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Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.92,0:00:16.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My story begins in Zimbabwe
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.86,0:00:19.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with a brave park ranger named Orpheus
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.40,0:00:21.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and an injured buffalo.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.52,0:00:26.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Orpheus looked at the buffalo\Non the ground, and he looked at me,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.78,0:00:31.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and as our eyes met, there was an unspoken grief \Nbetween the three of us.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.15,0:00:35.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She was a beautifully wild and innocent creature,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.90,0:00:41.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Orpheus lifted the muzzle\Nof his rifle to her ear. (Gunshot)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.08,0:00:46.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And at that moment,\Nshe started to give birth.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.90,0:00:51.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As life slipped from the premature calf, \Nwe examined the injuries.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.30,0:00:55.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Her back leg had been caught \Nin an eight-strand wire snare.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.82,0:00:58.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She'd fought for freedom \N[for] so hard and so long
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.100,0:01:02.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that she'd ripped her pelvis in half.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.17,0:01:05.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, she was finally free.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.42,0:01:09.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ladies and gentlemen, today I feel \Na great sense of responsibility
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.42,0:01:13.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in speaking to you \Non behalf of those that never could.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.37,0:01:18.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Their suffering is my grief,\Nis my motivation.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.83,0:01:25.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Martin Luther King best summarises \Nmy call to arms here today.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.62,0:01:29.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said, "There comes a time \Nwhen one must take a position that's neither safe,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.54,0:01:32.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nor politic, nor popular.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.37,0:01:37.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But he must take that position \Nbecause his conscience tells him that it's right."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.11,0:01:42.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because his conscience\Ntells him it is right.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.15,0:01:46.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At the end of this talk \NI'm gonna ask you all a question.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.42,0:01:48.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That question is the only reason\NI traveled here today
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.90,0:01:51.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all the way from the African savanna.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.37,0:01:53.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That question for me has cleansed my soul.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.16,0:01:58.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How you answer that question \Nwill always be yours.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.00,0:02:02.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I remember watching the movie \NThe Wizard of Oz as a young kid,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.34,0:02:06.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I was never scared of the witch \Nor the flying monkeys.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.31,0:02:11.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My greatest fear was that I'd grow up\Nlike the Lion, without courage.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.36,0:02:14.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I grew up always asking myself \Nif I thought I'd be brave?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.44,0:02:19.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, years after Dorothy \Nhad made her way back to Kansas,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.30,0:02:21.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the Lion had found his courage,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.14,0:02:23.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I walked into a tattoo parlor \Nand had the words
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.98,0:02:27.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'Seek and Destroy' tattooed\Nacross my chest.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.62,0:02:30.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I thought that'd make me\Nbig and brave.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.66,0:02:33.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it'd take me almost a decade \Nto grow into those words.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.94,0:02:37.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By the age of 20 I'd become \Na clearance diver in the navy.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.18,0:02:40.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By 25, as a special operations sniper,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.82,0:02:44.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I knew exactly how many clicks of elevation \NI needed on the scope of my rifle
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.56,0:02:48.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to take a headshot on a moving target \Nfrom 700m away.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.90,0:02:51.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I knew exactly how many grams \Nof high explosives it takes
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.54,0:02:54.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to blast through a steel plate door \Nfrom only a few meters away,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.06,0:02:57.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,without blowing myself, \Nor my team, up behind me.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.90,0:03:02.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I knew that Baghdad was a shitty place, \Nand when things go bang,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.48,0:03:04.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,well, people die.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.50,0:03:07.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now back then, I'd no idea \Nwhat a conservationist did,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.40,0:03:11.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,other than hug trees and piss off large corporations. \N(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.66,0:03:16.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I knew they had dreadlocks.\NI knew they smoked dope. (Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.64,0:03:19.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn't really give a shit about the environment, \Nand why should I?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.31,0:03:24.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was the idiot that used to speed up in his car \Njust trying to hit birds on the road.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.66,0:03:27.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My life was a world away \Nfrom conservation.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.70,0:03:29.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'd just spent nine years \Ndoing things in real life
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.50,0:03:33.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,most people wouldn't dream \Nof trying on a Playstation.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:34.01,0:03:40.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, after 12 tours to Iraq as a so-called 'mercenary', \Nthe skills I had were good for one thing:
Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.50,0:03:43.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was programmed to destroy.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:44.72,0:03:49.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Looking back now, on everything I've done, \Nand the places I've been,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.31,0:03:53.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in my heart, I've only ever performed \None true act of bravery.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:54.21,0:03:57.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that was a simple choice \Nof deciding 'Yes' or deciding 'No'.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.13,0:04:01.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it was that one act \Nwhich defines me completely
Dialogue: 0,0:04:01.14,0:04:07.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and ensures there'll never be separation \Nbetween who I am, and what I do.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.28,0:04:09.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I finally left Iraq behind me I was lost.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.46,0:04:12.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah I felt – ahh – I just had no idea \Nwhere I was going in life
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.86,0:04:16.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or where I was meant to be and I arrived in Africa \Nat the beginning of 2009.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:16.86,0:04:19.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was aged 29 at the time.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:19.54,0:04:22.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Somehow, I always knew \NI'd find a purpose amongst chaos,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.30,0:04:24.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that's exactly what happened.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:24.26,0:04:29.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'd no idea though, I'd find it in a remote part \Nof the Zimbabwe bush.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.94,0:04:32.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we were patrolling along, \Nand the vultures circled in the air
Dialogue: 0,0:04:32.84,0:04:38.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and as we got closer the stench of death\Nhung there, in the air like a thick, dark veil,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:38.46,0:04:41.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and sucked the oxygen\Nout of your lungs.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.41,0:04:45.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And as we got closer, \Nthere was a great bull elephant,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:45.01,0:04:49.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,resting on its side, with its face cut away.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:49.51,0:04:52.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the world around me stopped.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:53.11,0:04:56.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was consumed by a deep \Nand overwhelming sadness.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:56.65,0:05:00.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Seeing innocent creatures killed like this \Nhit me in a way like nothing before.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:00.32,0:05:04.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'd actually poached as a teenager \Nand they're memories I'll take to the grave.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:04.74,0:05:09.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Time had changed me though; \Nsomething inside wasn't the same.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:09.73,0:05:13.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's never gonna be again.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:13.86,0:05:18.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I asked myself, \N"Does that elephant need its face
Dialogue: 0,0:05:18.30,0:05:21.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,more than some guy in Asia needs \Na tusk on his desk?"
Dialogue: 0,0:05:21.38,0:05:25.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well of course it bloody does, \Nthat was irrelevant.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:25.08,0:05:27.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All that mattered there and then was:
Dialogue: 0,0:05:27.43,0:05:30.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Would I be brave enough to give up\Neverything in my life
Dialogue: 0,0:05:30.18,0:05:32.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to try and stop\Nthe suffering of animals?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:32.92,0:05:35.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This was the one true defining \Nmoment of my life:
Dialogue: 0,0:05:35.66,0:05:38.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes or no?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:38.58,0:05:42.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I contacted my family the next day \Nand began selling all my houses.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:42.66,0:05:46.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These are assets a well-advised mercenary \Nquickly acquires with the proceeds of war.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:46.86,0:05:50.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My life-savings have since been used\Nto found and grow
Dialogue: 0,0:05:50.38,0:05:53.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the International Anti-Poaching\NFoundation.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:53.90,0:05:57.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The IAPF is a direct-action, \Nlaw enforcement organization.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:57.51,0:06:01.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From drone technology, \Nto an international qualification for rangers,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:01.74,0:06:04.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we're battling each and every day \Nto bring military solutions
Dialogue: 0,0:06:04.50,0:06:07.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to conservation's thin green line.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:08.46,0:06:11.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now my story may be slightly unique,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:11.55,0:06:15.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I'm not going to use it to talk to you today \Nabout the organization I run --
Dialogue: 0,0:06:15.14,0:06:18.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in what probably could have been \Na pretty good fundraiser.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:18.86,0:06:24.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter) (Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:06:26.54,0:06:32.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Remember, today is about the question \NI'm gonna ask you at the end.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:32.52,0:06:36.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because it's impossible for me to get up here\Nand talk about just saving wildlife
Dialogue: 0,0:06:36.14,0:06:42.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when I know the problem of animal welfare \Nis much broader throughout society.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:43.12,0:06:47.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A few years after I saw that elephant \NI woke up very early one morning.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:47.30,0:06:50.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I already knew the answer to the question \NI was about to ask myself,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:50.96,0:06:55.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it was the first time\NI'd put it into words:
Dialogue: 0,0:06:55.94,0:07:01.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Does a cow value its life \Nmore than I enjoy a barbecue?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:04.76,0:07:08.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,See, I'd been guilty all this time \Nof what's termed 'speciesism'.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:08.89,0:07:12.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Speciesism is very much the same \Nas racism or sexism.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:12.54,0:07:15.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It involves the allocation\Nof a different set of values,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:15.50,0:07:18.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rights or special considerations\Nto individuals,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:18.46,0:07:21.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,based solely on who or what they are.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:21.82,0:07:23.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The realisation\Nof the flexible morality
Dialogue: 0,0:07:23.84,0:07:27.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'd used to suit my everyday conveniences \Nmade me sick in the stomach.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:27.88,0:07:32.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,See, I'd loved blaming parts of Asia \Nfor their insatiable demand for ivory and rhino horn,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:32.78,0:07:35.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the way the region's\Nbooming economic growth
Dialogue: 0,0:07:35.03,0:07:39.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is dramatically increasing\Nthe illegal wildlife trade.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:39.26,0:07:41.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I woke up that morning\Nthough I realised,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:41.34,0:07:45.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even though I'd dedicated my life \Nto saving animals,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:45.15,0:07:47.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in my mind I was no better\Nthan a poacher,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:47.50,0:07:50.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or the guy in Asia\Nwith a tusk on his desk.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:51.74,0:07:59.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As this 'over-consumptive meat-eater' \NI'd referred to some animals as 'beasts'.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:59.02,0:08:04.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When in reality I'd been the beast: \Ndestructively obedient,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:04.34,0:08:09.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a slave to my habits, \Na cold shoulder to my conscience.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:10.34,0:08:13.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've all had contact with pets \Nor other animals in our lives.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:13.50,0:08:17.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can't deny our understanding \Nof the feelings that each animal has.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:17.15,0:08:19.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The ability to suffer pain\Nor loneliness.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:19.98,0:08:21.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And to fear.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:22.22,0:08:26.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like us also, each animal has the ability \Nto express contentment,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:26.39,0:08:31.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to build family structures, and want \Nof satisfying basic instincts and desires.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:31.78,0:08:34.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For many of us though,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:34.19,0:08:36.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's as far as we allow\Nour imagination to explore
Dialogue: 0,0:08:36.51,0:08:40.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,before the truth inconveniences\Nour habits.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:41.05,0:08:43.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The disconnect that exists \Nbetween consuming a product
Dialogue: 0,0:08:43.42,0:08:47.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the reality it takes to bring that product \Nto market is a phenomenon to itself.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:47.14,0:08:50.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Animals are treated like commodities \Nand referred to as property.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:50.78,0:08:55.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We call it 'murder' to kill a human being \Nyet create legal and illegal industries
Dialogue: 0,0:08:55.50,0:08:58.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,out of what would be regarded as torture \Nif humans were involved.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:58.24,0:09:04.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we pay people to do things to animals \Nthat none of us would engage in personally.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:04.23,0:09:09.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just because we don't see it up close \Ndoes not mean we're not responsible.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:09.66,0:09:13.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Peter Singer, the man who popularised \Nthe term 'speciesism' wrote,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:13.71,0:09:17.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Although there may be differences \Nbetween animals and humans
Dialogue: 0,0:09:17.78,0:09:20.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they each share the ability to suffer.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:20.62,0:09:25.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we must give equal consideration \Nto that suffering.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:25.10,0:09:29.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Any position that allows similar cases \Nto be treated in a dissimilar fashion
Dialogue: 0,0:09:29.10,0:09:33.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fails to qualify as an acceptable\Nmoral theory."
Dialogue: 0,0:09:34.10,0:09:40.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Around the world this year 65 billion\Nanimals will be killed in factory farms.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:40.02,0:09:44.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How many animals' lives\Nis one human's life worth?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:44.26,0:09:50.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A meat-eater in this room will consume, \Non average, 8,000 animals in their lifetime.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:50.74,0:09:53.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ocean pollution, global warming \Nand deforestation
Dialogue: 0,0:09:53.82,0:09:56.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are driving us towards \Nthe next great mass-extinction
Dialogue: 0,0:09:56.79,0:10:01.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the meat industry is the greatest negative factor \Nin all of these phenomena.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:02.19,0:10:06.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The illegal traffic in wildlife now ranks \Nas one of the largest criminal industries in the world --
Dialogue: 0,0:10:06.61,0:10:09.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's up there with drugs, guns \Nand human trafficking.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:09.91,0:10:11.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The ability to stop this devastation
Dialogue: 0,0:10:11.74,0:10:13.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,lies in the willingness\Nof an international community
Dialogue: 0,0:10:13.78,0:10:17.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to step in and preserve\Na dying global treasure.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:18.81,0:10:21.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Experimentation on animals –
Dialogue: 0,0:10:21.24,0:10:24.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If animals are so like us that we can substitute \Nusing them instead of humans
Dialogue: 0,0:10:24.84,0:10:27.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then surely they have \Nthe very same attributes
Dialogue: 0,0:10:27.60,0:10:31.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that mean they deserve \Nto be protected from harm?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:32.50,0:10:37.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Whether we're talking about factory farming, \Nlive export, poaching, the fur trade,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:37.07,0:10:40.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,logically, it's all on the same\Nplaying field to me.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:41.23,0:10:43.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Suffering is suffering,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:43.17,0:10:45.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and murder is murder.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:45.06,0:10:47.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the more helpless the victim,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:47.02,0:10:49.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the more horrific the crime.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:50.78,0:10:54.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Next time you think \Nan animal lover is too emotional,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:54.93,0:10:57.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,too passionate, or even a little crazy, \Nplease remember
Dialogue: 0,0:10:57.30,0:11:01.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we see things through a different lens.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:02.62,0:11:05.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So in a few days,\Nmy son's gonna be born.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:06.08,0:11:10.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I find myself wondering, \N"What kind of world is he entering?"
Dialogue: 0,0:11:10.52,0:11:14.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Are we gonna be the generation \Nthat defines our failure as a species?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:15.02,0:11:17.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I believe our generation\Nwill be judged
Dialogue: 0,0:11:17.70,0:11:21.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by our moral courage\Nto protect what's right.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:21.36,0:11:26.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that every worthwhile action \Nrequires a level of sacrifice.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:26.15,0:11:30.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, I now offer myself, \Nwithout reservation, to animals.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:30.74,0:11:35.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when I strip away \Nall the material belongings around me,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:35.23,0:11:37.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I see that I too, am an animal.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:38.32,0:11:43.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're family. \NTogether on one planet.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:43.18,0:11:45.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And of the five million species\Non that planet,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:45.06,0:11:49.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,only one has the power to determine \Nwhat level of suffering is acceptable
Dialogue: 0,0:11:49.46,0:11:52.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for all other sentient beings\Nto endure.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:53.59,0:11:55.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Whether it's eating less meat,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:55.60,0:11:59.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,contributing to the fight against poaching\Nor speaking up for the voiceless,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:59.19,0:12:00.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we all have choices.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:00.98,0:12:06.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And small changes in our lives\Nmean big changes in others' [lives].
Dialogue: 0,0:12:06.34,0:12:08.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So now back to the beginning.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:08.41,0:12:12.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My reason for being here\Nis my question for you:
Dialogue: 0,0:12:12.18,0:12:16.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,next time you have an opportunity \Nto make a difference for animals,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:16.90,0:12:18.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will you be brave enough?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:18.50,0:12:20.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes or no?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:20.14,0:12:21.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you very much.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:21.52,0:12:23.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)