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My name is Sapiens,
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Homo Sapiens.
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I'm about 200 thousand years old.
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And this is my life today.
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I'm searching for something
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but I'm not sure what I'm searching for.
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On those rare occasions
when I look up at the sky,
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I see all those stars.
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And as far as I know,
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only our planet has life.
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Among all the species here on Earth,
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I think of myself as the most intelligent,
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self-reflective,
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and wise.
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But am I?
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{\an8}The United Nations reported
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{\an8}that the world is in serious trouble.
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{\an8}The media are reporting on it.
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The world of scientists are showing data.
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The folks that have the
ability to make change
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know that we're in trouble.
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So there's fear.
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{\an8}There has not been this kind of destruction
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{\an8}on the planet since the
time of the dinosaurs,
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{\an8}65 million years ago.
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I saw this progress.
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And progress has its price.
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Over thousands of years,
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we've been progressively
empowering ourselves,
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becoming more differentiated,
more identified
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as unique human beings.
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But in the process, step
by step pulling back
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{\an8}from the natural world.
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{\an8}That process has gone so far now
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{\an8}that we're running into a wall,
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an evolutionary wall.
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An evolutionary wall?
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Is this the end of my life?
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{\an8}The only way
we'll ever make it as a species
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{\an8}on this planet is if we
reconnect with nature.
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Nature?
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Isn't that what I've been
trying to evolve away from?
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Not to be dependent on nature?
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Not to be at the mercy of nature's wrath?
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For the last 35 thousand years,
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even as awakening hunter-gatherers,
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we've been pulling back from nature.
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And then about 10 thousand years ago,
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we woke up to nature's
seasons, nature's cycles,
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and in that process we saw the possibility
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{\an8}of becoming farmers.
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{\an8}And that's been a process
of empowering ourselves
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and taking control of our own lives,
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our own destiny.
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{\an8}And about 300 years ago, we saw not only
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could we farm nature, we
could manipulate matter.
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And we pulled back further from nature.
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Oh.
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Technically our species
name is Homo Sapiens Sapiens.
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And to be sapient means to be wise.
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So to be Homo Sapiens Sapiens means
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to be doubly wise.
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It's not only do we know,
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we know that we know.
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Sapiens sapiens,
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yes, that's me.
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And because I know that I know,
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I've made up many stories of my dance
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and fight with nature.
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In the Bible, there's a key passage
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that encourages us to have
dominion over the earth.
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That's means we would be
in a controlling position
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{\an8}relative to other life forms,
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{\an8}other creatures on the earth,
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{\an8}and they were in a position of serving us
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in our own evolution.
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{\an8}The story that science
tells us very basically
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{\an8}is that we live in a
universe that's meaningless,
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purposeless, just simply an
accidental material evolution.
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{\an8}We thought of Earth as just stuff,
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{\an8}and it led to an orientation of use.
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So Earth is here for us to use.
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And I think we've now come
to the end of that track,
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and it's no longer serving us.
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And we see, instead of dominion,
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we're really participants
in the natural world.
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And that's coming really
much more into alignment
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with some of the Eastern traditions
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as well as some of the
indigenous traditions
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in spirituality.
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Buddhism talks about the
inter dependent co-origination
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of all things in nature.
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All things in life arise
and co-exist together.
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And it means we're not
in a privileged position.
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We're not in a place of dominion.
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We're in a place of participation.
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A similar theme arises with the indigenous
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American Indian traditions:
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the aliveness of nature,
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that our aliveness connects
with that aliveness.
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In Christianity, and to some extent
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in Islam and Judaism,
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the sense of dominion is now shifting
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{\an8}towards a feeling of
stewardship and trusteeship.
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{\an8}So rather than having power over,
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we're in a respectful and
responsible relationship
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to the natural world.
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{\an8}So the last
3.8 billion years that life
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{\an8}has been on this planet,
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all of these individual species
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kind of started working together.
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By virtue of being in the same habitats
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and the same ecosystems, they begin
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to leverage those relationships
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in order to create
conditions conducive to life.
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If you could imagine that
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sort of emergent property scaling up,
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it could actually explain some
of the planetary phenomena
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that we see today.
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{\an8}So, we're getting away from this idea
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{\an8}that nature is all machinery
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and looking into the Earth
as a single living system.
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That idea had a mystical name,
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Gaia.
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Imagine: A scientific
hypothesis in the 1970s
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named after a Greek goddess?
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No wonder so many people didn't buy it.
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But now, scientists seem to be finding
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that Earth can really self-regulate
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like any single living organism.
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Earth is alive.
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{\an8}Scientists thought for a long time,
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{\an8}it's only because Earth is
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{\an8}the exact right distance from the sun.
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Because you see, our molecules,
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if they get too cold, they freeze up
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and the organism dies.
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If they get too hot,
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they unfold and the organism dies.
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We have to be in a certain
range of temperature,
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and that's where Earth is.
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But over four billion years,
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this is what we've learned
in the 20th century,
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the sun was 25% cooler.
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So it sent its rays to Earth,
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and Earth had all of
these heat-trapping gases
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to keep the sunlight in
and warm up the planet
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to the temperature for life.
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But over four billion years,
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the sun got hotter and hotter.
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As it got hotter, Earth
drew carbon dioxide out
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of the atmosphere so it
wouldn't get too hot for life.
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Earth has regulated itself
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by changing its atmosphere,
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by drawing down carbon dioxide
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while the sun heated up.
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So you see, if we, in
industrial civilization,
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are now reversing that trend,
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we're actually going
against the intelligence,
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the ordering that brought forth life.
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There's evidence that
suggests that the organisms,
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the biosphere, plays a
very, very significant role
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{\an8}into how the planetary systems work.
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{\an8}And you add in the layers of the geosphere
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and the atmosphere, and it becomes
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an incredibly complex system.
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But that interactive
system ultimately means
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that everything is interconnected
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and interdependent.
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{\an8}We're completely nature.
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We breathe the same air that
every other animal breathes.
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There is no separation.
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This understanding
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of the self-regulating nature of Earth,
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we didn't know about this.
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For 400 years in science, we just didn't.
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But now we're realizing
we're destroying billions
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of years of creativity that enabled
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all of this vitality to exist.
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{\an8}But we're awakening to that mistake,
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{\an8}and now we see, instead
of thinking of Earth
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as something to exploit and use,
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we're beginning to
realize it is a community
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that we are to join and enhance.
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That's the big shift.
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If I had to dominate nature,
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animals were no exception.
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After all, they don't
have feelings like I do.
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Or do they?
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Where did we get this strange idea
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that animals don't have feelings?
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It actually goes back
to one of the founders
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of the modern world, René Descartes.
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So he, back there with Newton and Galileo,
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they were giving birth to a new world.
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And Descartes, as the philosopher,
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was asking himself the question,
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"Do animals have feelings?"
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And at first he thought, "Maybe they do."
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And so he was starting off
with animals close to humans,
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and then he was working his way down.
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And when he got to the oyster,
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that was too much.
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He just couldn't imagine
an oyster having feelings.
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So then he just said then none of them do.
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And he imagined then that
animals were machines.
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And when they gave off sounds like pain,
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it just meant they were machines
that were malfunctioning.
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I mean, it's a really
bizarre view, ultimately.
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And yet, our factory farms,
our cosmetics industry?
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We treat animals as if they
were just sort of nothing,
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and it goes right back
to this mistaken view
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of the nature of the universe.
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Western industrial people
are at that stage now
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where we are challenged by feeling our way
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into the lives of the animals.
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The mother bear cares for her cubs
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just the same way we care for our children.
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All of these beings live within feelings
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that are just as intense as ours.
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It's not just making the
planet work for humans.
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It's to participate in bringing forward
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the thriving, vibrant community of life
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including all of the
species of this planet.
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If we take the four
and a half billion years
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that Earth has been around
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and we compress it into one year
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so that the Earth is born on January 1st,
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just past midnight,
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and we're standing on December 31st,
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just before midnight,
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life's been around for 3.8 billion years
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which means it showed up on February 25th.
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And then after about a month,
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we see photosynthesis,
the planet rapidly change
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from a carbon-rich atmosphere
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to an atmosphere that has
quite a bit more oxygen.
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And as a result, we see a
lot more diversification
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and single-celled organisms
dominate the planet
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through April and May and June and July
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and half of August.
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In September's the first time
we have sexual reproduction,
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and then it isn't even until November
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that we start seeing fungi.
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And after the fungi, come the fish.
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And then eventually we have land plants.
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And when terra firma
starts being colonized,
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then we have insects and amphibians
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and reptiles and mammals.
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Flowers have only been
here since December 20th.
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The loss of the dinosaurs,
that was Christmas.
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{\an8}And then if we go to today, December 31st,
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{\an8}and we look at our ancestors, the hominids,
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the first primates that
came out of the trees
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and walked the plains
of Africa with two legs,
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they showed up at 11:30 this morning.
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And Homo Sapiens Sapiens?
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We've been here for 23 minutes.
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And the entire Industrial Revolution
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which defines life as we know it
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to where we look for ideas,
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how we presume, how we live on this planet,
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everything around our
technologies and our media,
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the last 200 years,
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one second.
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That's it.
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I'm such a young species.
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It's hard to believe.
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We have something like 99% match
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of our genes with chimpanzees.
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Even with trees, we share
25% of the genes with trees,
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so that we're starting to realize
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that we're really all kin.
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We're all cousins.
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{\an8}And our understandings
of many of the peoples
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{\an8}that I come from and that I work with
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is that every aspect of creation,
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every aspect of an ecosystem is alive
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from the smallest particles of creation
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to the largest.
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Each of them are necessary to be a part
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of keeping something in
balance in the natural world.
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I thought of myself as different,
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separate, superior,
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yet all this is making sense.
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I convinced myself I needed
to separate from nature,
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but I probably went too far.
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And then, so you can think, huh,
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maybe this new deep understanding required
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{\an8}our disconnection from nature.
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{\an8}It's a possibility.
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{\an8}Maybe, to reach this full understanding,
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we had to go through this
period of disconnection.
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Who knows for sure?
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But the exciting thing
is that we're learning
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our commonality with all of life.
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I can't give up technology
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and go back to living in a cave.
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Then, what?
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It's not about giving up technology.
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In fact, the way through
our evolutionary wall
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is by designing the most
advanced technological era ever,
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the biological revolution.
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The entire Industrial Revolution
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was ultimately about taking:
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taking minerals, taking soil,
taking oil, taking water.
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And we're very rapidly learning
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that there's a limit to
how much that we can take.
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So by redefining our relationship,
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it isn't nature is there for us,
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{\an8}but we ultimately are
part of the natural world.
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{\an8}Our lives depend on it.
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And if we can quiet our cleverness
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and we can instead borrow the recipe
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instead of taking the raw materials,
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then we've entered the
biological revolution.
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Biomimicry is conscious
emulation of nature's genius.
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We actually make an intentional choice
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to look to the other
organisms for inspiration
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about how we can live better on this planet
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for our designs, for our
processes, our systems.
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So ultimately, a
biological revolution means
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we as a species, Homo
Sapiens, have to learn
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to align itself back with the strategies
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that have succeeded for the
other 30 million species
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that are on the planet today.
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And they've been around
a lot longer than we have
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as a species.
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And so, with 3.8 billion
years of R&D behind them,
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you might say there's a
little bit of genius in that
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that we can borrow from.
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We have, as a race,
invented all sorts of tools.
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We don't have to abandon that knowledge.
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We need to use that knowledge
but open up our thinking
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{\an8}and use those tools and that knowledge
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{\an8}to then go back and revisit nature
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{\an8}and find new solutions.
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I used to think
I could figure anything out,
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but how can I create objects
without destroying nature?
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The answer lies looking at nature itself.
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Take a look at Morpho butterflies,
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an incredibly brilliant bright blue color,
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but you know, there's no
pigment in these butterflies.
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The wings have nanostructures
that create color
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just by their ability to refract light.
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And by emulating this design,
scientists have created
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fabric, cosmetics, paint
without the need for toxic dyes.
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In fact, they've even created displays
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that use minimal power
and are fully visible
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in bright sunlight.
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Mimicking nature is still far
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from being an everyday reality.
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But I'm starting to see the potential
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for a new technological
era, inspired by nature.
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There are turbines that
powered with minimal energy
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that emulate the shape of
the flow forms in seashells.
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There are self-cooling buildings
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that are emulating the
way termite mounds cool,
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and even high-speed bullet trains
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that are emulating the beak
of the kingfisher bird.
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One of the biggest
challenges that we're facing
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as a species on this planet today
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is climate change.
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And the fact that we are
pumping so much carbon dioxide
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into the atmosphere along
with other greenhouse gases,
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that we're changing.
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We're changing the whole
dynamics of the planet.
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That we actually have the opportunity
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{\an8}to look to the natural world and ask,
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{\an8}"What do you do with an
excess carbon dioxide source?
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{\an8}"And how do you prevent the production
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of that carbon dioxide
in the first place?"
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And plants provide an
incredible opportunity.
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Plants photosynthesize,
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and photosynthesis is the magic combination
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of taking CO2 and water, and
in the presence of sunlight,
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creating energy and sugars and oxygen.
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Learning from the plants, well,
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there's researchers that have now been able
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to use catalysts, pulling carbon dioxide
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out of the atmosphere.
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There's enough energy that
hits the planet every day
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to power all of our energy needs.
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And by learning from some
of the specific parts
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of photosynthesis itself,
we can bio-optimize.
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We can improve on our solar panels today.
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And ideally, we get to
a place where we're able
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to even manufacture our solar panels
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in a way that is sustainable.
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When it comes to biomimicry,
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the conscious emulation of nature's genius
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is ultimately about recognizing that life
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creates conditions conducive to life.
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And so, to truly practice biomimicry,
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it's beyond emulating
form, what nature has made.
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But it's also asking, how has she made it
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and how does it fit in
the larger ecosystem?
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And it comes from a place
of quieting our cleverness
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and having the thanksgiving.
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Thank you for sharing your ideas with me.
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Thank you for giving us some insights
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about how we as such a young species
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can actually learn to
live here on the planet.
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It's no wonder that as I moved away
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from nature, I was also moving away
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from nurturing my body.
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I used to think that
all I needed to survive
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was a cold beer and a pizza.
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But now I'm realizing
that I need clean air,
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clean water, the sun, and vibrant foods
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that capture those elements.
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If you stop and think
about what's happening
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when you're breathing, it can actually be
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a very profound meditation
on your connection
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to the environment around you.
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You're taking in from
the air around your body
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{\an8}what your body needs to survive,
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{\an8}and you're breathing out what
is no longer useful to you.
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{\an8}And the fascinating thing about that
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is the trees are doing
the exact same thing,
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but they need what we're exhaling.
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And we need what they're exhaling.
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We really are that connected.
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Trees are our partners.
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{\an8}Trees are a critical piece
of the life support system
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{\an8}of the planet.
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In Los Angeles, the incidence of obesity,
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diabetes, skin cancer,
asthma, and lung disease
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is killing people.
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That map of where the
highest concentrations are
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is in reverse proportion to
the highest concentration
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of tree canopy.
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Now, it's a socio-economic correlation,
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but it's now being called
environmental justice.
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Trees have been my shelter and my fuel.
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00:36:20,957 --> 00:36:25,085
Now I realize that they
also help to store water.
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When rain hits a
tree, its leaves and branches
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collect the water and soften
its impact on the ground.
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00:36:38,723 --> 00:36:42,685
The mulch and the soil below
the tree acts like a sponge
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and slowly releases that
water into the soil.
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The roots and the fungi soak up that water,
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ultimately creating an
underground reservoir.
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So trees are a natural
water treatment system
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and can provide communities
with this essential element.
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Without water,
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I can only survive for a few days.
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And to think that my body is made up
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of about 60 to 70% water.
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The sun nourishes life on Earth.
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As a diurnal animal, who
evolved under the sun,
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how did I get to view sunlight
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as such a guilty pleasure?
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Besides my lifestyle
taking me mostly indoors,
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I also convince myself
to stay away from the sun
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for fear of sun cancer.
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Did I overdo it?
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We've discovered there's an epidemic
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of vitamin D deficiency,
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and this is contributing
to the risk for diabetes,
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heart disease, certain
cancers, osteoporosis.
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There are several other risk factors
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{\an8}for heart disease, but vitamin D deficiency
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{\an8}can increase the risk by as much as double.
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Interestingly, if we slather with sunblock
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and keep covered up with clothing
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and our vitamin D levels go down very low,
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we increase our risk for skin cancer.
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Well now, I might just start
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giving myself a little fun in the sun.
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{\an8}We get charged up by being out in the sun.
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{\an8}It actually helps our brain make serotonin
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{\an8}which helps us feel happy and alive.
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It was only a matter of time
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until I started to feel the consequences
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of so many bad choices.
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A research study was done
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{\an8}across the US in socio-economic groups
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{\an8}where cord blood was taken
from the baby's umbilical cord
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at the time of birth.
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This blood was analyzed
for 200 and some toxins
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commonly found on the planet.
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The average number of toxins found
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in all four quadrants of the country
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was over 200 toxins,
almost the entire panel.
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So what this tells me is
we can't be too careful
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in terms of what we drink and what we eat
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and the air we breathe.
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{\an8}I do prescribe medications.
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{\an8}They definitely have great
value, therapeutically
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in my practice and in
the field of medicine.
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I think there's room to
include more natural approaches
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in terms of herbal or
naturopathic approaches
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which may be a subtler
intervention and over time
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can bring the same desired result.
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Cost is very affordable and side effects
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are minimal to none.
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So in my practice, I will recommend
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a therapeutic nutrition approach
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before a pharmaceutical approach
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if I can avoid some of
the possible side effects
501
00:42:08,869 --> 00:42:11,455
of the pharmaceutical medication.
502
00:42:14,083 --> 00:42:16,000
We still need to keep
in the back of our mind
503
00:42:16,210 --> 00:42:18,836
that Western medicine,
if the condition worsens,
504
00:42:19,045 --> 00:42:20,588
can always come in later
505
00:42:20,797 --> 00:42:23,424
and the patient can enter
the allopathic system
506
00:42:23,633 --> 00:42:24,884
at that point.
507
00:42:25,093 --> 00:42:29,097
But it's not necessarily the
place they need to start.
508
00:42:38,105 --> 00:42:39,981
Over the last several decades,
509
00:42:40,190 --> 00:42:44,945
my distancing, I meant, my
evolving away from nature,
510
00:42:45,153 --> 00:42:48,990
took me far away from natural foods.
511
00:42:49,199 --> 00:42:53,120
Progress was to have a meal
that was ready in an instant.
512
00:42:53,328 --> 00:42:55,996
Maybe the time saved wasn't
such a great trade-off
513
00:42:56,205 --> 00:42:57,206
after all.
514
00:43:15,558 --> 00:43:18,059
{\an8}Definitely eating foods as close
515
00:43:18,268 --> 00:43:20,061
{\an8}to their naturally occurring form
516
00:43:20,270 --> 00:43:24,065
from when they were in the
field for vegetables and fruits
517
00:43:24,274 --> 00:43:25,514
is a healthier way to have them
518
00:43:25,649 --> 00:43:28,694
because the nutrients,
the enzymes, the vitamins
519
00:43:28,902 --> 00:43:31,071
are all going to be more
present, more intact,
520
00:43:31,281 --> 00:43:32,906
in larger quantity.
521
00:43:34,783 --> 00:43:36,827
So the closer to nature, the better.
522
00:43:37,035 --> 00:43:40,164
The more organically grown, the better.
523
00:43:54,719 --> 00:43:56,095
If commercials seduced me
524
00:43:56,304 --> 00:43:58,640
with processed foods,
525
00:43:58,848 --> 00:44:01,517
nature is seducing me with beauty.
526
00:44:03,019 --> 00:44:04,343
{\an8}This is one of the
healthiest things you can do
527
00:44:04,353 --> 00:44:05,770
{\an8}is look at your plate or your salad
528
00:44:05,979 --> 00:44:07,648
and include these beautiful colors
529
00:44:07,856 --> 00:44:09,390
and try include as many different colors
530
00:44:09,400 --> 00:44:10,474
on your plate that you can.
531
00:44:10,484 --> 00:44:13,987
This is a great thing to do with kids too.
532
00:44:47,686 --> 00:44:49,187
Besides nature seducing me
533
00:44:49,396 --> 00:44:51,565
into eating natural foods,
534
00:44:51,773 --> 00:44:54,234
it also lures me back to health.
535
00:44:58,488 --> 00:45:01,407
I can recover faster from surgeries,
536
00:45:01,616 --> 00:45:04,160
have fewer complications,
537
00:45:04,369 --> 00:45:06,621
and need fewer painkillers when I'm taken
538
00:45:06,828 --> 00:45:09,289
to a room with a view of nature.
539
00:45:20,925 --> 00:45:23,928
I moved from living in caves
540
00:45:24,136 --> 00:45:25,972
to small dwellings,
541
00:45:27,516 --> 00:45:29,308
then villages,
542
00:45:29,892 --> 00:45:32,186
and now cities.
543
00:45:37,816 --> 00:45:42,571
Cities, magnificent examples of my power
544
00:45:44,948 --> 00:45:46,742
and evolution.
545
00:45:51,871 --> 00:45:54,541
For centuries, they've
helped me develop my skills
546
00:45:54,749 --> 00:45:59,212
as a scientist, artist,
doctor, entrepreneur.
547
00:46:00,463 --> 00:46:04,216
But life in the big city, more than ever,
548
00:46:04,426 --> 00:46:06,594
is taking its toll on me.
549
00:46:11,724 --> 00:46:14,184
{\an8}And the kind of lifestyles
550
00:46:14,393 --> 00:46:18,314
{\an8}that we've gotten into where
we're continuously stimulated
551
00:46:19,315 --> 00:46:22,693
keeps us in a state of continuous autonomic
552
00:46:22,900 --> 00:46:24,861
nervous system overdrive.
553
00:46:28,031 --> 00:46:29,907
This has a terrible effect on the body.
554
00:46:30,116 --> 00:46:32,201
And we know that just about every disease,
555
00:46:32,410 --> 00:46:33,490
every illness that there is
556
00:46:33,661 --> 00:46:36,581
has a relationship to stress.
557
00:46:42,002 --> 00:46:45,088
Just a few minutes on a crowded street
558
00:46:45,297 --> 00:46:49,301
has a negative impact on
my memory and attention.
559
00:46:53,305 --> 00:46:55,432
And many of our buildings
now are very alien
560
00:46:55,640 --> 00:46:59,268
and separated from the natural world.
561
00:46:59,478 --> 00:47:03,481
The average office worker works
in a windowless environment.
562
00:47:06,650 --> 00:47:09,278
They may think it's
functional to have just a desk
563
00:47:09,487 --> 00:47:11,739
and a computer and an assignment.
564
00:47:11,946 --> 00:47:13,324
But those windowless environments,
565
00:47:13,532 --> 00:47:15,284
people are less productive.
566
00:47:15,493 --> 00:47:16,493
They're less motivated.
567
00:47:16,535 --> 00:47:17,855
They have higher morale problems.
568
00:47:17,952 --> 00:47:19,287
There's greater absenteeism.
569
00:47:19,497 --> 00:47:22,708
That's not productive over the long haul.
570
00:47:28,171 --> 00:47:29,963
Having my lunch break in the wilderness
571
00:47:30,173 --> 00:47:31,965
isn't usually possible,
572
00:47:33,259 --> 00:47:35,387
so if I can't go to nature
573
00:47:36,388 --> 00:47:39,139
why not bring nature to me?
574
00:47:50,942 --> 00:47:53,695
We want to create spaces
that will motivate people,
575
00:47:53,903 --> 00:47:56,322
that will satisfy them
and bring them pleasure
576
00:47:56,532 --> 00:47:58,575
where they'll be most productive.
577
00:47:58,784 --> 00:48:00,326
They not only have to be efficient
578
00:48:00,535 --> 00:48:03,496
and have recyclable
materials and be non-toxic,
579
00:48:03,704 --> 00:48:07,750
but they also have to be
affirmative and enriching.
580
00:48:08,876 --> 00:48:11,128
We have to do this with our
manufacturing facilities.
581
00:48:11,337 --> 00:48:12,880
{\an8}We have to do it with our schools.
582
00:48:13,088 --> 00:48:14,507
{\an8}We have to do it with our homes
583
00:48:14,715 --> 00:48:17,342
{\an8}and residential facilities and apartments.
584
00:48:17,552 --> 00:48:21,012
All these need to incorporate
this experiential need
585
00:48:21,221 --> 00:48:23,223
to affiliate with nature.
586
00:48:31,440 --> 00:48:34,358
The times that I need nature the most
587
00:48:34,568 --> 00:48:36,110
is when I'm grieving.
588
00:48:40,448 --> 00:48:44,452
After 9/11, New York parks
and botanical gardens
589
00:48:44,660 --> 00:48:47,288
had record numbers of visitors.
590
00:49:12,520 --> 00:49:16,482
Nature, for many people, is a sacred place.
591
00:49:17,357 --> 00:49:20,068
{\an8}And for all the churches
and mosques and temples
592
00:49:20,611 --> 00:49:22,237
{\an8}that exist in this world,
593
00:49:22,446 --> 00:49:25,072
{\an8}often when people are mourning
594
00:49:25,282 --> 00:49:28,993
and feeling isolated and
feeling just plain bad,
595
00:49:29,202 --> 00:49:30,871
what restores them and comforts them
596
00:49:31,078 --> 00:49:32,873
truly is Mother Nature.
597
00:49:51,473 --> 00:49:52,850
What is the role of nature
598
00:49:53,058 --> 00:49:55,060
in a child's development?
599
00:50:03,360 --> 00:50:05,445
Well, if urban kids are spending
600
00:50:05,654 --> 00:50:07,614
most of their time indoors,
601
00:50:07,822 --> 00:50:12,451
then trends in childhood
obesity, stress, and diabetes
602
00:50:12,660 --> 00:50:14,870
are only likely to get worse.
603
00:50:29,969 --> 00:50:31,804
When kids are spending this much time
604
00:50:32,012 --> 00:50:34,014
in the digital world, how can their muscles
605
00:50:34,222 --> 00:50:36,683
and body structure develop normally?
606
00:50:36,891 --> 00:50:39,894
Won't they grow up to be stiff and slouchy?
607
00:50:40,102 --> 00:50:41,854
Not only that, but apparently
608
00:50:42,062 --> 00:50:45,148
they're not as smart as they could be.
609
00:50:46,985 --> 00:50:49,486
Researchers discovered
that nature deprivation
610
00:50:49,695 --> 00:50:52,155
negatively impacts the
development of the brain
611
00:50:52,364 --> 00:50:53,740
in the early years.
612
00:51:02,331 --> 00:51:05,293
Children who are deprived of nature
613
00:51:05,501 --> 00:51:07,921
{\an8}are missing an essential ingredient
614
00:51:08,129 --> 00:51:11,215
{\an8}that goes into their soul development.
615
00:51:19,599 --> 00:51:22,602
Kids that don't have a sense of awe
616
00:51:23,603 --> 00:51:25,855
and just feeling the exuberance
617
00:51:26,063 --> 00:51:28,899
of being out of doors and free are missing
618
00:51:29,107 --> 00:51:32,944
a major experience of
what it's like to be human
619
00:51:33,153 --> 00:51:35,363
early in life.
620
00:51:48,960 --> 00:51:50,878
{\an8}The benefits of children being in nature,
621
00:51:51,087 --> 00:51:54,548
{\an8}I think, are on many
levels from the physicality
622
00:51:54,757 --> 00:51:58,052
of working your muscles
and building strength
623
00:52:02,180 --> 00:52:05,642
to the socialization that happens from play
624
00:52:11,856 --> 00:52:13,733
to the sort of creativity that happens
625
00:52:13,941 --> 00:52:15,652
from children's play,
626
00:52:21,657 --> 00:52:23,575
the nervous system relaxation that happens
627
00:52:23,784 --> 00:52:25,619
from being in nature.
628
00:52:29,665 --> 00:52:33,752
Our brains are reacting to
nature moment to moment.
629
00:52:36,504 --> 00:52:38,464
This is a whole body experience
630
00:52:38,674 --> 00:52:41,009
that is healing for us, really.
631
00:53:01,112 --> 00:53:02,696
We're even starting to move
632
00:53:02,904 --> 00:53:07,951
the classroom outside,
knowing that kids learn best
633
00:53:10,285 --> 00:53:12,287
when they're having fun.
634
00:53:32,725 --> 00:53:35,309
The measure of progress in civilization
635
00:53:35,518 --> 00:53:38,271
{\an8}has become deeply tied to the assumption
636
00:53:38,479 --> 00:53:40,732
{\an8}that we can transcend nature.
637
00:53:48,698 --> 00:53:51,533
We might have been dropped
from another planet
638
00:53:51,743 --> 00:53:55,872
at a godlike creature that
really isn't biological,
639
00:53:56,080 --> 00:53:57,760
really isn't embedded in the natural world
640
00:53:57,873 --> 00:53:59,499
like other species.
641
00:54:14,305 --> 00:54:15,865
The notion of biophilia is that we have
642
00:54:15,932 --> 00:54:19,435
an inherent need to affiliate
with the natural world
643
00:54:19,643 --> 00:54:22,230
that has been and continues
to be instrumental
644
00:54:22,438 --> 00:54:23,856
in our health and our productivity
645
00:54:24,064 --> 00:54:25,566
and our well-being.
646
00:54:29,862 --> 00:54:32,697
For over 99% of our time on Earth,
647
00:54:32,907 --> 00:54:35,784
we evolved in a natural environment.
648
00:56:23,052 --> 00:56:24,428
When I'm in nature,
649
00:56:24,636 --> 00:56:26,889
I feel like a better person.
650
00:56:30,976 --> 00:56:33,812
When in nature, I become more caring
651
00:56:34,021 --> 00:56:35,898
and connected to others.
652
00:57:30,950 --> 00:57:33,410
All humans have an inherent need
653
00:57:33,619 --> 00:57:36,956
to find meaning and purpose in their lives.
654
00:57:42,502 --> 00:57:44,879
We've often historically referred to that
655
00:57:45,088 --> 00:57:48,049
{\an8}as spirituality, to have a sense that life
656
00:57:48,257 --> 00:57:50,718
{\an8}has greater value than just being
657
00:57:50,927 --> 00:57:53,512
in an isolated speck of matter,
658
00:57:53,721 --> 00:57:57,516
a moment of time in a
vastness of the universe.
659
00:58:07,192 --> 00:58:08,944
{\an8}In each day, take one moment
660
00:58:09,152 --> 00:58:11,697
{\an8}to take one breath and understand that
661
00:58:11,905 --> 00:58:14,157
{\an8}that breath brings life into our bodies.
662
00:58:14,366 --> 00:58:15,909
And that same breath connects us
663
00:58:16,118 --> 00:58:18,078
to every other human being on this planet,
664
00:58:18,286 --> 00:58:21,872
to all the rest of creation on this planet.
665
00:58:26,794 --> 00:58:28,671
Sometimes the most challenging thing to do
666
00:58:28,879 --> 00:58:31,924
is to sit in silence with ourselves
667
00:58:32,133 --> 00:58:33,926
and to have a place and an opportunity
668
00:58:34,135 --> 00:58:38,472
for us to reflect and
reconnect our relationship
669
00:58:38,680 --> 00:58:41,891
with creation and
reconnect our relationship
670
00:58:42,100 --> 00:58:43,977
with our own emotions and our own spirit
671
00:58:44,185 --> 00:58:45,937
and own mind and our own bodies
672
00:58:46,146 --> 00:58:49,941
so that we can actually
begin to be experiencing
673
00:58:50,150 --> 00:58:52,360
a fulfilled human experience.
674
00:59:01,369 --> 00:59:03,954
{\an8}The more we take time to be in touch
675
00:59:04,163 --> 00:59:08,042
{\an8}with ourselves, to be
reflective about our lives,
676
00:59:09,376 --> 00:59:10,961
the more we exercise the muscle
677
00:59:11,170 --> 00:59:13,130
of what's called mindfulness,
678
00:59:13,338 --> 00:59:16,383
which is learning to be
able to pay attention
679
00:59:16,591 --> 00:59:18,801
to the stream of thoughts and feelings
680
00:59:19,010 --> 00:59:22,346
and reactions and desires,
the more we do that,
681
00:59:22,555 --> 00:59:24,275
the more we're able to
bring our best selves
682
00:59:24,390 --> 00:59:25,600
into the world,
683
00:59:28,519 --> 00:59:29,561
the more we're able
684
00:59:29,770 --> 00:59:32,731
to be a positive influence on others.
685
01:00:19,109 --> 01:00:23,321
When I think of all of nature's gifts,
686
01:00:25,323 --> 01:00:28,659
it feels like falling in love.
687
01:00:37,918 --> 01:00:41,713
And what I love, I protect.
688
01:00:48,220 --> 01:00:51,806
When I love, I transform.
689
01:01:04,152 --> 01:01:07,863
And maybe, just maybe,
690
01:01:10,782 --> 01:01:14,995
instead of keeping on this
path to self-destruction,
691
01:01:16,037 --> 01:01:19,749
I might break through
that evolutionary wall.
692
01:01:36,182 --> 01:01:39,101
There are people in touch with nature.
693
01:01:39,310 --> 01:01:43,439
There are conscious people
being motivated by love.
694
01:01:43,647 --> 01:01:46,858
And those people are offering solutions.
695
01:01:48,611 --> 01:01:51,738
So fear is driving towards solutions.
696
01:01:53,239 --> 01:01:55,992
And love is providing solution.
697
01:01:59,287 --> 01:02:01,705
We are part of this extraordinary story
698
01:02:01,914 --> 01:02:05,501
that's been going on for billions of years.
699
01:02:13,258 --> 01:02:15,177
And for the first time, we can look back
700
01:02:15,385 --> 01:02:17,471
with self-awareness and say,
701
01:02:17,679 --> 01:02:19,973
"How can we now participate?"
702
01:02:20,890 --> 01:02:22,490
"And how can we now take responsibility"
703
01:02:22,559 --> 01:02:25,978
"for this planet that we're living upon?"
704
01:02:37,240 --> 01:02:40,159
Let me tell you what I see.
705
01:02:40,368 --> 01:02:44,079
There are people in
action all over the world.
706
01:03:23,825 --> 01:03:25,368
Because nature heals,
707
01:03:25,577 --> 01:03:29,664
the environmental movement
is a social justice movement.
708
01:04:01,528 --> 01:04:03,863
{\an8}It's estimated that over one million
709
01:04:04,071 --> 01:04:06,324
{\an8}organizations are pursuing
nature's protection
710
01:04:06,532 --> 01:04:08,117
and restoration.
711
01:04:08,326 --> 01:04:10,328
This is the largest
movement to ever take hold
712
01:04:10,536 --> 01:04:13,539
in the history of human civilization.
713
01:04:17,876 --> 01:04:19,596
{\an8}When you look from a scientific perspective
714
01:04:19,795 --> 01:04:23,256
{\an8}and an ecosystem perspective
and you're studying it,
715
01:04:23,465 --> 01:04:24,257
you always ask the question,
716
01:04:24,466 --> 01:04:26,134
"What's its role?
"What's its function?"
717
01:04:26,343 --> 01:04:29,304
And you begin to see that
every species has a role
718
01:04:29,512 --> 01:04:31,431
and multiple roles to play in keeping
719
01:04:31,639 --> 01:04:34,642
the whole system functioning.
720
01:04:34,850 --> 01:04:38,145
But we forget to look at the human role.
721
01:04:39,980 --> 01:04:42,107
So when you turn the lens
722
01:04:43,567 --> 01:04:48,280
and look at what this being,
the human being,
723
01:04:48,489 --> 01:04:50,532
how it has been crafted,
724
01:04:50,741 --> 01:04:53,744
all of our functionality, our thinking,
725
01:04:53,951 --> 01:04:57,664
our creativity, our
passion, our compassion,
726
01:04:57,872 --> 01:04:59,957
you begin to see
727
01:05:00,166 --> 01:05:03,127
because everything has
been adapted by the Earth,
728
01:05:03,336 --> 01:05:05,296
we have been profoundly adapted
729
01:05:05,505 --> 01:05:09,342
by the Earth ecosystem to a
high state of intelligence,
730
01:05:09,550 --> 01:05:12,260
a high state of problem solving.
731
01:05:14,389 --> 01:05:17,891
The universe
took 13.7 billion years
732
01:05:18,100 --> 01:05:22,562
to bring forth this really
amazing creature in which
733
01:05:22,771 --> 01:05:26,316
the magnificence of
life and of the universe
734
01:05:26,525 --> 01:05:28,777
can come forth.
735
01:05:32,572 --> 01:05:35,867
All of this information we
now know about the stars
736
01:05:36,075 --> 01:05:39,412
comes from wondering about the stars.
737
01:05:39,620 --> 01:05:41,956
Wonder then would be so central
738
01:05:42,164 --> 01:05:45,042
to what it means to be human.
739
01:05:49,422 --> 01:05:52,382
It seems obvious to me
that one of our roles
740
01:05:52,591 --> 01:05:54,802
is simply to become astonished
741
01:05:55,009 --> 01:05:57,345
with where we find ourselves
742
01:05:57,554 --> 01:06:00,891
and really to praise everything around us.
743
01:06:21,452 --> 01:06:23,579
In the beginning of my life,
744
01:06:23,787 --> 01:06:26,080
some 200 thousand years ago,
745
01:06:27,999 --> 01:06:32,211
I was scared of thunder
and creatures of the wild.
746
01:06:36,007 --> 01:06:38,259
So in the last few centuries,
747
01:06:38,468 --> 01:06:41,929
I've tried to tame
nature and its creatures.
748
01:06:44,682 --> 01:06:47,184
In a very short time, I've disrupted
749
01:06:47,393 --> 01:06:49,645
billions of years of evolution
750
01:06:51,480 --> 01:06:52,564
and lost myself.
751
01:07:11,499 --> 01:07:14,460
Now I know what I'm searching for.
752
01:07:17,505 --> 01:07:19,965
And I see that I have choices.
753
01:07:24,512 --> 01:07:26,471
When the wind whispers,
754
01:07:27,890 --> 01:07:30,683
I hear nature telling me to follow
755
01:07:36,564 --> 01:07:39,442
if I want to find my way home.
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