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- Welcome to the global archive,

a vast storage structure

located 800 kilometers north of Norway.

It contains the artwork

from every national museum.

There are pickled animals

stack up two by two.

Every film, every book,

every scientific report,

all stored on banks of servers.

But the conditions we are experiencing now

were actually cause by our behavior

in the period leading up to 2015.

In other words, we could've saved ourselves.

We could've saved ourselves.

But we didn't, it's amazing.

What state of mind were we in,

to face extinction, and simply shrug it off?

- By nature or by disinterest,

I was always an introvert.

For years, you know,

the non-business needs, needs a face

blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

A personality.

- The year 32-year-old

entrepreneur Jeh Wadia,

he's starting up India's

third low-cost airline, in 2005.

- Time for India is now, the time for

developing businesses in India is now.

- He's got 1200 employees, most of whom

have never set foot on an airplane.

- What are the different kinds of

hijackers that you might have?

- Uniforms.

- Uniforms are the first point.

- Do I care? - The 31st--

- No no, do I care?

- Babe?

- Why are you scared of a little smoke?

Do you want to be scared and run of fire?

It's not a toy, it's not a perfume bottle,

you've got to aim it, hold it.

That's it.

- I was in London at the time, where Stelios Haji-loannou,

you know, created Easy Jet,

and I was always fascinated

with basically how he did it.

- Evacuate, evacuate!

Go this way, go this way!

Go this way!

- We'd be offering fares from 600 rupees,

okay, all the way down to one rupee.

How many people can afford a one rupee fare?

I would imagine every single Indian can.

That the, a rickshaw driver can, and servants.

You know in the year 2005, I mean, you know,

having a elite class who can fly in

a country of a billion people is ridiculous.

- Search, visible impacts of climate change

leading up to 2010.

- 101 degrees Fahrenheit.

It's the hottest day ever recorded.

- 700 people are now feared dead

after the strongest ever-recorded

day's rain fall in India's history.

- Now, it's official, the past year

has been the driest in Melbourne's history.

- The desert is advancing at the phenomenal rate

of three miles every year.

- Dozens of Antarctic ice shelves

collapsing faster than anyone predicted.

- 18 countries are under water

and one and a half million people are affected.

- Fernand Pareau has climbed Europe's

highest mountain Mont Blanc over 150 times.

Here he's guiding a family from England.

- At 82, Fernand's the oldest guide

still working in France.

All his lifetime he's witnessed

huge changes in the mountains.

- Now, there's a ladder extension

on the bottom here now.

- Wow.

Wow.

- Extraordinary to think that

these are the Alps in December.

Here in Chamonix as across the Alps,

there is a dramatic lack of snow

and exceptionally warm temperatures.

It is a glimpse into the future.

- More than half the ski resorts in Europe

could shut down in the next 50 years

because of global warming.

- So nobody goes skiing, big deal.

But the thing is it's not that, is it?

That's the whole point.

The fact you can't go skiing anymore or

that the glaciers are melting is not really the point.

The point is that that signals

that basically the earth is destabilizing.

And all the norms that have

allowed life to exist

as it has done are changing.

- List, climate change,

major events, up to the present day.

This is a couple of days before Katrina struck.

Most people are following the evacuation order

in getting out of the city.

But New Orleans-borne Alvin DuVernay

had no intention of moving.

I got up Saturday morning

and there was a buzz in the neighborhood.

Everybody was running around

and I was like what's up, what's up?

You know, the hurricane's coming.

I checked on the web and sure enough

all of the models had it, aiming right for us, bullseye.

This is a monster, and it's coming.

Walked through the house a few times,

putting things up, you know.

My silk rug from Nepal up on a top shelf,

and my guitar, I mean, you know,

you just do these things, you know.

I mean another way to do that is

get all your stuff and go, that's option one,

probably the best option.

I didn't grow up in that option.

The biggest blue marlin--

- Alvin collected his 84-year-old father

just then barricaded the two of them inside

his house as the hurricane approached.

- You stare Mother Nature in the eye,

usually she's fairly benign.

Then she comes along,

methodically, ruthlessly.

And then she stands toe to toe

with you and dares you, dares you.

Go ahead and get your best equipment out.

Go ahead, do it, let's dance.

- I think one's got to be very careful

about attaching a particular event to global warming.

But nevertheless the intensity of hurricanes

is related to surface sea temperature,

so increased intensity of hurricanes

is associated with global warming.

- By first light, the water in Alvin's house

was chest-deep and still rising.

So he helped Alvin Sr. into their boat

and headed for dry land.

At this point, the boat's floating,

so it's no big deal to launch the boat, it's launched.

There's no landmarks, really, to speak of.

That's a real different perspective,

driving through your neighborhood at tree level.

Then, all of a sudden you realize

there's a lot of people who stayed behind.

There was no coastguard or police or,

most of our national guards

was elsewhere in the world, Iraq, Afghanistan.

- Alvin rescued over a hundred people,

and their pets, over two long days,

including a 95-year-old man

and a six-week-old baby.

When that little basket came out of the window,

that was a pretty special time.

And just as peaceful, eyes-closed,

it just stops you, in your tracks, just dead stop.

Take a breath, you know,

there's nothing more precious than that.

- Alvin's neighbors were the lucky ones,

Hurricane Katrina was America's worst

weather-related event to that date,

but it was just a taste of what was to come.

- It is our fault.

After years of debate, some of the world's

top scientists have concluded--

Unequivocable, is the word

they used, human activity is--

- Contributing to changes in our earth's climate,

and that issue is no longer up to debate.

- In Andermatt,

they've covered a glacier with a special

protective sheet to reduce its summer melt.

- One way I do my bit for the environment

is turning to 30 with Ariel.

- This is offsetting all those flights that I take

that I have to for my job.

- David Cameron even wears recycled shoes

made from old fireman's trousers.

- Despite all of the efforts to control pollution

and its effect in our climate,

the level of greenhouse gas emissions has reached

a record high and shows no signs of being reversed.

- Despite the Kyoto treaty, and all the talk

of reducing emissions of carbon dioxide,

levels of this key greenhouse gas

are rising faster than ever.

- 6:30 a.m. on a cool autumn morning

and Alvin's heading off to work, searching for more oil.

Ironically, the oil infrastructure

off the coast of New Orleans

suffered major damage during the hurricane,

but Shell moved fast to carry out repairs

and just nine months later,

the rigs are online, and everyone's back at work.

- Oil was formed when ancient plant life

in the oceans absorbed energy from the ancient sun.

As these plants died, they settled on the ocean floor

along with the dead bodies of tons

and tons of ocean creatures.

Over the millennia, temperatures increased

and the organic matter was gradually cooked

until the sun's energy was stored inside oil.

150 million years later, Shell's geologists

analyzed where the oil might be,

then drilled three miles down

into the seabed to collect samples.

- Here Al, get it yourself.

- Thank you, brother.

We get the samples and analyze them

for the fossil contents, the microscopic fossils.

And it's just another geo-scientific tool

in order to improve your possibility of finding oil.

In my opinion, probably arrogantly so,

but it's pretty high calling

actually to try to do that,

to try to figure out or maybe

take apart, you know, time itself.

Go back a few thousand years,

and the energy available to grow our crops or feed animals

was limited by the daily sunlight falling on the earth.

But now, we use the energy equivalent to hundreds of years

of sunlight every single year.

Every part of modern life is now literally made of oil,

from CDs and plastic bags,

to medicine and computers.

From clothes and carpets to cosmetics and cell phones.

It's truly a wonderful and necessary substance.

Then there's our food,

each calorie we eat uses nearly a hundred oil calories

to produce, package, refrigerate, transport.

And fossil fuel produced fertilizers now feed

a couple billion or so people

who could not otherwise be sustained.

It would be prudent for humanity to carefully use

the remaining oil to build a new society run without it.

Instead, we're burning up tens of millions

of barrels every day, so it will be gone.

It will run out,

leaving pretty much none for future generations.

Even though we in the oil industry

are working our asses off looking for

and finding this magical substance.

- All right, guy! - Push it back!

- And then you see it,

and you smell it, and, you know,

it's greasy and ugly and smells so much

like money, it's just beautiful, you know.

- 13 billion pounds in 2005.

That's one and a half million pounds an hour,

400 pounds a second.

- And a hefty chunk of those profits

came from here, Nigeria,

where most of the population lives

on less than one dollar a day.

- This is the water we drink.

- 22-year-old Layefa Malin

has an ambition to train as a doctor

and then work in a home village called Cojabanee,

where Shell started building this medical center.

- Like hundreds of other community projects

across the Niger Delta, construction has been abandoned.

Shell maintains that's because of the risk of kidnapping.

13% of the oil revenue is supposed

to be spent on community development.

But the local people's share is almost

all lost to the corrupt political system.

So despite being in the most

profitable oil region in West Africa,

Layefa's village has no health service,

no secondary school, no

electricity, and no drinking water.

- This way? - Yeah.

- Yes, like, no!

- Layefa is describing a phenomenon

known as the resource curse.

Paradoxically, finding oil usually

increases a country's poverty.

As the oil wealth is concentrated

in the hands of a few,

so the agriculture, education, and health system

of the country become neglected and often collapse.

The local people's health problems

are compounded by gas flares,

burning night and day

throughout the Niger Delta.

Asthma, bronchitis, skin diseases

and cancer have all been linked.

That gas is found alongside oil,

but, as it's dangerous to transport,

it can't easily be sold to over-seas markets

It could be used for cooking and heating within Nigeria,

but building infrastructure is expensive

so the oil companies just burn it off.

The flares emit about 70 million tons

of carbon dioxide every year,

more than the annual emissions

from 10 million British homes.

They just do whatever they like.

- Why are American cities designed

so it's almost impossible not to have a car?

Why were a hundred railways in cities like New York,

Philadelphia, and Los Angeles bought up

and then deliberately destroyed?

Why did the electric car get scrapped?

Why were we, along with Australia,

the only two countries not to sign

the original Kyoto climate treaty?

Why was an oil company lobbyist allowed to change

official government reports on global warming?

Why was the same PR firm employed by the tobacco industry

to persuade the public that smoking is healthy,

then employed by the oil industry to convince us

there was still doubt about climate change?

Alternative energy has been available

for 50 years, why have we barely used it?

Why were solar panels taken off the White House?

Because right from the early days of the industry,

the oil men and their obscene profits have had

an unhealthy influence on the people running our country.

And now, they are the people running our country.

And they're providing the cash, too.

Oil business isn't just in bed with the government,

it is the government.

- Here, Layefa is going to a nearby village,

Odioma, that was massacre by the government.

The village was involved in a dispute

about ownership of a piece of land,

on which Shell planned to drill for oil.

The government claimed that

the village was harboring terrorists,

and when they sent

the military in to find those terrorists,

the villagers opened fire on the soldiers.

Layefa has gone to hear the villagers' side

of the story, from Omiekma Wekid.

- Amnesty international investigated

the massacre and concluded that,

although the government

was responsible for the killings,

Shell Nigeria should have made sure that

their activities did not contribute to the conflict.

- They shoot him? - Yes.

They burned them off.

- Human history is littered with the corpses

of people who had stuff worth stealing.

Animals,

water,

shiny things, - Ugh!

- Fertile land.

Spices.

- Hmm!

Nutmeg slice, tea?

- But when it came to stuff

worth pinching one continent had it all.

Ivory, copper, cotton, rubber, wood,

tin, gold, diamonds, and people.

We're saving a pool of, pool of, pool of

- As cheap energy, slaves were unbeatable,

until a less troublesome energy source was discovered,

and the new era began.

Human numbers increased five times over.

And with each person wanting more and more stuff,

oil became the resource

worth fighting for all around the world.

- Well, you want to know

the real reason we went to war in Iraq?

According to the former Federal Reserve Chairman

Alan Greenspan, it's simple, three letter answer.

Not WMD, it's O-I-L.

- I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient

to acknowledge what everyone knows,

that the Iraq war is largely about oil.

- You might read the ex-chairman of Shell

that said over weekend that oil could hit over $150

a barrel as world production begins to peak,

not really good news for a country whose entire economy,

not to mention its entire way of life,

is based on cheap oil.

- Throughout our history, the deal was

we left the world in a better place

than we found it.

That was progress,

the wheel, the rule of law, penicillin.

It was our covenant to our children and grandchildren.

My children weren't angry with me

for breaking the covenant,

they were too busy trying to stay alive

to waste energy on blame,

trying to negotiate their way through food riots,

and refugee camps, and the collapse of society.

But I think my grandchildren would have been angry,

had they survived into adulthood.

- Skiing in the desert,

heating the air,

lighting empty offices,

energy is so ridiculously cheap it makes

perfect economic sense to just piss it away.

China is new bad guy, because they are building

a new power station every four days.

But a quarter of that energy makes stuffs for us.

Western companies pay Chinese workers

crap wages to make crap plastic toys,

then ship them to Europe,

and wrap them in more plastic.

Punters drive to the out-of-town

megastore in their gas-guzzlers.

Plastic toy and plastic box

goes into plastic bag.

Two days later toy is broken

and back it goes to a Chinese landfill where it

stays for about, hmm, 50,000 years?

Water from the bottles

Much better than the tap

Ooh water from the bottles

Much better than the tap

Ooh health giving life enhancing

Mountain spring spa

- 800 times more energy wasted

and 10,000 times more expensive for you.

It's a tricky decision.

- Wee!

You keep saying you've got something for me

Something you call love, but confess

You've been messing where you shouldn't have been messing

And now someone else is getting all your best

Boots are made for walkin'

And that's just what they'll do

One of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you

- Woo! - Woo!

- Lots of ideas have tried

to take over the world,

but there's only one winner.

3,000 adverts bombard us every day.

Telling us we'll be happier,

more attractive and with better skin,

if only we buy their product.

To get there, they create within us an insatiable

desire to buy more and more stuff.

Americans have been advertised that longest,

and they now each consume

twice as much energy as a European,

and nine times more than a Chinese person,

15 more times than an Indian,

and 50 times more than someone from Kenya.

If all six and a half billion people here on earth

consumed like Europeans or Japanese,

we'd need two more planets worth of resources.

If everyone consumed like

Americans, Australians and Canadians,

we'd need another four.

And in 2040 or so when there's about nine billion of us,

we'll need two more again.

Capitalism's only goal is ever expending growth,

but ever expending growth

on just the one not expending planet,

it's impossible.

The current economic system is disastrous,

not just for the planet

but for most people, too.

400 years of capitalism has allowed

the richest 1% to take 40% for themselves,

leaving just 1% for the poorest to have.

But anyone wanting to live differently

is thwarted at every turn.

With profit the only measuring step,

destroying the planet

is written into the system,

and runaway climate change

is a not very surprising result.

Just can't get enough

I just can't get enough

I just can't get enough

I just can't get enough

I just can't get enough

I just can't get enough

I just can't get enough

I just can't get enough

I just can't get enough

I just can't get enough

- The logo effectively is color,

you know, light Gray, you know,

orange Telecom, they have orange and black.

Our logo is fluorescent color.

I just can't get enough

I just can't get enough

I just can't get enough

- Everything changes in economy

the minute you have an airline moving in.

Because people can basically do business a lot faster.

If businesses grow a lot faster,

people have more disposable income,

then, you know, consumerism sets in,

and you know where the verge

where basic consumerism is setting in.

Just moving a lot like America.

You're like an angel when you give me your love

- Glide slow, glide slow.

- Here, Jeh travels to Airbus headquarters

in France, as they'll be supplying him

with 26 planes in his first three years.

- We'd do it year round, of course.

- We have only 200 aircraft

commercially flying in India, China has 800.

Ultimately, you know,

we have a very long way to go,

playing catch up with China,

or catch up with Europe,

or, you know, say America,

one airline Southwest, have 417 aircraft.

That's double the amount

of aircraft we have as a country.

- So this is not of course your final design.

- You know, one simple sentence for me, summarizes it all.

Thing are gonna get better.

- In my main house was,

it had 10 feet of water in it,

marinated in that for, in that sludge

for three weeks, almost.

So it's current state of my house, it has been demolished.

It's a flat piece of a property waiting

for another house to go on that.

I lost everything, everything that I owned.

I mean everything from family heirlooms

to the paper towels sitting on your kitchen counter,

and everything in between, it goes on and on.

Two beautiful, beautiful oak trees I did not lose,

you know, local, indigenous,

Quercus Virginianas, live oaks

that sprawl all over the place,

beautiful, beautiful things.

That's what I have left, two oak trees

and an empty lawn, everything else is gone.

That sucks.

Losing everything you have,

it's so overwhelming.

And the grief that comes

with that, is just, it's profound.

- We have an unspoken collective pact

to pretend climate change wasn't happening,

as though as long we ignored it

hard enough, it wouldn't be true.

Not absolutely everyone,

a few were shouting fire.

- Hello, come on in.

One of the greatest difficulties

with climate change

is that the effects of our emissions today are

not actually realized in terms of the temperature

for 30 to 40 years so there's this time-lag in the system.

Which makes it difficult for us humans to respond

because we're evolutionary equipped

to deal with very immediate threats

like advancing armies or dangerous animals.

We're not so well-equipped with dealing rationally

with very long-term problems like climate change.

So we have to act now to stop

something happening in the future.

If we wait until the full temperature

effects are already upon us,

then it's far too late to stop.

If you remember one single number above all else,

make it two degrees,

now everyone in the world pretty much,

the European Union, big multi-national corporations,

Greenpeace, political parties,

all agreed that we have to stabilize global temperatures

within two degrees above pre-industrial levels,

and the reason for that is because,

if you cross that threshold,

the narrow tipping points in the earth system,

which could drive the warming process

essentially out of control.

Huge amounts of carbon could be coming out

of the world's trees and the soils, methane could be coming

out of the permafrost in Siberia

and it's that extra input of greenhouse gases

into the atmosphere,

which then leads us up to worst case scenario

to six or more degrees

and the eventual wipe-out of most of life on earth.

So power emissions has been going up

between, let's say 1950,

and now they need to level out,

stabilize, and then decline

just as rapidly to sustainable levels

about an 80% cut by 2050.

But crucially, to keep the temperature

rise within two degrees,

this point of stabilization

needs to be at around 2015.

And so that means, really, the time,

timeline we've got, ticking clock,

is that we have to stabilize global emissions

within just seven years from now as we speak, 2008.

And the scale of this task to achieve

a transformation to a low carbon economy

for the entire, entirety of human civilization,

is obviously, it's a huge monumental task,

probably the greatest that humanity's ever faced.

- Remember the English family

who went to see the glacier?

They're back home in Cornwall,

Southwest England, inspired to start tackling

their own energy wasting.

- It says that the average individual

in the UK is responsible

for emitting 10 tons of greenhouse gas a year.

- They're calculating exactly how much

climate-change-gases their family currently produces,

and how it can be reduced.

- Yeah, but that's the average individual.

There are five of us, yeah.

- Ah, ooh.

- Whichever way you look at this,

it isn't good.

- We produce about half of our food,

and we try and keep

our consumption of meat and dairy down.

My car runs on chip fat

and we do cycle when we can.

We've just got our wind turbine,

which will produce all our own electricity.

- We're aiming to cut down to

about one ton each per year,

which is apparently the sustainable amount

that the world's trees and plants can reabsorb.

- But the big problem is flying,

just one return flight, say London to New York,

would blow our entire carbon

budget for about three and a half years.

Apparently, other than setting fire to a forest,

flying is the single worst thing an ordinary

individual can do to cause climate change.

So, it's a bit of a dilemma, because we've

just been invited to go skiing in France.

- Then I am flying from Newquay,

which is our nearest airport,

it's like 40 minutes from here, to Bergerac,

which is like, you know,

an hour and a half--

- Very tempting. - Or something, from it.

- And literally we could leave here

in the morning, we live like, in Cornwall,

we could leave Cornwall in the morning,

and be in Bergerac by sort of,

for lunch, after lunch.

But if you actually think, this is going to cause

the death of people, is actually gonna affect people,

and make that direct connection

then it is a really scary thought.

Obviously, us not flying to France or not flying,

wherever it's hardly gonna solve the problem.

But it's down to what you think

is the correct thing to do.

Because everyone else is doing it, I mean,

that's not a good reason to do anything.

You know, you have to look at the terrible things

in our history that everyone regrets now,

you know, massacres,

the holocaust, et cetera, and a lot of that

was just going along with what was

the predominant thinking at the time.

I'm almost jealous of the time,

five, 10 years ago, when I could

just jump on a plane with impunity.

I didn't even think about it, it's just blissful.

No moral dilemma there, whatsoever.

- Needless to say,

they didn't take that flight.

And joining the climate change protest march

may not be everybody's idea

of a 10th wedding anniversary,

but Piers and Lisa have shared ideals

from the moment they met.

- My friend, we went along to the party together,

and she just basically took me

straight over to Piers and said,

"Hey, look," you know "Piers, this is Lisa."

And, dah dah dah.

And that was it, that was it.

We just and spent the whole evening

talking about wind turbines.

- Piers has been developing wind farms in Africa,

America, and Britain for over 15 years.

But he knows that they will only

help solve the climate crisis

as a small part of a total

reordering of western society.

- And there's still this idea that somehow

we have to find the solution,

you know, the silver bullet.

No single renewable source is gonna

be the solution, absolutely not.

- And Piers doesn't think

much of the other option,

whereby everyone crosses their fingers

and hopes that the miracle

technology will be invented in time.

- I'm not saying we shouldn't be developing

other stuff, absolutely, we should be.

We should be throwing everything at it.

But, you've got to make use of what's available now.

And in the UK, we've got a great wind resource,

and we just got to bite the bullet and go for it.

- Piers has purposed a new wind farm

at Airfield Farm in Bedfordshire, central England.

He could have 15 turbines installed and generating

13 megawatts of electricity within a year.

- Good morning, sorry. - Well, we're the

revolutionary army.

- That's it, outraged faces.

Edward, I've lost your face again, sorry chap.

Can you just?

That's it, yeah, good man.

Right, okay.

- Well, the process balloon is now going up,

but while that's happening,

I'll just explain where we are.

This is the site

of an old World War II bomber base.

Phone, bullocks.

- We all have our thumbs down as well.

That's it.

- UK-wise surveys point to about 70 to 80%

in favor of wind farms as a concept.

The difficulty is when you've

got one on your own doorstep,

and then it's the sort of

not-in-my-backyard syndrome.

- Jim, what's the problem?

- Well, the problem really is that this is one of the

least windy sites in the country.

- I hope it's not gonna get too windy tomorrow

and it wraps itself around the church.

- Well, I live in Coddington, and we're going to be

absolutely surrounded by these high moss.

They're going to obliterate the view.

- What it normally always comes down to

with wind farms is aesthetics, you know.

Everything else is basically put together

to try and back up the ultimate thing,

and the ultimate thing is they

don't want it to spoil their view.

- But I'm a bit concerned

about the low level noise as well.

- The wind farm site is right next

to the world famous Santa Pod drag-racing strip.

- Anybody you ask it, nobody's against

wind energy, that's the point.

- Yeah.

- It's against inappropriate wind energy use.

- Right, okay.

- Hypnotic, you're driving along,

and you tend to see the sails revolving,

and you're not concentrating on the driving.

- Ernie Braddock will benefit

financially having turbines on his farm,

but now he's in conflict

with his neighbor, Victoria Reeves.

- Well, everyone is very unhappy about it.

We're gonna lose the value in our properties.

- No, we're not.

- We're not gonna be able to sleep, it will make

a difference, Ernie you have no idea, believe me.

- According to Victoria, they stopped a wind farm up in

Scotland on their other estate in Scotland

back in the mid-90's, and that was a great victory.

- It can't rely on the wind.

It can only deliver.

- It's only an additive.

- An additive?

- It means that-- - Do you mean additional?

Yes, it is additional.

- It prolongs the resources, put it that way.

- No, Ernie, it doesn't.

- It's got to.

- It does nothing of the sort.

- Got to. - Believe me.

- It's got to.

- It's an emotional campaign, it's about fear

mostly based on complete bullocks, frankly.

But never mind, facts are not a problem, you know.

- It's a fair fight.

- Yeah.

- And I hope you lose.

- All right.

- This is August 2005, just after

Mumbai's worst ever floods.

And a couple of months before Jeh's first flight.

- All right?

- Come on.

Show daddy how good you ride this,

show daddy how fast you can go, come on.

Press, press.

Whoa. - No more pushing.

It's battery operated.

- So, I can't see an issue there.

- That's grandpa. - Secondly.

- See you, Grandpa. - And, you know.

- Jeh is descended from one of India's richest

and most powerful business dynasties.

They've pioneered everything from ship building

in the 18th century to internet services in the 21st.

In a round about way, his privileged upbringing

sparked the idea for the low cost airline.

- What do you want me to do?

I'm going to the airport.

Throughout basically my life, from a young age,

I mean, I used to hang out with basically tons of,

you know, servants' kids.

You know, that sort of stuff.

You know, and when you go home,

you say, you suddenly think,

why the hell do I have so much,

and these guys have nothing.

And that sort of shook, and

that constantly, constantly, constantly adding me up.

You know, everyone is here for a purpose.

The idea is to realize what your higher purpose is,

and then understand how you're gonna fulfill it.

And eventually I realized what my higher purpose was,

it was to ensure that I eradicated poverty.

- Jeh volunteers at a charity which helps

villagers lift themselves out of poverty.

But even by private jet and Jeep,

it's a five hour, 900 kilometer journey.

- Hiring a private jet basically

in terms of costs as much as the village does.

In order to take a village from below

the poverty and put it above the poverty.

So effectively, in terms of it

defeats the purpose.

And therefore I decided to, you know,

try the trains, from Bombay it takes about 26 hours.

I said to myself, wow, this is just incredible.

You know, people pay good money

and still have to basically put with this rubbish.

- 15 million people travel

by train in India every single day.

Jeh's dream is to get them all off

the trains and into the skies.

- We're not at war at the moment.

It's not a war.

But if people actually recognize the

full implications of what's in store for us,

they would be treating it like a war.

They only gotta take Airfield Farm, for example.

I mean that was a US airbase,

people flew out of there and died.

Or a cause, which was massive at the time,

the global problem, and we have ourselves now

a real global problem that needs

that kind of level of commitment.

- There are many, many other industries

that need to be looked into first, before aviation.

It's not a question about choosing one industry to target.

The ultimate deal, we all contribute to greenhouse gases,

we all contribute to the crisis

that we have today with the planet.

So ultimately, in terms of, you know

ensuring our planet is safe and

healthy is each one's job, task.

Whether you do it in your own

way by using less tissue paper,

using less paper so the trees not cut,

buying green cars or not flying.

Obviously, if you're not doing it,

the demand goes down,

the demand goes down, the supply goes down.

Life's about demand and supply

or supply demand.

- Strange, watching these film fragments.

Like looking through binoculars

observing people on a far off beach.

Running around in circles, fixated on

the small area of sand under their feet,

as a tsunami races towards the shore.

- Rickety, girl.

Ah.

- Here's Alvin.

He's just taken early retirement

after 30 years on an oil industry salary.

And he's planning to spend his later

years outside enjoying nature.

- Oh, certainly I'm an ecologist,

and an environmentalist.

I really don't have a problem squaring that,

working for an oil company

that I feel has done a pretty good job

in being environmentally friendly.

When I started working in

the oil industry, about the mid '70s,

it was a clear path for me,

as a scientist coming out of college.

And I didn't know the detail of what goes on

in the industry, the goods and the bad.

But indeed every industry has that, the goods and the bad.

Would I do it again, knowing what I know now,

of course I would do it again.

I mean, you need to work,

you need to do something.

Message one.

- The worst example I've had is a lady,

an old lady came up to me,

at the public exhibition,

and gave me a cutting from a newspaper,

with a picture of a guy being shot.

- Local anti-campaigns are one

of the key factors

stopping about 80% of the proposed

wind energy projects in Britain.

Had they all been built, 10% of our

electricity would've been non-polluted.

- How the heck are we meant to persuade

people in India and China

that they should develop in a more sustainable way

when we're not prepared to even accept

you know, the old wind farming landscape.

So how's it going? - All right, yes.

- Not too much trouble? - Not really, no.

Nobody's punched me up yet, anyway.

- Good.

- Piers has come back to Ernie's farm

with a plan to make the turbines less visible.

Trying to kick start the planning process

that the anti-campaign has now

held up for 18 months.

- Another 18 months of climate change.

Another eighteen months

where I've been able to do nothing about it.

Yeah, I feel really, really fucked off with it.

You must be feeling the same as me.

It's just, I mean how long have we got?

- Piers's compromise reduces the number

of turbines from 15 down to nine.

- This is still the equivalent electrical power

to fair 11,000 homes.

So there's still a lot of power.

Exactly the opposite is happening,

to the very thing that needs to happen.

These things need to be speeded up,

and actually, they're getting slowed down.

Plenty of politicians are talking about it,

but when it comes down to it,

it's just not happening.

It's just not happening, folks.

- Governments will only go as far as the population demands,

and that means mass protest on an unprecedented scale.

Direct action like this is essential,

if you're going to turn an issue

around in a short period of time.

We've found that many many times in the past,

from the suffragettes onwards.

The very fact that the crisis is taking place

within our generation and it's happening right now,

means that we are tremendously powerful people.

So this position of despair,

and I can't do anything, and there's no point,

it's completely illogical.

It's exactly the opposite.

- There's no shortage of Gray matter

in the species, we can do some amazing things.

But I don't think we been very smart

about how we use our resources.

How we quite literally burn up something

as beautiful and useful as oil.

We literally burn it up.

That's it, it's gone, it's done.

- I think most people were

becoming disenchanted by this point.

We'd stopped believing that this was

the golden era of human civilization,

and started questioning our collective values.

- All I can hope is,

incredible disasters like Katrina,

and the horrible wars and what not

that are going on around the world

will snap us out of it.

I'd like to see us headed in

the right direction for the good of mankind.

I still believe in chasing dreams

- Hey, how you doing? - Oh, you got me.

Jack on the rocks, perfect. - I do.

- You know what I like.

I had my share

I drank my fill

And even though I'm satisfied

I'm hungry still

- Before this disaster, I had a lot of stuff.

I was a classic consumer.

Two years later, I've learned a lot about

happiness and the pursuit thereof.

So here's to life

And every joy it brings

- Happiness is not in the latest gadget,

the latest electric toothbrush, or something like that.

All of that stuff.

It's just not the stuff of life.

Not for me anyway.

Here's to life

Here's to love

Here's to you

- Come on, you stupid computer.

Come on.

- Climate scientist can estimate how much of

the remaining fossil fuels we can safely burn.

This amount is called the global cap.

Under this proposal, the world's governments

would make a binding international agreement

detailing how to distribute the global cap.

The earlier the start date,

the greater the chance of not

triggering runaway climate change.

The total global emissions for the first year,

say 2012, will be set at their current level.

Every year following they'd shrink until

by about 2065, they're almost zero.

Initially, each country would be

allocated an emissions quota,

according to how much they currently consume.

But this would change over time.

America would slash its emissions 90%

from its current over-consuming position.

Europe too would decrease massively, as would China.

But India and Africa would increase until by about 2025,

each human being on the planet would have

equal rights to the earth's resources.

Equity is the only option morally,

and also practically as developing countries

won't sign up to anything less.

The total emissions would then keep decreasing every year,

until by 2065 we'll have

weaned ourselves off fossil fuels

and prevented the worst impacts of climate change.

As to how each country divvies up its share to

its citizens, there were various options on the table,

the most promising of which is individual carbon rationing.

- Mr. W.S Morrison is here to explain.

- If in the course of the war, we are short

for a time of this or that article of food,

rationing will give everyone,

rich and poor alike,

an equal share of all that's going.

- Down to the scheme,

everyone in the UK would be allocated

an annual carbon allowance.

- Stored electronically, rather like

a supermarket loyalty card,

points will be deducted every time

we buy or use non-renewable energy.

For example, using electricity

to power appliances in the home.

- Or traveling somewhere by plane.

- Or even buying Petro-fuel for your car.

- The best way you can help

is by rationing yourselves.

I'm sure that all of you will

buy your fair share and no more.

- Airports were expanding all over the world,

to cope with the exploding number

of cheap flights we were all demanding.

And Jeh was doing everything

he could to join the party.

- Ultimately, the art is to hug and then kick.

She thinks that the PSF is payable,

you're saying the PSF is not been payable.

What's wrong with you?

Now!

Yes or no?

Did I ask you that question,

or did I not ask you that question?

- You asked--

- You are suspended, you are suspended.

Both of you go to my office right now.

Does it take bloody more than 10 minutes to clean this?

Keep paint with you!

It's all in a day's work.

Maintaining my plane means something to me, okay?

If I see my step ladder like this,

and if I find one dirt, you'll be fired!

Okay?

Now!

- Yes.

- June the 11th, 2007,

in a hotel room in Bedford.

Piers is polishing his speech for tonight's

showdown with the local planning committee.

- This committee can approve this application.

If you do, you will show courage and leadership.

- He has just six minutes to convince

them to approve his wind farm.

- I'm absolutely confident,

that if you approve this project,

you'll look back on the decision

and say, thank goodness we said yes.

- But the committee rejected Piers's application,

saying that his wind farm would be conspicuous

and out of place in the Bedfordshire landscape,

that it would decrease enjoyment of nearby footpaths

and negatively impact the listed building

and an ancient monument.

In other words, it would spoil the view.

- Oh, we're delighted that it's been refused, yes.

- It's a wonderful result.

- It just shows if you work hard,

if you look at all the facts,

if you do it fair and with balance,

you can get a good outcome.

- 10 against and one in favor.

Might even have been 11 against and one in favor.

But there as only one guy that actually,

actually voted in favor of it.

- Cheers, mate.

- Hi, mom, it's Piers.

I think it was 10 to one or 11 to one against.

Yeah, just a fucking waste of time.

That's the thing.

I could have said anything, to be honest.

I don't think it would have made any difference.

- Of course we're worried about global warming,

I mean, that's got to be something

that we're all concerned about.

I mean, we're all doing our bit to try and conserve

and looking at renewable energy.

Of course, absolutely, yeah, I mean,

we're part of the yes.

- And it is global warming.

For the first time, scientists confirm the link

between climate change and our awful weather.

- Emergency services scramble to Bedford's--

- As the flood waters finally work

their way along the Great Ouse,

other parts of Bedfordshire didn't escape, either.

- We've lived at here for over 40 years,

and we've never ever had anything like this.

- At least 80,000 fatalities

in Burma today after cyclone Nargis--

- Emergency across Western Europe with

drinking water strictly rationed in Holland and France.

- Forest fires which are still

sweeping across Spain and Portugal.

- 30 billion pounds,

a price worth paying for motorists'

right to drive, said Lord Clarkson.

- Good news for the UK wine industries,

especially--

- Is that New Orleans will not be rebuilt

a third time, said the Louisiana governor.

- Less than a total destruction of India's dams

would end Pakistan's drinking water crisis.

- As a U.S. president, Chelsea Clinton

refuses Africa's demands.

- Sales of air conditioning units in India.

- San Francisco's extraordinary

heat wave continues into Los Angeles.

- Now we are seeing extreme weather

events somewhere around the planet every single day.

- 35 million Chinese refugees.

- Skiing in the Alps is over.

- New Channel Four documentary asks

is global warming really happening, or are natural--

- 61 degrees centigrade,

the highest land temperature.

- More than a hundred

million people are homeless tonight as Bangladesh--

- Methane emissions from Siberia.

- The last Indonesian tree found,

but fire fuel crisis--

- European Union today permanently closed

all of its borders.

- Roadside villages must be reserved

for food production.

- London is under water again,

as last night's 30 foot storm surge overcame the Thames.

- New Zealand has also now closed

its borders leaving 22 million stranded.

- Reports are coming in

that the North Sea is boiling.

- 100 million refugees

from middle east and continental Europe.

- Half of the species are now extinct,

scientists estimate, and ecosystems are collapsing.

- Past two degrees, we cannot

now stop runaway climate change.

- There are simply too many people

to feed on Ireland's remaining farm land.

- Suicide rates increasing 800%.

- The Amazon rainforest is still burning.

- And anyone who cannot bear

to eat their own cats and dogs.

- We are entering the eighth world food crisis.

- The world temperature

today passing four degrees.

- Retaliate to a nuclear strike.

- Go on, with ferocity across the entire continent.

- We wouldn't be the first life form

to wipe itself out.

But what would be unique about us

is that we did it knowingly.

And what does that say about us?

The question I've been asking is,

why didn't we save ourselves

when we had the chance?

Is the answer because on some level,

we weren't sure if we were worth saving?

- Please proceed near the aircraft,

and take care of the responsibilities.

- You know if all of us stood united, in terms

of the world would be different in every way,

Unfortunately, that's not the reality.

If we can't even stand united on

eradicating poverty in the world,

what does the health of the planet have any chance?

- Thank you, sir.

- In my opinion, our use or misuse

of resources in the last hundred years or so,

I'd probably rename that age,

something like the age of ignorance.

The age of stupid.

Every minute they take our oil then they go

- I just find it surprising,

that after so much effort, the final act

of our existence should be suicide.

So why did I build this archive?

It's a cautionary tale.

Not for us, too late for us.

But for, well,

for whoever, whatever,

eventually finds this recording.

And away you go.

Reckoner

You can't take it with ya

Dancing for your pleasure

We are not to blame for

Bittersweet distracters

Dare not speak its name

'Cause every kid is all you

All you

Because we separate

Like ripples on a blank shore

Because we separate

Like ripples on a blank shore

Reckoner

Take me with ya

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