1 00:00:03,050 --> 00:00:06,580 The world is the way it is today 2 00:00:06,580 --> 00:00:11,085 because of the stories we have communicated to each other. 3 00:00:11,085 --> 00:00:13,280 Every culture has a mythology that 4 00:00:13,280 --> 00:00:15,630 answers the basic questions-- who are you? 5 00:00:15,630 --> 00:00:16,720 What is a human being? 6 00:00:16,720 --> 00:00:18,410 What's important in life? 7 00:00:18,410 --> 00:00:20,734 How does change happen in the world? 8 00:00:20,734 --> 00:00:21,650 Where do we come from? 9 00:00:21,650 --> 00:00:23,360 Where are we going? 10 00:00:23,360 --> 00:00:26,860 [MUSIC PLAYING] 11 00:00:34,038 --> 00:00:36,470 One of the problems with the old story 12 00:00:36,470 --> 00:00:38,240 within Western culture is that it's 13 00:00:38,240 --> 00:00:40,220 perpetuated a sense of separation 14 00:00:40,220 --> 00:00:41,610 between humans and the planet. 15 00:00:41,610 --> 00:00:45,052 We are putting so much pressure on the environment, 16 00:00:45,052 --> 00:00:47,800 so much pressure on poor people, so much 17 00:00:47,800 --> 00:00:49,335 pressure on the atmosphere. 18 00:00:49,335 --> 00:00:53,580 Never before has a mass industrial civilization 19 00:00:53,580 --> 00:00:56,960 run on the principles of interconnectedness. 20 00:00:56,960 --> 00:01:00,630 We need the perspectives of different cultures in order 21 00:01:00,630 --> 00:01:03,665 to weave the story for humanity of the future, 22 00:01:03,665 --> 00:01:06,910 not try to reach a single story, but figure out-- 23 00:01:06,910 --> 00:01:09,520 what are our common values? 24 00:01:09,520 --> 00:01:12,985 [MUSIC PLAYING] 25 00:01:27,870 --> 00:01:30,930 The Western world is discovering its role 26 00:01:30,930 --> 00:01:33,810 on the co-creation of a new world on this planet. 27 00:01:33,810 --> 00:01:35,410 It's for real change. 28 00:01:35,410 --> 00:01:39,010 Not just the small changes but major changes, 29 00:01:39,010 --> 00:01:40,370 systemic changes. 30 00:01:40,370 --> 00:01:43,290 We have the collective intelligence 31 00:01:43,290 --> 00:01:45,840 to create all the solutions we might need. 32 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:48,420 It's not just solutions out there. 33 00:01:48,420 --> 00:01:50,620 It's solutions in here. 34 00:01:50,620 --> 00:01:53,480 We're not going to get out of this environmental mess 35 00:01:53,480 --> 00:01:56,080 by science and policy alone. 36 00:01:56,080 --> 00:02:00,059 [MUSIC PLAYING] 37 00:02:05,330 --> 00:02:08,610 We need to build a movement that connects ecology, 38 00:02:08,610 --> 00:02:12,470 social justice, and cosmology using the power of dream, 39 00:02:12,470 --> 00:02:16,670 the power of story, the power of art, and the power of action. 40 00:02:16,670 --> 00:02:22,590 Anything that anybody does that is for life 41 00:02:22,590 --> 00:02:27,720 automatically makes you a revolutionary for our species. 42 00:02:27,720 --> 00:02:31,070 [MUSIC PLAYING]