1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:02,894 --> 00:00:06,144 (gentle chiming music) 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 4 00:00:36,962 --> 00:00:39,629 (pensive music) 5 00:00:58,280 --> 00:01:00,240 - Like all middle-class kids, you're brought up in a world 6 00:01:00,265 --> 00:01:03,778 that you think is good, and fair, and sensible. 7 00:01:05,018 --> 00:01:07,337 And, you know, it's gonna be a breeze. 8 00:01:09,840 --> 00:01:13,573 And then one day, you realise that it's not like that. 9 00:01:16,520 --> 00:01:19,664 You think you're great. You think everything's going fine. 10 00:01:19,689 --> 00:01:22,553 You think you rule the world. And suddenly, bang. 11 00:01:22,680 --> 00:01:25,678 (music intensifies) 12 00:01:29,840 --> 00:01:33,400 You push a virtue, material prosperity, 13 00:01:33,410 --> 00:01:35,693 to an extreme, and we've pushed it so extreme 14 00:01:35,693 --> 00:01:39,963 that the virtue has turned into the mother of all vices. 15 00:01:43,110 --> 00:01:45,835 So it's the greatest morality tale of all time. 16 00:01:58,930 --> 00:02:00,850 I wake up at six o'clock in the morning, 17 00:02:00,850 --> 00:02:03,020 and before I'm conscious of myself, 18 00:02:03,020 --> 00:02:04,740 I've got this great idea. 19 00:02:04,740 --> 00:02:06,250 So is that my idea? 20 00:02:06,250 --> 00:02:08,057 Well not really, because I wasn't aware of it. 21 00:02:08,082 --> 00:02:09,120 And do you do that? 22 00:02:09,120 --> 00:02:10,585 You wake up in the morning, and your brain's 23 00:02:10,610 --> 00:02:12,710 already on the go before you realize your brain's on the go. 24 00:02:12,710 --> 00:02:14,330 Do you see what I mean? And then you wake up. 25 00:02:14,330 --> 00:02:15,650 And then have an internal conversation 26 00:02:15,650 --> 00:02:17,475 that goes a bit like, "That was a really 27 00:02:17,499 --> 00:02:19,324 scary, crap idea. I'm not gonna do that." 28 00:02:19,324 --> 00:02:21,048 And then another part of me goes "Yeah, yeah, yeah! 29 00:02:21,048 --> 00:02:22,049 You know you're gonna do it." 30 00:02:22,074 --> 00:02:24,741 (elegant music) 31 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:37,600 We've gone into this dream, druggy world 32 00:02:37,610 --> 00:02:40,180 of fossil fueled consumerism, right, 33 00:02:40,180 --> 00:02:42,590 and we don't know what's up or down anymore. 34 00:02:42,590 --> 00:02:43,618 We lost our bearings. 35 00:02:45,840 --> 00:02:49,235 (pensive music rises) 36 00:02:58,813 --> 00:03:01,325 There's this thing, you know, The Climate Crisis, 37 00:03:01,350 --> 00:03:03,387 but like everyone else, we're just going, 38 00:03:03,387 --> 00:03:05,420 "Yeah, I'm gonna deal with that at some point. 39 00:03:05,420 --> 00:03:07,777 You know, that's on the agenda. But not today." 40 00:03:10,690 --> 00:03:12,976 Most people aren't aware of the sky. 41 00:03:13,720 --> 00:03:16,664 For me, it's an object of stress. 42 00:03:17,120 --> 00:03:19,263 And at worst, it's an object of terror. 43 00:03:21,839 --> 00:03:25,237 I'm thinking that's whether I make any money. 44 00:03:25,600 --> 00:03:27,420 You know, that's whether I've got a livelihood. 45 00:03:27,460 --> 00:03:29,623 And I know that it's totally brutal. 46 00:03:30,737 --> 00:03:34,494 (pensive music continues) 47 00:03:40,480 --> 00:03:45,480 So I had this big business, employed about 20, 30 people. 48 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:47,513 The biggest box scheme in Wales, 49 00:03:47,538 --> 00:03:49,130 delivering vegetables to loads of people. 50 00:03:52,880 --> 00:03:54,941 And then 2006, 2nd of June, 51 00:03:54,960 --> 00:03:58,189 it started raining for seven weeks, every day. 52 00:03:58,560 --> 00:04:01,111 And it was like a sort of supernatural event. 53 00:04:01,940 --> 00:04:04,210 Not a single outdoor vegetable survived. 54 00:04:04,210 --> 00:04:06,150 They all rotted and were eaten by slugs. 55 00:04:06,150 --> 00:04:08,760 And the tractors like disappeared in the mud 56 00:04:08,760 --> 00:04:12,783 and I was just like out of my head with stress. 57 00:04:13,720 --> 00:04:17,070 And guilt actually, because I thought it was due to me. 58 00:04:17,320 --> 00:04:18,400 Because you just can't believe 59 00:04:18,440 --> 00:04:20,615 the weather could do such a bad thing to you. 60 00:04:20,975 --> 00:04:22,920 And then I found out this had obviously happened 61 00:04:22,920 --> 00:04:25,490 to hundreds of horticulturalists all around the country, 62 00:04:25,490 --> 00:04:26,844 and people had lost millions of pounds. 63 00:04:31,002 --> 00:04:32,622 So this is why we're all gonna starve, 64 00:04:32,647 --> 00:04:34,434 is because, you know, it's not like, 65 00:04:34,642 --> 00:04:37,515 "Oh, we've lost that crop, so we'll stick another one in." 66 00:04:37,540 --> 00:04:40,273 No, no, no. That's it for 12 months. 67 00:04:46,313 --> 00:04:47,933 Life and death is a binary. 68 00:04:48,020 --> 00:04:51,148 It's distinctly non-linear in the sense that you're okay, 69 00:04:51,173 --> 00:04:52,203 you're okay, you're okay, 70 00:04:52,203 --> 00:04:54,200 and then you're dead, and then you never come back. 71 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:55,840 But we sort of don't really get that 72 00:04:55,840 --> 00:04:57,370 in terms of food supply. 73 00:04:57,370 --> 00:05:00,037 (pensive music) 74 00:05:03,630 --> 00:05:06,470 If you're a grower, then you've got to plant the seed, 75 00:05:06,470 --> 00:05:07,790 and then got the seedlings, 76 00:05:07,790 --> 00:05:11,170 and they might get eaten or die in bad weather. 77 00:05:11,170 --> 00:05:13,023 And then you've got to crop the crop. 78 00:05:16,637 --> 00:05:18,263 So there's all these hoops, 79 00:05:18,288 --> 00:05:21,238 and if during any of these hoops you fail, 80 00:05:21,280 --> 00:05:22,970 then the whole thing's gone. 81 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:25,250 And then you can't plant again because it's too late. 82 00:05:27,260 --> 00:05:30,670 So this is basically how mass starvation is going happen, 83 00:05:30,670 --> 00:05:32,180 is you'll get a critical mass 84 00:05:32,180 --> 00:05:33,850 of producers around the world 85 00:05:33,850 --> 00:05:35,360 that have the same problem. 86 00:05:35,360 --> 00:05:37,087 And then people will be ringing them up going, 87 00:05:37,087 --> 00:05:38,510 "Can't you supply more bread?" 88 00:05:38,510 --> 00:05:40,319 And they say, "No, because we've got to wait 89 00:05:40,343 --> 00:05:42,067 until next year now to plant the wheat." 90 00:05:42,923 --> 00:05:44,448 And they'll go, "Oh? 91 00:05:44,448 --> 00:05:45,672 I thought you could just get it off 92 00:05:45,696 --> 00:05:46,770 the shelf like everything else?" 93 00:05:52,662 --> 00:05:55,873 Our very success is going to lead 94 00:05:55,898 --> 00:05:58,828 to the extremity of our failure. 95 00:05:58,853 --> 00:06:01,976 And the success is to create a complex system. 96 00:06:03,290 --> 00:06:06,040 (dramatic music) 97 00:06:07,193 --> 00:06:09,193 The thing about a complex system 98 00:06:09,218 --> 00:06:12,968 is that you don't know when the crisis is coming 99 00:06:12,993 --> 00:06:15,223 until it hits you, and then it's so big 100 00:06:15,248 --> 00:06:17,411 that the whole thing collapses in one go. 101 00:06:19,931 --> 00:06:22,431 Although it sounds like apocalyptic science fiction, 102 00:06:22,440 --> 00:06:24,840 there's good mathematical reasons 103 00:06:24,880 --> 00:06:27,750 for thinking that everything's going to be fine, 104 00:06:27,750 --> 00:06:30,758 and then everything's going to be unbelievably bad. 105 00:06:30,908 --> 00:06:35,908 (explosion) (crowd shouting) 106 00:06:40,960 --> 00:06:43,780 People tend to put it in terms of the Arctic or whatever. 107 00:06:43,805 --> 00:06:46,988 What we need to think about is social collapse and fascism. 108 00:06:48,065 --> 00:06:51,028 Those are the handmaidens towards extinction. 109 00:06:51,708 --> 00:06:54,291 (somber music) 110 00:07:02,686 --> 00:07:06,359 A nice storyline is happy-go-lucky farmer 111 00:07:06,384 --> 00:07:08,054 got fucked over by climate change, 112 00:07:08,080 --> 00:07:09,560 decides to take the system down. 113 00:07:09,600 --> 00:07:11,490 I mean, that sounds great, it's a nice storyline 114 00:07:11,515 --> 00:07:13,707 but that, to be honest with you, that not what it was. 115 00:07:14,842 --> 00:07:16,055 It was already there. 116 00:07:16,985 --> 00:07:19,207 I knew this was where I was going to end up. 117 00:07:23,560 --> 00:07:27,400 I had to go through this five-year process 118 00:07:27,410 --> 00:07:30,490 of extracting my ego out of thinking, 119 00:07:30,490 --> 00:07:33,910 one, I'm just a nice, regular father, 120 00:07:33,910 --> 00:07:35,860 married man type thing. 121 00:07:35,860 --> 00:07:38,990 And secondly, I'm a businessman and, 122 00:07:38,990 --> 00:07:40,390 you know, that's what I do. 123 00:07:40,390 --> 00:07:41,862 And you see this all the time, don't you? 124 00:07:41,886 --> 00:07:43,357 You have these set roles, and people say, 125 00:07:43,357 --> 00:07:44,990 "No, I'm a parent. I can't do it. 126 00:07:44,990 --> 00:07:47,360 No, I'm a filmmaker. I can't do it." 127 00:07:47,360 --> 00:07:48,410 You know what I mean? 128 00:08:10,690 --> 00:08:12,853 - This is completely abnormal. 129 00:08:14,840 --> 00:08:18,220 I mean, I get involved with parent teachers association 130 00:08:18,220 --> 00:08:19,453 and things like that. 131 00:08:20,320 --> 00:08:22,143 But I don't do anything like this. 132 00:08:26,018 --> 00:08:30,958 It draws you in, and it opens up a whole new perspective 133 00:08:31,060 --> 00:08:35,313 that you had no idea that you would ever see. 134 00:08:37,140 --> 00:08:40,040 Why not me? That I do say. 135 00:08:40,040 --> 00:08:42,090 You know, well, why not? Why shouldn't I? 136 00:08:45,120 --> 00:08:47,690 I've led a charmed life. 137 00:08:47,690 --> 00:08:49,560 You know, I've been born in Great Britain 138 00:08:49,560 --> 00:08:51,930 at a time of great prosperity. 139 00:08:51,930 --> 00:08:56,030 I was educated. I've had a very good professional life. 140 00:08:56,030 --> 00:08:57,743 I've had all of the benefits. 141 00:08:59,218 --> 00:09:04,151 I've been oblivious, and now I've woken up. 142 00:09:06,740 --> 00:09:10,168 Well, the trigger for the activism was the IPCC Report. 143 00:09:10,168 --> 00:09:11,740 (dramatic music) 144 00:09:11,740 --> 00:09:13,330 - It is best to put this tonight 145 00:09:13,330 --> 00:09:16,650 in the stark and simple terms used by the scientist 146 00:09:16,650 --> 00:09:19,720 who produced today's devastating UN-backed report 147 00:09:19,720 --> 00:09:21,340 on global climate change. 148 00:09:21,340 --> 00:09:24,860 We have just 12 years to save the planet. 149 00:09:24,860 --> 00:09:26,240 Yes, you heard that right. 150 00:09:26,240 --> 00:09:29,340 12 years to halt the seemingly inexorable slide 151 00:09:29,340 --> 00:09:31,270 towards global catastrophe. 152 00:09:31,270 --> 00:09:32,869 - Yeah, I can remember reading it 153 00:09:32,869 --> 00:09:35,340 and thinking, "Jesus, 12 years, that's ridiculous. 154 00:09:35,340 --> 00:09:37,097 It can't possibly be that quick." 155 00:09:41,200 --> 00:09:42,930 Up until that point I'd kind of assumed 156 00:09:42,955 --> 00:09:44,970 that everything was going alright. 157 00:09:45,320 --> 00:09:46,690 Maybe we could do better. 158 00:09:46,690 --> 00:09:49,950 But I was too wrapped up in my own life 159 00:09:49,950 --> 00:09:51,913 to be paying that much attention. 160 00:09:57,427 --> 00:10:01,560 And after that I got really depressed for about two months. 161 00:10:02,800 --> 00:10:05,680 And I really only came out of that depression 162 00:10:05,710 --> 00:10:09,563 when I made up my mind that some things were gonna change. 163 00:10:34,440 --> 00:10:37,470 - So I wanted to do what my passion is, 164 00:10:37,470 --> 00:10:39,653 which is how to radically change society. 165 00:10:40,760 --> 00:10:43,527 So I did is went to the fossil fuel group at King's College, 166 00:10:43,527 --> 00:10:46,040 you know, it's like divest from fossil fuels, 167 00:10:46,040 --> 00:10:47,620 and very worthy and what have you. 168 00:10:47,620 --> 00:10:49,610 But they're following this script which is, 169 00:10:49,610 --> 00:10:51,690 get on the committees, do a petition, 170 00:10:51,690 --> 00:10:54,320 have a debate, all this sort of worthy stuff. 171 00:10:54,320 --> 00:10:55,883 And it goes nowhere. 172 00:10:56,770 --> 00:10:59,037 So you go to King's College and you say 173 00:10:59,037 --> 00:11:02,160 "Look, we want divestment and we want it now, 174 00:11:02,160 --> 00:11:03,580 and if you don't give it to us 175 00:11:03,580 --> 00:11:05,480 then we're going to paint your walls." 176 00:11:06,890 --> 00:11:08,680 The name of the game on winding people up 177 00:11:08,680 --> 00:11:12,180 is you've got to wind them up, but not too much. 178 00:11:12,925 --> 00:11:14,055 Hello. 179 00:11:14,080 --> 00:11:15,347 - Hello. - My name's Adam Loxley, 180 00:11:15,360 --> 00:11:16,812 I'm the security manager here. 181 00:11:16,837 --> 00:11:19,258 I understand that you're one of the postgraduate students here. 182 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:20,582 And you're obviously concerned about 183 00:11:20,607 --> 00:11:22,420 climate change, et cetera, yeah? 184 00:11:22,548 --> 00:11:25,185 I've noticed that there's graffiti on the columns 185 00:11:25,210 --> 00:11:26,463 and walls that we've got here. 186 00:11:26,480 --> 00:11:27,990 - Uh-huh. - Who's responsible for that? 187 00:11:28,050 --> 00:11:29,481 Guys? - Yes, I saw him. 188 00:11:29,506 --> 00:11:30,566 - Who did you see do it? 189 00:11:30,680 --> 00:11:32,000 - [Guard] He was spraying it. 190 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:33,040 - This man here? 191 00:11:33,040 --> 00:11:34,878 - No, no, he did. 192 00:11:34,878 --> 00:11:37,887 - You don't need to do this. 193 00:11:37,887 --> 00:11:41,985 - I'm from King's College Climate Emergency. 194 00:11:42,520 --> 00:11:47,926 This college has been investing in oil and gas for 30 years. 195 00:11:48,333 --> 00:11:49,816 - [Man] Yeah I disagree with that as well. 196 00:11:49,840 --> 00:11:51,043 - 30 years. 197 00:11:51,043 --> 00:11:55,750 It's still refusing to divest from fossil fuels 198 00:11:55,750 --> 00:11:57,105 after 30 years. 199 00:11:57,720 --> 00:11:59,370 We're protesting 200 00:11:59,370 --> 00:12:01,610 and we're gonna make a change to this policy. 201 00:12:01,610 --> 00:12:04,140 We just spray chalked, you know, and started spray chalking. 202 00:12:04,140 --> 00:12:05,177 So this activist said, 203 00:12:05,202 --> 00:12:08,500 "Oh I was gonna put some of my kiddie's chalk on the wall 204 00:12:08,500 --> 00:12:10,506 just a little wind-up," and this activist person said 205 00:12:10,530 --> 00:12:12,510 "No, you wanna use like spray chalk, 206 00:12:12,510 --> 00:12:14,470 which is like the nuclear option on chalk." 207 00:12:14,470 --> 00:12:16,159 You know, it's like (imitates spray can whooshing). 208 00:12:16,184 --> 00:12:22,172 (spray can hissing) 209 00:12:22,760 --> 00:12:27,329 (chatter in background) 210 00:12:34,583 --> 00:12:36,470 - [Guard] Are you a member of Kings College? 211 00:12:36,470 --> 00:12:39,403 - Can I see your identity please? 212 00:12:43,670 --> 00:12:45,860 Well, no, it's not a public area, it's Kings College 213 00:12:45,860 --> 00:12:46,990 and I'm asking you to leave. 214 00:12:46,990 --> 00:12:51,410 It's not a public area, so get out please. 215 00:12:51,410 --> 00:12:54,430 Within five minutes the Vice Principal's down 216 00:12:54,430 --> 00:12:56,276 who'd completely ignored all our letters. 217 00:12:56,680 --> 00:12:59,540 And one of the best bits of my research 218 00:12:59,570 --> 00:13:02,850 was when he said, "This is terrible, this is terrible. 219 00:13:02,850 --> 00:13:05,472 All this is going to do is to shut down the conversation." 220 00:13:05,680 --> 00:13:07,377 And then of course the great line is, 221 00:13:07,377 --> 00:13:09,940 "Well, this is the first time we've actually talked, 222 00:13:09,940 --> 00:13:13,407 this conversation now." (imitates microphone dropping) 223 00:13:13,407 --> 00:13:15,720 So it was done and dusted as far as they were concerned. 224 00:13:15,720 --> 00:13:17,090 You know, they'd ticked a little box 225 00:13:17,090 --> 00:13:19,540 in terms of being environmental, and that was it. 226 00:13:20,642 --> 00:13:23,829 - [Crowd] Divest Now! Divest Now! 227 00:13:23,920 --> 00:13:27,059 Divest Now! Divest Now! 228 00:13:27,118 --> 00:13:29,831 - Divest Now! Divest Now! 229 00:13:29,831 --> 00:13:32,490 - Divest now! Divest now! 230 00:13:32,490 --> 00:13:34,440 - The demand was that King's College 231 00:13:34,440 --> 00:13:37,073 would totally divest from fossil fuels. 232 00:13:37,776 --> 00:13:39,577 And you go to an institution and they say, 233 00:13:39,577 --> 00:13:42,913 "That's a great idea, Roger, but we've got our processes. 234 00:13:44,090 --> 00:13:47,000 We've made our plan and that's what we're gonna stick to." 235 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:48,110 But what you've got to realise 236 00:13:48,110 --> 00:13:49,730 is that's a social construction, right? 237 00:13:49,730 --> 00:13:50,977 It's not a law of physics. 238 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:52,282 - [Crowd] Divest now! 239 00:13:52,307 --> 00:13:53,805 - Once we'd spray chalked the hall, 240 00:13:53,970 --> 00:13:55,620 the social context changed, 241 00:13:55,620 --> 00:13:57,290 and they went into emergency mode. 242 00:13:57,290 --> 00:14:01,538 And surprise, surprise, they had an emergency finance meeting. 243 00:14:01,563 --> 00:14:02,614 It is possible. 244 00:14:04,880 --> 00:14:06,535 I'd worked out my escalation. 245 00:14:06,770 --> 00:14:10,690 I worked out, in January I was going to do the front, 246 00:14:10,690 --> 00:14:12,210 and then, if I could get enough people, 247 00:14:12,210 --> 00:14:13,710 we'd go and do the central hall. 248 00:14:13,710 --> 00:14:15,312 And then I knew I was gonna go on hunger strike. 249 00:14:15,600 --> 00:14:17,726 I was, you know, scared about it, obviously. 250 00:14:18,140 --> 00:14:20,633 But I thought, okay, keep with the plan. 251 00:14:21,520 --> 00:14:23,660 So a week later I just march in and say 252 00:14:23,680 --> 00:14:25,410 If you don't sign the bit of paper 253 00:14:25,410 --> 00:14:27,740 saying you're divesting from fossil fuels, 254 00:14:27,740 --> 00:14:29,572 then I'm going to go on hunger strike tomorrow. 255 00:14:30,600 --> 00:14:32,600 I was sitting outside the front of King's everyday 256 00:14:32,610 --> 00:14:35,658 with my Old Testament sort of routine. 257 00:14:36,380 --> 00:14:38,280 You know, with my "Hunger strike 258 00:14:38,280 --> 00:14:42,060 day six, (laughs) day seven." 259 00:14:42,060 --> 00:14:43,538 And these students would be going by, 260 00:14:43,538 --> 00:14:45,337 and they sort of ignore it a few, so they say, 261 00:14:45,337 --> 00:14:46,903 "Ah! What, he's still on hunger strike?" 262 00:14:48,280 --> 00:14:52,051 So after 14 days, phew, (laughs) 263 00:14:52,080 --> 00:14:53,699 he signed the bit of paper. 264 00:14:53,740 --> 00:14:56,798 Because after about day eleven it gets quite tricky. 265 00:14:57,383 --> 00:14:58,407 (flare lighting) 266 00:14:58,431 --> 00:15:01,530 We'd effectively won. They knew they'd lost. 267 00:15:01,530 --> 00:15:05,322 Because a group of people had stood up for what was right. 268 00:15:05,322 --> 00:15:07,306 - [Crowd] Divest now! Divest- 269 00:15:07,331 --> 00:15:08,710 - There was no way out. 270 00:15:08,710 --> 00:15:12,207 It would be a PR disaster for them to resist it. 271 00:15:12,890 --> 00:15:16,650 Basically, this is the prototype of how to save the world. 272 00:15:17,850 --> 00:15:20,642 The code was prototyped 273 00:15:20,680 --> 00:15:21,937 at King's College. 274 00:15:23,920 --> 00:15:26,360 - Disruption, disruption, disruption, 275 00:15:26,360 --> 00:15:28,148 Sacrifice, sacrifice, 276 00:15:28,843 --> 00:15:31,578 respect, respect to the opposition. 277 00:15:31,610 --> 00:15:36,213 Win, keep going, repeat, expand. That's it. 278 00:15:42,446 --> 00:15:45,329 - And all of the pieces were dropping into place. 279 00:15:46,387 --> 00:15:49,485 At that point I really engaged 280 00:15:49,510 --> 00:15:52,713 with things that I'd never conceived of before. 281 00:15:53,810 --> 00:15:59,729 So I did Veganuary. The idea that you'd cut back on meat. 282 00:15:59,960 --> 00:16:02,930 That was an anathema to me. I like my meat, you know. 283 00:16:02,930 --> 00:16:06,283 I don't have a problem with the idea of farming animals. 284 00:16:07,930 --> 00:16:10,470 But the idea that animals 285 00:16:10,470 --> 00:16:14,840 take up such a vast part of the earth's resources, 286 00:16:14,840 --> 00:16:17,940 purely and simply because it's much easier 287 00:16:17,940 --> 00:16:19,123 to cook a bit of meat 288 00:16:19,123 --> 00:16:22,053 than it is to go away and cook some vegetables. 289 00:16:24,160 --> 00:16:26,310 There's no sacrifice involved in that. 290 00:16:26,310 --> 00:16:29,933 You know, it's merely a case of just changing direction. 291 00:16:32,957 --> 00:16:36,847 As a society we are being brain-washed 292 00:16:36,910 --> 00:16:39,910 to not care about the future, 293 00:16:39,910 --> 00:16:43,600 to not consider any of the consequences of our actions, 294 00:16:43,600 --> 00:16:45,500 to not think about what goes on 295 00:16:45,500 --> 00:16:48,386 beyond our immediate little world. 296 00:16:50,010 --> 00:16:52,940 We're all rushing around earning loads of money 297 00:16:52,940 --> 00:16:54,260 in order to buy loads of stuff 298 00:16:54,260 --> 00:16:56,046 and go on these exotic holidays 299 00:16:56,430 --> 00:16:58,693 because our lives are so empty. 300 00:17:00,510 --> 00:17:03,560 And suddenly here was this movement 301 00:17:03,560 --> 00:17:05,519 that was saying "This system, 302 00:17:06,220 --> 00:17:07,900 not only does it make us unhappy, 303 00:17:07,900 --> 00:17:09,441 but it's actually killing us." 304 00:17:09,743 --> 00:17:11,567 (ominous music) 305 00:17:14,120 --> 00:17:17,355 (wind howling) 306 00:17:27,280 --> 00:17:30,512 (ominous music continues) 307 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:42,520 - The truly horrific thing about the climate catastrophe 308 00:17:42,540 --> 00:17:45,523 is you don't need to do anything for it to happen. 309 00:17:53,284 --> 00:17:56,345 (ash hitting car wind screen) 310 00:17:56,370 --> 00:17:57,540 Like with nuclear war you 311 00:17:57,564 --> 00:17:58,820 actually have to press the button. 312 00:17:58,820 --> 00:18:00,020 You have to do something. 313 00:18:00,020 --> 00:18:01,610 While with this, it's like 314 00:18:01,610 --> 00:18:05,435 business as usual equals extinction. 315 00:18:08,686 --> 00:18:10,099 (sirens wailing) 316 00:18:10,264 --> 00:18:13,435 (ominous music) 317 00:18:35,790 --> 00:18:37,430 It's like climbing up this massive hill 318 00:18:37,430 --> 00:18:39,433 to get people into another paradigm. 319 00:18:40,977 --> 00:18:44,789 Well, you start by saying it. Extinction. 320 00:18:45,040 --> 00:18:46,040 (laughs) 321 00:18:46,120 --> 00:18:48,320 You know, because before Extinction Rebellion, 322 00:18:48,320 --> 00:18:50,344 no one talked about extinction, did they? 323 00:18:51,176 --> 00:18:53,843 (ominous music) 324 00:18:57,780 --> 00:19:00,183 The power of extinction is its finality. 325 00:19:03,450 --> 00:19:06,730 Deep down it's pressing that death button. 326 00:19:06,730 --> 00:19:08,463 It's reminding people of death. 327 00:19:11,902 --> 00:19:15,585 And now what's happened with the climate crisis 328 00:19:15,610 --> 00:19:18,280 is death is coming towards us. 329 00:19:18,280 --> 00:19:22,310 It is the social equivalent of being told you've got cancer, 330 00:19:22,310 --> 00:19:24,385 except that it's happening to the whole of society. 331 00:19:26,484 --> 00:19:31,484 (singer vocalizing) (somber music) 332 00:19:36,760 --> 00:19:38,710 I'm not trying to convince you of this. 333 00:19:40,860 --> 00:19:43,280 If you don't understand what's happening, 334 00:19:43,280 --> 00:19:44,980 I'm not going to try to persuade you. 335 00:19:45,870 --> 00:19:48,200 It's not a message, right? 336 00:19:48,200 --> 00:19:51,573 Death is not a message. It's a reality. 337 00:19:52,820 --> 00:19:55,813 So you've just got to be who you are and say the truth. 338 00:19:59,562 --> 00:20:03,905 (ominous music) 339 00:20:08,998 --> 00:20:13,825 (singer vocalizing) (somber music) 340 00:20:32,873 --> 00:20:36,957 And it is possible for miracles to happen. 341 00:20:39,850 --> 00:20:42,173 Through your awareness of death, 342 00:20:43,290 --> 00:20:46,200 and that awareness of death comes in a non-linear way, 343 00:20:46,200 --> 00:20:49,320 you think you're fine and then a tragedy happens. 344 00:20:49,320 --> 00:20:52,950 And that jolts you, it jolts you 345 00:20:52,950 --> 00:20:57,537 into a different area of existence. 346 00:20:57,537 --> 00:21:00,190 And through that you become aware 347 00:21:00,190 --> 00:21:02,740 of a deeper sense of responsibility 348 00:21:02,740 --> 00:21:04,813 towards yourself and to the world. 349 00:21:05,410 --> 00:21:07,820 And if a critical mass of people do that, 350 00:21:07,820 --> 00:21:10,683 then you get what might be called a great awakening. 351 00:21:11,118 --> 00:21:13,701 (gentle music) 352 00:21:20,330 --> 00:21:21,800 - Protesters wanting the government 353 00:21:21,800 --> 00:21:23,950 to take urgent action on climate change 354 00:21:23,950 --> 00:21:25,520 have descended on the capital. 355 00:21:25,520 --> 00:21:27,150 They have smashed windows 356 00:21:27,150 --> 00:21:29,500 at the Shell Headquarters near Waterloo, 357 00:21:29,500 --> 00:21:32,600 painted their messages on the streets and blocked key roads. 358 00:21:32,900 --> 00:21:37,900 (energetic music) (crowd cheering) 359 00:21:45,573 --> 00:21:48,300 They've also blocked Oxford Circus with the pink boat 360 00:21:48,300 --> 00:21:51,180 with "Tell the truth" written on the side 361 00:21:51,180 --> 00:21:52,570 as part of what they're calling 362 00:21:52,570 --> 00:21:55,772 their full scale of creative resistance. 363 00:21:55,947 --> 00:21:58,447 (funky music) 364 00:22:04,608 --> 00:22:08,191 (energetic drumming music) 365 00:22:18,572 --> 00:22:21,322 (crowd cheering) 366 00:22:22,326 --> 00:22:23,363 They say that they want 367 00:22:23,363 --> 00:22:25,017 to cause traffic chaos and disruption. 368 00:22:25,017 --> 00:22:26,332 Are they achieving that? 369 00:22:26,760 --> 00:22:27,970 - Yeah, I think there's no doubt 370 00:22:27,970 --> 00:22:29,640 that a lot of disruption has been caused. 371 00:22:29,640 --> 00:22:32,510 I'm outside Shell HQ, just by the London Eye 372 00:22:32,510 --> 00:22:35,390 and, as you can see, protesters have managed somehow 373 00:22:35,390 --> 00:22:37,405 to get up on to the side of the building. 374 00:22:38,183 --> 00:22:40,766 (upbeat music) 375 00:22:42,390 --> 00:22:45,530 - The whole sort of proposition of mass civil disobedience 376 00:22:45,530 --> 00:22:48,140 is to create the crisis before the crisis arrives, 377 00:22:48,140 --> 00:22:49,720 because once the crisis arrives 378 00:22:49,720 --> 00:22:50,960 you've already gone off the cliff. 379 00:22:50,960 --> 00:22:52,213 That's the crisis right? 380 00:22:53,530 --> 00:22:57,060 So you have to cause disruption to people's lives. 381 00:22:57,442 --> 00:23:00,031 (crowd shouting) 382 00:23:00,290 --> 00:23:03,312 What disruption does is it gets attention. 383 00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:06,242 Nothing's going to change without attention. 384 00:23:06,480 --> 00:23:09,848 (crowd cheering) 385 00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:13,100 The second thing about disruption is it costs money. 386 00:23:13,414 --> 00:23:16,206 It costs reputational damage to the opponent. 387 00:23:18,490 --> 00:23:20,680 What's more difficult for people in this culture, I think, 388 00:23:20,680 --> 00:23:22,373 is to understand sacrifice. 389 00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:25,340 People that do civil disobedience 390 00:23:25,340 --> 00:23:27,483 are putting themselves in harm's way. 391 00:23:28,555 --> 00:23:30,358 When you put yourself in harm's way, 392 00:23:30,504 --> 00:23:34,835 people are interested in that because you're not fearful. 393 00:23:35,180 --> 00:23:37,120 And one of the biggest experiences of life 394 00:23:37,120 --> 00:23:38,770 is dealing with your own fears. 395 00:23:38,770 --> 00:23:40,384 So you're immediately attracted, 396 00:23:40,750 --> 00:23:42,165 whether you agree with them or not, 397 00:23:42,460 --> 00:23:44,680 you're immediately attracted to watching people 398 00:23:44,680 --> 00:23:45,733 that don't have fear. 399 00:23:46,950 --> 00:23:49,947 And then cognitively what happens is you think, 400 00:23:49,947 --> 00:23:51,212 "Well, why have they done that?" 401 00:23:51,610 --> 00:23:53,940 Well because they're worried about climate change. 402 00:23:53,940 --> 00:23:55,762 And then the next cognitive step is, 403 00:23:56,077 --> 00:23:57,496 "Well, maybe it's real, then." 404 00:23:57,640 --> 00:23:58,715 - [Crowd] Climate Justice! 405 00:23:58,740 --> 00:23:59,800 - [Woman] When do we want it? 406 00:23:59,840 --> 00:24:00,884 - [Crowd] Now! 407 00:24:00,956 --> 00:24:03,308 (crowd cheering) 408 00:24:05,950 --> 00:24:08,510 - You just need a small nucleus of people 409 00:24:08,510 --> 00:24:13,433 who are prepared to create civil disobedience. 410 00:24:14,567 --> 00:24:18,283 And it isn't just about Extinction Rebellion. 411 00:24:19,760 --> 00:24:24,000 It's about all the types of injustice that are happening, 412 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:28,000 because they are all part and parcel of the same system 413 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:32,949 that is holding us locked into this passive oppression. 414 00:24:32,949 --> 00:24:35,532 (upbeat music) 415 00:24:39,787 --> 00:24:41,870 ♪ Come and join us ♪ 416 00:24:41,870 --> 00:24:43,553 ♪ Come and join us ♪ 417 00:24:43,553 --> 00:24:45,061 ♪ Come and join us ♪ 418 00:24:45,061 --> 00:24:46,820 ♪ Come and join us ♪ 419 00:24:46,820 --> 00:24:48,570 - The 1% of people 420 00:24:48,570 --> 00:24:51,680 that are going to push that new paradigm, 421 00:24:51,680 --> 00:24:54,860 they're the people who aren't primarily interested 422 00:24:54,860 --> 00:24:56,620 in the level of carbon emissions. 423 00:24:56,620 --> 00:24:59,653 They're not even primarily interested in politics. 424 00:24:59,653 --> 00:25:01,200 ♪ Extinction Rebellion ♪ 425 00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:03,977 What they're interested in is becoming whole. 426 00:25:07,986 --> 00:25:12,986 (crowd chattering) (singing bowl) 427 00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:18,726 It's not that hope doesn't encourage action, 428 00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:22,398 but it also, paradoxically, discourages action. 429 00:25:23,150 --> 00:25:25,310 I'm in hope and therefore I won't act, 430 00:25:25,310 --> 00:25:27,410 because I'll hope that it's gonna be okay. 431 00:25:30,170 --> 00:25:32,960 But there's another logic which is, there's no hope, 432 00:25:32,960 --> 00:25:34,401 so I've got nothing to lose. 433 00:25:34,900 --> 00:25:36,784 And if I've got nothing to lose, I'm gonna resist. 434 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:42,980 And it's not bad because people will, 435 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:46,803 in a subliminal way, want it to happen. 436 00:25:49,040 --> 00:25:50,522 If you're doing a bad thing, 437 00:25:50,970 --> 00:25:52,993 part of you wants someone to stop it. 438 00:25:55,758 --> 00:25:56,858 I mean, I've had hundreds, 439 00:25:56,883 --> 00:25:59,104 literally hundreds of conversations with people, 440 00:25:59,129 --> 00:26:01,549 where people have said the same thing, right. 441 00:26:01,937 --> 00:26:05,441 "I knew. And now I'm going to do something." 442 00:26:05,441 --> 00:26:08,024 (somber music) 443 00:26:12,370 --> 00:26:16,270 What we should be starting with is not the climate crisis 444 00:26:16,270 --> 00:26:19,073 but our personal spiritual crisis. 445 00:26:21,287 --> 00:26:23,467 It's actually quite nice on a Saturday night 446 00:26:23,530 --> 00:26:25,310 to sit down with a glass of wine 447 00:26:25,310 --> 00:26:26,530 and watch a video with your family. 448 00:26:26,530 --> 00:26:27,560 Do you know what I mean? 449 00:26:27,560 --> 00:26:29,980 That's fun, there's no point denying it. 450 00:26:29,980 --> 00:26:32,963 It's nice to eat loads of food and go on holiday. 451 00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:36,433 But there's another logic. 452 00:26:40,520 --> 00:26:43,800 You cannot actually be happy after a certain point 453 00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:46,940 unless you go into some sort of service 454 00:26:46,940 --> 00:26:50,204 to something other than material satisfaction. 455 00:26:54,390 --> 00:26:58,010 If you keep going towards material paradise, 456 00:26:58,010 --> 00:26:59,560 you'll end up in material hell. 457 00:27:04,696 --> 00:27:06,699 We've been hear a thousand times before. 458 00:27:10,150 --> 00:27:11,257 Instead of people thinking, 459 00:27:11,257 --> 00:27:14,778 "Oh my God, this is something new and terrible," 460 00:27:14,803 --> 00:27:16,073 no, no, no. 461 00:27:16,073 --> 00:27:20,583 This is the stuff of every archetypical life. 462 00:27:22,404 --> 00:27:24,377 (choir vocalizing) 463 00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:28,680 The central story of humankind is you're born, 464 00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:30,340 you realise you're fucked, 465 00:27:30,360 --> 00:27:32,400 you do something about it and then you die. 466 00:27:32,745 --> 00:27:36,026 (choir vocalizing) 467 00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:40,840 There's a phenomenon here which we've ignored and forgotten 468 00:27:40,850 --> 00:27:44,430 and has been central to human societies for millennia 469 00:27:44,430 --> 00:27:46,690 which is that life is suffering, 470 00:27:46,690 --> 00:27:48,880 and through that suffering you become whole. 471 00:27:48,880 --> 00:27:53,130 And wholeness is a more profound and organic concept 472 00:27:53,130 --> 00:27:55,080 than something as shallow as happiness. 473 00:28:00,990 --> 00:28:03,280 The tragedy of life is the means 474 00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:06,893 through which you become whole and be who you are. 475 00:28:07,370 --> 00:28:08,730 So it's an aid. 476 00:28:08,730 --> 00:28:10,260 It's basically that's the 477 00:28:10,260 --> 00:28:13,450 thing that enables you to transition 478 00:28:13,450 --> 00:28:14,953 towards accepting your death. 479 00:28:16,427 --> 00:28:20,320 (elegant music) 480 00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:30,526 (wind howling) (choir vocalizing) 481 00:28:34,858 --> 00:28:36,957 This is an ancient, ancient story 482 00:28:36,982 --> 00:28:39,275 of corruption and then renewal. 483 00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:44,483 And what we've got now is like the mother of all archetypes. 484 00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:47,327 It's the final reckoning. 485 00:28:48,610 --> 00:28:52,297 (ominous music rises) 486 00:28:52,844 --> 00:28:55,055 (wind howling) 487 00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:03,304 (wind gets louder and louder) 488 00:29:03,562 --> 00:29:04,676 (wind stops abruptly) 489 00:29:04,701 --> 00:29:09,101 ♪ She's like a mountain ♪ 490 00:29:09,101 --> 00:29:11,901 ♪ Old and strong ♪ 491 00:29:11,901 --> 00:29:15,604 ♪ She goes on and on and on ♪ 492 00:29:15,604 --> 00:29:16,804 - [Man] Extinction! 493 00:29:16,804 --> 00:29:18,220 - [Crowd] Rebellion! 494 00:29:18,220 --> 00:29:19,316 - [Man] Extinction! 495 00:29:19,316 --> 00:29:20,660 - [Crowd] Rebellion! 496 00:29:20,660 --> 00:29:25,070 - It just felt as if they were being manipulated 497 00:29:25,070 --> 00:29:27,140 by a political agenda 498 00:29:27,140 --> 00:29:31,470 that said, "We want these people stopped at all costs. 499 00:29:31,470 --> 00:29:33,750 I don't care if they're telling the truth. 500 00:29:33,750 --> 00:29:36,070 I don't care if they're conscientious protectors. 501 00:29:36,070 --> 00:29:39,930 I don't care if the science backs their argument. 502 00:29:39,930 --> 00:29:41,742 I just want them stopped." 503 00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:45,868 (crowd shouting) (upbeat music) 504 00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:06,300 - The essence of what is human 505 00:30:06,420 --> 00:30:10,945 is the ability to make a decision, a conscious decision 506 00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:15,898 on what is right in life, regardless of the consequences. 507 00:30:16,368 --> 00:30:19,718 (crowd vocalizing) (upbeat music) 508 00:30:24,290 --> 00:30:26,659 - [Child] You're arresting the wrong people! 509 00:30:35,360 --> 00:30:36,950 - People think it's really miserable, 510 00:30:36,950 --> 00:30:38,430 but there's an ecstasy about it 511 00:30:38,430 --> 00:30:43,688 which is in the face of all this pressure to conform 512 00:30:43,950 --> 00:30:47,367 and to go with the herd, and to destroy and to annihilate. 513 00:30:47,700 --> 00:30:50,310 A person stands up and goes, "No!" 514 00:30:50,310 --> 00:30:52,876 And that's the glory of it. 515 00:30:52,876 --> 00:30:54,579 (film projector whirring) 516 00:30:54,579 --> 00:30:55,662 ♪ Freedom ♪ 517 00:30:55,662 --> 00:30:59,403 ♪ Freedom, freedom, freedom ♪ 518 00:30:59,403 --> 00:31:02,061 - Louder, louder, louder! ♪ Freedom ♪ 519 00:31:02,061 --> 00:31:03,411 ♪ Freedom ♪ 520 00:31:03,411 --> 00:31:08,300 - And what do we want now? ♪ Freedom, freedom, freedom ♪ 521 00:31:08,300 --> 00:31:09,980 - What you have to get into 522 00:31:09,980 --> 00:31:13,340 is what it means to be who I am. 523 00:31:13,340 --> 00:31:15,014 That's the central question of life. 524 00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:19,270 Sacrifice is the mechanism 525 00:31:19,270 --> 00:31:21,190 through which you become more happy, 526 00:31:21,190 --> 00:31:23,670 but not because you're trying to be more happy, 527 00:31:23,670 --> 00:31:25,524 but because you want to be who you are. 528 00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:29,307 ♪ Freedom, freedom, freedom ♪ 529 00:31:30,675 --> 00:31:32,420 If you wanna to be really great, 530 00:31:32,420 --> 00:31:33,595 you've gotta lose yourself. 531 00:31:34,421 --> 00:31:36,024 That's the central paradox. 532 00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:40,833 So going to prison, yes, yes, you're losing yourself. 533 00:31:45,210 --> 00:31:48,903 Prison is the manifestation of my humanness. 534 00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:52,746 I am who I am, and this is what I believe. 535 00:31:52,771 --> 00:31:53,856 And we all know it's right. 536 00:31:53,881 --> 00:31:55,195 And you can do what you like, 537 00:31:55,570 --> 00:31:57,400 but I'm standing by my principles. 538 00:31:57,400 --> 00:31:59,313 That brings down empires. 539 00:32:02,050 --> 00:32:04,220 That's the fundamental spiritual material 540 00:32:04,220 --> 00:32:05,810 of every revolt and revolution. 541 00:32:05,810 --> 00:32:07,433 It's not primarily political. 542 00:32:08,375 --> 00:32:12,345 But obviously it fuses with the rage against injustice, 543 00:32:12,370 --> 00:32:16,043 fuses against the prospect of mass death. 544 00:32:17,209 --> 00:32:19,139 You get those two things together 545 00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:21,889 and that's like, phew, you get the dynamite. 546 00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:23,480 - What do we want? 547 00:32:23,498 --> 00:32:24,706 - [Crowd] Climate justice! 548 00:32:24,720 --> 00:32:25,737 - When do we want it? 549 00:32:25,760 --> 00:32:26,799 - [Crowd] Now! 550 00:32:26,824 --> 00:32:28,649 - What do we want? - [Crowd] Climate justice! 551 00:32:28,674 --> 00:32:30,503 - When do we want it? - [Crowd] Now! 552 00:32:30,528 --> 00:32:32,678 - For a proportion of the population, 553 00:32:32,703 --> 00:32:34,455 this is going to be heaven, it's because it's real. 554 00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:36,515 It's exciting. There's a whole cluster 555 00:32:36,540 --> 00:32:38,230 of different emotional reactions 556 00:32:38,230 --> 00:32:40,360 which are extremely powerful, 557 00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:42,373 and positive, and even ecstatic. 558 00:32:42,750 --> 00:32:46,070 Because suddenly the real comes into the unreal 559 00:32:46,070 --> 00:32:49,010 which is one of the most fantastic things 560 00:32:49,010 --> 00:32:50,270 about life, isn't it? 561 00:32:50,270 --> 00:32:52,090 You know, everything's like bollocks, 562 00:32:52,090 --> 00:32:55,102 and then someone says the truth and you're just like, "Yes!" 563 00:32:55,102 --> 00:32:57,085 - We've got you surrounded! 564 00:32:57,085 --> 00:33:00,046 (energetic music) (crowd cheering) 565 00:33:12,500 --> 00:33:15,640 - Fundamentally, you know where it's at. 566 00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:18,390 You've got this new map of reality 567 00:33:18,390 --> 00:33:20,670 which is, death's on the way, 568 00:33:20,670 --> 00:33:24,250 I'm pretty insignificant, I'm going to live a good life, 569 00:33:24,250 --> 00:33:25,930 and a good life in the context 570 00:33:25,930 --> 00:33:28,580 of the coming genocide of the next generation 571 00:33:28,580 --> 00:33:31,643 is to resist it with whatever breath and moment you've got. 572 00:33:33,510 --> 00:33:36,883 And that brings us back to the joy of resistance. 573 00:33:38,942 --> 00:33:42,422 All this misery around activism. It's not, right? 574 00:33:42,440 --> 00:33:44,240 Once you've made this transition, 575 00:33:44,300 --> 00:33:45,710 it's like an act of service. 576 00:33:45,710 --> 00:33:47,120 It's an act of joy. 577 00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:50,944 It's an act of being who you are, at last. 578 00:33:51,207 --> 00:33:55,452 (ethereal music) 579 00:34:15,859 --> 00:34:20,299 This was the biggest organized act 580 00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:22,370 of civil disobedience in British history. 581 00:34:26,920 --> 00:34:30,330 What April did was show 582 00:34:31,050 --> 00:34:35,120 that mass disruption and mass sacrifice 583 00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:36,443 brings home the goods. 584 00:34:39,070 --> 00:34:43,650 For the first time in decades, a political protest 585 00:34:43,650 --> 00:34:47,453 brings the center of London to a halt 10 days running. 586 00:34:49,130 --> 00:34:50,550 For the first time 587 00:34:50,550 --> 00:34:54,300 since the Suffragettes, thousands of people 588 00:34:54,300 --> 00:34:57,513 put themselves into a position of breaking the law. 589 00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:01,610 People know it's real 590 00:35:01,610 --> 00:35:06,070 through the actuality of the struggle on the streets. 591 00:35:06,070 --> 00:35:09,533 And that's a central function of Extinction Rebellion. 592 00:35:11,370 --> 00:35:12,470 So what's happened is 593 00:35:12,470 --> 00:35:15,890 everyone's sort of acknowledged it's real 594 00:35:15,890 --> 00:35:17,493 in the political sphere. 595 00:35:18,930 --> 00:35:20,979 Okay, so we've declared climate emergency. 596 00:35:21,198 --> 00:35:22,609 That makes us feel better, 597 00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:24,360 and now we don't need to do anything. 598 00:35:25,550 --> 00:35:26,859 It's like the alcoholic. 599 00:35:27,230 --> 00:35:29,800 You know, the alcoholic has been forced to sit down 600 00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:31,987 and admit they've got a drink problem, 601 00:35:32,630 --> 00:35:35,057 but as everyone knows who deals with alcoholics, 602 00:35:35,240 --> 00:35:36,815 admitting you've got a drink problem 603 00:35:37,220 --> 00:35:39,417 is a million miles away from doing anything about it. 604 00:35:39,622 --> 00:35:42,122 (eerie music) 605 00:35:43,875 --> 00:35:46,591 In war, everybody knows what it's about. 606 00:35:47,060 --> 00:35:49,591 You're out to kill as many as possible of the other side, 607 00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:52,498 as fast as possible, faster than they're going to kill you. 608 00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:54,583 And whoever does it best wins. 609 00:35:58,880 --> 00:36:01,343 Well, the non-violent version of that is 610 00:36:01,410 --> 00:36:03,867 we're closing down the economy as fast as we can. 611 00:36:11,844 --> 00:36:17,255 And when that level of social disruption is happening, 612 00:36:17,280 --> 00:36:21,380 or the prospect of it is happening, and it's real, 613 00:36:21,380 --> 00:36:23,333 that's when you're going to get policy change. 614 00:36:26,082 --> 00:36:29,122 You don't want to disrupt the economic basis of society 615 00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:30,300 without a good excuse. 616 00:36:30,340 --> 00:36:32,256 Well, as it happens, we have the best excuse 617 00:36:32,256 --> 00:36:33,344 in the history of humanity. 618 00:36:34,319 --> 00:36:36,986 (ominous music) 619 00:36:42,383 --> 00:36:45,440 - I can see how powerful blocking roads is, 620 00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:51,018 but you need to be able to go in other ways. 621 00:36:54,040 --> 00:36:58,110 We need to look for ways 622 00:36:58,110 --> 00:37:01,223 in which to efficiently close down the economy. 623 00:37:03,009 --> 00:37:07,949 And the aviation industry is the prime target 624 00:37:08,880 --> 00:37:11,680 because it's so closely controlled, 625 00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:14,963 and if you disrupt it, it all has to shut down. 626 00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:20,548 What we're trying to create in Heathrow 627 00:37:20,950 --> 00:37:23,050 is an artificial version 628 00:37:23,050 --> 00:37:25,903 of what we're going to face with the climate crisis. 629 00:37:27,699 --> 00:37:30,879 When the natural event happens then, 630 00:37:30,910 --> 00:37:32,590 very arguably and almost inevitably, 631 00:37:32,615 --> 00:37:33,915 it's going to be too late. 632 00:37:36,160 --> 00:37:39,392 This is the central point of what we're trying to do here, 633 00:37:39,720 --> 00:37:43,650 is to create the shock now so we can respond, 634 00:37:43,690 --> 00:37:48,010 rather than to have the inevitable natural shock later 635 00:37:48,010 --> 00:37:49,210 when it will be too late. 636 00:37:49,210 --> 00:37:50,750 - The level of disruption, 637 00:37:50,750 --> 00:37:54,293 even by shutting down Heathrow for the best part of a week, 638 00:37:54,318 --> 00:37:58,598 is trivial compared to the disruption 639 00:37:58,640 --> 00:38:02,300 that may ensue when we're seeing 640 00:38:02,300 --> 00:38:05,220 not just a few thousand refugees a year, 641 00:38:05,220 --> 00:38:08,038 but thousands of refugees every day. 642 00:38:11,632 --> 00:38:16,242 We're talking about a planet where vast amounts 643 00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:19,743 of currently inhabited land will be uninhabitable. 644 00:38:26,150 --> 00:38:27,939 People are going to be displaced. 645 00:38:32,308 --> 00:38:34,628 They will cause a refugee crisis 646 00:38:34,653 --> 00:38:37,756 like nothing we have ever experienced. 647 00:38:42,859 --> 00:38:45,545 That's going to cause tensions within our society 648 00:38:45,570 --> 00:38:48,180 that will inevitably lead to violence 649 00:38:48,180 --> 00:38:51,485 because that's what happens when people starve, 650 00:38:51,560 --> 00:38:54,448 when people are frightened, when people have nowhere to go. 651 00:38:54,607 --> 00:38:58,974 (pensive music) 652 00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:01,712 - So once you see it in that frame, 653 00:39:01,750 --> 00:39:05,050 then you can sort of understand 654 00:39:05,050 --> 00:39:06,770 that Heathrow is totally justified. 655 00:39:06,770 --> 00:39:08,470 While if you just see it in the little, 656 00:39:08,470 --> 00:39:10,610 you know, people can't go on their holiday frame, 657 00:39:10,610 --> 00:39:12,207 it's like, "How outrageous!" 658 00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:16,290 - Environmental activists are planning to fly drones 659 00:39:16,315 --> 00:39:19,015 in Heathrow Airport's exclusion zone later this week 660 00:39:19,040 --> 00:39:20,880 in an attempt to shut it down. 661 00:39:20,920 --> 00:39:23,010 The Heathrow Pause group have said 662 00:39:23,040 --> 00:39:26,911 they will operate a small toy drone from three am on Friday 663 00:39:27,160 --> 00:39:29,760 to put pressure on the government to take tougher steps 664 00:39:29,810 --> 00:39:31,578 to reduce carbon emissions. 665 00:39:31,859 --> 00:39:33,130 Today the airport warned 666 00:39:33,130 --> 00:39:36,492 that anyone operating a drone in the exclusion zone 667 00:39:36,517 --> 00:39:39,453 will be subject to the full force of the law. 668 00:39:39,797 --> 00:39:43,297 (airplane engine blaring) 669 00:39:51,554 --> 00:39:56,427 - I am now an experienced person on the run. 670 00:39:57,745 --> 00:40:02,745 I am in a safe house. I've got a disguise. 671 00:40:03,360 --> 00:40:08,664 Last night I slept in a car with blacked out windows. 672 00:40:21,240 --> 00:40:22,278 Yeah. 673 00:40:24,459 --> 00:40:26,160 I had made arrangements 674 00:40:26,160 --> 00:40:29,937 that I was going to come up to London early 675 00:40:30,360 --> 00:40:34,780 because my slot for flying a drone isn't until Sunday. 676 00:40:34,819 --> 00:40:36,679 And so I intended to come up 677 00:40:36,710 --> 00:40:42,462 so I was available to do any press calls that were needed, 678 00:40:42,800 --> 00:40:47,650 because I've discovered that I can talk. 679 00:40:47,650 --> 00:40:50,160 This action that we are undertaking 680 00:40:50,160 --> 00:40:54,010 has been designed to be safe, 100% safe. 681 00:40:54,010 --> 00:40:57,910 We're flying, as you mentioned, toy drones at head height. 682 00:40:57,910 --> 00:41:01,770 I don't want to disrupt people, I don't want to upset them, 683 00:41:01,770 --> 00:41:05,500 but it's disruption that the government actually listens to. 684 00:41:05,500 --> 00:41:07,190 Action is what is needed. 685 00:41:07,190 --> 00:41:10,695 And if this is the only way that we can achieve that action, 686 00:41:10,720 --> 00:41:11,765 then so be it. 687 00:41:12,006 --> 00:41:13,806 (plastic packaging rustles) 688 00:41:18,100 --> 00:41:21,760 Oh, I'm trying to get the drone ready to fly. 689 00:41:21,760 --> 00:41:24,203 I need to check that I've got all the batteries. 690 00:41:25,399 --> 00:41:30,022 I can use my arrest to get media attention for this. 691 00:41:32,226 --> 00:41:34,076 Oh, still have to be switched on. 692 00:41:34,120 --> 00:41:37,623 I have a voice and I want to use that voice. 693 00:41:38,968 --> 00:41:41,718 (drone whirring) 694 00:41:43,770 --> 00:41:46,463 A year ago, I was a really tired old lady. 695 00:41:47,840 --> 00:41:52,580 Now I am full of passion, 696 00:41:52,580 --> 00:41:54,423 energy, fire. 697 00:41:56,660 --> 00:41:58,310 So I'm more determined than ever. 698 00:41:59,040 --> 00:42:02,434 However I get arrested, it has got to count. 699 00:42:04,334 --> 00:42:05,571 And I am perfectly ready. 700 00:42:05,571 --> 00:42:08,372 If they want to send me to prison, okay, fine. 701 00:42:09,350 --> 00:42:13,020 But I will go out with a song in my heart 702 00:42:13,020 --> 00:42:16,164 saying, "Listen, please." 703 00:42:16,694 --> 00:42:20,194 (airplane engine blaring) 704 00:42:27,909 --> 00:42:28,909 (drops bag) 705 00:42:32,648 --> 00:42:37,182 Damn, I've lost a leg. I've lost three legs. (laughs) 706 00:43:01,109 --> 00:43:03,776 (drone beeping) 707 00:43:04,874 --> 00:43:07,624 (drone whirring) 708 00:43:20,770 --> 00:43:22,100 Oh. 709 00:43:24,400 --> 00:43:26,276 - [Cameraman] So Sylvia, what are you gonna do now? 710 00:43:26,301 --> 00:43:27,594 - I'm going to ring the police. 711 00:43:27,600 --> 00:43:30,530 Hello. This is Sylvia Dell. 712 00:43:31,310 --> 00:43:34,990 I'm ringing in to let you know that I'm, 713 00:43:34,990 --> 00:43:38,973 I think it's called Plimsol Park or Plimsol Farm, 714 00:43:40,120 --> 00:43:44,064 in Ewesley, and I am flying a drone. 715 00:43:44,560 --> 00:43:49,560 And would you like to come and arrest me, 716 00:43:49,650 --> 00:43:53,033 because that would be quite convenient right now? 717 00:43:56,134 --> 00:43:57,687 Thank you. Thank you. 718 00:43:57,687 --> 00:44:00,340 Thank you very much, thank you. 719 00:44:00,340 --> 00:44:02,105 Cheers. Bye. 720 00:44:02,920 --> 00:44:07,320 (somber music) 721 00:44:11,780 --> 00:44:15,340 I do this because my young children, 722 00:44:15,340 --> 00:44:19,980 their lives are going to be devastated by this. 723 00:44:23,210 --> 00:44:26,750 In the future, when I'm not around anymore, 724 00:44:26,750 --> 00:44:29,060 they are going to be paying the price 725 00:44:29,060 --> 00:44:32,360 for the life that I've led. 726 00:44:32,360 --> 00:44:34,993 And I can't live with that. 727 00:44:39,200 --> 00:44:42,070 This is about my moral obligation 728 00:44:42,070 --> 00:44:44,440 to those who come after me. 729 00:44:44,440 --> 00:44:48,083 They are the ones who've really opened my heart. 730 00:44:52,200 --> 00:44:54,950 I want them to be able to look back on me 731 00:44:54,960 --> 00:44:57,333 and think that mum did the best she could. 732 00:44:58,458 --> 00:45:02,286 (somber music continues) 733 00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:05,460 I don't want them to look back 734 00:45:05,460 --> 00:45:10,795 and think that I lived a frivolous life 735 00:45:10,820 --> 00:45:12,843 and then just abandoned them. 736 00:45:14,280 --> 00:45:16,068 I want them to... 737 00:45:17,440 --> 00:45:20,043 to know that I did everything I possibly could. 738 00:45:21,553 --> 00:45:25,943 (somber music) 739 00:45:29,120 --> 00:45:32,410 I can stand being locked up. 740 00:45:32,410 --> 00:45:36,700 I can stand the prospect of going to prison 741 00:45:36,700 --> 00:45:41,653 for however long, because it's towards the end of my life. 742 00:45:43,420 --> 00:45:47,933 I've had so much. Why shouldn't I pay a price? 743 00:45:59,071 --> 00:46:04,071 (camera beeping) (camera clicking) 744 00:46:22,608 --> 00:46:27,608 (camera clicking) (camera beeping) 745 00:47:00,440 --> 00:47:03,152 (crowd) This is what democracy looks like! 746 00:47:03,224 --> 00:47:06,166 - [Man] If we could have arrestables sat in the road, 747 00:47:06,191 --> 00:47:07,526 that would be fantastic. 748 00:47:07,560 --> 00:47:09,074 Any arrestables. 749 00:47:09,099 --> 00:47:12,182 (lighthearted music) 750 00:47:16,522 --> 00:47:21,522 (upbeat music) 751 00:47:30,539 --> 00:47:32,231 - [Officer] Right, mate, you going to get up? 752 00:47:32,231 --> 00:47:34,084 Or am I going to have to carry you away? 753 00:47:34,280 --> 00:47:36,201 - That's what civil disobedience is all about, 754 00:47:37,256 --> 00:47:40,609 drawing out the violence of the system upon oneself. 755 00:47:41,880 --> 00:47:43,337 It's a sacrificial act. 756 00:47:43,640 --> 00:47:45,490 It's not a conventional, materialistic, 757 00:47:45,515 --> 00:47:47,907 don't get yourself into trouble mate act, right? 758 00:47:48,560 --> 00:47:53,105 (mournful horn playing) 759 00:47:55,641 --> 00:47:57,871 Anyone who's watching this thinks this is weird, 760 00:47:57,950 --> 00:48:01,513 then wake up to what western culture is based upon, 761 00:48:03,660 --> 00:48:06,930 that Christian tradition which is sometimes 762 00:48:06,930 --> 00:48:09,300 people are called upon to sacrifice themselves 763 00:48:09,300 --> 00:48:10,350 for the greater good. 764 00:48:11,817 --> 00:48:13,517 Don't think that what I'm saying here 765 00:48:13,673 --> 00:48:15,313 is some sort of weird thing. 766 00:48:15,320 --> 00:48:18,285 What's weird is the culture that thinks it's weird. 767 00:48:20,760 --> 00:48:21,840 If you think this is weird, 768 00:48:21,865 --> 00:48:24,725 then you've cut yourself off from history. 769 00:48:24,770 --> 00:48:26,717 And history is coming back. 770 00:48:26,920 --> 00:48:28,662 (Officer) Stand up please Sir. 771 00:48:31,680 --> 00:48:36,670 (crowd cheering) 772 00:48:43,104 --> 00:48:47,877 And that's translating into ordinary people 773 00:48:48,120 --> 00:48:51,435 stepping forward to put themselves in harm's way 774 00:48:51,830 --> 00:48:54,190 to protect their children and grandchildren. 775 00:48:54,190 --> 00:48:55,770 That's it. It's new. 776 00:48:55,770 --> 00:48:58,927 It hasn't happened before. Not since the Second World War. 777 00:48:59,577 --> 00:49:01,685 Don't think this is "climate change activism". 778 00:49:02,040 --> 00:49:03,766 No, that's not what it's about. 779 00:49:03,791 --> 00:49:06,985 It's about people scrambling 780 00:49:07,010 --> 00:49:09,605 to save what they love the most. 781 00:49:09,605 --> 00:49:11,292 ♪ Power to the people ♪ 782 00:49:11,292 --> 00:49:13,345 ♪ Power to the people ♪ 783 00:49:13,345 --> 00:49:15,428 ♪ Power to the people ♪ 784 00:49:15,428 --> 00:49:17,514 ♪ Power to the people ♪ 785 00:49:17,514 --> 00:49:19,289 ♪ The people have the power ♪ 786 00:49:19,289 --> 00:49:20,705 ♪ The people have the ♪ 787 00:49:20,705 --> 00:49:22,546 - [Man] Power! - [Crowd] Power! 788 00:49:22,546 --> 00:49:24,746 - [Man] People! - [Crowd] People! 789 00:49:24,760 --> 00:49:26,027 - Power! - [Crowd] Power! 790 00:49:26,040 --> 00:49:28,120 - You can describe democracy 791 00:49:28,160 --> 00:49:31,085 as a technical set of arrangements. 792 00:49:31,173 --> 00:49:33,623 But there's another definition of democracy 793 00:49:33,670 --> 00:49:36,570 which is popular empowerment 794 00:49:36,570 --> 00:49:39,788 in the collective decisions of society. 795 00:49:40,210 --> 00:49:43,675 And technically we're a democracy, but as we all know, 796 00:49:43,700 --> 00:49:47,653 there's massive disillusionment with how it feels. 797 00:49:48,530 --> 00:49:50,431 This mass disillusionment 798 00:49:50,800 --> 00:49:53,751 can be transformed into mass empowerment 799 00:49:54,000 --> 00:49:57,239 through the ecstasy of rebellion. 800 00:49:57,898 --> 00:50:00,731 (energetic music) 801 00:50:12,459 --> 00:50:16,572 ♪ Extinction! Rebellion! ♪ 802 00:50:16,572 --> 00:50:17,872 - [Man] Extinction! 803 00:50:17,872 --> 00:50:19,130 - [Crowd] Rebellion! 804 00:50:19,130 --> 00:50:22,400 - Suddenly loads of people feel empowered 805 00:50:22,400 --> 00:50:25,193 to actually make their mark on history. 806 00:50:25,777 --> 00:50:29,394 (intense drumming) 807 00:50:30,390 --> 00:50:33,970 It's possible to institutionalize that 808 00:50:33,970 --> 00:50:37,865 through reinvigorated democratic deliberation, 809 00:50:38,132 --> 00:50:40,975 and historically the best way of doing that 810 00:50:41,202 --> 00:50:43,635 is through assemblies of ordinary people. 811 00:50:45,440 --> 00:50:46,940 It's possible to come out 812 00:50:46,960 --> 00:50:49,095 with something significantly better 813 00:50:49,255 --> 00:50:51,205 in terms of democratic governance 814 00:50:51,240 --> 00:50:54,470 than what we've got at the moment and, most significantly, 815 00:50:54,490 --> 00:50:58,413 something that can successfully deliberate, and 816 00:50:58,437 --> 00:51:02,575 legislate on the transformation of the global economy. 817 00:51:03,130 --> 00:51:05,700 And without that it's game over. 818 00:51:05,915 --> 00:51:10,331 ♪ In dangerous times ♪ 819 00:51:10,360 --> 00:51:14,895 ♪ Hold fast to courage ♪ 820 00:51:14,920 --> 00:51:19,360 ♪ In dangerous times ♪ 821 00:51:19,385 --> 00:51:24,044 ♪ Hold fast to love ♪ 822 00:51:24,069 --> 00:51:28,434 ♪ In dangerous times ♪ 823 00:51:28,459 --> 00:51:32,915 ♪ Hold on to courage ♪ (crowd cheering) 824 00:51:32,940 --> 00:51:34,340 - During this journey 825 00:51:34,340 --> 00:51:37,683 I've discovered depths of strength in me 826 00:51:37,683 --> 00:51:40,743 that I had no idea existed. 827 00:51:42,513 --> 00:51:44,529 ♪ In dangerous times ♪ 828 00:51:44,560 --> 00:51:47,740 By living this business as usual life, 829 00:51:47,780 --> 00:51:52,326 we are missing so much of who we really are. 830 00:51:52,326 --> 00:51:55,240 ♪ In dangerous times ♪ (crowd cheering) 831 00:51:55,240 --> 00:51:57,776 And once you take that oppression off, 832 00:51:58,045 --> 00:52:01,245 it's like having a wet blanket removed from your shoulders. 833 00:52:01,280 --> 00:52:04,031 You suddenly, "Oh, that's good. I feel really good now." 834 00:52:04,051 --> 00:52:06,326 ♪ In times of danger ♪ 835 00:52:06,326 --> 00:52:08,424 ♪ Hold fast to love ♪ 836 00:52:08,424 --> 00:52:11,260 ♪ We all need love ♪ 837 00:52:11,260 --> 00:52:14,068 You suddenly discover that there's all this common ground. 838 00:52:14,500 --> 00:52:17,630 Yeah, I have complete strangers who come up to me now 839 00:52:17,630 --> 00:52:20,270 and thank me for what I am doing, and all they do, 840 00:52:20,270 --> 00:52:22,790 all they see is that. 841 00:52:23,520 --> 00:52:28,193 And, and they go, "Oh, you're welcome." (laughs) 842 00:52:28,743 --> 00:52:34,622 (somber music) 843 00:53:08,820 --> 00:53:11,440 - [Roger] The opportunity is a chance 844 00:53:11,440 --> 00:53:12,783 to live life to the full. 845 00:53:15,503 --> 00:53:19,678 And living life to the full means living without lies. 846 00:53:25,520 --> 00:53:28,725 And the biggest lie of our society is everything's fine 847 00:53:28,760 --> 00:53:31,260 and the climate catastrophe isn't going to happen. 848 00:53:36,838 --> 00:53:38,685 Well, once you've got rid of that lie, 849 00:53:38,950 --> 00:53:41,419 it doesn't just enable a technical solution. 850 00:53:41,720 --> 00:53:46,540 It enables a mass social revival, spiritual revival 851 00:53:46,540 --> 00:53:48,060 of what it means to be human. 852 00:53:50,663 --> 00:53:51,783 Because then suddenly 853 00:53:51,783 --> 00:53:54,330 we've got the massive collective project 854 00:53:54,330 --> 00:53:56,183 called let's try and survive. 855 00:53:59,591 --> 00:54:03,290 And what do humans like more than anything else 856 00:54:03,290 --> 00:54:06,130 is a massive, collective moral project 857 00:54:06,130 --> 00:54:08,571 that brings everyone together in community. 858 00:54:11,000 --> 00:54:17,989 (soaring music) 859 00:55:28,196 --> 00:55:31,446 (gentle chiming music) 860 00:55:36,526 --> 00:55:39,729 (pensive music) (chiming continues) 861 00:55:47,400 --> 00:55:54,169 (slow orchestral music)