managed to survive by mimicking coral.

Pygmy seahorses
are the size of your fingernail,

and except for a tough skeleton,
they're defenseless.

But here, camouflaged in this coral paradise,
they've developed intricate relationships.

They talk to each other,
mate for life, and the guy gets pregnant.

They have a pretty
beautiful life in the coral.

But things are changing for pygmies.

Strong currents sweep baby pygmies
off the reef, into the neighboring muck,

and finding the coral they can't live
without is getting much more difficult.

The muck is where the current stops,

depositing organic matter, bits of decaying
plants and animals, which turns to muck.

Over millions of years
and with a little of the Earth's heat,

it could fossilize into fuels, like oil.

The muck is where the misfits live.

The fish that couldn't make it on the reef
and got pushed away.

Here they were forced to adapt to a dark
and dangerous world with little shelter.

To survive in the muck, you've either
got to be a predator, or poisonous.

Under Samurai Jetty, in the muck,

I found one of my favorite species,
thriving where you'd least expect it.

Dave's trying to talk to it.

The flamboyant cuttlefish
is the pygmy seahorse's worst nightmare,

and they rule the muck.

Flamboyant cuttlefish
are smarter than house cats.

They have eight arms,
a beak, a serrated tongue,

and two lightning fast tentacles they use
to capture prey.

This female is scavenging our garbage
for a nest.

Cuttlefish are cephalopods,

and like their relatives, squid
and octopus, have no skeleton,

but they're advanced.

Cuttlefish can see polarized light,
and can change the color, texture

and reflectivity of each of
their skin cells in an instant.

They communicate
using their arms to sign language,

and using their bodies
as banners for their emotions.

Cephalopods evolved 600 million years ago
and have made it through every extinction.

The flamboyant cuttlefish
is one of the most highly evolved.

They're the first poisonous cephalopod
in the world,

so they don't have to hide in the muck.

I followed her all day and into the night

as she laid 26 eggs in cans
and coconut shells all over the muck

and then shot off into the darkness to die.

This is Charlie Veron.

He ran the Australian Institute
of Marine Sciences for seven years,

and wrote the encyclopedia of corals.

I've been working on coral reefs
for nearly 40 years now.

And I've traveled the whole world doing...

I've been to every major coral reef region
in the world.

And in these journeys,

my colleagues and I have named about
a quarter of all the world's corals.

Oh, no.

Humans tend to think a great deal
about temperature

as atmospheric temperature

or climate change as a terrestrial problem,
but primarily it is not.

What the oceans do,
the terrestrial world will follow.

We are changing the environment
very, very quickly, and what we're doing

is converting hundreds of millions of years
of accumulation of fossil fuel,

burning them in such a way that
they are being turned into carbon dioxide.

Carbon dioxide is ultimately absorbed
by the oceans as an acid.

Ocean acidification will cause
the oceans to become hostile

to the growth of any organism
that needs to build a skeleton of any sort.

Well, that's most things in the ocean.

All humanity for all future
will not see coral reefs as I have.

Charlie is in Papua New Guinea

studying the effects of ocean acidification
on corals, with Katharina Fabricius.

You see the bubbles?

I have.
Yeah, I'm excited to see them up close.

The only thing we can do
which will control ocean acidification

is to stop burning fossil fuel.

The mass extinctions
and the last 500 million years

have concentrated muck and other dead
plants and animals into carbon rich fuels.

Fuels like oil, coal and gas that we've burned
to build civilization, for transportation,

pesticides, fertilizers, plastics,
and heating and cooling our buildings.

This carbon dioxide release

is changing ocean and atmospheric
chemistry and altering our climate.

If we're going to stop carbon emissions,

the climate change scientists
will know how to do it.

So I went to Copenhagen for a conference
with the world's top climate scientists,

to see what they're doing
about carbon emissions,

and figure out what we need to do
to save the oceans.

The climate community is very frustrated.

They're frustrated because this is an issue
that we've been discussing,

we've known about for more than a century.
In the last 30 years

we've been essentially crying out
to government leaders to take action.

And in fact, the cries have become screams
in the last decade.

I guess people are in a sense of denial.

Burning fossil fuels
is something we all do,

and none of us wants to do something
that is perceived as bad.

Therefore people
are resistant to actually admitting

that, in fact, this may
not be a good thing.

I mean, let's be realistic.

What part of our environment
or anything about us

are we able to throw whatever
we want into it and not pay a cost?

Well, the atmosphere.

The atmosphere is treated
as an unregulated dumping ground

free for anybody to put whatever they want
in it and that needs to stop.

21% of the air in our atmosphere is oxygen,
which animals need to survive.

All the free oxygen has come from plants
that have produced it through photosynthesis.

At least half of our oxygen
comes from phytoplankton in the ocean,

the lungs of the Earth.

Phytoplankton forms the basis
of the ocean's food chains,

supporting everything
from whale sharks to humans.

Our study has found that
phytoplankton levels have diminished

by up to 40% over the last 50 years or
since 1950 in eight out of 10 ocean regions.

If this depletion of phytoplankton
would continue,

it would basically starve the ocean

because it's the food source
for everything that lives in the ocean.

Look, we know where to go.
We understand the technologies.

We know enough about energy efficiency,
about low-carbon energy,

about stopping deforestation,
enough to get that done.

What about the economic policies
that might push us in the right direction?

We know about those, too.
We know the scale, the areas to act in.

So, we know what to do.

If we do it, it looks really a
rather attractive way forward.

It's down to political will.

I mean, if we, as a society, actually
care anything about future generations,

we have no choice but to act now.

The cost of solving this problem
are a fraction of GDP, they really are.

The costs to deal with
this are insignificant.

We just went through a financial crisis,

are throwing trillions of dollars to
support industries that are going bankrupt,

but we're not willing to solve a problem
that would cost less.

That actually means the existence
of our species towards the future.

I mean, I just don't get it.

Scientists have done their job, now
it's time for the politicians to do theirs.

The rules of the road right now
point towards disaster.

If you just follow the rules of the road,
you go off the cliff.

So what activism is about
is changing the rules of the road,

so you begin to point the whole society
back toward a positive outcome.

So, we have to change
how we are as consumers,

but we also have to get involved
as citizens and as community members

to really make a difference.

The U.S. has one of the biggest
carbon footprints in the world,

and concerned youth are taking a stand.

Rallies across the country have successfully
opposed at least 22 new coal power plants,

the single biggest source
of carbon emissions,

and I'm headed to one in Washington, D.C.

I am so happy that this
United States Congress that sits behind us,

the United States capital,
has all of you on its doorsteps today.

Young people
are an incredibly powerful constituency.

We are also a generation
that just has so much at stake.

The creation of a revolution

is the only chance we have at this point
and so we've got to stand up.

And the good news is,
there are people already standing up.

Abolish it!

As the youth
went to persuade the politicians,

we went to try and shut down the coal
power plant that fuels the White House.

I'd never been part of a protest before
and didn't really know how it worked.

The activists
were planning on getting arrested

while blockading the plant as a
form of non-violent civil disobedience,

similar to the tactics
of Gandhi and Martin Luther King,

to send a message to the government
and the media.

If you look at the environmental laws
in this country,

the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act,
and the Endangered Species Act,

this energy production is in violation
of all three of those laws.

Those laws are just not applied.

Civil disobedience means to challenge them
and to make them respond.

It's gonna be the largest

mass civil disobedience for the climate
that's happened.

We're going to march down
and we're going to shut it down.

Are you going to get arrested?

I'm gonna try not to get arrested because
I've got to come back to the US a lot.

This is the most dangerous thing on Earth.

The coal fire power plants

operating just the way it's supposed to
operate, destroys this planet.

Somebody said to me today,
"What about clean coal?"

And you know that
clean coal is a dirty lie.

These are criminal enterprises.

And the only way they can get away
with what they're getting away with

is by corrupting our public officials
and subverting American democracy.

They're very big, they're very powerful,
and they own the courts and the politicians.

The only thing that we have is our bodies.

Ultimately, it's gonna take sacrifice,
it's gonna take courage,

but the most important thing
is just to stand up to them.

This is what democracy looks like!

This is what democracy looks like!

I mean, at the core, this is about justice.
I believe that revolution has begun.

I mean, this is it.

The opportunity that lies before us

is perhaps the greatest opportunity

that any generation
has ever been faced with.

Five thousand protesters
surrounded the coal power plant.

No one was arrested,
and that coal power plant burns on.

It seemed protesting might not be enough.

I've come to Madagascar to find out
how we're gonna stop deforestation,

the second biggest emitter
of carbon dioxide,

and contributor to ocean acidification.

Around 550 million years ago,

life left the hostile and competitive
oceans when plants evolved.

Plants forever altered life on land

by creating structures, providing homes,
food and oxygen to breathe,

allowing animals to colonize the land.

Tropical forests are home to
more than half of the world's species,

and produce a third of our oxygen.

85% of the species in Madagascar
are found nowhere else on Earth.

Mammals evolved
around 250 million years ago,

but really only got going after the last
extinction eliminated their competition.

The first primates evolved
around 90 million years ago,

when Madagascar
started drifting away from the mainland,

creating a lifeboat for lemurs.

Lemurs were once widespread,
until monkeys evolved.

Monkeys were faster, smarter,
meaner and hardier,

and outcompeted lemurs
in every environment,

except they didn't reach
Madagascar in time.

Now Madagascar
is the only place lemurs live.

Many of them mate for life.

Sifakas spend their
entire lives in the trees,

and so have no feet,
just four hands to better grip branches.

Madagascar has
an enormous amount of resources,

but it's also one of
the poorest countries in the world.

Twenty-two million people live here,

and Madagascar
has already lost 90% of its forest.

Worldwide, one billion of us
don't have enough food,

and 10 million of us die of starvation
every year.

Despite Madagascar being one of
the biggest exporters of rice in the world,

many are starving, relying on foreign aid
to ship U.S. corn all the way from America.

Starving people will fish the last
fish and burn the last forests for food.

Seeing some of Madagascar's
last forests being burned,

it's clear to me now,

we don't just have a carbon problem,
we have a human problem.

We're primates, like lemurs, that
evolved only recently, 200,000 years ago.

But it wasn't until we discovered fire
and the power of burning fossil fuels

did our population
and consumption explode,

radically altering life on Earth.

We're now causing the extinction
of more species

than have gone extinct
in the last 65 million years.

Scientists estimate

as many as 100 to 1,000 species are
wiped of the face of the Earth each day,

and scientists expect

two-thirds of the world's species
could be gone by the end of the century.

All signs say
we could be a part of that extinction,

unless we do something drastic.

In this plantation growing sisal
for export to France,

is a relic of what this
forest used to look like,

a 1,500-year-old baobab tree
from an ancient forest.

When this was a sapling,
there were 300 million people on Earth.

In the life of one tree, we've consumed
most of our life support system,

most of the fish, most of the forests,
most of the food,

and now there are seven billion of us.

This is no longer
just about saving the oceans,

it's about saving ourselves.

I was asked to emcee Power Shift Canada,

to show the government they had massive
public support to protect the environment.

I just have to say that you make me
incredibly proud to be Canadian.

The carbon we put into the atmosphere
doesn't just stay in the atmosphere,

it goes into the oceans, setting coral
reefs on a path towards destruction

by the middle of this century.

The very oceans that give us the oxygen
in the air that we breathe are in jeopardy.

You guys here today are a huge step
and a giant force in battling this

and I want to thank you all
for being here today.

Today's theme is time.
It's time because time is running out.

It's time because it's urgent
that we act now, not tomorrow, now.

If we are going to build a movement,
we need to hold on to hope.

We need to hold on to the idea
that we can change the world entirely

in our lifetimes.

There's nothing more important
than conservation,

because conservation
is the preservation of human life on earth.

Thank you everyone for being part

of the largest rally
for climate change in Canada's history.

Youth led rallies in 250
cities across Canada.

Then Canada killed
their environmental policy.

An environmental bill which passed
through the House of Commons last spring

has been abruptly killed in the Senate.

It called for tough limits
on greenhouse gas emissions.

Tougher than
the Harper government's targets.

It died in a snap vote.

I was devastated.

So, I set out across the country to find out
why Canada was willing to kill the oceans.

On climate change
we are really amongst the worst

in the industrialized world.

And every year, actually,
there's evaluations

that come out
at these UN climate conferences

that rank countries and last year Canada
finished only ahead of Saudi Arabia.

To me, the real question is,
how much of wild nature,

how much of nature do we want to convert
into a factory for the human species?

'Cause I do believe we could
actually continue as a viable planet

if we took over the whole thing.

Canada has the biggest
reserves of oil in the world.

But it's not liquid.
It's mixed with sand, dirt and earth,

making it intense and costly to extract.

But with high oil prices,
the tar sands become immensely profitable.

The Alberta tar sands

is the most environmentally destructive
project of its kind on this planet.

It is strip-mining the boreal forests,
which are nature's carbon sink.

The way in which nature deals
with carbon and stores carbon.

It is generating two to three times

as much greenhouse gas emissions
and carbon emissions

into the atmosphere
as conventional oil does.

And furthermore we're polluting and
contaminating one of the most precious

fresh water systems
to be found on the planet

and then on top of that we are depleting
the fresh water system simply because

to produce that barrel of oil
it requires two to five barrels of water.

What they're doing in
the oil sands in Canada

is they are taking the oil off the sand,
they're cleaning the sand.

This is not conventional
crude where you can just tap a well,

you have to cut down the forest,
mine out the dirt,

burn huge amounts of natural gas
to create steam from fresh water

to take the hydrocarbons out of this dirt.

This whole process leaves
behind huge lakes of toxic waste

and these tailings contain hydrocarbons,
things like naphthenic acids, heavy metals.

It's carcinogenic, it causes cancer.

I mean, you can see these tailings
lakes from space.

And these tailings are leaking out.

We're literally dying right now.

Cancers are destroying
our people in numbers

that the Centers for Disease Control
can't even explain it,

how many people are dying
as a result of the pollution.

They don't care about people.

And corporations, of
course they don't care.

A corporation's not a person,
they don't have thoughts and feelings.

If people don't get their oil
from Canada's oil sands,

they're gonna get them
from somebody else's oil.

There's 300 million vehicles
in the United States

that have to start tomorrow morning
in order for civilization to continue.

The area that we're talking about spans

140,000 square kilometers.

So we're talking about an area that's
bigger than England and Wales combined.

It currently accounts for up to
40 million tons of CO2 emissions a year,

which is bigger than entire countries.

And when you come back to where
our families live, where my family lives,

and you see the first-hand destruction
of the Earth,

you know, it's very intimately linked to
the global crisis that we find ourselves in.

When you look at the world,

every economy
in the world is built on growth.

Now, when you have a finite planet
with limited resources, it doesn't take

a rocket scientist to figure out
you can't grow your way out of problems.

You're going to hit barriers.

But if it doesn't change, it's hard to see
how as a species ultimately we will survive.

If we stopped using fossil fuels,
civilization would crash.

And billions of people would die.

And the environment would be completely
destroyed by those who were trying,

who were still alive,
trying to survive on this planet.

During the recession, when
countries and corporations were crumbling,

Canada's thriving.

Canada hopes to build pipelines
to transport the oil out of Alberta,

expanding the tar sands 20 times.

This could bring in 300 billion dollars
over the next twenty-five years,

and a great deal more

for some of the biggest corporations
in the world,

which are designed to make profits.

The problem is destructive industries
are enormously profitable.

I would say if we really go to exploit

the Alberta tar sands,

that would be the point of no return.

It would destroy the landscape, of course,

but it would open a Pandora's box
of green house gas, again, of the size

of all that Saudi Arabia has.

And if we really go down that road,

then it means we have given up
on climate stabilization.

So in a sense, this one of the decisive
battle in the war against global warming...

Leave the Alberta tar sands in the ground.

As rivers drain into the ocean,
they carry our pollution out to sea,

damaging ecosystems already compromised
by overfishing, acidification,

and ocean warming.

With the ocean's large predators
mostly gone,

and increasing acidity making it difficult
for anything that builds skeletons,

jellyfish are thriving.

Jellyfish are 700 million years old,
have no brain,

and thrive in changing environments
and low oxygen.

But our pollution is causing the oceans
to go anoxic, or totally devoid of oxygen,

as they have in extinctions in the past.

Dead zones contain no life.
Not even jellyfish can live there.

Along with emitting more carbon dioxide
than any other single thing on earth,

the tar sands are also destroying the habitat
of the Canadian Lynx, whose life cycle

could be a warning for our species.

Lynx are some of the most elusive cats
in the world.

They live almost exclusively
on snowshoe hares.

They're such awesome predators,
the hares are no match for the lynx.

And every 14 years, most of the lynx die
off because they've wiped out the hares.

After a couple of years with few lynx,
the hare population recovers

and the lynx population starts booming
until they wipe out all the hares again

and die off themselves,
booming and busting every 14 years.

I think, fundamentally,
there's a lot of us.

There's more people on the planet
than any other large species

probably in the history of the planet.

We're going to increase from nearly
7 to probably around 9 billion by 2050,

so there will be more mouths to feed.
It's just a lot to bear.

And there is this perception
that our consumption can grow

and grow in someway
into the indefinite future.

Clearly we are already exhausting the
capacity of the planet to provide for us

at our current level of population
and consumption.

I think we're in trouble.

And probably more trouble
than most people realize.

We look around the world
and we look at the environmental trends

that I've been tracking for decades now,

deforestation, soil erosion,

aquifer depletion, collapsing fisheries,
grasslands turning into desert.

I mean you go down the list.

CO2 levels rising, temperature rising,
ice melting...

We've not turned
a single one of these trends around.

And we know from studying the archeological
sites of earlier civilizations

that when they moved on
to an environmental path where they were

destroying their natural support systems,
their forests, their soils, what have you,

that it was only a matter of time until
they declined and eventually collapsed.

No civilization has ever survived

the ongoing destruction
of its natural support systems.

Nor will ours.

I joined the Canadian
youth delegation

to the UN Climate conference
in Cancún, Mexico.

Two, three...

To shut the tar sands down
and hold our government accountable

for destroying the oceans,
we're going to need international support.

There's no massive conferences
on acidification yet,

so the stage for our fight for the future
is COP 16,

the biggest environmental conference
in the world.

I would like to welcome
all of you to Mexico, and to Cancún,

and to the United Nations
climate change conference.

Cancún can launch a new era in the
pace of global action on climate change

to keep humanity on
track to a safer future.

One of the things that appears
to be coming along

is a significant improvement
in our supplies of shale gas.

We do not want the world
which we will inherit from the decisions

made by the UNFCCC to be characterized by
the prioritization of profit over the rights,

health and security of future generations.

Time is running out.
It's not about negotiating,

it's about trying to survive.

We need large scale action now.
For us, it's a matter of life and death.

We have to stop
the vested interests of big oil,

big coal, and big gas impeding progress
towards a low carbon society.

That is our future.

We are in the middle of the biggest battle

that we have ever seen in humanity.

The battle that the world itself
may change so drastically

that human life may not be possible.

You know, what issue is bigger than this?

And this is because unknowingly
we have been polluting for so many years.

And now that we know,
we have to take the action.

But we have to take the action
in a way that is fair and just,

so that the majority of the people
in the world, who are poor,

are not made to suffer even more.

They did not pollute the world
and they are suffering from the pollution.

But we can not afford to have a solution
that says

the rich will continue their lifestyles,

and the poor, you pay for it
by not having development.

The UN process
is a consensus-based process,

so everybody has to agree
or there is no agreement.

For Canada, the tar sands is everything.

So the role here is to just
sabotage negotiations, get in the way,

to avoid ever having to do something
about the tar sands.

The tar sands are the fastest growing source
of greenhouse gas emissions in Canada,

and it's one of the biggest emitters

of toxic contaminants
in our traditional territories.

That is why Canada is a climate laggard

and a climate criminal.

Hay-hay. Thank you very much.

It's quite possible for one country,
a small country like Canada

to throw a huge monkey wrench in
and ruin everything

and we may be set back a decade or more on
solving the climate crisis internationally.

What does it take to move people?

What does it...

What type of calamity has to happen?

Because reason won't do it.

Logic won't do it.
It would have done it by now.

Reason would have done it by now.

Fairness won't do it.

It would have been done by now.

So what sort of calamity,
what sort of disaster on what scale

has to happen before someone says
something's happening?

Our worry is by the time that happens,
it's too late for us.

You can't slam the brakes
on completely and say

you've gotta be making
absolute reductions tomorrow.

It just... It couldn't work.

The conference was dragging on
without any progress,

and the politicians were ignoring our pleas
and meeting behind closed doors.

We needed to do something drastic
to get our message heard,

so we staged stunts to try
and impact the negotiations.

Toxic sand, limited sale.

Clearance. All must go.

...and you don't have to pay
the environmental cost forever.

Do you believe it? Call now!

We've got our children's future. Who cares?

This is the essence of life, people,
you can not find this for a better price.

How much will you buy our future for?

As you can see, I love fairy tales.

And before coming to Cancún,
our environment minister wove

an incredible tale of whimsy
of a magical land of Canada

that had banned all coal-fired power
plants, because of a fictional policy.

If only it were true.

Alas, Canada has no climate change policy.

But every time there's been
a mass injustice, humanity has risen up

and done something,

changing the world
against seemingly impossible odds.

And if we're gonna survive,

we're going to have to do
something similar, only bigger.

I joined La Via Campessina,

a group of poor farmers
from across the Americas

that had come to Cancún to fight
for the rights of Mother Earth,

agreed to in Bolivia earlier that year,
in what was called the Cochabamba Accord.

Giving Mother Nature rights
above and beyond corporations.

People of every background,
rising against injustice,

fighting for a brighter future.

What we're witnessing today

is actually far bigger
than any social movement before.

It is the largest humanitarian effort

to try the solve the biggest crisis of
our time that we've ever seen in history.

Millions and millions of civil society
groups working towards progressive causes.

We're all a part of the problem,

but we're also all part of the solution.

A lot more people need to rise up.

We need to live in a world
that respects human rights,

that respects the rights of Mother Earth,
it needs to be all people

that are putting pressure on governments
and international systems like the UN.

But also making change
within their own communities.

The truth is nobody knows where
we're going, I've really learned that.

Nobody has a good idea
what the future will look like.

What I do today
can change the course of events

and that's true for everybody.

We're at a turning point,
and that's what a crossroads is about.

It goes in all these different directions
and you fundamentally don't know

where you're going to end up
until you've made that choice.

And we haven't made that choice yet.

Time to choose.

I'm Felix from Bavaria.

Here we have planted 194 trees.

One tree for every country
that is at the conference.

But we didn't' plant them alone.

We invited all the ministers
and heads of state to come outside

to plant the trees of
their country with us.

The organization
is called Plant for the Planet.

We want to plant one million trees
in each country of the world.

When we started four years ago,
we thought we had to save the polar bear.

We thought we had to save the environment.
But soon after we found out

that it's about our future,
that we have to save our own future.

And here with this action
we tried to get the people

inside the conference,
to tell them it's not enough to talk.

Sure these conferences are important,
because without conferences

we cannot get a world contract.

But just talking without any action
won't save our future.

We have to force our heads of government
to do something because they know exactly

the problems we have
and they know exactly the solutions

to all of these problems,
but they are not doing it,

so we have to force them to do it.

If we tell people
around the world what is going on,

what is going on with our future I
think they will be willing to do something.

We can change something
if we work together worldwide.

So let's do it.

Awesome. Thank you.

I burn 54.1 tons of carbon a year.

More than twice that
of the average American,

five times that of the average European.

And fifteen times
that of the average Mexican.

And I need to plant 19
trees and care for them

for 30 years every year I do this.

That was a huge underestimation.

I actually burn twice that
as I travel the world, making this movie.

Destroying the world I depend on.

The world I love.

Maybe it's not just the governments
and corporations.

Maybe it's us.

Our ambitions, our wants, our ignorance.

Are there too many of us,
are we consuming too much,

or both?

If everyone lived like we do
in the developed western world,

we'd need six earths to sustain life.

Clearly, we can't keep living this way.

We need just to educate ourselves.

All of us.

Every single person.

You have to be responsible
for your own education.

You can't expect the state
and government to educate you

on changing the state
and changing the world.

They want you to be a sheep,
be another brick in the freaking wall.

And as much as everyone says
stay calm, everything's fine, it's not.

It's not fine. Don't stay
calm, do something.

Eight, nine, 10,

11, 12, 13...

As the conference was drawing
to a close, the youth started staging

more desperate actions to try and get
the politicians to listen to them.

To be young and aware today
is to look up to experts like scientists,

lawyers and doctors, and most importantly
victims, telling us

that we're in the final countdown.

Telling us that the risk
of catastrophic climate change

is mounting day by day
as we run businesses

to maintain our diplomatic image.

What is being told to us by science,
by facts, by warnings of our victims,

is that lives, security and equality
are the things to be maintained.

To be young and aware is to be chided
for not understanding

how the real world works.

To be warned that doing the right thing
will bankrupt few but kill us all one day.

To be young is to be told that not wanting
to melt the ice caps makes us

too radical to be taken seriously.

To be young and aware is to be confused,
to wonder why you can stand in front of us

and both call for change
and refuse the change.

Let's be honest,

ditching the Kyōto protocol will not
save us from the catastrophe that awaits.

It will not protect your two year old from
a world of war, poverty and civil strife.

Let's be honest, you're afraid to share.

Why are we who have everything
still so greedy,

you've bracketed your way through COP 16,

you've locked yourselves in hotels
and isolated yourself from the communities

that not only you represent
but also come from.

You can't look into our eyes, into my eyes

and tell me you are doing
everything you can.

Let's be honest, we're all in this together
and you want this future too.

To be young and aware today is to know
that a bright green future is possible.

You have been negotiating all my life.

You cannot tell me you need more time.

And with all due respect, dear authorities,
you have no authority to ruin the present

of some today
and the future of us all tomorrow.

Thank you.

...2,183,

2,190, 2,193, 2,194...

If you can make progress somehow
in the climate change negotiations,

then there is hope for everything else.

If you fail this one, then you're
going to fail in everything else.

This is the ultimate test of mankind.

It can't get worse.

Short of an asteroid slamming into earth.

I'm there to remind
people what this is about.

It's about people.

There are people out there
that you are condemning to death,

and they are innocent.

Don't say it's up to your government,
"If we had a better government..."

Then elect a better government.

So, we're not gonna let anybody
off the hook now.

No one's innocent in this. Only the kids.

Every one of these numbers
has a personal story.

Every one of these numbers represents
a death by climate change

that has occurred just this year.

We're here asking for justice
for these people and to end suffering

and ask purely for our survival.

That is what we're here
asking the negotiators for.

And that's why we have done this action.

...2,356, 2,357,

2,358, 2,359,

2,409, 2,410,

2,411...

Shame on you! Shame on you!

- Please step back.
- Please.

It's about my future!

Okay, who's the parent of this child?

It's about my future!

Press, you're creating
an unsafe environment here, please.

Step back.

The youth that fought to have
their message heard

were kicked out of the conference
and silenced.

For the 16th time, the politicians
running this world met for two weeks

and didn't come to an agreement
to save our future,

because it's not their future
that's in jeopardy, it's the youth's.

I wonder how we're going to survive,
when we're all at fault.

What it's going to take to move us,
for us to care enough about others,

other species and other people,
to do something about it

and make our species sustainable.

But underwater, life's evolving,
as it has for millions of years.

Mantas are relatives of sharks
that have evolved to eat plankton

and cruise the open ocean.

A rare and endangered creature,
thriving here,

as they have for 5 million years.

Swimming with them,

I wonder what life
would be like in the future,

and what we'll look like if we make it.

What if we figured this out

and made life on earth beautiful
for all species?

What if we came together
and fought for each other,

our future and our home?

What if we made it through this extinction?

What could we do in a thousand years?

What would we be capable of
in a million years, in a billion years?

I didn't know what to do next,
but as long as there's a fight for life,

I know what battle I'm in, that our side
is only getting stronger,

and though it may not seem like it yet,
the revolution has begun.

You're a part of it now,
and we're going to win.

The flamboyant cuttlefish
are eager to hatch,

perfect little super-predators,
600 million years in the making.

They're evolving to a changing world.

And if we're gonna survive,
we're gonna have to evolve ourselves.

My greatest wish for humanity

is that they understand the issues

which now confront them.

I think the most important thing
any of us can do to turn this around

is we need to be the change we want to see.

We need to be the revolutionaries,
we need to be the eco-warriors.

Nobody else is going to do it.

There's a lot of meaningful things
to be done, and to me, working towards

a healthier planet and a better relationship
between people and the environment

is about the most meaningful thing
you can do,

not just for the planet,
but for people as well.

You may only get to vote once every four
years, but every time you buy a product

you get a chance
to choose the type of world you want.

So, buying from sustainable sources,

from local sources,
from low environmental-impact sources,

all shapes the world that we live in.

We can make a pledge
that we can change our lifestyles.

We can find out how we ourselves
are contributing to the problem.

We can reduce our consumption.

Be unreasonable, you know?

That's that Gandhi did,
that's what Dr. King did,

that's what Mother Teresa did,
that's what Nelson Mandela did.

You know, be unreasonable in your joy,
your enthusiasm for a better future,

and people will get excited.

I don't think this is the time
for us to have small dreams.

We children, if we work together worldwide
then we can make a huge difference too.

Then I got a phone call
from a sixth grade teacher

on the island of Saipan, Micronesia.

My name is Kathy Pagapular
and I am a teacher

at San Vicente elementary school
here in Saipan.

I showed them your documentary
and it moved them

and they got really interested
and that's how it all started.

A film that explores the beautiful ocean
and the magnificent creatures.

What we wanted to do was brainstorm ideas

on what to do after this.

And then they wrote a letter.

They wanted the governor
to hear their voices.

Dear Governor Fital.

I am a sixth grade student
at San Vicente elementary school.

I am writing this letter
because the sharks are almost extinct.

I hope you sign a bill
to ban shark finning.

Yeah, I think those sixth graders should be

recognized and acknowledged
for their concern.

Mr. Rob Stewart!

It makes you feel so good
because we're so young,

but we accomplished a lot of things.

Big things.

I don't' think we've done this before
and it's a huge step.

We were witnesses to history today.

Maybe the world might not end
because of what we're doing.

The adults that caused this problem,

but we should do something about it,
because look at us,

we're kids and we're actually trying

to save stuff, while you guys
are doing something else.

Worry about yourselves
instead of other people.

It's like a domino effect.

If you do something good,
it will continue to, you know, expand.

Saipan is now officially the second place
in the world to entirely ban shark fins.

A sixth-grade class pushed it
with everything they could.

The world will never be the same
because of this.

Kathy's class taught me
how we can save our species.

All it took was awareness,
and we fought for sharks.

Now we have all the tools
to solve the biggest crisis in history.

We just need people
to know what's going on,

and we'll change the world again.

Make your own group.
Start protesting and make a riot.