WEBVTT FILE 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)