1 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:53,000 - People often say that there's a war against nature 2 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:56,000 and that this is the third world war. 3 00:00:59,400 --> 00:01:02,000 - It's getting more stark; it's getting worse and 4 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:05,000 the rate of change is accelerating, whether we're talking about the 5 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:10,000 extinction of species or the thoroughness of the techno-culture. 6 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:16,000 - The world right now is, frankly, very frightening. 7 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:20,000 For what we consider to be industrial civilization, 8 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:24,000 I would say is extraordinarily uncivilized, 9 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:26,000 actually quite savage. 10 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:33,000 - It's not an exaggeration to say that we're 11 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:36,920 living in an ecological apocalypse. 12 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:41,000 - Between years 1980 and 2045 13 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:43,000 we will lose more species of plants and animals than 14 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:46,440 we have lost in the last 65 million years. 15 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:54,000 We have two big-picture time pressures that really mean 16 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:57,000 we should be acting a lot more urgently than most of us have. 17 00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:00,000 And one of them is peak oil, or energy collapse, 18 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:03,160 and one of them is climate change, or runaway global warming. 19 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:07,000 - I think that most people, even most scientists, 20 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:10,000 continue to underestimate how far 21 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:13,000 down the path to climate catastrophe 22 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:15,000 we've already travelled. 23 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:17,000 - For the most part, we're oblivious to it, we don't 24 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:19,000 want to know about it, we don't want to hear about it. 25 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:23,000 - The one thing I'm most afraid of is that we're going to 26 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:27,000 mount a tremendous campaign to sustain the unsustainable. 27 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:30,000 - At this point, scientists are saying that the Earth's 28 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:32,000 temperature may increase by as much as 10 degrees. 29 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:35,000 At that point, there may not even be bacteria left. 30 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:39,000 - When the oil starts to really run dry, 31 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:42,000 and when those in power have to assert their power 32 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:44,000 in a time of dwindling resources, 33 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:47,000 I think they're going to turn to much more 34 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:50,000 blunt and cruel methods of enforcing their power. 35 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:54,000 - The whole climate is changing: the winds, 36 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:57,000 the ocean currents, the storm patterns, 37 00:02:57,000 --> 00:02:59,000 snow pack, snow melt, 38 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:01,000 flooding, droughts. 39 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:13,000 GAME OVER 40 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:22,000 Somewhere in northern California 41 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:33,000 - It's stunning how fast the destruction is proceeding. 42 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:46,120 Every day that passes, the world is in worse shape. 43 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:51,000 'The sad-looking man you see on the screen is Derrick Jensen. 44 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:55,000 Jensen is the best-selling author of several non-fiction books 45 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:59,000 including "A Language Older than Words" and "The Culture of Make Believe". 46 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:04,000 His books deal with topics such as surveillance, child abuse, the environment, 47 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:06,560 and something he calls "civilization". 48 00:04:20,400 --> 00:04:24,000 But it's statements like these that make him so controversial:' 49 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:27,000 They're thinking of raising the Shasta Dam in California, 50 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:30,840 and the reason that Senator Feinstein gave was... 51 00:04:30,840 --> 00:04:34,640 "It is Californians' God-given right to water their lawns." 52 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:40,680 You know, there is no way to argue with that... 53 00:04:41,480 --> 00:04:44,440 ...except with explosives. 54 00:04:46,240 --> 00:04:52,000 'That was Mr. Jensen in 2006, the same year he published a two-volume set called 'Endgame.' 55 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:57,240 In 'Endgame' , he argues that there is an urgent need to bring down civilization.' 56 00:05:03,160 --> 00:05:05,000 - If people would have brought down civilization a hundred years ago 57 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:08,000 people in the Pacific Northwest could still eat salmon. 58 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:10,000 There's going to be people sitting along the Columbia fifty years from now -- 59 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:13,000 they'll be glowing for one thing -- but they'll be starving to death, 60 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:15,000 and they'll be saying, 61 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:18,560 "I'm starving to death, because you didn't take out the dams... 62 00:05:18,560 --> 00:05:23,000 ...that killed salmon, and those dams were used for barging, 63 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:26,000 and for electricity, for alumninum smelters for beer cans, so 64 00:05:29,360 --> 00:05:31,000 God damn you." 65 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:35,000 He lays out his case against civilization by enumerating 20 premises. 66 00:05:36,840 --> 00:05:39,000 Due to time limitations and the fact that most people 67 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:42,000 would not tolerate a twenty-hour movie, we will explore 68 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:44,000 four of these premises, and accompany them 69 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:46,000 with real-life examples. 70 00:05:46,280 --> 00:05:49,000 Premise I 71 00:05:49,560 --> 00:05:53,000 Industrial civilization, civilization itself, but especially industrial civilization 72 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:55,000 is not, and can never be, sustainable. 73 00:05:56,320 --> 00:06:00,000 It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that any way of life that's based 74 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:02,600 on the use of nonrenewable resources won't last. 75 00:06:06,280 --> 00:06:10,000 But what is civilization? 76 00:06:11,440 --> 00:06:15,000 Civilization is a way of life characterized by the growth of cities. 77 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:20,000 - So you've got groups of people living in a dense enough population that 78 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:22,000 the local landbase cannot support them. 79 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:24,000 What that means is you have to get 80 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:26,000 your basic resources from somewhere else 81 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:28,000 because you've used them up where you live. 82 00:06:28,760 --> 00:06:31,000 So you're going to go out into the countryside and gather up 83 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:34,000 whatever it is you want, bring it back in. 84 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:58,000 If you require the importation of resources, 85 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:01,000 it means you've denuded the landscape of that particular resource. 86 00:07:12,560 --> 00:07:15,000 - There's no way that in the long term you can continue 87 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:19,000 to destroy the land that you need for your survival, 88 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:21,000 or the waters that you need to drink, 89 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:23,000 and expect to continue to live. 90 00:07:25,480 --> 00:07:30,000 - Industrial civilization requires ever-increasing amounts 91 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:32,000 of energy and ever-increasing amounts of land, 92 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:35,000 ever-increasing amounts of resources of all kinds 93 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:37,000 in order to perpetuate itself, 94 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:39,000 in order to continue to grow, 95 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:41,000 in order to just maintain itself. 96 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:43,000 And we live on a finite planet, 97 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:46,000 and those aren't available. Of course, 98 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:49,000 unfortunately for us and most living creatures, 99 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:53,000 that culture won't stop until it's consumed as much as it can, 100 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:56,000 or, of course, until we stop it ourselves. 101 00:08:11,800 --> 00:08:15,000 - If you have a finite amount of anything, 102 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:19,000 if you start using it, eventually you use it up. 103 00:08:21,520 --> 00:08:26,000 And so it would seem that if your entire culture is based on, 104 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:30,000 I don't know, let's take a random resource... 105 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:31,000 ...oil... 106 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:35,000 ...that you would think about what's going to happen 107 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:37,000 happen when the oil runs out 108 00:08:37,760 --> 00:08:40,000 - We've found energy resources 109 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:42,000 that have allowed us to escape 110 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:44,000 some of the kinds of 111 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:46,000 limits that previous cultures 112 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:48,000 have had to face much more quickly. 113 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:52,000 They used to collapse because they ran out of resources, 114 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:54,000 easily accessible resources. 115 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:56,000 The limit being the distance that people 116 00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:58,000 could travel with things like horses, 117 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:01,000 or other pack animals. That ended with the beginning 118 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:04,000 of the fossil fuel age; now they can go all over the planet 119 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:06,000 and take what they want. So globalization has only 120 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:09,000 accelerated this tremendously destructive process. 121 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:13,000 - We've poured our wealth into 122 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:16,000 building an infrastructure for daily life 123 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:18,000 that has no future. I do think that 124 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:21,000 oil problem is going to accelerate 125 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:26,000 within the next three to five years, maybe even sooner. 126 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:30,000 The numbers indicate that we've probably peaked in global production. 127 00:09:35,120 --> 00:09:38,000 - Where do you find the break from that? 128 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:40,000 I mean, all of it is a giant machine or 129 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:42,000 ensemble that just moves forward. 130 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:45,000 Technology, for example, never takes a step back. 131 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:48,000 This whole thing just keeps going like a cancer. 132 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:51,000 - I don't know of any civilization that's been sustainable, 133 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:53,000 I don't believe there ever has been one. 134 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:56,000 Technology, at its essence, is really our culture's... 135 00:09:57,000 --> 00:09:59,000 ...determination, 136 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:01,000 that comes from certain 137 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:03,000 philosophical and historical sources, 138 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:06,000 that we will be nothing else but more relentlessly technological. 139 00:10:10,520 --> 00:10:14,000 - There is no clean green path to 140 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:17,000 living in a lifestyle that we're all used to in 141 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:20,000 industrialized nations. This way of life is OVER. 142 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:25,000 - Civilizations are often cutting their own throats, 143 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:28,000 very visibly, very obviously, but they just keep on doing it. 144 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:32,000 - Every civilization is defined by hubris, 145 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:34,000 it's defined by its denial 146 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:37,000 to recognize that it lives in a natural world. 147 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:40,000 As a matter of fact, every civilization, in its founding lies, 148 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:42,000 elevates itself above nature, 149 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:45,000 and claims that it is the controller of the whole world. 150 00:10:52,880 --> 00:10:58,000 Figure 1 151 00:11:00,200 --> 00:11:04,000 - The first written myth of this culture is Gilgamesh deforesting the plains 152 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:06,000 and hillsides of Iraq. When people think of Iraq, 153 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:09,000 what's the first thing they normally think of? Cedar forests so thick 154 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:11,000 that sunlight never touches the ground? 155 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:13,000 That's how it was, prior to the arrival of this culture. 156 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:18,000 Clearcuts 157 00:12:09,120 --> 00:12:14,000 So, as a longtime, grassroots, environmental activist, 158 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:18,000 and as a creature living in the thrashing endgame of civilization, 159 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:21,000 I am intimately acquainted with the landscape of loss, 160 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:25,000 and have grown accustomed to carrying the daily weight of despair. 161 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:28,000 I've walked clearcuts that wrap around mountains and 162 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:30,000 drop into valleys and climb ridges to fragment 163 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:34,000 watershed after watershed, and I've sat, silent, 164 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:37,000 near empty streams that two generations ago 165 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:40,000 were lashed into whiteness by uncountable salmon 166 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:42,000 coming home to spawn and die. 167 00:12:42,480 --> 00:12:45,000 - Here in BC, and across North America, 168 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:47,000 when they do industrial logging they actually take 169 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:50,000 and just remove all the trees. They level everything, 170 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:53,000 they leave nothing but stumps and slash piles, 171 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:56,000 and they burn the slash piles and they take out all the timber 172 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:58,000 and what's left is a wasteland, 173 00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:01,000 and it's like they take a rainforest and turn it into a desert. 174 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:03,160 That's what a clearcut is. 175 00:13:13,960 --> 00:13:17,000 They use them for pulp; they export them whole 176 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:19,000 to the United States and to Japan. 177 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:22,000 There's not very much milling that happens anymore in BC, 178 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:25,000 it's just getting exported for pulp and paper 179 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:28,000 and fibreboard, and plywood, and whatever else. 180 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:30,640 Not a lot of value added. 181 00:13:33,400 --> 00:13:37,000 This tree has been selected to be cut and 182 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:41,000 usually the company will only clearcut 183 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:45,000 but this tree is in what they call 184 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:47,160 a stream-side selection zone. 185 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:50,000 they've got it marked blue, because it's a selection zone. 186 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:53,000 In a clearcut they don't paint the trees 187 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:55,000 that they're going to cut down. 188 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:58,000 They only paint the ones that they're going to leave. 189 00:14:14,760 --> 00:14:18,000 - There's still a strong push to harvest 190 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:21,000 as much of the western red cedar as they can. 191 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:24,000 They're bringing in huge helicopters to do that. 192 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:27,000 And they're high-grading... 193 00:14:27,120 --> 00:14:31,000 ...selecting only the really good, high-quality timber 194 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:33,000 and leaving the rest laying there... 195 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:36,000 ...in a junk heap. 196 00:14:38,120 --> 00:14:41,000 So, that's why we keep on, 197 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:43,000 you know, fighting back. 198 00:14:48,360 --> 00:14:51,000 I think the last straw was when 199 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:54,000 they wanted to log the Valley of Ista 200 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:57,000 because of its historical and 201 00:14:57,000 --> 00:15:00,000 spiritual significance to our people. 202 00:15:00,360 --> 00:15:04,640 But they log it in spite, you know, 203 00:15:04,640 --> 00:15:06,640 just to make a point 204 00:15:06,640 --> 00:15:09,000 against our resistance, against our 205 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:12,000 our overall position, 206 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:14,000 you know, with regard to treaties 207 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:17,000 or encroachment of industry development 208 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:20,000 in our territories. 209 00:15:23,720 --> 00:15:27,000 - In a lot of these areas, like this clearing behind me 210 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:31,000 up on the hill, you can see the soil is exposed, 211 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:35,000 the ultraviolet kills off all the mosses, 212 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:39,000 the funguses that hold the soil together. 213 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:42,000 When the stumps rot and the roots die, 214 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:44,000 then the slopes slide, 215 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:47,000 and often there's not much regrowth, there's no regeneration of the forest. 216 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:49,000 They do some replanting -- 217 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:52,000 it doesn't always work because there's no soil left: 218 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:54,000 it washes down into the streams, it kills the salmon, 219 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:56,000 it fills up the reservoirs, 220 00:15:56,000 --> 00:15:59,000 all kinds of flood damage downstream. 221 00:15:59,680 --> 00:16:04,000 - That's terrorism. Stripping down all the trees, 222 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:07,000 ripping out all the trees in the forest... 223 00:16:07,400 --> 00:16:10,000 ...and now they're going to rip out the 224 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:12,000 guts of the land 225 00:16:12,480 --> 00:16:15,000 looking for copper and gold. 226 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:17,000 And... 227 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:22,000 ... this has to have some kind of focus to it... 228 00:16:22,800 --> 00:16:26,520 ...to address the injustice to our people, 229 00:16:26,520 --> 00:16:30,000 the injustice to the land, to the water, 230 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:33,000 to the wildlife; the injustice to the 231 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:35,480 marine life and the salmon life. 232 00:16:35,480 --> 00:16:39,000 And the injustice to the people that want to stand up for it. 233 00:16:41,360 --> 00:16:43,880 - When we blocked the road -- 234 00:16:43,880 --> 00:16:46,000 these trees are very valuable 235 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:48,000 and the laws are all profit-driven, they're all driven by 236 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:50,000 the corporations, the police are there 237 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:53,000 to enforce the corporations' right to log, 238 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:56,000 not to enforce our right to stop them 239 00:16:56,000 --> 00:16:59,000 and protect the ecosystem. There's so little 240 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:01,000 that's left of the old-growth forest like 241 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:03,160 this that we see on the sides here 242 00:17:03,160 --> 00:17:06,000 that people are putting their bodies on the line, 243 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:08,000 they are willing to make huge sacrifices 244 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:11,000 to stop the forest from being sacrificed, 245 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:13,000 and the water, and the air quality, 246 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:15,000 and the global climate. 247 00:17:28,080 --> 00:17:35,000 Premise II 248 00:17:45,760 --> 00:17:48,000 Traditional communities do not often 249 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:50,000 voluntarily give up or sell the resources 250 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:52,000 on which their communities are based 251 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:55,000 until their communities have been destroyed. 252 00:17:55,800 --> 00:17:58,000 They also do not willingly allow their 253 00:17:58,000 --> 00:18:00,000 land-bases to be damaged so that other resources -- 254 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:04,000 gold, oil, and so on -- can be extracted. 255 00:18:05,120 --> 00:18:09,000 It follows that those who want the resources will do what they can 256 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:12,000 to destroy traditional communities. 257 00:18:18,280 --> 00:18:23,000 - Our people, we say, have been there since time immemorial. 258 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:26,120 - Prior to invasion 259 00:18:26,120 --> 00:18:29,000 and conquest, colonization, 260 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:33,000 lands in North America were occupied by 261 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:35,000 populations of people that had a profoundly 262 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:37,000 different relationship with the land. 263 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:40,000 - They live with the land, all the ceremonies that have 264 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:42,000 come up have to do with 265 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:45,000 celebrating the renewal of seasons and 266 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:48,000 life and affirming all of that. 267 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:51,000 - One thing about indigenous peoples is that 268 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:53,000 there's always the idea that you have to live 269 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:55,000 in balance, you know, emotionally, 270 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:57,000 physically, spiritually, 271 00:18:57,000 --> 00:19:00,000 you have to have balance, and so this same 272 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:03,160 philosophy was applied to the natural world that they lived in. 273 00:19:05,160 --> 00:19:08,000 - The Tolowa, on whose land I now live, 274 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:10,000 weren't civilized, they didn't live in cities, 275 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:12,000 they didn't require the importation of resources, 276 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:13,000 they lived in villages, camps... 277 00:19:13,040 --> 00:19:16,040 ...and lived there for 12,500 years if you believe the myths of science. 278 00:19:16,080 --> 00:19:19,080 If you believe the myths of the Tolowa, they lived there since the beginning of time. 279 00:19:19,760 --> 00:19:21,760 - I think that what we have had in 280 00:19:21,760 --> 00:19:24,760 indigenous societies all along is a very, 281 00:19:24,760 --> 00:19:26,760 kind of, common sense, a very practical 282 00:19:26,760 --> 00:19:29,760 approach to why it's important to 283 00:19:29,760 --> 00:19:31,760 treat the world around you, 284 00:19:31,760 --> 00:19:34,760 the natural world, in a good way. 285 00:19:36,280 --> 00:19:39,280 - Our people never exploited more than what we needed. 286 00:19:39,320 --> 00:19:42,320 We respect the land, we respect the animals, 287 00:19:42,320 --> 00:19:44,320 we respect the water, we respect the air, 288 00:19:44,360 --> 00:19:47,360 the wind, the fire, all the sacred elements. 289 00:19:47,400 --> 00:19:50,400 And we believe that they all are living, 290 00:19:50,400 --> 00:19:53,480 living things, so... 291 00:19:53,480 --> 00:19:57,400 ...I suspect that's the way it was before contact. 292 00:19:58,080 --> 00:20:00,080 - The stories that we have 293 00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:02,080 about our relationship to each other 294 00:20:02,120 --> 00:20:05,120 and to the land and to any spiritual aspect, 295 00:20:05,120 --> 00:20:08,120 any deities, arise from our relationship 296 00:20:08,120 --> 00:20:10,120 with the land. 297 00:20:10,120 --> 00:20:12,120 The salmon were considered to be our... 298 00:20:12,120 --> 00:20:16,600 ...mentors, caregivers -- lifegivers. 299 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:19,000 They were equal to us, in fact, 300 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:22,000 all things that have form were equal to us. 301 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:24,000 We weren't about dominating. 302 00:20:25,840 --> 00:20:28,840 - The spiritual relationship that our peoples had 303 00:20:28,840 --> 00:20:31,840 prior to invasion 304 00:20:31,840 --> 00:20:34,840 with all of creation, and recognizing that 305 00:20:34,840 --> 00:20:37,840 all beings have a spiritual essence, 306 00:20:37,840 --> 00:20:40,840 a spiritual entity, and that if we want 307 00:20:40,840 --> 00:20:43,840 to live in this universe in a good way, 308 00:20:43,880 --> 00:20:46,880 that it was absolutely essential that we learned how to 309 00:20:46,880 --> 00:20:48,880 maintain respectful relations 310 00:20:48,920 --> 00:20:50,920 with all of creation. 311 00:21:02,080 --> 00:21:04,080 They made us many promises, 312 00:21:04,080 --> 00:21:07,240 more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; 313 00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:11,440 they promised to take our land, and they took it. -Red Cloud 314 00:21:18,120 --> 00:21:21,280 When Europeans came to this land 315 00:21:21,280 --> 00:21:24,040 it was with... 316 00:21:24,040 --> 00:21:28,360 such a rapacious appetite 317 00:21:28,360 --> 00:21:31,880 it still has not been sated. 318 00:21:35,480 --> 00:21:37,480 - They brought Christianity, 319 00:21:37,480 --> 00:21:39,480 they brought colonization, 320 00:21:39,480 --> 00:21:42,280 and, certainly, they did bring civilization. 321 00:21:43,200 --> 00:21:46,200 - They came in, and they were sent with this, 322 00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:49,200 commission, they felt, apparently, to dominate the land 323 00:21:49,200 --> 00:21:52,120 and it was just there for the taking -- these people would accept 324 00:21:52,120 --> 00:21:55,520 beads, or just kind of get out of the way, 325 00:21:55,520 --> 00:21:58,920 and of course they had superior firepower at that time, too. 326 00:21:59,920 --> 00:22:03,160 - Right off the bat, with Christopher Columbus 327 00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:05,000 landing in the Caribbean region on what is 328 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:07,000 today Haiti and the Dominican Republic, 329 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:10,000 they initiated almost immediately a genocide 330 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:13,000 down there that depopulated most of the 331 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:15,000 nation, the Taino, and the Arawaks. 332 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:18,000 One of the main things that happened was the introduction 333 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:22,000 of diseases, which was basically biological warfare. 334 00:22:22,240 --> 00:22:24,240 - The smallpox was spread through 335 00:22:24,240 --> 00:22:27,240 tobacco and blankets 336 00:22:27,280 --> 00:22:29,280 and given to the Indian people. 337 00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:33,000 So it didn't take them long to be 338 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:37,000 decimated because they were pure. 339 00:22:37,040 --> 00:22:40,320 And the smallpox was vicious, very vicious. 340 00:22:40,320 --> 00:22:42,320 - When Europeans came, much of what they 341 00:22:42,360 --> 00:22:46,480 were interested in was rapid resource exploitation. 342 00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:49,480 They wanted to get wealthy in the new world. 343 00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:52,480 And as they were seeking that wealth, 344 00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:54,480 they worked with indigenous nations to undermine 345 00:22:54,480 --> 00:22:57,480 traditional economies and undermine the 346 00:22:57,520 --> 00:22:59,840 relationship that indigenous populations have with 347 00:22:59,840 --> 00:23:02,080 the lands so that indigenous peoples could then do 348 00:23:02,080 --> 00:23:06,120 do the work of resource exploitation and extraction 349 00:23:06,120 --> 00:23:09,120 for the Europeans so that they could get wealthy. 350 00:23:10,040 --> 00:23:12,040 - In imposing those things on indigenous peoples, of course, 351 00:23:12,080 --> 00:23:15,080 they just destroyed indigenous peoples and their nations and 352 00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:18,120 their way of life. Generally, indigenous peoples suffered 353 00:23:18,120 --> 00:23:22,160 90% or more depopulation rate 354 00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:25,160 upon having contact with Europeans. 355 00:23:25,160 --> 00:23:28,160 It was a genocide, war for territory, 356 00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:31,200 because the Europeans wanted to take the resources. 357 00:23:39,040 --> 00:23:42,040 - Settler society has worked to destroy 358 00:23:42,040 --> 00:23:44,040 what it needs to live, 359 00:23:44,040 --> 00:23:46,040 and that's suicidal. It's a suicidal mission. 360 00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:50,040 There's no way that it can be sustainable in the long term. 361 00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:04,800 Premise III 362 00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:07,520 - I gave a talk in Oregon a couple years ago, 363 00:24:07,520 --> 00:24:09,520 and this guy afterwards said, "You know, you talk a lot about 364 00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:12,520 this culture being based on violence, but I don't see it, 365 00:24:12,520 --> 00:24:14,520 you know, I'm not violent". 366 00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:17,520 I said, "Okay, first off, where is your shirt made?" He looked and it was made in Bangladesh. 367 00:24:17,520 --> 00:24:19,520 I was like, "Look, do we even need to talk about that?" 368 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:22,000 - He's fucking faking he's dead! 369 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:24,000 - Yeah, he's breathing. 370 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:26,000 - He's faking he's fucking dead! 371 00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:28,080 GUNSHOT 372 00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:30,560 - He's dead NOW. 373 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:34,000 - Our way of living, industrial civilization, is based on, 374 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:36,960 requires, and would collapse very quickly 375 00:24:36,960 --> 00:24:40,960 without persistent and widespread violence. 376 00:24:43,120 --> 00:24:45,120 - A large explosion! A large explosion! 377 00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:48,040 - Wow. 378 00:24:49,680 --> 00:24:52,680 - I'll just take a couple eggs. How many you want? 379 00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:54,680 - Two, two is good. Okay. Now what next? 380 00:24:54,680 --> 00:24:56,680 - Some ham, tomato. 381 00:24:56,680 --> 00:24:58,680 - Tomato, okay, how about that? 382 00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:00,680 - Okay, some onion. Ooh, and cheese! 383 00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:04,680 - Everything, then, right, you want everything. Okay. I understand, okay. 384 00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:07,680 We'll just pop this on. Now watch! 385 00:25:07,680 --> 00:25:09,680 I'm chopping the ham and veggies, grating the cheese, 386 00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:11,680 and whipping the eggs all... 387 00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:13,680 ...in three seconds. The machine that just made 388 00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:18,680 those smoothies for Verna and Fred, can make an omelette. 389 00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:22,600 There's not much time left to get this beautiful hope diamond necklace, 390 00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:24,600 less than 50 seconds. Gillian? 391 00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:27,600 - Absolutely, John, you're going to want to give us a call to get 392 00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:29,600 this beautiful hope diamond necklace. 393 00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:32,600 This is a 45.52 carat diamond surrounded by 394 00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:34,600 16 white diamonds. 395 00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:37,600 It has a platinum chain bearing 46 MORE diamonds. 396 00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:42,160 - These are twelve four-ounce southern 397 00:25:42,160 --> 00:25:44,160 barbecue chicken breasts. 398 00:25:45,840 --> 00:25:47,840 These Stuffin GourmetÂŹĂ, farm-fresh chicken breast; 399 00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:50,840 they come from the barnyard to your backyard. 400 00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:53,840 They're wonderfully marinated and guaranteed to be tender, 401 00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:57,920 juicy, and downright delicious. 402 00:25:58,160 --> 00:26:00,160 - Fine-tune those measurements, we keep them on file. 403 00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:02,160 They're saved, they're on our computer. 404 00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:05,160 Go back into the section where you reorder, 405 00:26:05,160 --> 00:26:08,160 and fine-tune those measurements for us. 406 00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:10,160 And then we'll have a chance to send you 407 00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:12,160 another pair of customized jeans 408 00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:15,000 that we really believe are going to fit perfectly. 409 00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:19,880 - We're going to do a countdown, 410 00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:21,880 starting from 5. 411 00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:23,880 Everybody got to help me out here, 412 00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:24,880 5, 413 00:26:24,880 --> 00:26:26,120 4, 414 00:26:26,120 --> 00:26:27,360 3, 415 00:26:27,360 --> 00:26:28,360 2, 416 00:26:28,360 --> 00:26:29,360 1 417 00:26:29,360 --> 00:26:30,360 (explosion) 418 00:26:30,360 --> 00:26:32,360 Ho! 419 00:26:35,920 --> 00:26:37,920 It worked! 420 00:26:49,120 --> 00:26:51,120 Second, I said, "Okay, do you pay rent?" 421 00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:54,280 He's like, "Yeah..." 422 00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:57,280 I said, "Why?" 423 00:26:57,280 --> 00:26:59,280 He said, "Because, I don't own." 424 00:26:59,280 --> 00:27:01,840 I said, "No, no, no, what would happen if you didn't pay rent?" 425 00:27:01,840 --> 00:27:03,640 He said, "Well, the sheriff would come and evict me." 426 00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:05,760 I said, "I don't know what that means. What would happen? 427 00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:08,520 He said, "Well, the sheriff would come and he would knock on the door..." 428 00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:10,520 I said, "Okay, great, what happens if you open the door... 429 00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:15,400 ...and you say, 'Hey! I'm just finishing up making dinner. 430 00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:17,040 You want some?' 431 00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:20,080 And the sheriff sits down, you feed him you don't poison him 432 00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:25,040 And then, after dinner you say, 433 00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:28,880 you've been somewhat pleasant company, but not all that pleasant, 434 00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:31,240 so I would like for you to leave my home now.' What would happen? 435 00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:33,240 He said, "Well, the sheriff would pull out his gun and say, 436 00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:35,240 'I'm here to evict you, because you didn't pay rent.'" 437 00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:39,080 I said, "Ahh. So, the reason you pay rent is because if you don't, 438 00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:42,120 some guy with a gun is going to come take you away." 439 00:27:42,120 --> 00:27:44,880 He said, "I think I get it." 440 00:27:44,880 --> 00:27:46,160 I said, "Well, let's try again. 441 00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:48,720 What happens if you're hungry, so you go to the grocery store 442 00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:51,080 and you just start eating. What's going to happen?" 443 00:27:51,120 --> 00:27:52,160 "someone will call the sheriff." 444 00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:54,600 I said, "Yeah, it's the same guy who's going to come with a gun and take you away, 445 00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:56,200 he's a real asshole, isn't he?" So, one of the reasons 446 00:27:56,240 --> 00:27:58,240 we don't see a lot of the violence, is because it's exported. 447 00:27:58,240 --> 00:28:00,240 Another reason we don't see a lot of the violence is because 448 00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:02,280 we've been so metabolized into the system 449 00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:05,280 that we've bought into this strange notion that it's okay 450 00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:08,280 to have to pay to exist on the planet. 451 00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:10,320 That's really, really weird. 452 00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:12,320 And, if you don't pay, then some guy with a gun is going to come 453 00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:14,320 and bad things are going to happen to you. 454 00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:19,480 Figure II 455 00:28:28,840 --> 00:28:30,840 A few years a go, I got a call from a friend of mine. 456 00:28:30,840 --> 00:28:32,840 She's an environmental activist. 457 00:28:33,040 --> 00:28:35,040 She was crying, and she said, 458 00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:38,040 "This works just killing me, it's breaking my heart." 459 00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:40,920 I said, "Yeah, I know. It'll do that." 460 00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:44,160 Then she said, 461 00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:46,160 "The dominant culture hates everything doesn't it?" 462 00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:48,160 I said, "Yeah, it does. Even itself." 463 00:28:48,440 --> 00:28:51,440 She said, "It has a death urge, doesn't it?" I said, "Yeah, it does." 464 00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:53,440 She said, "Unless it's stopped, it's going to kill everything on the planet, isn't it?" 465 00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:55,480 I said, "Yeah it is, unless it's stopped." 466 00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:58,080 Then she said, "We're not going to make it 467 00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:00,080 to some great, new, glorious tomorrow, are we?" 468 00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:13,760 Green is the color of money 469 00:29:18,120 --> 00:29:21,360 - 98% of the old-growth forests are gone. 470 00:29:21,360 --> 00:29:24,360 99% of the prairies are gone. 471 00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:29,080 80% of the rivers on this planet do not support life anymore. 472 00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:31,080 We are out of species, we're out of soil, 473 00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:33,080 and we are out of time. 474 00:29:33,080 --> 00:29:35,080 And what we are being told 475 00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:37,080 by most of the environmental movement 476 00:29:37,080 --> 00:29:40,040 is that the way to stop all of this 477 00:29:40,040 --> 00:29:42,040 is through personal, consumer choices. 478 00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:44,640 - By simply purchasing our product, 479 00:29:44,640 --> 00:29:47,640 the consumer can make a small, easy step to a greener Earth. 480 00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:49,640 So, by taking that one roll, and buying 481 00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:52,160 that one roll, you can help save millions of trees. 482 00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:56,920 - I think we can really look at the history 483 00:29:56,960 --> 00:29:58,960 of the environmental movement to tell 484 00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:00,960 us a lot about why it hasn't been working. 485 00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:04,960 There was a lot of pretty radical and militant environmentalism 486 00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:07,960 happening, especially in the 70's and 80's. 487 00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:10,960 In a lot of ways, that was kind of a heyday for environmentalism. 488 00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:12,960 You know, Greenpeace was founded. 489 00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:16,960 It started to become very mainstream in some quarters to be an environmentalist. 490 00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:20,000 And then there was also a shift around that time when... 491 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:22,000 ...corporations realized that they could sell 492 00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:25,040 a lot of things by calling them "green". 493 00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:27,840 - Green-washing is an attempt by corporations to 494 00:30:27,840 --> 00:30:32,840 put labels on their activity that are popular 495 00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:34,840 and that appeal to people's sensibility about, 496 00:30:34,840 --> 00:30:38,320 and concern for, the environment and for ecology. 497 00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:43,520 - For the mast majority of people within society today, 498 00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:47,520 there's a total sense of denial and disconnect 499 00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:51,520 between what they think is good and right 500 00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:56,520 and then their actions as a society or as a civilization, 501 00:30:56,520 --> 00:30:59,520 especially as it relates to the natural world. 502 00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:07,280 - I have a real problem with a lot of the "solutions" that are put forward by people 503 00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:10,360 because they confuse what is real with what is not real. 504 00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:14,400 What they do is take the industrial economy as a given. 505 00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:19,600 "How can we save the industrial economy, and oh, it would be nice if we still have a planet." 506 00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:24,960 - It doesn't matter if I buy, 507 00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:28,040 hemp soap if there's a runaway greenhouse effect 508 00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:30,280 and the planet becomes uninhabitable. 509 00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:32,280 - The modern mainstream environmental movement of the 510 00:31:32,280 --> 00:31:34,280 big environmental organizations -- 511 00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:37,280 Greenpeace, and Sierra Club, and the others -- 512 00:31:37,320 --> 00:31:41,320 is rooted in that very same cultural lie 513 00:31:41,320 --> 00:31:44,320 that nature is resources. 514 00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:47,360 Nature is things to be used and managed. 515 00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:50,360 Nature is, as the philosopher 516 00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:53,360 Martin Heidegger put it, just a vast gasoline station 517 00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:57,680 that we can endlessly extract from. 518 00:31:57,680 --> 00:32:00,680 They may say we need to manage it more wisely, 519 00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:03,680 but as long as they maintain the mindset that 520 00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:06,680 we are the lords of creation and 521 00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:09,760 creation exists for us as resources to be transformed into commodities 522 00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:12,800 for us to buy and sell, as long as they maintain 523 00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:16,800 that perspective on what it means to be an environmentalist, 524 00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:19,880 then they're working within the same framework of 525 00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:24,920 an ultimately self-destructive path that the culture is on. 526 00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:29,800 In May 2010, 21 logging companies signed a deal with several major environmental 527 00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:33,800 organizations, including Greenpeace and the David Suzuki Foundation. 528 00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:37,800 The deal, known as "The Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement" aimed to silence all 529 00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:40,800 criticism of logging practices in the boreal forest. 530 00:32:40,840 --> 00:32:43,920 The Marketplace is also going to be very important 531 00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:46,920 Many cusomers have been pushing for change in the boreal forest. 532 00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:48,960 The Forest Product Association 533 00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:50,960 and its 21 member companies are 534 00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:53,960 responding to the demand for greener products, 535 00:32:53,960 --> 00:32:56,960 and that marketplace is going to pay close attention. 536 00:32:56,960 --> 00:32:59,960 If the change isn't happening, then they're going to put 537 00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:02,000 pressure on the parties who were part of the agreement -- 538 00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:05,000 the environmental organizations, the forest products companies -- 539 00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:08,000 to do the things that they've set out to do. 540 00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:11,000 And the will reward the companies 541 00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:13,000 when things begin to be implemented and 542 00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:15,960 the change happens on the ground. I'm fully confident of that. 543 00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:18,960 - One interesting piece of the agreement is 544 00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:22,960 with Greenpeace, David Suzuki, Forest Ethics, 545 00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:25,960 Canadian Parks and Wilderness on our side, 546 00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:28,960 when someone else comes and tries to bully us, 547 00:33:28,960 --> 00:33:31,960 the agreement actually requires that they come and 548 00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:35,000 work with us in repelling the attack and we'll be 549 00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:38,000 able to say, "Fight me, fight my gang." 550 00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:41,040 - I personally have no use for large, 551 00:33:41,040 --> 00:33:44,040 institutionalized environmental organizations; 552 00:33:44,080 --> 00:33:47,080 I think they're more of a problem than a help. 553 00:33:47,080 --> 00:33:49,080 They're just eco-bureaucracies. 554 00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:51,000 And, you know, I won't name any because I don't like to badmouth 555 00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:53,000 organizations, except for one, which I 556 00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:55,000 feel that I can, and that's Greenpeace. And the reason I 557 00:33:55,040 --> 00:33:59,040 can criticize Greenpeace is I am a co-creator of Greenpeace, 558 00:33:59,080 --> 00:34:03,080 and therefore I feel like Dr. Frankenstein sometimes, and I feel that since I helped 559 00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:05,080 create the thing I can certainly criticize it. 560 00:34:05,120 --> 00:34:07,120 And I think that Greenpeace has become 561 00:34:07,120 --> 00:34:10,120 the world's biggest feel-good organization now. People join it 562 00:34:10,120 --> 00:34:14,120 to feel good, to feel, "I'm part of the solution, I'm not part of the problem." 563 00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:17,120 Greenpeace brings in close to $300 million a year, 564 00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:19,120 and what do they do with that money? 565 00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:21,120 Generate more money. And the people who 566 00:34:21,120 --> 00:34:24,120 are at the top of the totem pole now are not environmentalists -- 567 00:34:24,120 --> 00:34:26,120 they're fundraisers, they're accountants, 568 00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:28,120 they're lawyers, they're businesspeople. 569 00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:30,960 People are voting with their dollars at the checkout stands. It's because 570 00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:34,000 they know the polling shows that the public cares, 571 00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:36,000 and ultimately they're going to care about their 572 00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:40,000 profit margin and whether they can sell products. 573 00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:43,160 What's happened in British Columbia with the 574 00:34:43,160 --> 00:34:47,160 environmental movement, it's been stalemated. 575 00:34:47,200 --> 00:34:52,920 The big leaders there compromised; 576 00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:55,400 they went in bed 577 00:34:55,400 --> 00:34:57,400 and it snuffed out that movement. 578 00:35:18,680 --> 00:35:20,680 - So what happened was there was direct action, there were blockades 579 00:35:20,720 --> 00:35:22,720 there was an international market campaign 580 00:35:22,720 --> 00:35:24,720 that put a lot of pressure on the companies 581 00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:26,760 that were logging in the Great Bear Rainforest. 582 00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:28,760 But the end result was that it all fed into 583 00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:31,800 a closed-door negotiation with 584 00:35:31,800 --> 00:35:34,800 Tzeporah Berman as chief negotiator 585 00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:37,800 on the conservationists' side, where a lot of the groups 586 00:35:37,840 --> 00:35:40,840 that actually did the work, the direct actions, 587 00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:43,840 and did the market campaigns were shut out of the process. 588 00:35:43,840 --> 00:35:46,840 Public oversight was removed and the protocol agreements 589 00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:49,880 that were signed with First Nations and with conservation groups 590 00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:51,880 were basically shunted aside. 591 00:35:51,880 --> 00:35:54,880 So the protocol agreements gave 592 00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:56,880 the negotiators a mandate to 593 00:35:56,880 --> 00:35:59,880 negotiate for 40 to 60 percent conservation 594 00:35:59,880 --> 00:36:03,480 but what happened was they agreed to 20 percent. 595 00:36:03,480 --> 00:36:05,480 - It's not strange to me when people tell me that 596 00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:07,520 the former president of Greenpeace 597 00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:09,520 now works for the logging industry of Canada. 598 00:36:09,560 --> 00:36:11,560 The former president of Greenpeace Australia 599 00:36:11,560 --> 00:36:13,560 now works for the mining industry. The former 600 00:36:13,720 --> 00:36:15,720 president of Greenpeace Norway works for the 601 00:36:15,720 --> 00:36:19,720 whaling industry. See, because it's just one corporate job to the next. 602 00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:24,840 In 1975 Greenpeace launched its anti-whaling campaign, 603 00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:28,880 confronting whaling fleets on the high seas. 604 00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:34,640 In June 2010, Greenpeace agreed to a deal that would allow 605 00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:39,440 nations like Japan to continue hunting whales for commercial purposes. 606 00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:46,160 The only measure in which we'll be judged by those 607 00:36:46,160 --> 00:36:48,800 come after is the health of the land and 608 00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:50,800 the health of the water, the health of the Earth. 609 00:36:50,840 --> 00:36:53,840 They're not going to give a shit as to whether we recycled; 610 00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:56,840 they're not going to give a shit as to whether we wrote our legislators; 611 00:36:56,840 --> 00:36:59,360 they're not going to give a shit as to how hard we tried. 612 00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:02,360 What they're going to care about is whether they can breathe the air and drink the water, 613 00:37:02,360 --> 00:37:04,360 whether the land will support them. 614 00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:06,360 And they're not going to care how hard we tried, 615 00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:09,360 they're not going to care about any of that -- what they're going to care about is... 616 00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:12,960 ...do we live on a living planet? 617 00:37:18,920 --> 00:37:24,800 Figure III 618 00:37:29,240 --> 00:37:31,240 OK, so... 619 00:37:38,320 --> 00:37:42,320 ... I don't know if you know this, but 620 00:37:42,360 --> 00:37:46,360 the original draft of the movie Star Wars was not 621 00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:49,040 written by Lucas. 622 00:37:49,040 --> 00:37:52,080 The original draft was written by environmentalists 623 00:37:52,120 --> 00:37:54,800 and it's a little bit different. 624 00:38:01,200 --> 00:38:03,040 For one thing, it wasn't actually called "Star WARS". 625 00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:08,000 It was called "Star Non-Violent Civil Disobedience". 626 00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:11,000 But the plot of Star Wars, for those of you who don't remember, is that 627 00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:15,000 the Empire has created this giant machine called the Death Star. 628 00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:19,000 And it's a machine that's capable of destroying entire planets. 629 00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:23,000 In the movie the rebels find a way to destroy the Death Star, 630 00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:25,000 and then at the very end, Luke Skywalker 631 00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:27,040 uses the force to get past all the 632 00:38:27,040 --> 00:38:30,040 tie fighters and to drop a torpedo down a thermal exhaust port, 633 00:38:30,040 --> 00:38:33,320 and to blow up the Death Star. 634 00:38:35,120 --> 00:38:37,120 Once again, the first draft of the movie written by 635 00:38:37,160 --> 00:38:39,160 environmentalists was a bit different: the rebels 636 00:38:39,160 --> 00:38:43,160 didn't actually blow up the Death Star. Instead they used 637 00:38:43,160 --> 00:38:47,160 other methods to slow the intergalactic march of empire. 638 00:38:47,160 --> 00:38:51,160 For example, they set up programs for people on planets about to be destroyed, 639 00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:54,200 to produce luxury items like hemp hacky sacks and gourmet coffee 640 00:38:54,200 --> 00:38:56,200 for sale to inhabitants of the Death Star. 641 00:38:56,200 --> 00:38:58,200 Audience members will also discover that there are plans afoot 642 00:38:58,200 --> 00:39:00,200 to encourage loads of troopers and other citizens of the empire 643 00:39:00,240 --> 00:39:02,240 to take eco-tours of doomed planets. 644 00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:05,360 The purpose will be to show to one and all that these planets are economically important 645 00:39:05,360 --> 00:39:07,360 to the Empire and so should not be destroyed. 646 00:39:07,360 --> 00:39:11,360 In a surprise move that will get viewers to the edges of their seats, 647 00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:13,400 other groups of rebels will file lawsuits against the Empire, 648 00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:16,440 attempting to show that the Environmental Impact Statement that Darth Vader 649 00:39:16,440 --> 00:39:19,440 was required to file, failed to adequately support its decision 650 00:39:19,440 --> 00:39:22,440 that blowing up this planet would cause "no significant impact". 651 00:39:22,480 --> 00:39:24,480 Viewers will thrill to learn of plans to boycott items produced 652 00:39:24,480 --> 00:39:26,480 by corporations that have Darth Vader on the board of directors, 653 00:39:26,520 --> 00:39:28,520 and they'll leap to their feet in theaters worldwide 654 00:39:28,560 --> 00:39:32,560 when they see bags full of letters written directly to Mr. Vader himself 655 00:39:32,600 --> 00:39:34,600 asking that he please not blow up anymore planets. 656 00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:37,600 Now, we all know that all would be enough not only to 657 00:39:37,600 --> 00:39:40,600 bring the Empire to its knees, but to make a damn fine and exciting movie. 658 00:39:40,600 --> 00:39:42,600 The thing is: there's more. 659 00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:45,600 Thousands of renegade rebels, unhappy with what 660 00:39:45,600 --> 00:39:48,600 they perceive as toadying on the part of the mainstream rebels 661 00:39:48,600 --> 00:39:51,600 decide, in a scene guaranteed to bring tears to even the eyes 662 00:39:51,640 --> 00:39:53,640 of the most cold-hearted theatergoers, to stand on 663 00:39:53,640 --> 00:39:57,640 the planets to be destroyed, link arms, and sing "Give Peace a Chance." 664 00:39:57,800 --> 00:40:00,800 They send DVDs of that to Darth Vader and his 665 00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:02,800 boss the Grand Moff Tarkin, to whom they 666 00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:04,800 also send wave after wave of loving kindness. 667 00:40:04,840 --> 00:40:06,840 A the few rebels sneak aboard the Death Star and lock themselves 668 00:40:06,840 --> 00:40:08,840 down to various pieces of equipment. And stirring debates 669 00:40:08,880 --> 00:40:11,880 are held onscreen as to whether the rebels should 670 00:40:11,880 --> 00:40:13,880 voluntarily surrender on approach of the troopers, or whether 671 00:40:13,880 --> 00:40:15,880 they should remain locked down to the end. 672 00:40:17,080 --> 00:40:20,080 And in a brilliant and brave touch of authenticity, 673 00:40:20,080 --> 00:40:23,080 the rebels are never able to come to consensus. 674 00:40:23,080 --> 00:40:26,080 But there's more. Once inside the Death Star, a splinter group breaks off, 675 00:40:26,120 --> 00:40:30,160 they burn a couple of transporters, and they etch "Galaxy Liberation Front". 676 00:40:30,160 --> 00:40:33,160 And then another group breaks off from that group and they 677 00:40:33,160 --> 00:40:36,160 finally make it to Darth Vader's private room. And when 678 00:40:36,160 --> 00:40:38,160 they get there, they sneak up behind him 679 00:40:38,160 --> 00:40:40,160 and then they hit him with a vegan cream pie. 680 00:40:40,160 --> 00:40:43,160 And the directors decided to cut that because 681 00:40:43,160 --> 00:40:45,160 it was way too close to 682 00:40:45,160 --> 00:40:47,160 a scene in another movie they were developing at the same time 683 00:40:47,160 --> 00:40:49,160 called "The Plot to Pie Hitler". 684 00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:51,000 As the Death Star looms directly overhead, a few of the rebels 685 00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:54,120 advocate picking up weapons to fight back. 686 00:40:54,120 --> 00:40:56,120 And those rebels are generally shouted down by 687 00:40:56,120 --> 00:40:58,120 pacifist rebels who argue that attacking 688 00:40:58,240 --> 00:41:00,240 those who run the Death Star is "just another 689 00:41:00,360 --> 00:41:02,360 example of the Empire's harmful philosophy 690 00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:04,400 coming in by the back door.' 691 00:41:04,440 --> 00:41:06,440 "If we want to change Darth Vader," they say, 692 00:41:06,440 --> 00:41:08,440 "we must all first become that change ourselves. 693 00:41:08,480 --> 00:41:10,480 To change Darth Vader's heart, we must first change our own. 694 00:41:10,480 --> 00:41:13,480 We must, above all else, have compassion for 695 00:41:13,480 --> 00:41:17,080 Darth Vader, and remember that he, too, was once a child." 696 00:41:17,080 --> 00:41:20,080 So finally Leia, Luke, Han, Chewbacca, and a couple of robots show up 697 00:41:20,080 --> 00:41:23,080 and tell these others they've found a way to blow up the whole Death Star. 698 00:41:23,080 --> 00:41:25,080 And the rest of the rebels, of course, are just horrified. 699 00:41:25,080 --> 00:41:28,080 A scuffle breaks out between Leia, Luke, Han, and Chewbacca and the two 700 00:41:28,080 --> 00:41:30,080 robots on one side and the pacifists on the other. 701 00:41:30,080 --> 00:41:32,080 And the pacifists chase those four from the room and from the film 702 00:41:32,080 --> 00:41:34,080 which is not a big deal because they are minor characters anyway. 703 00:41:34,120 --> 00:41:36,120 But anyway, the way the movie ends is that 704 00:41:36,120 --> 00:41:38,120 the Death Star looms closer and closer and then you see 705 00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:40,160 the Death Star, and then you see the planet, 706 00:41:40,160 --> 00:41:42,160 and then you see the Death Star, and then you see the planet, 707 00:41:42,200 --> 00:41:45,200 and then you see the Death Star and you see the laser start to glow 708 00:41:45,200 --> 00:41:47,200 this hellish red, and then you see the planet again, 709 00:41:47,200 --> 00:41:49,200 and you see this little light -- 710 00:41:49,240 --> 00:41:52,240 and what that is: that's the environmentalists getting away before the planet gets blown up. 711 00:41:52,240 --> 00:41:54,240 And then you see the Death Star again and then it 712 00:41:54,240 --> 00:41:56,240 blows up the planet, and then, the final 713 00:41:56,240 --> 00:41:59,240 shot of the movie, which reveals what complete triumph this was for the 714 00:41:59,240 --> 00:42:01,400 rebels, is a still showing an 715 00:42:01,400 --> 00:42:04,240 article on the lower left of page 43 of the New Empire Times 716 00:42:04,240 --> 00:42:07,240 that devotes a full 3 sentences to the destruction of the planet. 717 00:42:07,240 --> 00:42:09,240 So it's like, "Yeah we got some press!" 718 00:42:10,800 --> 00:42:15,800 Premise IV 719 00:42:19,120 --> 00:42:22,120 The culture as a whole and 720 00:42:22,120 --> 00:42:28,400 most of its members are insane. 721 00:42:30,080 --> 00:42:33,080 The culture is driven by a death urge, 722 00:42:33,080 --> 00:42:38,080 an urge to destroy life. 723 00:43:01,160 --> 00:43:04,000 - The public really needs to understand that no combination 724 00:43:04,040 --> 00:43:09,040 of alternative miracle fuels, or biodiesel, or ethanol, 725 00:43:09,040 --> 00:43:14,040 or nuclear, or sun, or solar, or used french fry potato oil, 726 00:43:14,040 --> 00:43:19,040 no combination of these things is going to allow us to keep a happy, motoring society going. 727 00:43:19,560 --> 00:43:23,560 - We are using up all the very easily accessed energy sources: 728 00:43:23,600 --> 00:43:27,600 and we've really built this huge way of life based on cheap oil, essentially. 729 00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:34,000 - The world as we know it, which relies entirely on oil to function, 730 00:43:34,040 --> 00:43:37,000 is nearing its end. 731 00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:42,120 - We are headed for the crash. That oil is not going to come again. 732 00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:09,480 Fort McMurray Alberta, Canada 733 00:44:15,520 --> 00:44:18,520 - The tar sands are probably one of the biggest industrial 734 00:44:18,520 --> 00:44:21,200 projects in the history of mankind. 735 00:44:22,360 --> 00:44:24,360 - The tar sands are the largest, 736 00:44:24,480 --> 00:44:27,480 most destructive environmental project on the planet right now. 737 00:44:29,600 --> 00:44:31,600 - It's oil extraction, 738 00:44:31,600 --> 00:44:34,600 it's some of the dirtiest oil on the planet, 739 00:44:34,600 --> 00:44:37,600 which means that it takes the most energy to extract, 740 00:44:37,600 --> 00:44:41,600 and the reason that we're extracting this 741 00:44:41,600 --> 00:44:43,600 this particular brand of dirty, dirty, oil 742 00:44:43,640 --> 00:44:46,600 is because there's no other oil left to extract. 743 00:44:47,040 --> 00:44:49,040 - Tar sands really aren't oil. 744 00:44:49,080 --> 00:44:51,080 Effectively, the process by which you 745 00:44:51,080 --> 00:44:53,080 mine and refine tar sands 746 00:44:53,120 --> 00:44:56,120 is adding about a hundred million years of development 747 00:44:56,120 --> 00:44:58,120 through a synthetic process. 748 00:44:58,120 --> 00:45:00,120 The tar sands deposit is an area that covers 749 00:45:00,120 --> 00:45:03,120 the size of the state of New York, or larger than England 750 00:45:03,120 --> 00:45:05,120 is already considered the largest industrial project 751 00:45:05,120 --> 00:45:07,120 in human history, and it's barely begun. 752 00:45:08,840 --> 00:45:11,840 - They extract it from the sand by 753 00:45:11,840 --> 00:45:15,120 steaming and heating water, basically boiling it... 754 00:45:15,120 --> 00:45:19,920 ...so the oil sits on top of the water like a froth, 755 00:45:19,920 --> 00:45:22,920 then they scrape it off, and that's the bitumen. 756 00:45:24,080 --> 00:45:28,080 - There's mining processes and in situ processes, 757 00:45:28,120 --> 00:45:30,120 and both of them are pretty much trying to extract 758 00:45:30,120 --> 00:45:32,120 bitumen out of the sand. 759 00:45:33,120 --> 00:45:36,120 - To produce one barrel of oil 760 00:45:36,120 --> 00:45:38,120 you have to first, after you've cleared off the ground 761 00:45:38,120 --> 00:45:40,120 and broken all the trees down and so forth, then dig a pit, 762 00:45:40,120 --> 00:45:43,120 which can be up to two hundred feet deep. 763 00:45:43,120 --> 00:45:45,120 For each barrel of oil, there's four barrels of water used, 764 00:45:45,120 --> 00:45:47,120 in a process called a slurry 765 00:45:47,160 --> 00:45:49,160 where you spin it at a high speed, 766 00:45:49,160 --> 00:45:51,160 high velocity, with high temperatures of water, 767 00:45:51,000 --> 00:45:54,000 to separate the bitumen, which is the pre-synthetic oil, 768 00:45:54,000 --> 00:45:57,000 from the sands itself, and all the clays and silts. 769 00:45:57,000 --> 00:45:59,000 But that's after you've already dug out what has to be 770 00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:01,160 to be hundreds of tons of Earth. 771 00:46:02,800 --> 00:46:06,800 - The energy that's required to actually do that is approximately, 772 00:46:06,840 --> 00:46:08,840 people say for almost every barrel of oil you need 773 00:46:08,880 --> 00:46:11,880 about a half a barrel of energy just to produce this, 774 00:46:11,880 --> 00:46:13,880 so for every barrel of energy input, 775 00:46:13,880 --> 00:46:15,880 two barrels of oil are produced, 776 00:46:15,880 --> 00:46:17,880 whereas with conventional crude it was very, 777 00:46:17,920 --> 00:46:19,920 very minor in terms of the energy 778 00:46:19,920 --> 00:46:22,920 that's inputted to actually get the crude oil out. 779 00:46:22,920 --> 00:46:25,920 So the ratio that's most important to talk about is a ratio you could use 780 00:46:25,920 --> 00:46:29,920 in a country like Iraq, where for each barrel of oil you use to try to 781 00:46:29,920 --> 00:46:34,080 get more oil you'll get about a hundred barrels back. 782 00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:43,000 Fort Chipewyan Alberta, Canada 783 00:46:53,360 --> 00:46:56,240 - The Athabasca River, which runs through northern Alberta, 784 00:46:56,240 --> 00:47:00,240 where you have many different native communities living along the river, 785 00:47:00,280 --> 00:47:05,280 is being sucked of its water to fuel the tar sands operations. 786 00:47:06,840 --> 00:47:09,840 - Because of the contamination of the river 787 00:47:09,840 --> 00:47:12,840 from oil sands discharges 788 00:47:12,840 --> 00:47:15,840 of things like oil and grease and 789 00:47:15,840 --> 00:47:18,360 untreated sewage into the Athabasca River, 790 00:47:18,360 --> 00:47:20,360 and sometimes there's accidents, 791 00:47:20,360 --> 00:47:22,360 spills of these toxic chemicals 792 00:47:22,400 --> 00:47:25,040 directly into the Athabasca Rivers. 793 00:47:26,960 --> 00:47:28,960 - The community of Fort Chipewyan, both the Mikisew Cree 794 00:47:29,000 --> 00:47:32,000 and the Dene Chipewyan First Nation, 795 00:47:32,000 --> 00:47:34,000 who have been fighting and really at the front 796 00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:36,000 of raising the alarm about what's happening, 797 00:47:36,000 --> 00:47:39,000 and their community has been seeing all of this 798 00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:43,040 rise in rare cancers, autoimmune diseases, 799 00:47:43,040 --> 00:47:47,040 arsenic in the land, the moose meat, the fish 800 00:47:47,080 --> 00:47:50,080 are at high levels of heavy metals, mercuries, 801 00:47:50,080 --> 00:47:53,800 basically the whole environment up there is contaminated. 802 00:47:55,720 --> 00:47:57,720 - How this is effecting my community is that 803 00:47:57,720 --> 00:48:00,880 it's killing off the people of Fort Chipewyan. 804 00:48:00,920 --> 00:48:04,760 It's what I've called before "a slow, industrial genocide." 805 00:48:04,760 --> 00:48:06,760 I buried my auntie, 806 00:48:06,760 --> 00:48:09,760 I buried my uncle, I got an auntie living with it. 807 00:48:09,760 --> 00:48:12,760 And this is a war for our lives, 808 00:48:12,760 --> 00:48:14,760 because the government is allowing 809 00:48:14,760 --> 00:48:17,760 the people of Fort Chip to die. 810 00:48:17,760 --> 00:48:19,760 - The tar sands are not only fueling 811 00:48:19,760 --> 00:48:23,800 the second fastest rate of deforestation 812 00:48:23,800 --> 00:48:25,800 in the world outside of the Amazon River basin, 813 00:48:25,800 --> 00:48:27,800 they're already the second fastest 814 00:48:27,840 --> 00:48:30,480 contributor to climate change in North America. 815 00:48:30,480 --> 00:48:33,480 And with the goals of production that they're talking about, the CO2 emissions 816 00:48:33,480 --> 00:48:35,480 will make it so the only way 817 00:48:35,480 --> 00:48:38,480 you could outstrip a climate change contributor 818 00:48:38,480 --> 00:48:40,480 for North America would be to combine all 819 00:48:40,520 --> 00:48:42,520 the coal-fired power plants from 820 00:48:42,520 --> 00:48:45,520 Alberta to Arizona and in between, across all of North America. 821 00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:49,000 - I think that the tar sands is the absurdity 822 00:48:49,000 --> 00:48:52,000 of still desiring oil 823 00:48:52,000 --> 00:48:54,000 when we know so well 824 00:48:54,000 --> 00:48:56,000 that, for example, fresh water is just 825 00:48:56,040 --> 00:48:58,040 an elemental part of human existence 826 00:48:58,040 --> 00:49:00,000 and they're running full force towards 827 00:49:00,000 --> 00:49:03,040 extracting these last little bits of oil 828 00:49:03,040 --> 00:49:05,040 to sustain this plastic culture, 829 00:49:05,080 --> 00:49:07,080 this plastic civilization, 830 00:49:07,120 --> 00:49:10,400 to the destruction of the environment in which we can live. 831 00:49:11,560 --> 00:49:13,560 - People say it's like the world's addicted to crack, 832 00:49:13,600 --> 00:49:17,600 and this is like the dirtiest and most disgusting form of crack 833 00:49:17,640 --> 00:49:19,640 that'll keep it addicted for a lot longer, right. 834 00:49:19,680 --> 00:49:21,680 This is actually what it is. 835 00:49:21,680 --> 00:49:25,000 It is the most insane thing that people are doing. 836 00:49:31,040 --> 00:49:33,040 - We probably agree that civilization's 837 00:49:33,080 --> 00:49:36,360 going to crash, whether or not we help bring this about. 838 00:49:36,360 --> 00:49:39,360 If you don't agree with this, we probably have nothing to say to each other. 839 00:49:39,360 --> 00:49:42,080 We probably also agree that this crash will be messy. 840 00:49:42,120 --> 00:49:46,680 We agree further that since industrial civilization is systematically dismantling 841 00:49:46,680 --> 00:49:49,040 the ecological infrastructure of the planet... 842 00:49:49,040 --> 00:49:52,040 ...the sooner civilization comes down, whether or not we help it crash, 843 00:49:52,040 --> 00:49:55,040 the more life will remain afterwards to support both humans and nonhumans. 844 00:49:57,440 --> 00:50:02,440 Figure IV 845 00:50:06,280 --> 00:50:09,280 - The genesis of Endgame, the book, 846 00:50:09,280 --> 00:50:12,040 was really because I did some talks 847 00:50:12,040 --> 00:50:15,040 around the possibility of fighting back. 848 00:50:15,040 --> 00:50:18,040 And the response by the audience was really predictable. 849 00:50:18,080 --> 00:50:21,080 If it was an audience made up of sort of mainstream environmentalists 850 00:50:21,080 --> 00:50:23,080 and peace and social justice activists, 851 00:50:23,080 --> 00:50:27,080 often, they would put up what I've taken to calling a "Gandhi shield". 852 00:50:27,080 --> 00:50:30,080 Which is, they would say the names "Martin Luther King", "Dalai Lama", and "Gandhi" 853 00:50:30,120 --> 00:50:33,120 again and again, as fast as they can, to keep all evil thoughts at bay. 854 00:50:34,480 --> 00:50:37,480 And if it was grassroots environmentalists, 855 00:50:37,480 --> 00:50:39,480 they would do the same thing but then they would come 856 00:50:39,480 --> 00:50:41,480 up to me afterwards and they would say, 857 00:50:41,480 --> 00:50:44,160 WHISPERING "Thank you so much for bringing this up." 858 00:50:44,160 --> 00:50:47,760 Pacifying Resistance 859 00:50:49,040 --> 00:50:52,040 - Especially in North America, the pacifists and non-violent 860 00:50:52,040 --> 00:50:56,040 advocates have had a very defining role, 861 00:50:56,080 --> 00:50:58,080 and even a censoring role, in determining 862 00:50:58,120 --> 00:51:00,280 what other people's participation can be 863 00:51:00,280 --> 00:51:04,120 in a whole range of social struggles, and 864 00:51:04,160 --> 00:51:07,160 that the way that they've affected social struggles 865 00:51:07,160 --> 00:51:10,160 has made it very much easier for the state 866 00:51:10,160 --> 00:51:12,160 to control those social struggles, 867 00:51:12,160 --> 00:51:15,160 that non-violence plays a function 868 00:51:15,160 --> 00:51:17,160 of recuperating social struggles, 869 00:51:17,160 --> 00:51:20,160 of taking out their teeth and making them harmless, 870 00:51:20,160 --> 00:51:25,160 so that they can just exist in this cesspool of democratic plurality. 871 00:51:27,360 --> 00:51:30,360 - I wonder, what happens to that kind of energy or 872 00:51:30,360 --> 00:51:34,360 idealism or faith that something is about to change 873 00:51:34,400 --> 00:51:37,400 when it's certainly not going to change at all? 874 00:51:39,040 --> 00:51:41,040 - What are the false hopes that keep us tied to the system? 875 00:51:41,080 --> 00:51:43,080 What are the false hopes that bind us to 876 00:51:43,120 --> 00:51:46,120 unlivable situations and blind us to real possibilities? 877 00:51:46,120 --> 00:51:49,120 Does anybody really think that Weyerhauser's going to stop, 878 00:51:49,160 --> 00:51:51,200 deforesting because we asked nicely 879 00:51:51,200 --> 00:51:54,200 that Monsanto will stop Monsantoing because we ask nicely? 880 00:51:54,200 --> 00:51:56,200 I was talking to this person in the States several years ago and they said, 881 00:51:56,200 --> 00:51:59,200 "If we can just get a Democrat in the White House, things are going to be OK." 882 00:52:00,560 --> 00:52:02,560 - We've got a couple of myths on the left that I would 883 00:52:02,600 --> 00:52:05,680 REALLY encourage us to get over. 884 00:52:05,680 --> 00:52:09,080 The first is that social change happens by moral suasion. 885 00:52:09,080 --> 00:52:12,040 It doesn't. It happens by force. 886 00:52:13,560 --> 00:52:16,560 - The problem with persuasion as a strategy is that 887 00:52:16,560 --> 00:52:19,560 it only works on people who can actually 888 00:52:19,600 --> 00:52:22,600 be convinced, and who can be 889 00:52:22,600 --> 00:52:24,600 relied upon to act from their position 890 00:52:24,600 --> 00:52:26,600 after their minds have been changed. 891 00:52:26,640 --> 00:52:29,640 And the problem is that we're not dealing with 892 00:52:29,640 --> 00:52:31,640 individuals who can be convinced or persuaded, 893 00:52:31,640 --> 00:52:34,640 we're dealing mostly with large, 894 00:52:34,640 --> 00:52:38,640 abstract, social organizations, and corporations which are 895 00:52:38,640 --> 00:52:42,640 basically sociopaths made out of huge numbers of people. 896 00:52:44,600 --> 00:52:47,600 - You can't argue with psychopaths, you can't argue with fascists, 897 00:52:47,600 --> 00:52:50,160 and you can't argue with those 898 00:52:50,160 --> 00:52:54,160 who are benefiting from an economic system. 899 00:52:54,000 --> 00:52:56,000 You have to stop them through some form of force, 900 00:52:56,000 --> 00:52:58,360 and that force can be violent or nonviolent. 901 00:52:58,360 --> 00:53:01,120 Could you have stopped Ted Bundy by peaceful means? 902 00:53:03,760 --> 00:53:06,760 - The Left, to a large extent subconsciously, 903 00:53:06,760 --> 00:53:08,760 has as its primary role 904 00:53:08,760 --> 00:53:11,840 to make resistance harmless. 905 00:53:11,840 --> 00:53:14,640 States have recognized that 906 00:53:14,640 --> 00:53:17,640 resistance will never disappear, that struggles will never disappear 907 00:53:17,640 --> 00:53:21,000 and in the past they tried suppressing struggles 908 00:53:21,000 --> 00:53:24,520 the first time that they showed their heads, that there was 909 00:53:24,520 --> 00:53:26,520 any sign of them, and that proved ineffective. 910 00:53:26,560 --> 00:53:29,560 So nowadays that way that states rule is by 911 00:53:29,560 --> 00:53:32,560 accepting the inevitability of conflict and resistance, 912 00:53:32,600 --> 00:53:35,600 and just trying to manage it permanently. 913 00:53:35,600 --> 00:53:38,600 "Keep the march going, there's nothing happening here! 914 00:53:38,600 --> 00:53:41,600 There's nothing happening, just one more line of police, 915 00:53:41,640 --> 00:53:44,640 so please keep the march going!" 916 00:53:45,680 --> 00:53:48,680 - Social movements in North America are locked 917 00:53:48,680 --> 00:53:52,680 into this pacifist doctrine that is imposed by 918 00:53:52,720 --> 00:53:54,720 the middle class reformists 919 00:53:54,720 --> 00:53:57,720 who want to control the movement and dictate 920 00:53:57,720 --> 00:54:00,600 how it conducts itself. 921 00:54:03,680 --> 00:54:06,680 - Advocates of nonviolence frequently say that nonviolence 922 00:54:06,680 --> 00:54:08,680 works, and the principal examples that they use of that 923 00:54:08,680 --> 00:54:11,680 are Gandhi in India and Martin Luther King in the U.S. 924 00:54:11,680 --> 00:54:14,680 The problem with that is, this constitutes a really great 925 00:54:14,680 --> 00:54:18,680 historical whitewashing, that in fact the resistance in 926 00:54:18,680 --> 00:54:20,680 India was incredibly diverse, and Gandhi was 927 00:54:20,720 --> 00:54:22,720 a very important figure within that resistance, 928 00:54:22,720 --> 00:54:27,320 but the resistance was by no means pacifist in its entirety. 929 00:54:28,280 --> 00:54:31,280 - Gandhi gets used as a way to shut down conversation. 930 00:54:32,920 --> 00:54:35,920 - Especially in the West, Gandhi is used as a way 931 00:54:35,920 --> 00:54:37,920 to quell any ideas of 932 00:54:37,920 --> 00:54:40,920 either direct action or what's perceived as violence or, 933 00:54:40,920 --> 00:54:42,920 sort of, you know, resistance that 934 00:54:42,960 --> 00:54:45,960 goes beyond what is seen as a sort of a 935 00:54:45,960 --> 00:54:49,960 pacifist or a peaceful means of resistance. 936 00:54:49,960 --> 00:54:52,960 - For years, I really bought into the whole 937 00:54:52,960 --> 00:54:55,960 Gandhian myth that is really sort of 938 00:54:55,960 --> 00:55:00,120 forced down the throats of activists in the United States, 939 00:55:00,120 --> 00:55:02,960 and the people who disabused me of that myth were 940 00:55:02,960 --> 00:55:04,960 when I first actually met some people from India. 941 00:55:04,960 --> 00:55:07,960 The people I talked to certainly didn't deify him, 942 00:55:07,960 --> 00:55:10,960 and many of them despised him. 943 00:55:10,960 --> 00:55:13,960 And they felt he was a collaborator and he was somebody 944 00:55:14,000 --> 00:55:16,000 whom the British could work with. 945 00:55:19,640 --> 00:55:21,640 - Gandhi's very well known in the West, 946 00:55:21,680 --> 00:55:24,680 but when you go to India, there's a freedom fighter and revolutionary 947 00:55:24,680 --> 00:55:26,680 leader called Bhagat Singh, 948 00:55:26,680 --> 00:55:30,680 who's in India probably almost as well known as Gandhi 949 00:55:30,720 --> 00:55:32,720 as a part of 950 00:55:32,760 --> 00:55:35,760 the independence movement and a leader in the independence movement. 951 00:55:35,760 --> 00:55:39,760 But in the West, most people probably have never heard his name. 952 00:55:39,760 --> 00:55:42,760 And the reason why that is, is that he used 953 00:55:42,760 --> 00:55:44,760 direct action tactics. 954 00:55:44,760 --> 00:55:47,760 There were generals of the British army that were killed; 955 00:55:47,760 --> 00:55:50,760 there was a bomb thrown in a British assembly to 956 00:55:50,760 --> 00:55:53,760 basically attract the attention of the public; 957 00:55:53,760 --> 00:55:57,760 there were weapons that people were getting off of railway cars. 958 00:56:00,960 --> 00:56:02,960 - With Gandhi and the Indian National Congress, 959 00:56:02,960 --> 00:56:05,960 where you had the moderates and the extremists, 960 00:56:05,960 --> 00:56:08,960 the moderates were legal; constitutional reform 961 00:56:08,960 --> 00:56:10,960 was their only method, 962 00:56:10,960 --> 00:56:14,960 and they were criticized for being a middle class clique, 963 00:56:15,000 --> 00:56:19,000 for being too slow, for being too legalistic, 964 00:56:19,040 --> 00:56:21,040 and for being basically ineffective. 965 00:56:21,040 --> 00:56:24,040 The extremists, on the other hand, were accused of being 966 00:56:24,040 --> 00:56:28,040 too aggressive, of being too fast and reckless and irresponsible. 967 00:56:29,360 --> 00:56:32,360 - Gandhi basically got negotiating power 968 00:56:32,360 --> 00:56:36,360 from the fact that there were other elements in the struggle 969 00:56:36,400 --> 00:56:39,400 which were even more threatening to British dominance. 970 00:56:39,400 --> 00:56:42,400 So the British specifically chose to dialogue with 971 00:56:42,440 --> 00:56:45,440 Gandhi because he was, perhaps for them, the least 972 00:56:45,440 --> 00:56:48,440 threatening of the important elements of resistance. 973 00:56:48,440 --> 00:56:52,440 - Gandhi came in as being the middleman. 974 00:56:52,440 --> 00:56:55,440 His theory of nonviolent, passive resistance 975 00:56:55,440 --> 00:56:59,440 seemed to be a bridge between the extremists and the moderates. 976 00:56:59,480 --> 00:57:02,320 - The British were bled white after WWII, 977 00:57:02,360 --> 00:57:05,360 and didn't have the morale left anymore for 978 00:57:05,360 --> 00:57:08,360 a big fight, and they helped choose somebody 979 00:57:08,400 --> 00:57:10,400 that they could work with. 980 00:57:10,440 --> 00:57:14,480 They knew a revolution was coming and they wanted to blunt it as much as they could. 981 00:57:14,480 --> 00:57:17,480 - India went from being a colony to a neocolony. 982 00:57:17,480 --> 00:57:20,480 The British were still able to maintain their interests, less directly, 983 00:57:20,480 --> 00:57:26,160 with Indians being in positions of management. 984 00:57:31,080 --> 00:57:33,080 - My problem isn't with 985 00:57:33,120 --> 00:57:37,120 somebody doing nonviolent actions, it never has been. 986 00:57:37,160 --> 00:57:39,160 I mean, I say all the time that we need it all. 987 00:57:39,160 --> 00:57:42,160 My problem is that 988 00:57:42,160 --> 00:57:46,160 so many pacifists, especially in the United States, 989 00:57:46,200 --> 00:57:50,200 end up not supporting 990 00:57:50,240 --> 00:57:52,240 more radical or militant work. 991 00:57:53,520 --> 00:57:56,520 - The problem when this debate comes up is that 992 00:57:56,520 --> 00:58:00,520 you can't just assume that people that are 993 00:58:00,560 --> 00:58:03,560 resisting and are using a means of resistance 994 00:58:03,560 --> 00:58:06,560 haven't thought about what they're doing. And that's what 995 00:58:06,560 --> 00:58:08,560 I think is often the problem. When people 996 00:58:08,560 --> 00:58:11,560 decide to take certain actions and when people decide 997 00:58:11,560 --> 00:58:13,560 that, "Hey, you know, our marches aren't enough," 998 00:58:13,560 --> 00:58:15,560 or they're doing this or doing that, 999 00:58:15,560 --> 00:58:17,560 there's this assumption by a lot of people that 1000 00:58:17,560 --> 00:58:21,560 want to toe the Gandhi line that, "Oh, they're just not thinking about it." 1001 00:58:22,800 --> 00:58:25,800 - What most states will choose to do in similar circumstances 1002 00:58:25,800 --> 00:58:28,800 is to find the elements of the resistance 1003 00:58:28,800 --> 00:58:31,800 that are most easy to control and most easy to co-opt, 1004 00:58:31,840 --> 00:58:35,840 to negotiate with them, and then to hand over power to THEM in order 1005 00:58:35,880 --> 00:58:39,200 to continue the system that had already existed. 1006 00:58:41,520 --> 00:58:43,520 - So again, you have the state doing the same thing it did 1007 00:58:43,560 --> 00:58:46,560 with Gandhi and Martin Luther King it does with, for example, 1008 00:58:46,560 --> 00:58:49,560 the environmental movement. So it invites the responsible leaders 1009 00:58:49,600 --> 00:58:52,600 of the environmental movement into inquiries, 1010 00:58:52,600 --> 00:58:56,600 government commissions, debates. It recognizes them -- 1011 00:58:56,640 --> 00:58:58,640 they're the legitimate leaders -- because again, 1012 00:58:58,640 --> 00:59:03,640 it doesn't want the movement to begin to adopt more militant resistance tactics. 1013 00:59:03,640 --> 00:59:06,640 - The powerful do not ever give up without a struggle. 1014 00:59:06,640 --> 00:59:08,640 Those are the famous words of Frederick Douglass 1015 00:59:08,640 --> 00:59:12,280 when he said, "Power concedes nothing without a demand. 1016 00:59:12,280 --> 00:59:14,280 It never has, and it never will." 1017 00:59:21,640 --> 00:59:25,640 Figure V 1018 00:59:27,920 --> 00:59:31,920 If we use more efficient electricity, 1019 00:59:31,960 --> 00:59:34,000 appliances, we can save this much 1020 00:59:34,000 --> 00:59:37,000 off of the global warming pollution that 1021 00:59:37,040 --> 00:59:40,040 would otherwise be put into the atmosphere. 1022 00:59:40,040 --> 00:59:43,040 If we use other end-use efficiency this much, 1023 00:59:43,040 --> 00:59:45,560 if we have higher-mileage cars, this much. 1024 00:59:45,600 --> 00:59:48,120 And all these begin to add up: 1025 00:59:48,120 --> 00:59:51,120 other transport efficiency, renewable technology. 1026 00:59:51,120 --> 00:59:53,960 We have everything we need, 1027 00:59:54,000 --> 00:59:56,760 save, perhaps, political will. 1028 00:59:56,760 --> 00:59:59,640 But you know what, in America, political will 1029 00:59:59,640 --> 01:00:02,280 is a renewable resource. 1030 01:00:04,520 --> 01:00:06,520 - When we see solutions, all the so-called solutions 1031 01:00:06,560 --> 01:00:08,560 put forward to global warming, the thing 1032 01:00:08,560 --> 01:00:11,440 they all have in common is that they take 1033 01:00:11,440 --> 01:00:14,440 industrial civilization as a given, and they take 1034 01:00:14,440 --> 01:00:17,920 the natural world as the dependent variable. 1035 01:00:17,920 --> 01:00:20,080 It's all about saving civilization. 1036 01:00:20,080 --> 01:00:22,080 And that's entirely backwards. 1037 01:00:22,080 --> 01:00:25,080 What it should be is: we need to do whatever 1038 01:00:25,080 --> 01:00:28,560 it takes to save life on the planet. 1039 01:00:31,120 --> 01:00:33,120 - In the next 40 to 50 years, we're going to see the 1040 01:00:33,160 --> 01:00:36,160 extinction of more species than we've seen in the past 1041 01:00:36,160 --> 01:00:38,160 65 million years. 1042 01:00:38,160 --> 01:00:41,160 That, to me, is a red light, 1043 01:00:41,160 --> 01:00:45,160 and a siren going off as a call to people 1044 01:00:45,160 --> 01:00:47,160 who will cut through the crap and 1045 01:00:47,200 --> 01:00:49,200 do what is necessary to protect the Earth 1046 01:00:49,240 --> 01:00:52,240 for here and now, and for future generations. 1047 01:00:52,240 --> 01:00:54,240 It is you that are going to have to answer to your 1048 01:00:54,240 --> 01:00:56,240 children, 50-75 years from now 1049 01:00:56,240 --> 01:00:59,400 when they ask what you did during the eco-wars. 1050 01:00:59,440 --> 01:01:02,280 And in that sense, 1051 01:01:02,320 --> 01:01:05,320 each one of us has to live the life 1052 01:01:05,320 --> 01:01:08,320 today, at this very moment, doing the things 1053 01:01:08,320 --> 01:01:11,320 that we would be proud to tell our ancestors about. 1054 01:01:12,200 --> 01:01:14,200 If we are serious about saving life on Earth 1055 01:01:14,240 --> 01:01:17,000 we've got to start fighting back 1056 01:01:17,000 --> 01:01:21,040 in the ways that people do when they realize they need 1057 01:01:21,040 --> 01:01:23,040 to form a serious resistance movement. 1058 01:01:24,120 --> 01:01:27,120 - Most indigenous populations who maintain any 1059 01:01:27,120 --> 01:01:30,120 sense of a traditional worldview 1060 01:01:30,120 --> 01:01:34,120 know that the way of life that 1061 01:01:34,120 --> 01:01:36,680 settlers society has imposed on this 1062 01:01:36,680 --> 01:01:38,680 land is unsustainable. 1063 01:01:38,680 --> 01:01:41,680 Yet, there has been a sense 1064 01:01:41,680 --> 01:01:43,680 that we really need to kind of 1065 01:01:43,680 --> 01:01:45,680 wait until it collapses, 1066 01:01:45,720 --> 01:01:48,720 or wait until they're done doing, 1067 01:01:48,720 --> 01:01:50,720 or they've reached their limit and they can't 1068 01:01:50,720 --> 01:01:53,720 continue the way that they've been going on, 1069 01:01:53,720 --> 01:01:55,720 and be patient. 1070 01:01:56,560 --> 01:02:02,560 Fuck patience 1071 01:02:10,920 --> 01:02:13,920 I think really the big problem is power, 1072 01:02:13,920 --> 01:02:15,920 and that's something liberals have a lot of trouble kind of 1073 01:02:15,920 --> 01:02:17,920 thinking about or wrapping their heads around. 1074 01:02:17,960 --> 01:02:19,960 And the problem is that this culture has 1075 01:02:20,000 --> 01:02:22,560 clearly defined hierarchy. There are people 1076 01:02:22,560 --> 01:02:25,560 who are clearly in power, and who benefit 1077 01:02:25,560 --> 01:02:27,560 from power, and benefit from destroying the planet, 1078 01:02:27,560 --> 01:02:30,560 and who benefit from exploiting other people, 1079 01:02:30,560 --> 01:02:32,560 and they've been doing that for a long time. 1080 01:02:32,560 --> 01:02:36,680 And their power is more important to them than anything else. 1081 01:02:36,680 --> 01:02:39,680 - There is no personal consumer choice that is 1082 01:02:39,680 --> 01:02:42,680 going to dismantle the systems of 1083 01:02:42,680 --> 01:02:45,680 power that are behind the destruction of our planet. 1084 01:02:45,680 --> 01:02:48,680 What we need is organized political resistance. 1085 01:02:49,120 --> 01:02:51,120 - You cannot just simply ask the state for these reforms, 1086 01:02:51,160 --> 01:02:53,160 or for any kind of gains or concessions, 1087 01:02:53,000 --> 01:02:55,000 you have to force them to do it. 1088 01:02:55,000 --> 01:02:57,000 And that's the power of disruption. 1089 01:02:58,000 --> 01:03:00,000 It was a bloody day at the Mohawk Indian 1090 01:03:00,000 --> 01:03:02,000 community in Oka, Quebec, near Montreal. 1091 01:03:02,040 --> 01:03:04,040 "Provincial police in riot gear stormed 1092 01:03:04,040 --> 01:03:06,040 the barricades the Mohawks had set up. 1093 01:03:06,080 --> 01:03:09,080 There were clouds of tear gas, a hail of bullets, 1094 01:03:09,080 --> 01:03:11,080 and in the midst of the battle, a policeman 1095 01:03:11,080 --> 01:03:14,080 was killed. All this because of 1096 01:03:14,080 --> 01:03:17,080 a dispute over a piece of forest the Indians claim is theirs, 1097 01:03:17,080 --> 01:03:20,080 a forest town council wants to bulldoze 1098 01:03:20,120 --> 01:03:22,120 to expand the local golf course." 1099 01:03:22,120 --> 01:03:24,120 "Police retreated as abruptly as they'd attacked, 1100 01:03:24,160 --> 01:03:27,160 leaving behind their cruisers. They also left a heavy 1101 01:03:27,160 --> 01:03:29,160 front-end loader which the Mohawks 1102 01:03:29,160 --> 01:03:31,160 immediately put to their own use. 1103 01:03:31,200 --> 01:03:33,200 The police cruisers, crushed and useless, 1104 01:03:33,200 --> 01:03:35,200 became barricades themselves." 1105 01:03:36,280 --> 01:03:38,960 We treat these trees and the land like our mother. 1106 01:03:39,480 --> 01:03:42,040 These people are raping our mother. 1107 01:03:42,040 --> 01:03:44,600 What would you do if they raped your mother? 1108 01:03:46,600 --> 01:03:48,600 - These politicians are servants of the 1109 01:03:48,640 --> 01:03:51,640 system; it's their job to keep it going, it's their job 1110 01:03:51,640 --> 01:03:54,160 to keep profit rolling in for the ruling class. 1111 01:03:54,160 --> 01:03:57,160 And they will never, ever, act in the 1112 01:03:57,160 --> 01:04:00,320 people's interests or the interests of the planet. 1113 01:04:00,320 --> 01:04:02,160 It doesn't matter what we say, 1114 01:04:02,160 --> 01:04:04,160 the only thing that they will respond to is 1115 01:04:04,160 --> 01:04:06,160 force, and the threat of social disruption. 1116 01:04:06,200 --> 01:04:09,200 And if we allow them to stay in power, 1117 01:04:09,200 --> 01:04:11,200 they will always take back any gain 1118 01:04:11,200 --> 01:04:13,320 that we manage to get from them. 1119 01:04:13,320 --> 01:04:15,320 - It's really important to recognize that 1120 01:04:15,320 --> 01:04:17,320 no struggle is done, 1121 01:04:17,360 --> 01:04:19,360 that there's not any possibility 1122 01:04:19,400 --> 01:04:22,400 of any lasting victory as long as the state 1123 01:04:22,400 --> 01:04:24,400 still exists, but we can definitely see in the histories 1124 01:04:24,400 --> 01:04:26,400 of struggle, small gains have been won, 1125 01:04:26,400 --> 01:04:28,400 and ways in which we've empowered ourselves 1126 01:04:28,440 --> 01:04:30,440 by the use of all tactics, and I think 1127 01:04:30,440 --> 01:04:33,440 it's not even important to 1128 01:04:33,440 --> 01:04:36,440 really say if a particular tactic is 1129 01:04:36,440 --> 01:04:38,440 violent or not because this is just 1130 01:04:38,440 --> 01:04:41,440 kind of a moral category meant to restrict action. 1131 01:04:41,440 --> 01:04:43,440 I think it's more important to look 1132 01:04:43,440 --> 01:04:46,440 at which tactics can be empowering, 1133 01:04:46,440 --> 01:04:48,440 and liberating, and useful. 1134 01:04:51,920 --> 01:04:54,920 - Purely above-ground means are designed to 1135 01:04:54,920 --> 01:04:57,920 facilitate the expansion of global capitalism. 1136 01:04:59,160 --> 01:05:01,000 - These are serious power structures 1137 01:05:01,000 --> 01:05:03,000 that are making vast sums of money. 1138 01:05:03,000 --> 01:05:05,000 They are backed up by 1139 01:05:05,040 --> 01:05:07,040 the power of the armed state in every way imaginable. 1140 01:05:07,040 --> 01:05:09,040 They've got armies on their side, they own 1141 01:05:09,080 --> 01:05:12,080 the mass media, the banks, all the money is on their side. 1142 01:05:12,080 --> 01:05:15,080 - If there's any doubt about the leadership that 1143 01:05:15,080 --> 01:05:18,080 our military is showing, you just need to look at 1144 01:05:18,120 --> 01:05:20,120 this F-18 fighter 1145 01:05:20,120 --> 01:05:23,120 and the light-armored vehicle behind it. 1146 01:05:23,760 --> 01:05:25,760 The army and marine corps have been testing 1147 01:05:25,800 --> 01:05:30,120 this vehicle on a mixture of biofuels, 1148 01:05:30,120 --> 01:05:33,120 and this navy fighter jet 1149 01:05:33,120 --> 01:05:35,560 appropriately called the "Green Hornet" 1150 01:05:35,560 --> 01:05:38,560 will be flown for the first time in just 1151 01:05:38,560 --> 01:05:40,560 a few days, on Earth Day. 1152 01:05:40,560 --> 01:05:44,080 - Crazy Horse one-eight, request permission to engage. 1153 01:05:44,080 --> 01:05:46,080 - Picking up the wounded? 1154 01:05:46,120 --> 01:05:48,120 - Yeah, we're trying to get permission to engage. 1155 01:05:49,080 --> 01:05:51,080 - Come on, let us shoot! 1156 01:05:52,080 --> 01:05:54,080 - Bushmaster, Crazy Horse one-eight. 1157 01:05:56,760 --> 01:05:58,760 - They're taking him. 1158 01:05:59,840 --> 01:06:01,680 - Bushmaster, Crazy Horse one-eight. 1159 01:06:04,080 --> 01:06:06,080 - This is Bushmaster seven, go ahead. 1160 01:06:06,120 --> 01:06:10,120 - Roger. We have a black SUV, or Bongo truck picking 1161 01:06:10,160 --> 01:06:12,160 up the bodies. Request permission to engage. 1162 01:06:14,720 --> 01:06:18,720 - Bushmaster seven, roger. This is Bushmaster seven, roger. Engage. 1163 01:06:19,120 --> 01:06:21,120 - One-eight, engage. Clear. 1164 01:06:21,120 --> 01:06:23,120 - Come on! 1165 01:06:25,040 --> 01:06:27,040 - Clear. 1166 01:06:43,680 --> 01:06:45,680 So if the law will not do the right thing, 1167 01:06:45,680 --> 01:06:48,680 other people will have to do the right thing, 1168 01:06:48,680 --> 01:06:50,680 and they'll have to do the right thing by 1169 01:06:50,680 --> 01:06:52,680 breaking the law. And that 1170 01:06:52,720 --> 01:06:54,720 precedent has been set many times 1171 01:06:54,760 --> 01:06:56,760 throughout our history: the people 1172 01:06:56,760 --> 01:06:58,920 who saved the Jews from the German Nazis 1173 01:06:58,920 --> 01:07:01,760 broke the law for higher ethical purpose. 1174 01:07:01,760 --> 01:07:04,120 The people who liberated slaves in our 1175 01:07:04,120 --> 01:07:06,760 country through the underground railroad system 1176 01:07:06,760 --> 01:07:09,760 to protect them from slave masters and a 1177 01:07:09,760 --> 01:07:12,760 very barbaric law in the United States at that time. 1178 01:07:12,760 --> 01:07:15,480 They did the right thing. They broke the law 1179 01:07:15,480 --> 01:07:17,480 for higher ethical purpose. 1180 01:07:19,520 --> 01:07:22,080 - We need to start and get out there 1181 01:07:22,080 --> 01:07:27,080 and go beyond hitting "Like" on Facebook and signing online petitions. 1182 01:07:27,080 --> 01:07:30,080 We need to be out there in the real world fighting back. 1183 01:07:31,440 --> 01:07:33,440 - I think one of the things that we really have to accept 1184 01:07:33,480 --> 01:07:36,480 and internalize is that the majority of institutions, 1185 01:07:36,480 --> 01:07:38,480 and the majority of people, 1186 01:07:38,480 --> 01:07:40,480 are never going to be on our side. 1187 01:07:40,520 --> 01:07:42,520 And so we have to sit down -- 1188 01:07:42,520 --> 01:07:44,520 as individual activists 1189 01:07:44,560 --> 01:07:46,560 and as communities of resistance, 1190 01:07:46,560 --> 01:07:48,560 as a culture of resistance -- and we have to say 1191 01:07:48,600 --> 01:07:52,600 "Okay, well, what will it take to stop this culture from destroying the planet?" 1192 01:07:52,640 --> 01:07:54,640 You know, part of the answer is obviously that 1193 01:07:54,640 --> 01:07:57,640 persuasion hasn't worked and persuasion 1194 01:07:57,640 --> 01:08:01,040 is not going to work. If we want to be... 1195 01:08:01,040 --> 01:08:04,240 ...successful, then we have to look at what resistance 1196 01:08:04,240 --> 01:08:07,240 movements in the past have done, and what they've learned 1197 01:08:07,240 --> 01:08:09,240 and kind of the different phases 1198 01:08:09,240 --> 01:08:11,240 that they've gone through as they've tried to 1199 01:08:11,240 --> 01:08:13,800 assert themselves and try to be successful. 1200 01:08:14,960 --> 01:08:16,960 - When I say "organize political resistance," 1201 01:08:17,000 --> 01:08:19,440 I mean we need to face power head-on. 1202 01:08:19,440 --> 01:08:21,440 Once you name power, 1203 01:08:21,480 --> 01:08:23,480 you will find that power is sociopathic, 1204 01:08:23,480 --> 01:08:25,480 that the people in charge will do whatever 1205 01:08:25,520 --> 01:08:27,520 it takes to shut you up. 1206 01:08:29,240 --> 01:08:31,240 - The thing about when you enter into a greater 1207 01:08:31,280 --> 01:08:33,280 period of social conflict, 1208 01:08:33,280 --> 01:08:36,280 what you don't want is people promoting 1209 01:08:36,280 --> 01:08:38,280 non-violence because that's going to disarm 1210 01:08:38,280 --> 01:08:41,280 the people -- it's going to disarm the people in the face 1211 01:08:41,280 --> 01:08:43,280 of an aggressive enemy, and in the face 1212 01:08:43,280 --> 01:08:45,280 of hard social conditions. 1213 01:08:45,320 --> 01:08:48,320 You want them to have a stronger fighting spirit 1214 01:08:48,320 --> 01:08:50,320 because without a fighting spirit, 1215 01:08:50,320 --> 01:08:52,320 you lack the will to resist. 1216 01:08:56,160 --> 01:08:58,160 - The smartest thing the Nazis did was 1217 01:08:58,160 --> 01:09:00,160 they made it so that at every step of the way, it was in the Jews' 1218 01:09:00,000 --> 01:09:02,000 rational best interest to not resist. 1219 01:09:02,000 --> 01:09:04,000 Would you rather get an ID card, 1220 01:09:04,040 --> 01:09:06,040 or do you want to resist and possibly get killed? 1221 01:09:06,080 --> 01:09:08,080 Do you want to move to a ghetto, 1222 01:09:08,080 --> 01:09:10,080 or do you want to resist and possibly get killed? 1223 01:09:10,120 --> 01:09:12,120 Do you want to get on a cattle car, 1224 01:09:12,120 --> 01:09:14,120 or do you want to resist and possibly get killed? 1225 01:09:14,160 --> 01:09:16,160 You want to take a shower, 1226 01:09:16,160 --> 01:09:18,160 or do you want to resist and possibly get killed? 1227 01:09:18,200 --> 01:09:20,200 At every step of the way, it was in their 1228 01:09:20,200 --> 01:09:22,200 rational self-interest to not resist. 1229 01:09:22,960 --> 01:09:24,960 But I'll tell you something very important, 1230 01:09:25,000 --> 01:09:27,960 which is: the Jews who participated in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 1231 01:09:27,960 --> 01:09:30,960 had a higher rate of survival than those who went along. 1232 01:09:32,040 --> 01:09:36,040 - I think that if any of us were alive in Nazi Germany right now, 1233 01:09:36,080 --> 01:09:39,080 we would know what a resistance movement should be doing. 1234 01:09:39,080 --> 01:09:41,080 And we need to think about 1235 01:09:41,080 --> 01:09:43,840 the culture of industrial civilization 1236 01:09:43,840 --> 01:09:46,840 as if it's a culture of occupation, 1237 01:09:46,840 --> 01:09:48,840 because it is. 1238 01:10:06,400 --> 01:10:11,080 Figure VI 1239 01:10:20,960 --> 01:10:24,480 - If Nazis or other fascists took over North America, 1240 01:10:27,040 --> 01:10:29,040 what would we all do? 1241 01:10:30,880 --> 01:10:33,880 What would we do if they implemented Mussolini's definition of fascism: 1242 01:10:33,880 --> 01:10:35,880 "Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism 1243 01:10:35,880 --> 01:10:38,320 because it is a merger of state and corporate power." 1244 01:10:48,000 --> 01:10:50,000 What if this occupied country called itself a democracy, 1245 01:10:50,040 --> 01:10:53,040 but most everyone understood elections to be shams, 1246 01:10:53,040 --> 01:10:56,040 with citizens allowed to choose between different wings of the same fascists, 1247 01:10:56,080 --> 01:10:58,080 (or, following Mussolini, Corporate) party. 1248 01:10:59,280 --> 01:11:02,120 What if anti-government activity was opposed by storm troopers and secret police? 1249 01:11:02,160 --> 01:11:04,160 Would you fight back? 1250 01:11:04,160 --> 01:11:07,160 If there already existed a resistance movement, would you join it? 1251 01:11:08,640 --> 01:11:12,640 Would you resist if the fascists irradiated the countryside, poisoned food supplies, 1252 01:11:12,680 --> 01:11:14,680 made rivers unfit for swimming and so filthy 1253 01:11:14,720 --> 01:11:16,720 you wouldn't even dream of drinking from anymore? 1254 01:11:19,080 --> 01:11:22,080 If fascists systematically deforested the continent, would you join 1255 01:11:22,080 --> 01:11:25,080 an underground army of resistance, head to the forests, and from there 1256 01:11:25,120 --> 01:11:28,120 to boardrooms and the halls of the Reichstag to pick off the occupying deforesters 1257 01:11:28,120 --> 01:11:31,120 and, most especially, those that give them their marching orders? 1258 01:11:36,840 --> 01:11:38,840 Give me a threshold. Give me a specific point 1259 01:11:38,880 --> 01:11:40,880 at which you'll finally take a stand. 1260 01:11:40,880 --> 01:11:44,880 If you can't or won't give that threshold, why not? 1261 01:11:46,720 --> 01:11:51,840 Directed, filmed, produced, and edited by Franklin Lopez 1262 01:11:51,840 --> 01:11:56,000 Inspired by Endgame Volumes I and II by Derrick Jensen 1263 01:11:56,840 --> 01:11:59,000 LYRICS: When I face the page, I place the rage, 1264 01:11:59,000 --> 01:12:01,840 place it into stasis rather than erase it. 1265 01:12:01,840 --> 01:12:03,840 That's the basis cover all the bases, 1266 01:12:03,880 --> 01:12:06,880 watch what you say on the cell, they gonna trace it. 1267 01:12:06,880 --> 01:12:08,880 Stacked deck don't expect any aces, 1268 01:12:08,880 --> 01:12:11,880 camera eyes watch you in public places, 1269 01:12:11,880 --> 01:12:13,880 and I hate this, so I take this 1270 01:12:13,880 --> 01:12:15,880 mic and I write like these words, 1271 01:12:15,880 --> 01:12:17,880 and my legs and they walk me through my paces, 1272 01:12:17,920 --> 01:12:20,920 people chase it, glittery lights but I've seen the heights. 1273 01:12:20,920 --> 01:12:22,920 My time is not wasted, I'm tracing the sky, 1274 01:12:22,920 --> 01:12:24,920 I read all the smoke that I toke to meet 1275 01:12:24,920 --> 01:12:26,920 all the spaces of mind in time. 1276 01:12:26,960 --> 01:12:29,960 Look, just face it, this life is mine, 1277 01:12:29,960 --> 01:12:31,960 that's why I'm not racing the finish line. 1278 01:12:31,960 --> 01:12:33,960 Will come the time, the moment designed 1279 01:12:34,000 --> 01:12:36,000 to shine i won't replace it 1280 01:12:36,000 --> 01:12:39,000 So I take my time, grind it up and break it, 1281 01:12:39,000 --> 01:12:41,000 roll it up so fine, light it up and blaze it. 1282 01:12:41,000 --> 01:12:43,000 Smoking blunts, smoke 'em up, end times 1283 01:12:43,040 --> 01:12:45,040 on the grind training for the signs 1284 01:12:45,040 --> 01:12:47,040 Take your fist and raise it up to the sky. 1285 01:12:47,080 --> 01:12:49,080 See the fire in her eye. 1286 01:12:49,080 --> 01:12:51,080 Do or do not do there is no try. 1287 01:12:51,120 --> 01:12:54,120 Hard to find what's true, that is no life. 1288 01:12:54,120 --> 01:12:56,120 They clipped your wings, how you gonna fly? 1289 01:12:56,120 --> 01:12:59,080 You gonna lie? You gonna die, 1290 01:12:59,120 --> 01:13:01,160 so until that day, are you gonna try? 1291 01:13:01,160 --> 01:13:03,160 One by one we multiply. 1292 01:13:03,160 --> 01:13:06,160 Eyes to the sun, just let it shine now. 1293 01:13:06,160 --> 01:13:09,160 Now get into it 1294 01:13:09,000 --> 01:13:11,000 Now choose your side 1295 01:13:11,040 --> 01:13:13,040 We got to do it, 1296 01:13:13,040 --> 01:13:15,040 The time is right 1297 01:13:16,360 --> 01:13:18,680 Now get into it 1298 01:13:18,680 --> 01:13:20,280 Now change your life 1299 01:13:20,280 --> 01:13:23,480 Only you can do it 1300 01:13:23,480 --> 01:13:25,480 The time is right 1301 01:13:34,440 --> 01:13:36,440 Anymore pollution and you're going to fry, 1302 01:13:36,440 --> 01:13:39,440 so get into it, it's do or die. 1303 01:13:39,440 --> 01:13:41,440 Without action, factions of crews divide, 1304 01:13:41,440 --> 01:13:44,440 but you can't be stupid if you choose to ride. 1305 01:13:44,440 --> 01:13:46,440 And you can't ride the fence, better choose your side. 1306 01:13:46,440 --> 01:13:48,440 Keep doing what you're told, or do what's right. 1307 01:13:48,480 --> 01:13:51,480 You going to roll over or you going to fight? 1308 01:13:51,480 --> 01:13:53,480 No justice no peace, the war's tonight, 1309 01:13:53,480 --> 01:13:56,480 and I'm a poltergeist, you know, a violent spirit, 1310 01:13:56,480 --> 01:13:58,640 the product of a world with too much violence in it. 1311 01:13:58,680 --> 01:14:01,520 So many people, trees, animals are dying a minute. 1312 01:14:01,560 --> 01:14:03,560 Can't ask them to stop, they ain't trying to hear it. 1313 01:14:03,600 --> 01:14:05,600 Until we get physical, they ain't gonna fear it. 1314 01:14:05,600 --> 01:14:08,600 To go to war with the machines, start tryin' to kill it. 1315 01:14:08,600 --> 01:14:10,600 Until it dies, everyday's a violent day. 1316 01:14:10,600 --> 01:14:13,600 And they expect you to protest in silence and stay 1317 01:14:13,600 --> 01:14:15,600 pacifist and uneffective while we die and decay. 1318 01:14:15,600 --> 01:14:18,600 We need to rise up, fuck kneeling to pray. 1319 01:14:18,600 --> 01:14:20,600 Preachers and teachers lead us astray, 1320 01:14:20,600 --> 01:14:22,600 politicians and cops all they say is: 1321 01:14:22,640 --> 01:14:25,640 "Obey your corporate masters, buy what they've got on display." 1322 01:14:25,640 --> 01:14:28,640 Stop buying their shit and start making them pay. 1323 01:14:28,640 --> 01:14:30,640 To hell with their games -- we ain't gonna play. 1324 01:14:30,640 --> 01:14:33,640 Let's fight them 'till they kill us or they take us away. 1325 01:14:33,640 --> 01:14:35,640 Start throwing molotovs, stop throwing bouquets. 1326 01:14:35,640 --> 01:14:38,640 Take it to those bastards like Ted Kaczynski. 1327 01:14:38,640 --> 01:14:40,640 Monkeywrench machines and write communiques 1328 01:14:40,640 --> 01:14:43,640 on walls with spraypaint just big circle A's! 1329 01:14:43,640 --> 01:14:45,640 Now get into it 1330 01:14:45,640 --> 01:14:48,640 Now choose your side 1331 01:14:48,640 --> 01:14:50,640 We got to do it 1332 01:14:50,640 --> 01:14:53,640 The time is right 1333 01:14:53,640 --> 01:14:55,640 Now get into it 1334 01:14:55,640 --> 01:14:58,800 Now change your life 1335 01:14:58,800 --> 01:15:00,640 Only you can do it 1336 01:15:00,640 --> 01:15:03,400 The time is right