WEBVTT 00:00:50.000 --> 00:00:53.000 - People often say that there's a war against nature 00:00:53.000 --> 00:00:56.000 and that this is the third world war. 00:00:59.400 --> 00:01:02.000 - It's getting more stark; it's getting worse and 00:01:02.000 --> 00:01:05.000 the rate of change is accelerating, whether we're talking about the 00:01:05.000 --> 00:01:10.000 extinction of species or the thoroughness of the techno-culture. 00:01:12.400 --> 00:01:16.000 - The world right now is, frankly, very frightening. 00:01:16.000 --> 00:01:20.000 For what we consider to be industrial civilization, 00:01:20.000 --> 00:01:24.000 I would say is extraordinarily uncivilized, 00:01:24.000 --> 00:01:26.000 actually quite savage. 00:01:30.000 --> 00:01:33.000 - It's not an exaggeration to say that we're 00:01:33.000 --> 00:01:36.920 living in an ecological apocalypse. 00:01:38.000 --> 00:01:41.000 - Between years 1980 and 2045 00:01:41.000 --> 00:01:43.000 we will lose more species of plants and animals than 00:01:43.000 --> 00:01:46.440 we have lost in the last 65 million years. 00:01:50.000 --> 00:01:54.000 We have two big-picture time pressures that really mean 00:01:54.000 --> 00:01:57.000 we should be acting a lot more urgently than most of us have. 00:01:57.000 --> 00:02:00.000 And one of them is peak oil, or energy collapse, 00:02:00.000 --> 00:02:03.160 and one of them is climate change, or runaway global warming. 00:02:04.000 --> 00:02:07.000 - I think that most people, even most scientists, 00:02:07.000 --> 00:02:10.000 continue to underestimate how far 00:02:10.000 --> 00:02:13.000 down the path to climate catastrophe 00:02:13.000 --> 00:02:15.000 we've already travelled. 00:02:15.000 --> 00:02:17.000 - For the most part, we're oblivious to it, we don't 00:02:17.000 --> 00:02:19.000 want to know about it, we don't want to hear about it. 00:02:20.000 --> 00:02:23.000 - The one thing I'm most afraid of is that we're going to 00:02:23.000 --> 00:02:27.000 mount a tremendous campaign to sustain the unsustainable. 00:02:28.000 --> 00:02:30.000 - At this point, scientists are saying that the Earth's 00:02:30.000 --> 00:02:32.000 temperature may increase by as much as 10 degrees. 00:02:32.000 --> 00:02:35.000 At that point, there may not even be bacteria left. 00:02:36.000 --> 00:02:39.000 - When the oil starts to really run dry, 00:02:39.000 --> 00:02:42.000 and when those in power have to assert their power 00:02:42.000 --> 00:02:44.000 in a time of dwindling resources, 00:02:44.000 --> 00:02:47.000 I think they're going to turn to much more 00:02:47.000 --> 00:02:50.000 blunt and cruel methods of enforcing their power. 00:02:52.000 --> 00:02:54.000 - The whole climate is changing: the winds, 00:02:54.000 --> 00:02:57.000 the ocean currents, the storm patterns, 00:02:57.000 --> 00:02:59.000 snow pack, snow melt, 00:02:59.000 --> 00:03:01.000 flooding, droughts. 00:03:09.000 --> 00:03:13.000 GAME OVER 00:03:19.000 --> 00:03:22.000 Somewhere in northern California 00:03:30.000 --> 00:03:33.000 - It's stunning how fast the destruction is proceeding. 00:03:42.000 --> 00:03:46.120 Every day that passes, the world is in worse shape. 00:03:47.600 --> 00:03:51.000 'The sad-looking man you see on the screen is Derrick Jensen. 00:03:51.000 --> 00:03:55.000 Jensen is the best-selling author of several non-fiction books 00:03:55.000 --> 00:03:59.000 including "A Language Older than Words" and "The Culture of Make Believe". 00:03:59.000 --> 00:04:04.000 His books deal with topics such as surveillance, child abuse, the environment, 00:04:04.000 --> 00:04:06.560 and something he calls "civilization". 00:04:20.400 --> 00:04:24.000 But it's statements like these that make him so controversial:' 00:04:24.000 --> 00:04:27.000 They're thinking of raising the Shasta Dam in California, 00:04:27.000 --> 00:04:30.840 and the reason that Senator Feinstein gave was... 00:04:30.840 --> 00:04:34.640 "It is Californians' God-given right to water their lawns." 00:04:37.000 --> 00:04:40.680 You know, there is no way to argue with that... 00:04:41.480 --> 00:04:44.440 ...except with explosives. 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.' 00:04:52.720 --> 00:04:57.240 In 'Endgame' , he argues that there is an urgent need to bring down civilization.' 00:05:03.160 --> 00:05:05.000 - If people would have brought down civilization a hundred years ago 00:05:05.000 --> 00:05:08.000 people in the Pacific Northwest could still eat salmon. 00:05:08.000 --> 00:05:10.000 There's going to be people sitting along the Columbia fifty years from now -- 00:05:10.000 --> 00:05:13.000 they'll be glowing for one thing -- but they'll be starving to death, 00:05:13.000 --> 00:05:15.000 and they'll be saying, 00:05:15.000 --> 00:05:18.560 "I'm starving to death, because you didn't take out the dams... 00:05:18.560 --> 00:05:23.000 ...that killed salmon, and those dams were used for barging, 00:05:23.000 --> 00:05:26.000 and for electricity, for alumninum smelters for beer cans, so 00:05:29.360 --> 00:05:31.000 God damn you." 00:05:31.000 --> 00:05:35.000 He lays out his case against civilization by enumerating 20 premises. 00:05:36.840 --> 00:05:39.000 Due to time limitations and the fact that most people 00:05:39.000 --> 00:05:42.000 would not tolerate a twenty-hour movie, we will explore 00:05:42.000 --> 00:05:44.000 four of these premises, and accompany them 00:05:44.000 --> 00:05:46.000 with real-life examples. 00:05:46.280 --> 00:05:49.000 Premise I 00:05:49.560 --> 00:05:53.000 Industrial civilization, civilization itself, but especially industrial civilization 00:05:53.000 --> 00:05:55.000 is not, and can never be, sustainable. 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 00:06:00.000 --> 00:06:02.600 on the use of nonrenewable resources won't last. 00:06:06.280 --> 00:06:10.000 But what is civilization? 00:06:11.440 --> 00:06:15.000 Civilization is a way of life characterized by the growth of cities. 00:06:16.000 --> 00:06:20.000 - So you've got groups of people living in a dense enough population that 00:06:20.000 --> 00:06:22.000 the local landbase cannot support them. 00:06:22.000 --> 00:06:24.000 What that means is you have to get 00:06:24.000 --> 00:06:26.000 your basic resources from somewhere else 00:06:26.000 --> 00:06:28.000 because you've used them up where you live. 00:06:28.760 --> 00:06:31.000 So you're going to go out into the countryside and gather up 00:06:31.000 --> 00:06:34.000 whatever it is you want, bring it back in. 00:06:55.000 --> 00:06:58.000 If you require the importation of resources, 00:06:58.000 --> 00:07:01.000 it means you've denuded the landscape of that particular resource. 00:07:12.560 --> 00:07:15.000 - There's no way that in the long term you can continue 00:07:15.000 --> 00:07:19.000 to destroy the land that you need for your survival, 00:07:19.000 --> 00:07:21.000 or the waters that you need to drink, 00:07:21.000 --> 00:07:23.000 and expect to continue to live. 00:07:25.480 --> 00:07:30.000 - Industrial civilization requires ever-increasing amounts 00:07:30.000 --> 00:07:32.000 of energy and ever-increasing amounts of land, 00:07:32.000 --> 00:07:35.000 ever-increasing amounts of resources of all kinds 00:07:35.000 --> 00:07:37.000 in order to perpetuate itself, 00:07:37.000 --> 00:07:39.000 in order to continue to grow, 00:07:39.000 --> 00:07:41.000 in order to just maintain itself. 00:07:41.000 --> 00:07:43.000 And we live on a finite planet, 00:07:43.000 --> 00:07:46.000 and those aren't available. Of course, 00:07:46.000 --> 00:07:49.000 unfortunately for us and most living creatures, 00:07:49.000 --> 00:07:53.000 that culture won't stop until it's consumed as much as it can, 00:07:53.000 --> 00:07:56.000 or, of course, until we stop it ourselves. 00:08:11.800 --> 00:08:15.000 - If you have a finite amount of anything, 00:08:15.000 --> 00:08:19.000 if you start using it, eventually you use it up. 00:08:21.520 --> 00:08:26.000 And so it would seem that if your entire culture is based on, 00:08:26.000 --> 00:08:30.000 I don't know, let's take a random resource... 00:08:30.000 --> 00:08:31.000 ...oil... 00:08:32.000 --> 00:08:35.000 ...that you would think about what's going to happen 00:08:35.000 --> 00:08:37.000 happen when the oil runs out 00:08:37.760 --> 00:08:40.000 - We've found energy resources 00:08:40.000 --> 00:08:42.000 that have allowed us to escape 00:08:42.000 --> 00:08:44.000 some of the kinds of 00:08:44.000 --> 00:08:46.000 limits that previous cultures 00:08:46.000 --> 00:08:48.000 have had to face much more quickly. 00:08:49.000 --> 00:08:52.000 They used to collapse because they ran out of resources, 00:08:52.000 --> 00:08:54.000 easily accessible resources. 00:08:54.000 --> 00:08:56.000 The limit being the distance that people 00:08:56.000 --> 00:08:58.000 could travel with things like horses, 00:08:58.000 --> 00:09:01.000 or other pack animals. That ended with the beginning 00:09:01.000 --> 00:09:04.000 of the fossil fuel age; now they can go all over the planet 00:09:04.000 --> 00:09:06.000 and take what they want. So globalization has only 00:09:06.000 --> 00:09:09.000 accelerated this tremendously destructive process. 00:09:09.800 --> 00:09:13.000 - We've poured our wealth into 00:09:13.000 --> 00:09:16.000 building an infrastructure for daily life 00:09:16.000 --> 00:09:18.000 that has no future. I do think that 00:09:18.000 --> 00:09:21.000 oil problem is going to accelerate 00:09:21.000 --> 00:09:26.000 within the next three to five years, maybe even sooner. 00:09:26.000 --> 00:09:30.000 The numbers indicate that we've probably peaked in global production. 00:09:35.120 --> 00:09:38.000 - Where do you find the break from that? 00:09:38.000 --> 00:09:40.000 I mean, all of it is a giant machine or 00:09:40.000 --> 00:09:42.000 ensemble that just moves forward. 00:09:42.000 --> 00:09:45.000 Technology, for example, never takes a step back. 00:09:45.000 --> 00:09:48.000 This whole thing just keeps going like a cancer. 00:09:48.120 --> 00:09:51.000 - I don't know of any civilization that's been sustainable, 00:09:51.000 --> 00:09:53.000 I don't believe there ever has been one. 00:09:53.000 --> 00:09:56.000 Technology, at its essence, is really our culture's... 00:09:57.000 --> 00:09:59.000 ...determination, 00:09:59.000 --> 00:10:01.000 that comes from certain 00:10:01.000 --> 00:10:03.000 philosophical and historical sources, 00:10:03.000 --> 00:10:06.000 that we will be nothing else but more relentlessly technological. 00:10:10.520 --> 00:10:14.000 - There is no clean green path to 00:10:14.000 --> 00:10:17.000 living in a lifestyle that we're all used to in 00:10:17.000 --> 00:10:20.000 industrialized nations. This way of life is OVER. 00:10:20.000 --> 00:10:25.000 - Civilizations are often cutting their own throats, 00:10:25.000 --> 00:10:28.000 very visibly, very obviously, but they just keep on doing it. 00:10:28.000 --> 00:10:32.000 - Every civilization is defined by hubris, 00:10:32.000 --> 00:10:34.000 it's defined by its denial 00:10:34.000 --> 00:10:37.000 to recognize that it lives in a natural world. 00:10:37.000 --> 00:10:40.000 As a matter of fact, every civilization, in its founding lies, 00:10:40.000 --> 00:10:42.000 elevates itself above nature, 00:10:42.000 --> 00:10:45.000 and claims that it is the controller of the whole world. 00:10:52.880 --> 00:10:58.000 Figure 1 00:11:00.200 --> 00:11:04.000 - The first written myth of this culture is Gilgamesh deforesting the plains 00:11:04.000 --> 00:11:06.000 and hillsides of Iraq. When people think of Iraq, 00:11:06.000 --> 00:11:09.000 what's the first thing they normally think of? Cedar forests so thick 00:11:09.000 --> 00:11:11.000 that sunlight never touches the ground? 00:11:11.000 --> 00:11:13.000 That's how it was, prior to the arrival of this culture. 00:11:13.000 --> 00:11:18.000 Clearcuts 00:12:09.120 --> 00:12:14.000 So, as a longtime, grassroots, environmental activist, 00:12:14.000 --> 00:12:18.000 and as a creature living in the thrashing endgame of civilization, 00:12:18.000 --> 00:12:21.000 I am intimately acquainted with the landscape of loss, 00:12:21.000 --> 00:12:25.000 and have grown accustomed to carrying the daily weight of despair. 00:12:25.000 --> 00:12:28.000 I've walked clearcuts that wrap around mountains and 00:12:28.000 --> 00:12:30.000 drop into valleys and climb ridges to fragment 00:12:30.000 --> 00:12:34.000 watershed after watershed, and I've sat, silent, 00:12:34.000 --> 00:12:37.000 near empty streams that two generations ago 00:12:37.000 --> 00:12:40.000 were lashed into whiteness by uncountable salmon 00:12:40.000 --> 00:12:42.000 coming home to spawn and die. 00:12:42.480 --> 00:12:45.000 - Here in BC, and across North America, 00:12:45.000 --> 00:12:47.000 when they do industrial logging they actually take 00:12:47.000 --> 00:12:50.000 and just remove all the trees. They level everything, 00:12:50.000 --> 00:12:53.000 they leave nothing but stumps and slash piles, 00:12:53.000 --> 00:12:56.000 and they burn the slash piles and they take out all the timber 00:12:56.000 --> 00:12:58.000 and what's left is a wasteland, 00:12:58.000 --> 00:13:01.000 and it's like they take a rainforest and turn it into a desert. 00:13:01.000 --> 00:13:03.160 That's what a clearcut is. 00:13:13.960 --> 00:13:17.000 They use them for pulp; they export them whole 00:13:17.000 --> 00:13:19.000 to the United States and to Japan. 00:13:19.000 --> 00:13:22.000 There's not very much milling that happens anymore in BC, 00:13:22.000 --> 00:13:25.000 it's just getting exported for pulp and paper 00:13:25.000 --> 00:13:28.000 and fibreboard, and plywood, and whatever else. 00:13:28.000 --> 00:13:30.640 Not a lot of value added. 00:13:33.400 --> 00:13:37.000 This tree has been selected to be cut and 00:13:38.000 --> 00:13:41.000 usually the company will only clearcut 00:13:41.000 --> 00:13:45.000 but this tree is in what they call 00:13:45.000 --> 00:13:47.160 a stream-side selection zone. 00:13:47.000 --> 00:13:50.000 they've got it marked blue, because it's a selection zone. 00:13:50.000 --> 00:13:53.000 In a clearcut they don't paint the trees 00:13:53.000 --> 00:13:55.000 that they're going to cut down. 00:13:55.000 --> 00:13:58.000 They only paint the ones that they're going to leave. 00:14:14.760 --> 00:14:18.000 - There's still a strong push to harvest 00:14:18.000 --> 00:14:21.000 as much of the western red cedar as they can. 00:14:21.000 --> 00:14:24.000 They're bringing in huge helicopters to do that. 00:14:24.000 --> 00:14:27.000 And they're high-grading... 00:14:27.120 --> 00:14:31.000 ...selecting only the really good, high-quality timber 00:14:31.000 --> 00:14:33.000 and leaving the rest laying there... 00:14:34.000 --> 00:14:36.000 ...in a junk heap. 00:14:38.120 --> 00:14:41.000 So, that's why we keep on, 00:14:41.000 --> 00:14:43.000 you know, fighting back. 00:14:48.360 --> 00:14:51.000 I think the last straw was when 00:14:52.000 --> 00:14:54.000 they wanted to log the Valley of Ista 00:14:54.000 --> 00:14:57.000 because of its historical and 00:14:57.000 --> 00:15:00.000 spiritual significance to our people. 00:15:00.360 --> 00:15:04.640 But they log it in spite, you know, 00:15:04.640 --> 00:15:06.640 just to make a point 00:15:06.640 --> 00:15:09.000 against our resistance, against our 00:15:09.000 --> 00:15:12.000 our overall position, 00:15:12.000 --> 00:15:14.000 you know, with regard to treaties 00:15:14.000 --> 00:15:17.000 or encroachment of industry development 00:15:17.000 --> 00:15:20.000 in our territories. 00:15:23.720 --> 00:15:27.000 - In a lot of these areas, like this clearing behind me 00:15:27.000 --> 00:15:31.000 up on the hill, you can see the soil is exposed, 00:15:31.000 --> 00:15:35.000 the ultraviolet kills off all the mosses, 00:15:35.000 --> 00:15:39.000 the funguses that hold the soil together. 00:15:39.000 --> 00:15:42.000 When the stumps rot and the roots die, 00:15:42.000 --> 00:15:44.000 then the slopes slide, 00:15:44.000 --> 00:15:47.000 and often there's not much regrowth, there's no regeneration of the forest. 00:15:47.000 --> 00:15:49.000 They do some replanting -- 00:15:49.000 --> 00:15:52.000 it doesn't always work because there's no soil left: 00:15:52.000 --> 00:15:54.000 it washes down into the streams, it kills the salmon, 00:15:54.000 --> 00:15:56.000 it fills up the reservoirs, 00:15:56.000 --> 00:15:59.000 all kinds of flood damage downstream. 00:15:59.680 --> 00:16:04.000 - That's terrorism. Stripping down all the trees, 00:16:04.000 --> 00:16:07.000 ripping out all the trees in the forest... 00:16:07.400 --> 00:16:10.000 ...and now they're going to rip out the 00:16:10.000 --> 00:16:12.000 guts of the land 00:16:12.480 --> 00:16:15.000 looking for copper and gold. 00:16:16.000 --> 00:16:17.000 And... 00:16:19.000 --> 00:16:22.000 ... this has to have some kind of focus to it... 00:16:22.800 --> 00:16:26.520 ...to address the injustice to our people, 00:16:26.520 --> 00:16:30.000 the injustice to the land, to the water, 00:16:30.000 --> 00:16:33.000 to the wildlife; the injustice to the 00:16:33.000 --> 00:16:35.480 marine life and the salmon life. 00:16:35.480 --> 00:16:39.000 And the injustice to the people that want to stand up for it. 00:16:41.360 --> 00:16:43.880 - When we blocked the road -- 00:16:43.880 --> 00:16:46.000 these trees are very valuable 00:16:46.000 --> 00:16:48.000 and the laws are all profit-driven, they're all driven by 00:16:48.000 --> 00:16:50.000 the corporations, the police are there 00:16:50.000 --> 00:16:53.000 to enforce the corporations' right to log, 00:16:53.000 --> 00:16:56.000 not to enforce our right to stop them 00:16:56.000 --> 00:16:59.000 and protect the ecosystem. There's so little 00:16:59.000 --> 00:17:01.000 that's left of the old-growth forest like 00:17:01.000 --> 00:17:03.160 this that we see on the sides here 00:17:03.160 --> 00:17:06.000 that people are putting their bodies on the line, 00:17:06.000 --> 00:17:08.000 they are willing to make huge sacrifices 00:17:08.000 --> 00:17:11.000 to stop the forest from being sacrificed, 00:17:11.000 --> 00:17:13.000 and the water, and the air quality, 00:17:13.000 --> 00:17:15.000 and the global climate. 00:17:28.080 --> 00:17:35.000 Premise II 00:17:45.760 --> 00:17:48.000 Traditional communities do not often 00:17:48.000 --> 00:17:50.000 voluntarily give up or sell the resources 00:17:50.000 --> 00:17:52.000 on which their communities are based 00:17:52.000 --> 00:17:55.000 until their communities have been destroyed. 00:17:55.800 --> 00:17:58.000 They also do not willingly allow their 00:17:58.000 --> 00:18:00.000 land-bases to be damaged so that other resources -- 00:18:00.000 --> 00:18:04.000 gold, oil, and so on -- can be extracted. 00:18:05.120 --> 00:18:09.000 It follows that those who want the resources will do what they can 00:18:09.000 --> 00:18:12.000 to destroy traditional communities. 00:18:18.280 --> 00:18:23.000 - Our people, we say, have been there since time immemorial. 00:18:23.000 --> 00:18:26.120 - Prior to invasion 00:18:26.120 --> 00:18:29.000 and conquest, colonization, 00:18:29.000 --> 00:18:33.000 lands in North America were occupied by 00:18:33.000 --> 00:18:35.000 populations of people that had a profoundly 00:18:35.000 --> 00:18:37.000 different relationship with the land. 00:18:37.000 --> 00:18:40.000 - They live with the land, all the ceremonies that have 00:18:40.000 --> 00:18:42.000 come up have to do with 00:18:42.000 --> 00:18:45.000 celebrating the renewal of seasons and 00:18:45.000 --> 00:18:48.000 life and affirming all of that. 00:18:48.000 --> 00:18:51.000 - One thing about indigenous peoples is that 00:18:51.000 --> 00:18:53.000 there's always the idea that you have to live 00:18:53.000 --> 00:18:55.000 in balance, you know, emotionally, 00:18:55.000 --> 00:18:57.000 physically, spiritually, 00:18:57.000 --> 00:19:00.000 you have to have balance, and so this same 00:19:00.000 --> 00:19:03.160 philosophy was applied to the natural world that they lived in. 00:19:05.160 --> 00:19:08.000 - The Tolowa, on whose land I now live, 00:19:08.000 --> 00:19:10.000 weren't civilized, they didn't live in cities, 00:19:10.000 --> 00:19:12.000 they didn't require the importation of resources, 00:19:12.000 --> 00:19:13.000 they lived in villages, camps... 00:19:13.040 --> 00:19:16.040 ...and lived there for 12,500 years if you believe the myths of science. 00:19:16.080 --> 00:19:19.080 If you believe the myths of the Tolowa, they lived there since the beginning of time. 00:19:19.760 --> 00:19:21.760 - I think that what we have had in 00:19:21.760 --> 00:19:24.760 indigenous societies all along is a very, 00:19:24.760 --> 00:19:26.760 kind of, common sense, a very practical 00:19:26.760 --> 00:19:29.760 approach to why it's important to 00:19:29.760 --> 00:19:31.760 treat the world around you, 00:19:31.760 --> 00:19:34.760 the natural world, in a good way. 00:19:36.280 --> 00:19:39.280 - Our people never exploited more than what we needed. 00:19:39.320 --> 00:19:42.320 We respect the land, we respect the animals, 00:19:42.320 --> 00:19:44.320 we respect the water, we respect the air, 00:19:44.360 --> 00:19:47.360 the wind, the fire, all the sacred elements. 00:19:47.400 --> 00:19:50.400 And we believe that they all are living, 00:19:50.400 --> 00:19:53.480 living things, so... 00:19:53.480 --> 00:19:57.400 ...I suspect that's the way it was before contact. 00:19:58.080 --> 00:20:00.080 - The stories that we have 00:20:00.080 --> 00:20:02.080 about our relationship to each other 00:20:02.120 --> 00:20:05.120 and to the land and to any spiritual aspect, 00:20:05.120 --> 00:20:08.120 any deities, arise from our relationship 00:20:08.120 --> 00:20:10.120 with the land. 00:20:10.120 --> 00:20:12.120 The salmon were considered to be our... 00:20:12.120 --> 00:20:16.600 ...mentors, caregivers -- lifegivers. 00:20:17.000 --> 00:20:19.000 They were equal to us, in fact, 00:20:19.000 --> 00:20:22.000 all things that have form were equal to us. 00:20:22.000 --> 00:20:24.000 We weren't about dominating. 00:20:25.840 --> 00:20:28.840 - The spiritual relationship that our peoples had 00:20:28.840 --> 00:20:31.840 prior to invasion 00:20:31.840 --> 00:20:34.840 with all of creation, and recognizing that 00:20:34.840 --> 00:20:37.840 all beings have a spiritual essence, 00:20:37.840 --> 00:20:40.840 a spiritual entity, and that if we want 00:20:40.840 --> 00:20:43.840 to live in this universe in a good way, 00:20:43.880 --> 00:20:46.880 that it was absolutely essential that we learned how to 00:20:46.880 --> 00:20:48.880 maintain respectful relations 00:20:48.920 --> 00:20:50.920 with all of creation. 00:21:02.080 --> 00:21:04.080 They made us many promises, 00:21:04.080 --> 00:21:07.240 more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; 00:21:07.240 --> 00:21:11.440 they promised to take our land, and they took it. -Red Cloud 00:21:18.120 --> 00:21:21.280 When Europeans came to this land 00:21:21.280 --> 00:21:24.040 it was with... 00:21:24.040 --> 00:21:28.360 such a rapacious appetite 00:21:28.360 --> 00:21:31.880 it still has not been sated. 00:21:35.480 --> 00:21:37.480 - They brought Christianity, 00:21:37.480 --> 00:21:39.480 they brought colonization, 00:21:39.480 --> 00:21:42.280 and, certainly, they did bring civilization. 00:21:43.200 --> 00:21:46.200 - They came in, and they were sent with this, 00:21:46.200 --> 00:21:49.200 commission, they felt, apparently, to dominate the land 00:21:49.200 --> 00:21:52.120 and it was just there for the taking -- these people would accept 00:21:52.120 --> 00:21:55.520 beads, or just kind of get out of the way, 00:21:55.520 --> 00:21:58.920 and of course they had superior firepower at that time, too. 00:21:59.920 --> 00:22:03.160 - Right off the bat, with Christopher Columbus 00:22:03.160 --> 00:22:05.000 landing in the Caribbean region on what is 00:22:05.000 --> 00:22:07.000 today Haiti and the Dominican Republic, 00:22:07.000 --> 00:22:10.000 they initiated almost immediately a genocide 00:22:10.000 --> 00:22:13.000 down there that depopulated most of the 00:22:13.000 --> 00:22:15.000 nation, the Taino, and the Arawaks. 00:22:15.000 --> 00:22:18.000 One of the main things that happened was the introduction 00:22:18.000 --> 00:22:22.000 of diseases, which was basically biological warfare. 00:22:22.240 --> 00:22:24.240 - The smallpox was spread through 00:22:24.240 --> 00:22:27.240 tobacco and blankets 00:22:27.280 --> 00:22:29.280 and given to the Indian people. 00:22:30.160 --> 00:22:33.000 So it didn't take them long to be 00:22:33.000 --> 00:22:37.000 decimated because they were pure. 00:22:37.040 --> 00:22:40.320 And the smallpox was vicious, very vicious. 00:22:40.320 --> 00:22:42.320 - When Europeans came, much of what they 00:22:42.360 --> 00:22:46.480 were interested in was rapid resource exploitation. 00:22:46.480 --> 00:22:49.480 They wanted to get wealthy in the new world. 00:22:49.480 --> 00:22:52.480 And as they were seeking that wealth, 00:22:52.480 --> 00:22:54.480 they worked with indigenous nations to undermine 00:22:54.480 --> 00:22:57.480 traditional economies and undermine the 00:22:57.520 --> 00:22:59.840 relationship that indigenous populations have with 00:22:59.840 --> 00:23:02.080 the lands so that indigenous peoples could then do 00:23:02.080 --> 00:23:06.120 do the work of resource exploitation and extraction 00:23:06.120 --> 00:23:09.120 for the Europeans so that they could get wealthy. 00:23:10.040 --> 00:23:12.040 - In imposing those things on indigenous peoples, of course, 00:23:12.080 --> 00:23:15.080 they just destroyed indigenous peoples and their nations and 00:23:15.080 --> 00:23:18.120 their way of life. Generally, indigenous peoples suffered 00:23:18.120 --> 00:23:22.160 90% or more depopulation rate 00:23:22.160 --> 00:23:25.160 upon having contact with Europeans. 00:23:25.160 --> 00:23:28.160 It was a genocide, war for territory, 00:23:28.200 --> 00:23:31.200 because the Europeans wanted to take the resources. 00:23:39.040 --> 00:23:42.040 - Settler society has worked to destroy 00:23:42.040 --> 00:23:44.040 what it needs to live, 00:23:44.040 --> 00:23:46.040 and that's suicidal. It's a suicidal mission. 00:23:46.040 --> 00:23:50.040 There's no way that it can be sustainable in the long term. 00:23:58.000 --> 00:24:04.800 Premise III 00:24:05.520 --> 00:24:07.520 - I gave a talk in Oregon a couple years ago, 00:24:07.520 --> 00:24:09.520 and this guy afterwards said, "You know, you talk a lot about 00:24:09.520 --> 00:24:12.520 this culture being based on violence, but I don't see it, 00:24:12.520 --> 00:24:14.520 you know, I'm not violent". 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. 00:24:17.520 --> 00:24:19.520 I was like, "Look, do we even need to talk about that?" 00:24:20.000 --> 00:24:22.000 - He's fucking faking he's dead! 00:24:22.000 --> 00:24:24.000 - Yeah, he's breathing. 00:24:24.000 --> 00:24:26.000 - He's faking he's fucking dead! 00:24:27.080 --> 00:24:28.080 GUNSHOT 00:24:28.560 --> 00:24:30.560 - He's dead NOW. 00:24:31.000 --> 00:24:34.000 - Our way of living, industrial civilization, is based on, 00:24:34.000 --> 00:24:36.960 requires, and would collapse very quickly 00:24:36.960 --> 00:24:40.960 without persistent and widespread violence. 00:24:43.120 --> 00:24:45.120 - A large explosion! A large explosion! 00:24:47.040 --> 00:24:48.040 - Wow. 00:24:49.680 --> 00:24:52.680 - I'll just take a couple eggs. How many you want? 00:24:52.680 --> 00:24:54.680 - Two, two is good. Okay. Now what next? 00:24:54.680 --> 00:24:56.680 - Some ham, tomato. 00:24:56.680 --> 00:24:58.680 - Tomato, okay, how about that? 00:24:58.680 --> 00:25:00.680 - Okay, some onion. Ooh, and cheese! 00:25:00.680 --> 00:25:04.680 - Everything, then, right, you want everything. Okay. I understand, okay. 00:25:04.680 --> 00:25:07.680 We'll just pop this on. Now watch! 00:25:07.680 --> 00:25:09.680 I'm chopping the ham and veggies, grating the cheese, 00:25:09.680 --> 00:25:11.680 and whipping the eggs all... 00:25:11.680 --> 00:25:13.680 ...in three seconds. The machine that just made 00:25:13.680 --> 00:25:18.680 those smoothies for Verna and Fred, can make an omelette. 00:25:19.600 --> 00:25:22.600 There's not much time left to get this beautiful hope diamond necklace, 00:25:22.600 --> 00:25:24.600 less than 50 seconds. Gillian? 00:25:24.600 --> 00:25:27.600 - Absolutely, John, you're going to want to give us a call to get 00:25:27.600 --> 00:25:29.600 this beautiful hope diamond necklace. 00:25:29.600 --> 00:25:32.600 This is a 45.52 carat diamond surrounded by 00:25:32.600 --> 00:25:34.600 16 white diamonds. 00:25:34.600 --> 00:25:37.600 It has a platinum chain bearing 46 MORE diamonds. 00:25:39.160 --> 00:25:42.160 - These are twelve four-ounce southern 00:25:42.160 --> 00:25:44.160 barbecue chicken breasts. 00:25:45.840 --> 00:25:47.840 These Stuffin GourmetÂŹĂ, farm-fresh chicken breast; 00:25:47.840 --> 00:25:50.840 they come from the barnyard to your backyard. 00:25:50.840 --> 00:25:53.840 They're wonderfully marinated and guaranteed to be tender, 00:25:53.880 --> 00:25:57.920 juicy, and downright delicious. 00:25:58.160 --> 00:26:00.160 - Fine-tune those measurements, we keep them on file. 00:26:00.160 --> 00:26:02.160 They're saved, they're on our computer. 00:26:02.160 --> 00:26:05.160 Go back into the section where you reorder, 00:26:05.160 --> 00:26:08.160 and fine-tune those measurements for us. 00:26:08.160 --> 00:26:10.160 And then we'll have a chance to send you 00:26:10.160 --> 00:26:12.160 another pair of customized jeans 00:26:12.160 --> 00:26:15.000 that we really believe are going to fit perfectly. 00:26:17.200 --> 00:26:19.880 - We're going to do a countdown, 00:26:19.880 --> 00:26:21.880 starting from 5. 00:26:21.880 --> 00:26:23.880 Everybody got to help me out here, 00:26:23.880 --> 00:26:24.880 5, 00:26:24.880 --> 00:26:26.120 4, 00:26:26.120 --> 00:26:27.360 3, 00:26:27.360 --> 00:26:28.360 2, 00:26:28.360 --> 00:26:29.360 1 00:26:29.360 --> 00:26:30.360 (explosion) 00:26:30.360 --> 00:26:32.360 Ho! 00:26:35.920 --> 00:26:37.920 It worked! 00:26:49.120 --> 00:26:51.120 Second, I said, "Okay, do you pay rent?" 00:26:52.000 --> 00:26:54.280 He's like, "Yeah..." 00:26:55.280 --> 00:26:57.280 I said, "Why?" 00:26:57.280 --> 00:26:59.280 He said, "Because, I don't own." 00:26:59.280 --> 00:27:01.840 I said, "No, no, no, what would happen if you didn't pay rent?" 00:27:01.840 --> 00:27:03.640 He said, "Well, the sheriff would come and evict me." 00:27:03.640 --> 00:27:05.760 I said, "I don't know what that means. What would happen? 00:27:05.760 --> 00:27:08.520 He said, "Well, the sheriff would come and he would knock on the door..." 00:27:08.520 --> 00:27:10.520 I said, "Okay, great, what happens if you open the door... 00:27:12.400 --> 00:27:15.400 ...and you say, 'Hey! I'm just finishing up making dinner. 00:27:15.400 --> 00:27:17.040 You want some?' 00:27:17.040 --> 00:27:20.080 And the sheriff sits down, you feed him you don't poison him 00:27:22.880 --> 00:27:25.040 And then, after dinner you say, 00:27:25.040 --> 00:27:28.880 you've been somewhat pleasant company, but not all that pleasant, 00:27:28.880 --> 00:27:31.240 so I would like for you to leave my home now.' What would happen? 00:27:31.240 --> 00:27:33.240 He said, "Well, the sheriff would pull out his gun and say, 00:27:33.240 --> 00:27:35.240 'I'm here to evict you, because you didn't pay rent.'" 00:27:35.240 --> 00:27:39.080 I said, "Ahh. So, the reason you pay rent is because if you don't, 00:27:39.080 --> 00:27:42.120 some guy with a gun is going to come take you away." 00:27:42.120 --> 00:27:44.880 He said, "I think I get it." 00:27:44.880 --> 00:27:46.160 I said, "Well, let's try again. 00:27:46.160 --> 00:27:48.720 What happens if you're hungry, so you go to the grocery store 00:27:48.720 --> 00:27:51.080 and you just start eating. What's going to happen?" 00:27:51.120 --> 00:27:52.160 "someone will call the sheriff." 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, 00:27:54.600 --> 00:27:56.200 he's a real asshole, isn't he?" So, one of the reasons 00:27:56.240 --> 00:27:58.240 we don't see a lot of the violence, is because it's exported. 00:27:58.240 --> 00:28:00.240 Another reason we don't see a lot of the violence is because 00:28:00.280 --> 00:28:02.280 we've been so metabolized into the system 00:28:02.280 --> 00:28:05.280 that we've bought into this strange notion that it's okay 00:28:05.280 --> 00:28:08.280 to have to pay to exist on the planet. 00:28:08.320 --> 00:28:10.320 That's really, really weird. 00:28:10.320 --> 00:28:12.320 And, if you don't pay, then some guy with a gun is going to come 00:28:12.320 --> 00:28:14.320 and bad things are going to happen to you. 00:28:14.480 --> 00:28:19.480 Figure II 00:28:28.840 --> 00:28:30.840 A few years a go, I got a call from a friend of mine. 00:28:30.840 --> 00:28:32.840 She's an environmental activist. 00:28:33.040 --> 00:28:35.040 She was crying, and she said, 00:28:35.040 --> 00:28:38.040 "This works just killing me, it's breaking my heart." 00:28:38.920 --> 00:28:40.920 I said, "Yeah, I know. It'll do that." 00:28:42.160 --> 00:28:44.160 Then she said, 00:28:44.160 --> 00:28:46.160 "The dominant culture hates everything doesn't it?" 00:28:46.160 --> 00:28:48.160 I said, "Yeah, it does. Even itself." 00:28:48.440 --> 00:28:51.440 She said, "It has a death urge, doesn't it?" I said, "Yeah, it does." 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?" 00:28:53.480 --> 00:28:55.480 I said, "Yeah it is, unless it's stopped." 00:28:56.080 --> 00:28:58.080 Then she said, "We're not going to make it 00:28:58.080 --> 00:29:00.080 to some great, new, glorious tomorrow, are we?" 00:29:08.080 --> 00:29:13.760 Green is the color of money 00:29:18.120 --> 00:29:21.360 - 98% of the old-growth forests are gone. 00:29:21.360 --> 00:29:24.360 99% of the prairies are gone. 00:29:24.360 --> 00:29:29.080 80% of the rivers on this planet do not support life anymore. 00:29:29.080 --> 00:29:31.080 We are out of species, we're out of soil, 00:29:31.080 --> 00:29:33.080 and we are out of time. 00:29:33.080 --> 00:29:35.080 And what we are being told 00:29:35.080 --> 00:29:37.080 by most of the environmental movement 00:29:37.080 --> 00:29:40.040 is that the way to stop all of this 00:29:40.040 --> 00:29:42.040 is through personal, consumer choices. 00:29:42.640 --> 00:29:44.640 - By simply purchasing our product, 00:29:44.640 --> 00:29:47.640 the consumer can make a small, easy step to a greener Earth. 00:29:47.640 --> 00:29:49.640 So, by taking that one roll, and buying 00:29:49.680 --> 00:29:52.160 that one roll, you can help save millions of trees. 00:29:52.920 --> 00:29:56.920 - I think we can really look at the history 00:29:56.960 --> 00:29:58.960 of the environmental movement to tell 00:29:58.960 --> 00:30:00.960 us a lot about why it hasn't been working. 00:30:00.960 --> 00:30:04.960 There was a lot of pretty radical and militant environmentalism 00:30:04.960 --> 00:30:07.960 happening, especially in the 70's and 80's. 00:30:07.960 --> 00:30:10.960 In a lot of ways, that was kind of a heyday for environmentalism. 00:30:10.960 --> 00:30:12.960 You know, Greenpeace was founded. 00:30:12.960 --> 00:30:16.960 It started to become very mainstream in some quarters to be an environmentalist. 00:30:17.000 --> 00:30:20.000 And then there was also a shift around that time when... 00:30:20.000 --> 00:30:22.000 ...corporations realized that they could sell 00:30:22.040 --> 00:30:25.040 a lot of things by calling them "green". 00:30:25.840 --> 00:30:27.840 - Green-washing is an attempt by corporations to 00:30:27.840 --> 00:30:32.840 put labels on their activity that are popular 00:30:32.840 --> 00:30:34.840 and that appeal to people's sensibility about, 00:30:34.840 --> 00:30:38.320 and concern for, the environment and for ecology. 00:30:40.520 --> 00:30:43.520 - For the mast majority of people within society today, 00:30:43.520 --> 00:30:47.520 there's a total sense of denial and disconnect 00:30:47.520 --> 00:30:51.520 between what they think is good and right 00:30:51.520 --> 00:30:56.520 and then their actions as a society or as a civilization, 00:30:56.520 --> 00:30:59.520 especially as it relates to the natural world. 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 00:31:07.360 --> 00:31:10.360 because they confuse what is real with what is not real. 00:31:10.400 --> 00:31:14.400 What they do is take the industrial economy as a given. 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." 00:31:21.960 --> 00:31:24.960 - It doesn't matter if I buy, 00:31:25.040 --> 00:31:28.040 hemp soap if there's a runaway greenhouse effect 00:31:28.080 --> 00:31:30.280 and the planet becomes uninhabitable. 00:31:30.280 --> 00:31:32.280 - The modern mainstream environmental movement of the 00:31:32.280 --> 00:31:34.280 big environmental organizations -- 00:31:34.280 --> 00:31:37.280 Greenpeace, and Sierra Club, and the others -- 00:31:37.320 --> 00:31:41.320 is rooted in that very same cultural lie 00:31:41.320 --> 00:31:44.320 that nature is resources. 00:31:44.360 --> 00:31:47.360 Nature is things to be used and managed. 00:31:47.360 --> 00:31:50.360 Nature is, as the philosopher 00:31:50.360 --> 00:31:53.360 Martin Heidegger put it, just a vast gasoline station 00:31:53.360 --> 00:31:57.680 that we can endlessly extract from. 00:31:57.680 --> 00:32:00.680 They may say we need to manage it more wisely, 00:32:00.680 --> 00:32:03.680 but as long as they maintain the mindset that 00:32:03.680 --> 00:32:06.680 we are the lords of creation and 00:32:06.760 --> 00:32:09.760 creation exists for us as resources to be transformed into commodities 00:32:09.800 --> 00:32:12.800 for us to buy and sell, as long as they maintain 00:32:12.800 --> 00:32:16.800 that perspective on what it means to be an environmentalist, 00:32:16.880 --> 00:32:19.880 then they're working within the same framework of 00:32:19.920 --> 00:32:24.920 an ultimately self-destructive path that the culture is on. 00:32:25.800 --> 00:32:29.800 In May 2010, 21 logging companies signed a deal with several major environmental 00:32:29.800 --> 00:32:33.800 organizations, including Greenpeace and the David Suzuki Foundation. 00:32:33.800 --> 00:32:37.800 The deal, known as "The Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement" aimed to silence all 00:32:37.800 --> 00:32:40.800 criticism of logging practices in the boreal forest. 00:32:40.840 --> 00:32:43.920 The Marketplace is also going to be very important 00:32:43.920 --> 00:32:46.920 Many cusomers have been pushing for change in the boreal forest. 00:32:46.960 --> 00:32:48.960 The Forest Product Association 00:32:48.960 --> 00:32:50.960 and its 21 member companies are 00:32:50.960 --> 00:32:53.960 responding to the demand for greener products, 00:32:53.960 --> 00:32:56.960 and that marketplace is going to pay close attention. 00:32:56.960 --> 00:32:59.960 If the change isn't happening, then they're going to put 00:33:00.000 --> 00:33:02.000 pressure on the parties who were part of the agreement -- 00:33:02.000 --> 00:33:05.000 the environmental organizations, the forest products companies -- 00:33:05.000 --> 00:33:08.000 to do the things that they've set out to do. 00:33:08.000 --> 00:33:11.000 And the will reward the companies 00:33:11.000 --> 00:33:13.000 when things begin to be implemented and 00:33:13.000 --> 00:33:15.960 the change happens on the ground. I'm fully confident of that. 00:33:15.960 --> 00:33:18.960 - One interesting piece of the agreement is 00:33:18.960 --> 00:33:22.960 with Greenpeace, David Suzuki, Forest Ethics, 00:33:22.960 --> 00:33:25.960 Canadian Parks and Wilderness on our side, 00:33:25.960 --> 00:33:28.960 when someone else comes and tries to bully us, 00:33:28.960 --> 00:33:31.960 the agreement actually requires that they come and 00:33:32.000 --> 00:33:35.000 work with us in repelling the attack and we'll be 00:33:35.000 --> 00:33:38.000 able to say, "Fight me, fight my gang." 00:33:38.040 --> 00:33:41.040 - I personally have no use for large, 00:33:41.040 --> 00:33:44.040 institutionalized environmental organizations; 00:33:44.080 --> 00:33:47.080 I think they're more of a problem than a help. 00:33:47.080 --> 00:33:49.080 They're just eco-bureaucracies. 00:33:49.000 --> 00:33:51.000 And, you know, I won't name any because I don't like to badmouth 00:33:51.000 --> 00:33:53.000 organizations, except for one, which I 00:33:53.000 --> 00:33:55.000 feel that I can, and that's Greenpeace. And the reason I 00:33:55.040 --> 00:33:59.040 can criticize Greenpeace is I am a co-creator of Greenpeace, 00:33:59.080 --> 00:34:03.080 and therefore I feel like Dr. Frankenstein sometimes, and I feel that since I helped 00:34:03.080 --> 00:34:05.080 create the thing I can certainly criticize it. 00:34:05.120 --> 00:34:07.120 And I think that Greenpeace has become 00:34:07.120 --> 00:34:10.120 the world's biggest feel-good organization now. People join it 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." 00:34:14.120 --> 00:34:17.120 Greenpeace brings in close to $300 million a year, 00:34:17.120 --> 00:34:19.120 and what do they do with that money? 00:34:19.120 --> 00:34:21.120 Generate more money. And the people who 00:34:21.120 --> 00:34:24.120 are at the top of the totem pole now are not environmentalists -- 00:34:24.120 --> 00:34:26.120 they're fundraisers, they're accountants, 00:34:26.120 --> 00:34:28.120 they're lawyers, they're businesspeople. 00:34:28.960 --> 00:34:30.960 People are voting with their dollars at the checkout stands. It's because 00:34:31.000 --> 00:34:34.000 they know the polling shows that the public cares, 00:34:34.000 --> 00:34:36.000 and ultimately they're going to care about their 00:34:36.000 --> 00:34:40.000 profit margin and whether they can sell products. 00:34:40.360 --> 00:34:43.160 What's happened in British Columbia with the 00:34:43.160 --> 00:34:47.160 environmental movement, it's been stalemated. 00:34:47.200 --> 00:34:52.920 The big leaders there compromised; 00:34:52.920 --> 00:34:55.400 they went in bed 00:34:55.400 --> 00:34:57.400 and it snuffed out that movement. 00:35:18.680 --> 00:35:20.680 - So what happened was there was direct action, there were blockades 00:35:20.720 --> 00:35:22.720 there was an international market campaign 00:35:22.720 --> 00:35:24.720 that put a lot of pressure on the companies 00:35:24.760 --> 00:35:26.760 that were logging in the Great Bear Rainforest. 00:35:26.760 --> 00:35:28.760 But the end result was that it all fed into 00:35:28.800 --> 00:35:31.800 a closed-door negotiation with 00:35:31.800 --> 00:35:34.800 Tzeporah Berman as chief negotiator 00:35:34.800 --> 00:35:37.800 on the conservationists' side, where a lot of the groups 00:35:37.840 --> 00:35:40.840 that actually did the work, the direct actions, 00:35:40.840 --> 00:35:43.840 and did the market campaigns were shut out of the process. 00:35:43.840 --> 00:35:46.840 Public oversight was removed and the protocol agreements 00:35:46.880 --> 00:35:49.880 that were signed with First Nations and with conservation groups 00:35:49.880 --> 00:35:51.880 were basically shunted aside. 00:35:51.880 --> 00:35:54.880 So the protocol agreements gave 00:35:54.880 --> 00:35:56.880 the negotiators a mandate to 00:35:56.880 --> 00:35:59.880 negotiate for 40 to 60 percent conservation 00:35:59.880 --> 00:36:03.480 but what happened was they agreed to 20 percent. 00:36:03.480 --> 00:36:05.480 - It's not strange to me when people tell me that 00:36:05.520 --> 00:36:07.520 the former president of Greenpeace 00:36:07.520 --> 00:36:09.520 now works for the logging industry of Canada. 00:36:09.560 --> 00:36:11.560 The former president of Greenpeace Australia 00:36:11.560 --> 00:36:13.560 now works for the mining industry. The former 00:36:13.720 --> 00:36:15.720 president of Greenpeace Norway works for the 00:36:15.720 --> 00:36:19.720 whaling industry. See, because it's just one corporate job to the next. 00:36:20.840 --> 00:36:24.840 In 1975 Greenpeace launched its anti-whaling campaign, 00:36:24.880 --> 00:36:28.880 confronting whaling fleets on the high seas. 00:36:30.640 --> 00:36:34.640 In June 2010, Greenpeace agreed to a deal that would allow 00:36:34.680 --> 00:36:39.440 nations like Japan to continue hunting whales for commercial purposes. 00:36:44.160 --> 00:36:46.160 The only measure in which we'll be judged by those 00:36:46.160 --> 00:36:48.800 come after is the health of the land and 00:36:48.800 --> 00:36:50.800 the health of the water, the health of the Earth. 00:36:50.840 --> 00:36:53.840 They're not going to give a shit as to whether we recycled; 00:36:53.840 --> 00:36:56.840 they're not going to give a shit as to whether we wrote our legislators; 00:36:56.840 --> 00:36:59.360 they're not going to give a shit as to how hard we tried. 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, 00:37:02.360 --> 00:37:04.360 whether the land will support them. 00:37:04.360 --> 00:37:06.360 And they're not going to care how hard we tried, 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... 00:37:09.360 --> 00:37:12.960 ...do we live on a living planet? 00:37:18.920 --> 00:37:24.800 Figure III 00:37:29.240 --> 00:37:31.240 OK, so... 00:37:38.320 --> 00:37:42.320 ... I don't know if you know this, but 00:37:42.360 --> 00:37:46.360 the original draft of the movie Star Wars was not 00:37:46.400 --> 00:37:49.040 written by Lucas. 00:37:49.040 --> 00:37:52.080 The original draft was written by environmentalists 00:37:52.120 --> 00:37:54.800 and it's a little bit different. 00:38:01.200 --> 00:38:03.040 For one thing, it wasn't actually called "Star WARS". 00:38:05.000 --> 00:38:08.000 It was called "Star Non-Violent Civil Disobedience". 00:38:08.000 --> 00:38:11.000 But the plot of Star Wars, for those of you who don't remember, is that 00:38:11.000 --> 00:38:15.000 the Empire has created this giant machine called the Death Star. 00:38:15.000 --> 00:38:19.000 And it's a machine that's capable of destroying entire planets. 00:38:19.000 --> 00:38:23.000 In the movie the rebels find a way to destroy the Death Star, 00:38:23.000 --> 00:38:25.000 and then at the very end, Luke Skywalker 00:38:25.040 --> 00:38:27.040 uses the force to get past all the 00:38:27.040 --> 00:38:30.040 tie fighters and to drop a torpedo down a thermal exhaust port, 00:38:30.040 --> 00:38:33.320 and to blow up the Death Star. 00:38:35.120 --> 00:38:37.120 Once again, the first draft of the movie written by 00:38:37.160 --> 00:38:39.160 environmentalists was a bit different: the rebels 00:38:39.160 --> 00:38:43.160 didn't actually blow up the Death Star. Instead they used 00:38:43.160 --> 00:38:47.160 other methods to slow the intergalactic march of empire. 00:38:47.160 --> 00:38:51.160 For example, they set up programs for people on planets about to be destroyed, 00:38:51.200 --> 00:38:54.200 to produce luxury items like hemp hacky sacks and gourmet coffee 00:38:54.200 --> 00:38:56.200 for sale to inhabitants of the Death Star. 00:38:56.200 --> 00:38:58.200 Audience members will also discover that there are plans afoot 00:38:58.200 --> 00:39:00.200 to encourage loads of troopers and other citizens of the empire 00:39:00.240 --> 00:39:02.240 to take eco-tours of doomed planets. 00:39:02.360 --> 00:39:05.360 The purpose will be to show to one and all that these planets are economically important 00:39:05.360 --> 00:39:07.360 to the Empire and so should not be destroyed. 00:39:07.360 --> 00:39:11.360 In a surprise move that will get viewers to the edges of their seats, 00:39:11.400 --> 00:39:13.400 other groups of rebels will file lawsuits against the Empire, 00:39:13.440 --> 00:39:16.440 attempting to show that the Environmental Impact Statement that Darth Vader 00:39:16.440 --> 00:39:19.440 was required to file, failed to adequately support its decision 00:39:19.440 --> 00:39:22.440 that blowing up this planet would cause "no significant impact". 00:39:22.480 --> 00:39:24.480 Viewers will thrill to learn of plans to boycott items produced 00:39:24.480 --> 00:39:26.480 by corporations that have Darth Vader on the board of directors, 00:39:26.520 --> 00:39:28.520 and they'll leap to their feet in theaters worldwide 00:39:28.560 --> 00:39:32.560 when they see bags full of letters written directly to Mr. Vader himself 00:39:32.600 --> 00:39:34.600 asking that he please not blow up anymore planets. 00:39:34.600 --> 00:39:37.600 Now, we all know that all would be enough not only to 00:39:37.600 --> 00:39:40.600 bring the Empire to its knees, but to make a damn fine and exciting movie. 00:39:40.600 --> 00:39:42.600 The thing is: there's more. 00:39:42.600 --> 00:39:45.600 Thousands of renegade rebels, unhappy with what 00:39:45.600 --> 00:39:48.600 they perceive as toadying on the part of the mainstream rebels 00:39:48.600 --> 00:39:51.600 decide, in a scene guaranteed to bring tears to even the eyes 00:39:51.640 --> 00:39:53.640 of the most cold-hearted theatergoers, to stand on 00:39:53.640 --> 00:39:57.640 the planets to be destroyed, link arms, and sing "Give Peace a Chance." 00:39:57.800 --> 00:40:00.800 They send DVDs of that to Darth Vader and his 00:40:00.800 --> 00:40:02.800 boss the Grand Moff Tarkin, to whom they 00:40:02.800 --> 00:40:04.800 also send wave after wave of loving kindness. 00:40:04.840 --> 00:40:06.840 A the few rebels sneak aboard the Death Star and lock themselves 00:40:06.840 --> 00:40:08.840 down to various pieces of equipment. And stirring debates 00:40:08.880 --> 00:40:11.880 are held onscreen as to whether the rebels should 00:40:11.880 --> 00:40:13.880 voluntarily surrender on approach of the troopers, or whether 00:40:13.880 --> 00:40:15.880 they should remain locked down to the end. 00:40:17.080 --> 00:40:20.080 And in a brilliant and brave touch of authenticity, 00:40:20.080 --> 00:40:23.080 the rebels are never able to come to consensus. 00:40:23.080 --> 00:40:26.080 But there's more. Once inside the Death Star, a splinter group breaks off, 00:40:26.120 --> 00:40:30.160 they burn a couple of transporters, and they etch "Galaxy Liberation Front". 00:40:30.160 --> 00:40:33.160 And then another group breaks off from that group and they 00:40:33.160 --> 00:40:36.160 finally make it to Darth Vader's private room. And when 00:40:36.160 --> 00:40:38.160 they get there, they sneak up behind him 00:40:38.160 --> 00:40:40.160 and then they hit him with a vegan cream pie. 00:40:40.160 --> 00:40:43.160 And the directors decided to cut that because 00:40:43.160 --> 00:40:45.160 it was way too close to 00:40:45.160 --> 00:40:47.160 a scene in another movie they were developing at the same time 00:40:47.160 --> 00:40:49.160 called "The Plot to Pie Hitler". 00:40:49.000 --> 00:40:51.000 As the Death Star looms directly overhead, a few of the rebels 00:40:51.000 --> 00:40:54.120 advocate picking up weapons to fight back. 00:40:54.120 --> 00:40:56.120 And those rebels are generally shouted down by 00:40:56.120 --> 00:40:58.120 pacifist rebels who argue that attacking 00:40:58.240 --> 00:41:00.240 those who run the Death Star is "just another 00:41:00.360 --> 00:41:02.360 example of the Empire's harmful philosophy 00:41:02.400 --> 00:41:04.400 coming in by the back door.' 00:41:04.440 --> 00:41:06.440 "If we want to change Darth Vader," they say, 00:41:06.440 --> 00:41:08.440 "we must all first become that change ourselves. 00:41:08.480 --> 00:41:10.480 To change Darth Vader's heart, we must first change our own. 00:41:10.480 --> 00:41:13.480 We must, above all else, have compassion for 00:41:13.480 --> 00:41:17.080 Darth Vader, and remember that he, too, was once a child." 00:41:17.080 --> 00:41:20.080 So finally Leia, Luke, Han, Chewbacca, and a couple of robots show up 00:41:20.080 --> 00:41:23.080 and tell these others they've found a way to blow up the whole Death Star. 00:41:23.080 --> 00:41:25.080 And the rest of the rebels, of course, are just horrified. 00:41:25.080 --> 00:41:28.080 A scuffle breaks out between Leia, Luke, Han, and Chewbacca and the two 00:41:28.080 --> 00:41:30.080 robots on one side and the pacifists on the other. 00:41:30.080 --> 00:41:32.080 And the pacifists chase those four from the room and from the film 00:41:32.080 --> 00:41:34.080 which is not a big deal because they are minor characters anyway. 00:41:34.120 --> 00:41:36.120 But anyway, the way the movie ends is that 00:41:36.120 --> 00:41:38.120 the Death Star looms closer and closer and then you see 00:41:38.160 --> 00:41:40.160 the Death Star, and then you see the planet, 00:41:40.160 --> 00:41:42.160 and then you see the Death Star, and then you see the planet, 00:41:42.200 --> 00:41:45.200 and then you see the Death Star and you see the laser start to glow 00:41:45.200 --> 00:41:47.200 this hellish red, and then you see the planet again, 00:41:47.200 --> 00:41:49.200 and you see this little light -- 00:41:49.240 --> 00:41:52.240 and what that is: that's the environmentalists getting away before the planet gets blown up. 00:41:52.240 --> 00:41:54.240 And then you see the Death Star again and then it 00:41:54.240 --> 00:41:56.240 blows up the planet, and then, the final 00:41:56.240 --> 00:41:59.240 shot of the movie, which reveals what complete triumph this was for the 00:41:59.240 --> 00:42:01.400 rebels, is a still showing an 00:42:01.400 --> 00:42:04.240 article on the lower left of page 43 of the New Empire Times 00:42:04.240 --> 00:42:07.240 that devotes a full 3 sentences to the destruction of the planet. 00:42:07.240 --> 00:42:09.240 So it's like, "Yeah we got some press!" 00:42:10.800 --> 00:42:15.800 Premise IV 00:42:19.120 --> 00:42:22.120 The culture as a whole and 00:42:22.120 --> 00:42:28.400 most of its members are insane. 00:42:30.080 --> 00:42:33.080 The culture is driven by a death urge, 00:42:33.080 --> 00:42:38.080 an urge to destroy life. 00:43:01.160 --> 00:43:04.000 - The public really needs to understand that no combination 00:43:04.040 --> 00:43:09.040 of alternative miracle fuels, or biodiesel, or ethanol, 00:43:09.040 --> 00:43:14.040 or nuclear, or sun, or solar, or used french fry potato oil, 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. 00:43:19.560 --> 00:43:23.560 - We are using up all the very easily accessed energy sources: 00:43:23.600 --> 00:43:27.600 and we've really built this huge way of life based on cheap oil, essentially. 00:43:30.000 --> 00:43:34.000 - The world as we know it, which relies entirely on oil to function, 00:43:34.040 --> 00:43:37.000 is nearing its end. 00:43:38.400 --> 00:43:42.120 - We are headed for the crash. That oil is not going to come again. 00:44:00.000 --> 00:44:09.480 Fort McMurray Alberta, Canada 00:44:15.520 --> 00:44:18.520 - The tar sands are probably one of the biggest industrial 00:44:18.520 --> 00:44:21.200 projects in the history of mankind. 00:44:22.360 --> 00:44:24.360 - The tar sands are the largest, 00:44:24.480 --> 00:44:27.480 most destructive environmental project on the planet right now. 00:44:29.600 --> 00:44:31.600 - It's oil extraction, 00:44:31.600 --> 00:44:34.600 it's some of the dirtiest oil on the planet, 00:44:34.600 --> 00:44:37.600 which means that it takes the most energy to extract, 00:44:37.600 --> 00:44:41.600 and the reason that we're extracting this 00:44:41.600 --> 00:44:43.600 this particular brand of dirty, dirty, oil 00:44:43.640 --> 00:44:46.600 is because there's no other oil left to extract. 00:44:47.040 --> 00:44:49.040 - Tar sands really aren't oil. 00:44:49.080 --> 00:44:51.080 Effectively, the process by which you 00:44:51.080 --> 00:44:53.080 mine and refine tar sands 00:44:53.120 --> 00:44:56.120 is adding about a hundred million years of development 00:44:56.120 --> 00:44:58.120 through a synthetic process. 00:44:58.120 --> 00:45:00.120 The tar sands deposit is an area that covers 00:45:00.120 --> 00:45:03.120 the size of the state of New York, or larger than England 00:45:03.120 --> 00:45:05.120 is already considered the largest industrial project 00:45:05.120 --> 00:45:07.120 in human history, and it's barely begun. 00:45:08.840 --> 00:45:11.840 - They extract it from the sand by 00:45:11.840 --> 00:45:15.120 steaming and heating water, basically boiling it... 00:45:15.120 --> 00:45:19.920 ...so the oil sits on top of the water like a froth, 00:45:19.920 --> 00:45:22.920 then they scrape it off, and that's the bitumen. 00:45:24.080 --> 00:45:28.080 - There's mining processes and in situ processes, 00:45:28.120 --> 00:45:30.120 and both of them are pretty much trying to extract 00:45:30.120 --> 00:45:32.120 bitumen out of the sand. 00:45:33.120 --> 00:45:36.120 - To produce one barrel of oil 00:45:36.120 --> 00:45:38.120 you have to first, after you've cleared off the ground 00:45:38.120 --> 00:45:40.120 and broken all the trees down and so forth, then dig a pit, 00:45:40.120 --> 00:45:43.120 which can be up to two hundred feet deep. 00:45:43.120 --> 00:45:45.120 For each barrel of oil, there's four barrels of water used, 00:45:45.120 --> 00:45:47.120 in a process called a slurry 00:45:47.160 --> 00:45:49.160 where you spin it at a high speed, 00:45:49.160 --> 00:45:51.160 high velocity, with high temperatures of water, 00:45:51.000 --> 00:45:54.000 to separate the bitumen, which is the pre-synthetic oil, 00:45:54.000 --> 00:45:57.000 from the sands itself, and all the clays and silts. 00:45:57.000 --> 00:45:59.000 But that's after you've already dug out what has to be 00:45:59.000 --> 00:46:01.160 to be hundreds of tons of Earth. 00:46:02.800 --> 00:46:06.800 - The energy that's required to actually do that is approximately, 00:46:06.840 --> 00:46:08.840 people say for almost every barrel of oil you need 00:46:08.880 --> 00:46:11.880 about a half a barrel of energy just to produce this, 00:46:11.880 --> 00:46:13.880 so for every barrel of energy input, 00:46:13.880 --> 00:46:15.880 two barrels of oil are produced, 00:46:15.880 --> 00:46:17.880 whereas with conventional crude it was very, 00:46:17.920 --> 00:46:19.920 very minor in terms of the energy 00:46:19.920 --> 00:46:22.920 that's inputted to actually get the crude oil out. 00:46:22.920 --> 00:46:25.920 So the ratio that's most important to talk about is a ratio you could use 00:46:25.920 --> 00:46:29.920 in a country like Iraq, where for each barrel of oil you use to try to 00:46:29.920 --> 00:46:34.080 get more oil you'll get about a hundred barrels back. 00:46:38.000 --> 00:46:43.000 Fort Chipewyan Alberta, Canada 00:46:53.360 --> 00:46:56.240 - The Athabasca River, which runs through northern Alberta, 00:46:56.240 --> 00:47:00.240 where you have many different native communities living along the river, 00:47:00.280 --> 00:47:05.280 is being sucked of its water to fuel the tar sands operations. 00:47:06.840 --> 00:47:09.840 - Because of the contamination of the river 00:47:09.840 --> 00:47:12.840 from oil sands discharges 00:47:12.840 --> 00:47:15.840 of things like oil and grease and 00:47:15.840 --> 00:47:18.360 untreated sewage into the Athabasca River, 00:47:18.360 --> 00:47:20.360 and sometimes there's accidents, 00:47:20.360 --> 00:47:22.360 spills of these toxic chemicals 00:47:22.400 --> 00:47:25.040 directly into the Athabasca Rivers. 00:47:26.960 --> 00:47:28.960 - The community of Fort Chipewyan, both the Mikisew Cree 00:47:29.000 --> 00:47:32.000 and the Dene Chipewyan First Nation, 00:47:32.000 --> 00:47:34.000 who have been fighting and really at the front 00:47:34.000 --> 00:47:36.000 of raising the alarm about what's happening, 00:47:36.000 --> 00:47:39.000 and their community has been seeing all of this 00:47:39.000 --> 00:47:43.040 rise in rare cancers, autoimmune diseases, 00:47:43.040 --> 00:47:47.040 arsenic in the land, the moose meat, the fish 00:47:47.080 --> 00:47:50.080 are at high levels of heavy metals, mercuries, 00:47:50.080 --> 00:47:53.800 basically the whole environment up there is contaminated. 00:47:55.720 --> 00:47:57.720 - How this is effecting my community is that 00:47:57.720 --> 00:48:00.880 it's killing off the people of Fort Chipewyan. 00:48:00.920 --> 00:48:04.760 It's what I've called before "a slow, industrial genocide." 00:48:04.760 --> 00:48:06.760 I buried my auntie, 00:48:06.760 --> 00:48:09.760 I buried my uncle, I got an auntie living with it. 00:48:09.760 --> 00:48:12.760 And this is a war for our lives, 00:48:12.760 --> 00:48:14.760 because the government is allowing 00:48:14.760 --> 00:48:17.760 the people of Fort Chip to die. 00:48:17.760 --> 00:48:19.760 - The tar sands are not only fueling 00:48:19.760 --> 00:48:23.800 the second fastest rate of deforestation 00:48:23.800 --> 00:48:25.800 in the world outside of the Amazon River basin, 00:48:25.800 --> 00:48:27.800 they're already the second fastest 00:48:27.840 --> 00:48:30.480 contributor to climate change in North America. 00:48:30.480 --> 00:48:33.480 And with the goals of production that they're talking about, the CO2 emissions 00:48:33.480 --> 00:48:35.480 will make it so the only way 00:48:35.480 --> 00:48:38.480 you could outstrip a climate change contributor 00:48:38.480 --> 00:48:40.480 for North America would be to combine all 00:48:40.520 --> 00:48:42.520 the coal-fired power plants from 00:48:42.520 --> 00:48:45.520 Alberta to Arizona and in between, across all of North America. 00:48:47.000 --> 00:48:49.000 - I think that the tar sands is the absurdity 00:48:49.000 --> 00:48:52.000 of still desiring oil 00:48:52.000 --> 00:48:54.000 when we know so well 00:48:54.000 --> 00:48:56.000 that, for example, fresh water is just 00:48:56.040 --> 00:48:58.040 an elemental part of human existence 00:48:58.040 --> 00:49:00.000 and they're running full force towards 00:49:00.000 --> 00:49:03.040 extracting these last little bits of oil 00:49:03.040 --> 00:49:05.040 to sustain this plastic culture, 00:49:05.080 --> 00:49:07.080 this plastic civilization, 00:49:07.120 --> 00:49:10.400 to the destruction of the environment in which we can live. 00:49:11.560 --> 00:49:13.560 - People say it's like the world's addicted to crack, 00:49:13.600 --> 00:49:17.600 and this is like the dirtiest and most disgusting form of crack 00:49:17.640 --> 00:49:19.640 that'll keep it addicted for a lot longer, right. 00:49:19.680 --> 00:49:21.680 This is actually what it is. 00:49:21.680 --> 00:49:25.000 It is the most insane thing that people are doing. 00:49:31.040 --> 00:49:33.040 - We probably agree that civilization's 00:49:33.080 --> 00:49:36.360 going to crash, whether or not we help bring this about. 00:49:36.360 --> 00:49:39.360 If you don't agree with this, we probably have nothing to say to each other. 00:49:39.360 --> 00:49:42.080 We probably also agree that this crash will be messy. 00:49:42.120 --> 00:49:46.680 We agree further that since industrial civilization is systematically dismantling 00:49:46.680 --> 00:49:49.040 the ecological infrastructure of the planet... 00:49:49.040 --> 00:49:52.040 ...the sooner civilization comes down, whether or not we help it crash, 00:49:52.040 --> 00:49:55.040 the more life will remain afterwards to support both humans and nonhumans. 00:49:57.440 --> 00:50:02.440 Figure IV 00:50:06.280 --> 00:50:09.280 - The genesis of Endgame, the book, 00:50:09.280 --> 00:50:12.040 was really because I did some talks 00:50:12.040 --> 00:50:15.040 around the possibility of fighting back. 00:50:15.040 --> 00:50:18.040 And the response by the audience was really predictable. 00:50:18.080 --> 00:50:21.080 If it was an audience made up of sort of mainstream environmentalists 00:50:21.080 --> 00:50:23.080 and peace and social justice activists, 00:50:23.080 --> 00:50:27.080 often, they would put up what I've taken to calling a "Gandhi shield". 00:50:27.080 --> 00:50:30.080 Which is, they would say the names "Martin Luther King", "Dalai Lama", and "Gandhi" 00:50:30.120 --> 00:50:33.120 again and again, as fast as they can, to keep all evil thoughts at bay. 00:50:34.480 --> 00:50:37.480 And if it was grassroots environmentalists, 00:50:37.480 --> 00:50:39.480 they would do the same thing but then they would come 00:50:39.480 --> 00:50:41.480 up to me afterwards and they would say, 00:50:41.480 --> 00:50:44.160 WHISPERING "Thank you so much for bringing this up." 00:50:44.160 --> 00:50:47.760 Pacifying Resistance 00:50:49.040 --> 00:50:52.040 - Especially in North America, the pacifists and non-violent 00:50:52.040 --> 00:50:56.040 advocates have had a very defining role, 00:50:56.080 --> 00:50:58.080 and even a censoring role, in determining 00:50:58.120 --> 00:51:00.280 what other people's participation can be 00:51:00.280 --> 00:51:04.120 in a whole range of social struggles, and 00:51:04.160 --> 00:51:07.160 that the way that they've affected social struggles 00:51:07.160 --> 00:51:10.160 has made it very much easier for the state 00:51:10.160 --> 00:51:12.160 to control those social struggles, 00:51:12.160 --> 00:51:15.160 that non-violence plays a function 00:51:15.160 --> 00:51:17.160 of recuperating social struggles, 00:51:17.160 --> 00:51:20.160 of taking out their teeth and making them harmless, 00:51:20.160 --> 00:51:25.160 so that they can just exist in this cesspool of democratic plurality. 00:51:27.360 --> 00:51:30.360 - I wonder, what happens to that kind of energy or 00:51:30.360 --> 00:51:34.360 idealism or faith that something is about to change 00:51:34.400 --> 00:51:37.400 when it's certainly not going to change at all? 00:51:39.040 --> 00:51:41.040 - What are the false hopes that keep us tied to the system? 00:51:41.080 --> 00:51:43.080 What are the false hopes that bind us to 00:51:43.120 --> 00:51:46.120 unlivable situations and blind us to real possibilities? 00:51:46.120 --> 00:51:49.120 Does anybody really think that Weyerhauser's going to stop, 00:51:49.160 --> 00:51:51.200 deforesting because we asked nicely 00:51:51.200 --> 00:51:54.200 that Monsanto will stop Monsantoing because we ask nicely? 00:51:54.200 --> 00:51:56.200 I was talking to this person in the States several years ago and they said, 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." 00:52:00.560 --> 00:52:02.560 - We've got a couple of myths on the left that I would 00:52:02.600 --> 00:52:05.680 REALLY encourage us to get over. 00:52:05.680 --> 00:52:09.080 The first is that social change happens by moral suasion. 00:52:09.080 --> 00:52:12.040 It doesn't. It happens by force. 00:52:13.560 --> 00:52:16.560 - The problem with persuasion as a strategy is that 00:52:16.560 --> 00:52:19.560 it only works on people who can actually 00:52:19.600 --> 00:52:22.600 be convinced, and who can be 00:52:22.600 --> 00:52:24.600 relied upon to act from their position 00:52:24.600 --> 00:52:26.600 after their minds have been changed. 00:52:26.640 --> 00:52:29.640 And the problem is that we're not dealing with 00:52:29.640 --> 00:52:31.640 individuals who can be convinced or persuaded, 00:52:31.640 --> 00:52:34.640 we're dealing mostly with large, 00:52:34.640 --> 00:52:38.640 abstract, social organizations, and corporations which are 00:52:38.640 --> 00:52:42.640 basically sociopaths made out of huge numbers of people. 00:52:44.600 --> 00:52:47.600 - You can't argue with psychopaths, you can't argue with fascists, 00:52:47.600 --> 00:52:50.160 and you can't argue with those 00:52:50.160 --> 00:52:54.160 who are benefiting from an economic system. 00:52:54.000 --> 00:52:56.000 You have to stop them through some form of force, 00:52:56.000 --> 00:52:58.360 and that force can be violent or nonviolent. 00:52:58.360 --> 00:53:01.120 Could you have stopped Ted Bundy by peaceful means? 00:53:03.760 --> 00:53:06.760 - The Left, to a large extent subconsciously, 00:53:06.760 --> 00:53:08.760 has as its primary role 00:53:08.760 --> 00:53:11.840 to make resistance harmless. 00:53:11.840 --> 00:53:14.640 States have recognized that 00:53:14.640 --> 00:53:17.640 resistance will never disappear, that struggles will never disappear 00:53:17.640 --> 00:53:21.000 and in the past they tried suppressing struggles 00:53:21.000 --> 00:53:24.520 the first time that they showed their heads, that there was 00:53:24.520 --> 00:53:26.520 any sign of them, and that proved ineffective. 00:53:26.560 --> 00:53:29.560 So nowadays that way that states rule is by 00:53:29.560 --> 00:53:32.560 accepting the inevitability of conflict and resistance, 00:53:32.600 --> 00:53:35.600 and just trying to manage it permanently. 00:53:35.600 --> 00:53:38.600 "Keep the march going, there's nothing happening here! 00:53:38.600 --> 00:53:41.600 There's nothing happening, just one more line of police, 00:53:41.640 --> 00:53:44.640 so please keep the march going!" 00:53:45.680 --> 00:53:48.680 - Social movements in North America are locked 00:53:48.680 --> 00:53:52.680 into this pacifist doctrine that is imposed by 00:53:52.720 --> 00:53:54.720 the middle class reformists 00:53:54.720 --> 00:53:57.720 who want to control the movement and dictate 00:53:57.720 --> 00:54:00.600 how it conducts itself. 00:54:03.680 --> 00:54:06.680 - Advocates of nonviolence frequently say that nonviolence 00:54:06.680 --> 00:54:08.680 works, and the principal examples that they use of that 00:54:08.680 --> 00:54:11.680 are Gandhi in India and Martin Luther King in the U.S. 00:54:11.680 --> 00:54:14.680 The problem with that is, this constitutes a really great 00:54:14.680 --> 00:54:18.680 historical whitewashing, that in fact the resistance in 00:54:18.680 --> 00:54:20.680 India was incredibly diverse, and Gandhi was 00:54:20.720 --> 00:54:22.720 a very important figure within that resistance, 00:54:22.720 --> 00:54:27.320 but the resistance was by no means pacifist in its entirety. 00:54:28.280 --> 00:54:31.280 - Gandhi gets used as a way to shut down conversation. 00:54:32.920 --> 00:54:35.920 - Especially in the West, Gandhi is used as a way 00:54:35.920 --> 00:54:37.920 to quell any ideas of 00:54:37.920 --> 00:54:40.920 either direct action or what's perceived as violence or, 00:54:40.920 --> 00:54:42.920 sort of, you know, resistance that 00:54:42.960 --> 00:54:45.960 goes beyond what is seen as a sort of a 00:54:45.960 --> 00:54:49.960 pacifist or a peaceful means of resistance. 00:54:49.960 --> 00:54:52.960 - For years, I really bought into the whole 00:54:52.960 --> 00:54:55.960 Gandhian myth that is really sort of 00:54:55.960 --> 00:55:00.120 forced down the throats of activists in the United States, 00:55:00.120 --> 00:55:02.960 and the people who disabused me of that myth were 00:55:02.960 --> 00:55:04.960 when I first actually met some people from India. 00:55:04.960 --> 00:55:07.960 The people I talked to certainly didn't deify him, 00:55:07.960 --> 00:55:10.960 and many of them despised him. 00:55:10.960 --> 00:55:13.960 And they felt he was a collaborator and he was somebody 00:55:14.000 --> 00:55:16.000 whom the British could work with. 00:55:19.640 --> 00:55:21.640 - Gandhi's very well known in the West, 00:55:21.680 --> 00:55:24.680 but when you go to India, there's a freedom fighter and revolutionary 00:55:24.680 --> 00:55:26.680 leader called Bhagat Singh, 00:55:26.680 --> 00:55:30.680 who's in India probably almost as well known as Gandhi 00:55:30.720 --> 00:55:32.720 as a part of 00:55:32.760 --> 00:55:35.760 the independence movement and a leader in the independence movement. 00:55:35.760 --> 00:55:39.760 But in the West, most people probably have never heard his name. 00:55:39.760 --> 00:55:42.760 And the reason why that is, is that he used 00:55:42.760 --> 00:55:44.760 direct action tactics. 00:55:44.760 --> 00:55:47.760 There were generals of the British army that were killed; 00:55:47.760 --> 00:55:50.760 there was a bomb thrown in a British assembly to 00:55:50.760 --> 00:55:53.760 basically attract the attention of the public; 00:55:53.760 --> 00:55:57.760 there were weapons that people were getting off of railway cars. 00:56:00.960 --> 00:56:02.960 - With Gandhi and the Indian National Congress, 00:56:02.960 --> 00:56:05.960 where you had the moderates and the extremists, 00:56:05.960 --> 00:56:08.960 the moderates were legal; constitutional reform 00:56:08.960 --> 00:56:10.960 was their only method, 00:56:10.960 --> 00:56:14.960 and they were criticized for being a middle class clique, 00:56:15.000 --> 00:56:19.000 for being too slow, for being too legalistic, 00:56:19.040 --> 00:56:21.040 and for being basically ineffective. 00:56:21.040 --> 00:56:24.040 The extremists, on the other hand, were accused of being 00:56:24.040 --> 00:56:28.040 too aggressive, of being too fast and reckless and irresponsible. 00:56:29.360 --> 00:56:32.360 - Gandhi basically got negotiating power 00:56:32.360 --> 00:56:36.360 from the fact that there were other elements in the struggle 00:56:36.400 --> 00:56:39.400 which were even more threatening to British dominance. 00:56:39.400 --> 00:56:42.400 So the British specifically chose to dialogue with 00:56:42.440 --> 00:56:45.440 Gandhi because he was, perhaps for them, the least 00:56:45.440 --> 00:56:48.440 threatening of the important elements of resistance. 00:56:48.440 --> 00:56:52.440 - Gandhi came in as being the middleman. 00:56:52.440 --> 00:56:55.440 His theory of nonviolent, passive resistance 00:56:55.440 --> 00:56:59.440 seemed to be a bridge between the extremists and the moderates. 00:56:59.480 --> 00:57:02.320 - The British were bled white after WWII, 00:57:02.360 --> 00:57:05.360 and didn't have the morale left anymore for 00:57:05.360 --> 00:57:08.360 a big fight, and they helped choose somebody 00:57:08.400 --> 00:57:10.400 that they could work with. 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. 00:57:14.480 --> 00:57:17.480 - India went from being a colony to a neocolony. 00:57:17.480 --> 00:57:20.480 The British were still able to maintain their interests, less directly, 00:57:20.480 --> 00:57:26.160 with Indians being in positions of management. 00:57:31.080 --> 00:57:33.080 - My problem isn't with 00:57:33.120 --> 00:57:37.120 somebody doing nonviolent actions, it never has been. 00:57:37.160 --> 00:57:39.160 I mean, I say all the time that we need it all. 00:57:39.160 --> 00:57:42.160 My problem is that 00:57:42.160 --> 00:57:46.160 so many pacifists, especially in the United States, 00:57:46.200 --> 00:57:50.200 end up not supporting 00:57:50.240 --> 00:57:52.240 more radical or militant work. 00:57:53.520 --> 00:57:56.520 - The problem when this debate comes up is that 00:57:56.520 --> 00:58:00.520 you can't just assume that people that are 00:58:00.560 --> 00:58:03.560 resisting and are using a means of resistance 00:58:03.560 --> 00:58:06.560 haven't thought about what they're doing. And that's what 00:58:06.560 --> 00:58:08.560 I think is often the problem. When people 00:58:08.560 --> 00:58:11.560 decide to take certain actions and when people decide 00:58:11.560 --> 00:58:13.560 that, "Hey, you know, our marches aren't enough," 00:58:13.560 --> 00:58:15.560 or they're doing this or doing that, 00:58:15.560 --> 00:58:17.560 there's this assumption by a lot of people that 00:58:17.560 --> 00:58:21.560 want to toe the Gandhi line that, "Oh, they're just not thinking about it." 00:58:22.800 --> 00:58:25.800 - What most states will choose to do in similar circumstances 00:58:25.800 --> 00:58:28.800 is to find the elements of the resistance 00:58:28.800 --> 00:58:31.800 that are most easy to control and most easy to co-opt, 00:58:31.840 --> 00:58:35.840 to negotiate with them, and then to hand over power to THEM in order 00:58:35.880 --> 00:58:39.200 to continue the system that had already existed. 00:58:41.520 --> 00:58:43.520 - So again, you have the state doing the same thing it did 00:58:43.560 --> 00:58:46.560 with Gandhi and Martin Luther King it does with, for example, 00:58:46.560 --> 00:58:49.560 the environmental movement. So it invites the responsible leaders 00:58:49.600 --> 00:58:52.600 of the environmental movement into inquiries, 00:58:52.600 --> 00:58:56.600 government commissions, debates. It recognizes them -- 00:58:56.640 --> 00:58:58.640 they're the legitimate leaders -- because again, 00:58:58.640 --> 00:59:03.640 it doesn't want the movement to begin to adopt more militant resistance tactics. 00:59:03.640 --> 00:59:06.640 - The powerful do not ever give up without a struggle. 00:59:06.640 --> 00:59:08.640 Those are the famous words of Frederick Douglass 00:59:08.640 --> 00:59:12.280 when he said, "Power concedes nothing without a demand. 00:59:12.280 --> 00:59:14.280 It never has, and it never will." 00:59:21.640 --> 00:59:25.640 Figure V 00:59:27.920 --> 00:59:31.920 If we use more efficient electricity, 00:59:31.960 --> 00:59:34.000 appliances, we can save this much 00:59:34.000 --> 00:59:37.000 off of the global warming pollution that 00:59:37.040 --> 00:59:40.040 would otherwise be put into the atmosphere. 00:59:40.040 --> 00:59:43.040 If we use other end-use efficiency this much, 00:59:43.040 --> 00:59:45.560 if we have higher-mileage cars, this much. 00:59:45.600 --> 00:59:48.120 And all these begin to add up: 00:59:48.120 --> 00:59:51.120 other transport efficiency, renewable technology. 00:59:51.120 --> 00:59:53.960 We have everything we need, 00:59:54.000 --> 00:59:56.760 save, perhaps, political will. 00:59:56.760 --> 00:59:59.640 But you know what, in America, political will 00:59:59.640 --> 01:00:02.280 is a renewable resource. 01:00:04.520 --> 01:00:06.520 - When we see solutions, all the so-called solutions 01:00:06.560 --> 01:00:08.560 put forward to global warming, the thing 01:00:08.560 --> 01:00:11.440 they all have in common is that they take 01:00:11.440 --> 01:00:14.440 industrial civilization as a given, and they take 01:00:14.440 --> 01:00:17.920 the natural world as the dependent variable. 01:00:17.920 --> 01:00:20.080 It's all about saving civilization. 01:00:20.080 --> 01:00:22.080 And that's entirely backwards. 01:00:22.080 --> 01:00:25.080 What it should be is: we need to do whatever 01:00:25.080 --> 01:00:28.560 it takes to save life on the planet. 01:00:31.120 --> 01:00:33.120 - In the next 40 to 50 years, we're going to see the 01:00:33.160 --> 01:00:36.160 extinction of more species than we've seen in the past 01:00:36.160 --> 01:00:38.160 65 million years. 01:00:38.160 --> 01:00:41.160 That, to me, is a red light, 01:00:41.160 --> 01:00:45.160 and a siren going off as a call to people 01:00:45.160 --> 01:00:47.160 who will cut through the crap and 01:00:47.200 --> 01:00:49.200 do what is necessary to protect the Earth 01:00:49.240 --> 01:00:52.240 for here and now, and for future generations. 01:00:52.240 --> 01:00:54.240 It is you that are going to have to answer to your 01:00:54.240 --> 01:00:56.240 children, 50-75 years from now 01:00:56.240 --> 01:00:59.400 when they ask what you did during the eco-wars. 01:00:59.440 --> 01:01:02.280 And in that sense, 01:01:02.320 --> 01:01:05.320 each one of us has to live the life 01:01:05.320 --> 01:01:08.320 today, at this very moment, doing the things 01:01:08.320 --> 01:01:11.320 that we would be proud to tell our ancestors about. 01:01:12.200 --> 01:01:14.200 If we are serious about saving life on Earth 01:01:14.240 --> 01:01:17.000 we've got to start fighting back 01:01:17.000 --> 01:01:21.040 in the ways that people do when they realize they need 01:01:21.040 --> 01:01:23.040 to form a serious resistance movement. 01:01:24.120 --> 01:01:27.120 - Most indigenous populations who maintain any 01:01:27.120 --> 01:01:30.120 sense of a traditional worldview 01:01:30.120 --> 01:01:34.120 know that the way of life that 01:01:34.120 --> 01:01:36.680 settlers society has imposed on this 01:01:36.680 --> 01:01:38.680 land is unsustainable. 01:01:38.680 --> 01:01:41.680 Yet, there has been a sense 01:01:41.680 --> 01:01:43.680 that we really need to kind of 01:01:43.680 --> 01:01:45.680 wait until it collapses, 01:01:45.720 --> 01:01:48.720 or wait until they're done doing, 01:01:48.720 --> 01:01:50.720 or they've reached their limit and they can't 01:01:50.720 --> 01:01:53.720 continue the way that they've been going on, 01:01:53.720 --> 01:01:55.720 and be patient. 01:01:56.560 --> 01:02:02.560 Fuck patience 01:02:10.920 --> 01:02:13.920 I think really the big problem is power, 01:02:13.920 --> 01:02:15.920 and that's something liberals have a lot of trouble kind of 01:02:15.920 --> 01:02:17.920 thinking about or wrapping their heads around. 01:02:17.960 --> 01:02:19.960 And the problem is that this culture has 01:02:20.000 --> 01:02:22.560 clearly defined hierarchy. There are people 01:02:22.560 --> 01:02:25.560 who are clearly in power, and who benefit 01:02:25.560 --> 01:02:27.560 from power, and benefit from destroying the planet, 01:02:27.560 --> 01:02:30.560 and who benefit from exploiting other people, 01:02:30.560 --> 01:02:32.560 and they've been doing that for a long time. 01:02:32.560 --> 01:02:36.680 And their power is more important to them than anything else. 01:02:36.680 --> 01:02:39.680 - There is no personal consumer choice that is 01:02:39.680 --> 01:02:42.680 going to dismantle the systems of 01:02:42.680 --> 01:02:45.680 power that are behind the destruction of our planet. 01:02:45.680 --> 01:02:48.680 What we need is organized political resistance. 01:02:49.120 --> 01:02:51.120 - You cannot just simply ask the state for these reforms, 01:02:51.160 --> 01:02:53.160 or for any kind of gains or concessions, 01:02:53.000 --> 01:02:55.000 you have to force them to do it. 01:02:55.000 --> 01:02:57.000 And that's the power of disruption. 01:02:58.000 --> 01:03:00.000 It was a bloody day at the Mohawk Indian 01:03:00.000 --> 01:03:02.000 community in Oka, Quebec, near Montreal. 01:03:02.040 --> 01:03:04.040 "Provincial police in riot gear stormed 01:03:04.040 --> 01:03:06.040 the barricades the Mohawks had set up. 01:03:06.080 --> 01:03:09.080 There were clouds of tear gas, a hail of bullets, 01:03:09.080 --> 01:03:11.080 and in the midst of the battle, a policeman 01:03:11.080 --> 01:03:14.080 was killed. All this because of 01:03:14.080 --> 01:03:17.080 a dispute over a piece of forest the Indians claim is theirs, 01:03:17.080 --> 01:03:20.080 a forest town council wants to bulldoze 01:03:20.120 --> 01:03:22.120 to expand the local golf course." 01:03:22.120 --> 01:03:24.120 "Police retreated as abruptly as they'd attacked, 01:03:24.160 --> 01:03:27.160 leaving behind their cruisers. They also left a heavy 01:03:27.160 --> 01:03:29.160 front-end loader which the Mohawks 01:03:29.160 --> 01:03:31.160 immediately put to their own use. 01:03:31.200 --> 01:03:33.200 The police cruisers, crushed and useless, 01:03:33.200 --> 01:03:35.200 became barricades themselves." 01:03:36.280 --> 01:03:38.960 We treat these trees and the land like our mother. 01:03:39.480 --> 01:03:42.040 These people are raping our mother. 01:03:42.040 --> 01:03:44.600 What would you do if they raped your mother? 01:03:46.600 --> 01:03:48.600 - These politicians are servants of the 01:03:48.640 --> 01:03:51.640 system; it's their job to keep it going, it's their job 01:03:51.640 --> 01:03:54.160 to keep profit rolling in for the ruling class. 01:03:54.160 --> 01:03:57.160 And they will never, ever, act in the 01:03:57.160 --> 01:04:00.320 people's interests or the interests of the planet. 01:04:00.320 --> 01:04:02.160 It doesn't matter what we say, 01:04:02.160 --> 01:04:04.160 the only thing that they will respond to is 01:04:04.160 --> 01:04:06.160 force, and the threat of social disruption. 01:04:06.200 --> 01:04:09.200 And if we allow them to stay in power, 01:04:09.200 --> 01:04:11.200 they will always take back any gain 01:04:11.200 --> 01:04:13.320 that we manage to get from them. 01:04:13.320 --> 01:04:15.320 - It's really important to recognize that 01:04:15.320 --> 01:04:17.320 no struggle is done, 01:04:17.360 --> 01:04:19.360 that there's not any possibility 01:04:19.400 --> 01:04:22.400 of any lasting victory as long as the state 01:04:22.400 --> 01:04:24.400 still exists, but we can definitely see in the histories 01:04:24.400 --> 01:04:26.400 of struggle, small gains have been won, 01:04:26.400 --> 01:04:28.400 and ways in which we've empowered ourselves 01:04:28.440 --> 01:04:30.440 by the use of all tactics, and I think 01:04:30.440 --> 01:04:33.440 it's not even important to 01:04:33.440 --> 01:04:36.440 really say if a particular tactic is 01:04:36.440 --> 01:04:38.440 violent or not because this is just 01:04:38.440 --> 01:04:41.440 kind of a moral category meant to restrict action. 01:04:41.440 --> 01:04:43.440 I think it's more important to look 01:04:43.440 --> 01:04:46.440 at which tactics can be empowering, 01:04:46.440 --> 01:04:48.440 and liberating, and useful. 01:04:51.920 --> 01:04:54.920 - Purely above-ground means are designed to 01:04:54.920 --> 01:04:57.920 facilitate the expansion of global capitalism. 01:04:59.160 --> 01:05:01.000 - These are serious power structures 01:05:01.000 --> 01:05:03.000 that are making vast sums of money. 01:05:03.000 --> 01:05:05.000 They are backed up by 01:05:05.040 --> 01:05:07.040 the power of the armed state in every way imaginable. 01:05:07.040 --> 01:05:09.040 They've got armies on their side, they own 01:05:09.080 --> 01:05:12.080 the mass media, the banks, all the money is on their side. 01:05:12.080 --> 01:05:15.080 - If there's any doubt about the leadership that 01:05:15.080 --> 01:05:18.080 our military is showing, you just need to look at 01:05:18.120 --> 01:05:20.120 this F-18 fighter 01:05:20.120 --> 01:05:23.120 and the light-armored vehicle behind it. 01:05:23.760 --> 01:05:25.760 The army and marine corps have been testing 01:05:25.800 --> 01:05:30.120 this vehicle on a mixture of biofuels, 01:05:30.120 --> 01:05:33.120 and this navy fighter jet 01:05:33.120 --> 01:05:35.560 appropriately called the "Green Hornet" 01:05:35.560 --> 01:05:38.560 will be flown for the first time in just 01:05:38.560 --> 01:05:40.560 a few days, on Earth Day. 01:05:40.560 --> 01:05:44.080 - Crazy Horse one-eight, request permission to engage. 01:05:44.080 --> 01:05:46.080 - Picking up the wounded? 01:05:46.120 --> 01:05:48.120 - Yeah, we're trying to get permission to engage. 01:05:49.080 --> 01:05:51.080 - Come on, let us shoot! 01:05:52.080 --> 01:05:54.080 - Bushmaster, Crazy Horse one-eight. 01:05:56.760 --> 01:05:58.760 - They're taking him. 01:05:59.840 --> 01:06:01.680 - Bushmaster, Crazy Horse one-eight. 01:06:04.080 --> 01:06:06.080 - This is Bushmaster seven, go ahead. 01:06:06.120 --> 01:06:10.120 - Roger. We have a black SUV, or Bongo truck picking 01:06:10.160 --> 01:06:12.160 up the bodies. Request permission to engage. 01:06:14.720 --> 01:06:18.720 - Bushmaster seven, roger. This is Bushmaster seven, roger. Engage. 01:06:19.120 --> 01:06:21.120 - One-eight, engage. Clear. 01:06:21.120 --> 01:06:23.120 - Come on! 01:06:25.040 --> 01:06:27.040 - Clear. 01:06:43.680 --> 01:06:45.680 So if the law will not do the right thing, 01:06:45.680 --> 01:06:48.680 other people will have to do the right thing, 01:06:48.680 --> 01:06:50.680 and they'll have to do the right thing by 01:06:50.680 --> 01:06:52.680 breaking the law. And that 01:06:52.720 --> 01:06:54.720 precedent has been set many times 01:06:54.760 --> 01:06:56.760 throughout our history: the people 01:06:56.760 --> 01:06:58.920 who saved the Jews from the German Nazis 01:06:58.920 --> 01:07:01.760 broke the law for higher ethical purpose. 01:07:01.760 --> 01:07:04.120 The people who liberated slaves in our 01:07:04.120 --> 01:07:06.760 country through the underground railroad system 01:07:06.760 --> 01:07:09.760 to protect them from slave masters and a 01:07:09.760 --> 01:07:12.760 very barbaric law in the United States at that time. 01:07:12.760 --> 01:07:15.480 They did the right thing. They broke the law 01:07:15.480 --> 01:07:17.480 for higher ethical purpose. 01:07:19.520 --> 01:07:22.080 - We need to start and get out there 01:07:22.080 --> 01:07:27.080 and go beyond hitting "Like" on Facebook and signing online petitions. 01:07:27.080 --> 01:07:30.080 We need to be out there in the real world fighting back. 01:07:31.440 --> 01:07:33.440 - I think one of the things that we really have to accept 01:07:33.480 --> 01:07:36.480 and internalize is that the majority of institutions, 01:07:36.480 --> 01:07:38.480 and the majority of people, 01:07:38.480 --> 01:07:40.480 are never going to be on our side. 01:07:40.520 --> 01:07:42.520 And so we have to sit down -- 01:07:42.520 --> 01:07:44.520 as individual activists 01:07:44.560 --> 01:07:46.560 and as communities of resistance, 01:07:46.560 --> 01:07:48.560 as a culture of resistance -- and we have to say 01:07:48.600 --> 01:07:52.600 "Okay, well, what will it take to stop this culture from destroying the planet?" 01:07:52.640 --> 01:07:54.640 You know, part of the answer is obviously that 01:07:54.640 --> 01:07:57.640 persuasion hasn't worked and persuasion 01:07:57.640 --> 01:08:01.040 is not going to work. If we want to be... 01:08:01.040 --> 01:08:04.240 ...successful, then we have to look at what resistance 01:08:04.240 --> 01:08:07.240 movements in the past have done, and what they've learned 01:08:07.240 --> 01:08:09.240 and kind of the different phases 01:08:09.240 --> 01:08:11.240 that they've gone through as they've tried to 01:08:11.240 --> 01:08:13.800 assert themselves and try to be successful. 01:08:14.960 --> 01:08:16.960 - When I say "organize political resistance," 01:08:17.000 --> 01:08:19.440 I mean we need to face power head-on. 01:08:19.440 --> 01:08:21.440 Once you name power, 01:08:21.480 --> 01:08:23.480 you will find that power is sociopathic, 01:08:23.480 --> 01:08:25.480 that the people in charge will do whatever 01:08:25.520 --> 01:08:27.520 it takes to shut you up. 01:08:29.240 --> 01:08:31.240 - The thing about when you enter into a greater 01:08:31.280 --> 01:08:33.280 period of social conflict, 01:08:33.280 --> 01:08:36.280 what you don't want is people promoting 01:08:36.280 --> 01:08:38.280 non-violence because that's going to disarm 01:08:38.280 --> 01:08:41.280 the people -- it's going to disarm the people in the face 01:08:41.280 --> 01:08:43.280 of an aggressive enemy, and in the face 01:08:43.280 --> 01:08:45.280 of hard social conditions. 01:08:45.320 --> 01:08:48.320 You want them to have a stronger fighting spirit 01:08:48.320 --> 01:08:50.320 because without a fighting spirit, 01:08:50.320 --> 01:08:52.320 you lack the will to resist. 01:08:56.160 --> 01:08:58.160 - The smartest thing the Nazis did was 01:08:58.160 --> 01:09:00.160 they made it so that at every step of the way, it was in the Jews' 01:09:00.000 --> 01:09:02.000 rational best interest to not resist. 01:09:02.000 --> 01:09:04.000 Would you rather get an ID card, 01:09:04.040 --> 01:09:06.040 or do you want to resist and possibly get killed? 01:09:06.080 --> 01:09:08.080 Do you want to move to a ghetto, 01:09:08.080 --> 01:09:10.080 or do you want to resist and possibly get killed? 01:09:10.120 --> 01:09:12.120 Do you want to get on a cattle car, 01:09:12.120 --> 01:09:14.120 or do you want to resist and possibly get killed? 01:09:14.160 --> 01:09:16.160 You want to take a shower, 01:09:16.160 --> 01:09:18.160 or do you want to resist and possibly get killed? 01:09:18.200 --> 01:09:20.200 At every step of the way, it was in their 01:09:20.200 --> 01:09:22.200 rational self-interest to not resist. 01:09:22.960 --> 01:09:24.960 But I'll tell you something very important, 01:09:25.000 --> 01:09:27.960 which is: the Jews who participated in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 01:09:27.960 --> 01:09:30.960 had a higher rate of survival than those who went along. 01:09:32.040 --> 01:09:36.040 - I think that if any of us were alive in Nazi Germany right now, 01:09:36.080 --> 01:09:39.080 we would know what a resistance movement should be doing. 01:09:39.080 --> 01:09:41.080 And we need to think about 01:09:41.080 --> 01:09:43.840 the culture of industrial civilization 01:09:43.840 --> 01:09:46.840 as if it's a culture of occupation, 01:09:46.840 --> 01:09:48.840 because it is. 01:10:06.400 --> 01:10:11.080 Figure VI 01:10:20.960 --> 01:10:24.480 - If Nazis or other fascists took over North America, 01:10:27.040 --> 01:10:29.040 what would we all do? 01:10:30.880 --> 01:10:33.880 What would we do if they implemented Mussolini's definition of fascism: 01:10:33.880 --> 01:10:35.880 "Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism 01:10:35.880 --> 01:10:38.320 because it is a merger of state and corporate power." 01:10:48.000 --> 01:10:50.000 What if this occupied country called itself a democracy, 01:10:50.040 --> 01:10:53.040 but most everyone understood elections to be shams, 01:10:53.040 --> 01:10:56.040 with citizens allowed to choose between different wings of the same fascists, 01:10:56.080 --> 01:10:58.080 (or, following Mussolini, Corporate) party. 01:10:59.280 --> 01:11:02.120 What if anti-government activity was opposed by storm troopers and secret police? 01:11:02.160 --> 01:11:04.160 Would you fight back? 01:11:04.160 --> 01:11:07.160 If there already existed a resistance movement, would you join it? 01:11:08.640 --> 01:11:12.640 Would you resist if the fascists irradiated the countryside, poisoned food supplies, 01:11:12.680 --> 01:11:14.680 made rivers unfit for swimming and so filthy 01:11:14.720 --> 01:11:16.720 you wouldn't even dream of drinking from anymore? 01:11:19.080 --> 01:11:22.080 If fascists systematically deforested the continent, would you join 01:11:22.080 --> 01:11:25.080 an underground army of resistance, head to the forests, and from there 01:11:25.120 --> 01:11:28.120 to boardrooms and the halls of the Reichstag to pick off the occupying deforesters 01:11:28.120 --> 01:11:31.120 and, most especially, those that give them their marching orders? 01:11:36.840 --> 01:11:38.840 Give me a threshold. Give me a specific point 01:11:38.880 --> 01:11:40.880 at which you'll finally take a stand. 01:11:40.880 --> 01:11:44.880 If you can't or won't give that threshold, why not? 01:11:46.720 --> 01:11:51.840 Directed, filmed, produced, and edited by Franklin Lopez 01:11:51.840 --> 01:11:56.000 Inspired by Endgame Volumes I and II by Derrick Jensen 01:11:56.840 --> 01:11:59.000 LYRICS: When I face the page, I place the rage, 01:11:59.000 --> 01:12:01.840 place it into stasis rather than erase it. 01:12:01.840 --> 01:12:03.840 That's the basis cover all the bases, 01:12:03.880 --> 01:12:06.880 watch what you say on the cell, they gonna trace it. 01:12:06.880 --> 01:12:08.880 Stacked deck don't expect any aces, 01:12:08.880 --> 01:12:11.880 camera eyes watch you in public places, 01:12:11.880 --> 01:12:13.880 and I hate this, so I take this 01:12:13.880 --> 01:12:15.880 mic and I write like these words, 01:12:15.880 --> 01:12:17.880 and my legs and they walk me through my paces, 01:12:17.920 --> 01:12:20.920 people chase it, glittery lights but I've seen the heights. 01:12:20.920 --> 01:12:22.920 My time is not wasted, I'm tracing the sky, 01:12:22.920 --> 01:12:24.920 I read all the smoke that I toke to meet 01:12:24.920 --> 01:12:26.920 all the spaces of mind in time. 01:12:26.960 --> 01:12:29.960 Look, just face it, this life is mine, 01:12:29.960 --> 01:12:31.960 that's why I'm not racing the finish line. 01:12:31.960 --> 01:12:33.960 Will come the time, the moment designed 01:12:34.000 --> 01:12:36.000 to shine i won't replace it 01:12:36.000 --> 01:12:39.000 So I take my time, grind it up and break it, 01:12:39.000 --> 01:12:41.000 roll it up so fine, light it up and blaze it. 01:12:41.000 --> 01:12:43.000 Smoking blunts, smoke 'em up, end times 01:12:43.040 --> 01:12:45.040 on the grind training for the signs 01:12:45.040 --> 01:12:47.040 Take your fist and raise it up to the sky. 01:12:47.080 --> 01:12:49.080 See the fire in her eye. 01:12:49.080 --> 01:12:51.080 Do or do not do there is no try. 01:12:51.120 --> 01:12:54.120 Hard to find what's true, that is no life. 01:12:54.120 --> 01:12:56.120 They clipped your wings, how you gonna fly? 01:12:56.120 --> 01:12:59.080 You gonna lie? You gonna die, 01:12:59.120 --> 01:13:01.160 so until that day, are you gonna try? 01:13:01.160 --> 01:13:03.160 One by one we multiply. 01:13:03.160 --> 01:13:06.160 Eyes to the sun, just let it shine now. 01:13:06.160 --> 01:13:09.160 Now get into it 01:13:09.000 --> 01:13:11.000 Now choose your side 01:13:11.040 --> 01:13:13.040 We got to do it, 01:13:13.040 --> 01:13:15.040 The time is right 01:13:16.360 --> 01:13:18.680 Now get into it 01:13:18.680 --> 01:13:20.280 Now change your life 01:13:20.280 --> 01:13:23.480 Only you can do it 01:13:23.480 --> 01:13:25.480 The time is right 01:13:34.440 --> 01:13:36.440 Anymore pollution and you're going to fry, 01:13:36.440 --> 01:13:39.440 so get into it, it's do or die. 01:13:39.440 --> 01:13:41.440 Without action, factions of crews divide, 01:13:41.440 --> 01:13:44.440 but you can't be stupid if you choose to ride. 01:13:44.440 --> 01:13:46.440 And you can't ride the fence, better choose your side. 01:13:46.440 --> 01:13:48.440 Keep doing what you're told, or do what's right. 01:13:48.480 --> 01:13:51.480 You going to roll over or you going to fight? 01:13:51.480 --> 01:13:53.480 No justice no peace, the war's tonight, 01:13:53.480 --> 01:13:56.480 and I'm a poltergeist, you know, a violent spirit, 01:13:56.480 --> 01:13:58.640 the product of a world with too much violence in it. 01:13:58.680 --> 01:14:01.520 So many people, trees, animals are dying a minute. 01:14:01.560 --> 01:14:03.560 Can't ask them to stop, they ain't trying to hear it. 01:14:03.600 --> 01:14:05.600 Until we get physical, they ain't gonna fear it. 01:14:05.600 --> 01:14:08.600 To go to war with the machines, start tryin' to kill it. 01:14:08.600 --> 01:14:10.600 Until it dies, everyday's a violent day. 01:14:10.600 --> 01:14:13.600 And they expect you to protest in silence and stay 01:14:13.600 --> 01:14:15.600 pacifist and uneffective while we die and decay. 01:14:15.600 --> 01:14:18.600 We need to rise up, fuck kneeling to pray. 01:14:18.600 --> 01:14:20.600 Preachers and teachers lead us astray, 01:14:20.600 --> 01:14:22.600 politicians and cops all they say is: 01:14:22.640 --> 01:14:25.640 "Obey your corporate masters, buy what they've got on display." 01:14:25.640 --> 01:14:28.640 Stop buying their shit and start making them pay. 01:14:28.640 --> 01:14:30.640 To hell with their games -- we ain't gonna play. 01:14:30.640 --> 01:14:33.640 Let's fight them 'till they kill us or they take us away. 01:14:33.640 --> 01:14:35.640 Start throwing molotovs, stop throwing bouquets. 01:14:35.640 --> 01:14:38.640 Take it to those bastards like Ted Kaczynski. 01:14:38.640 --> 01:14:40.640 Monkeywrench machines and write communiques 01:14:40.640 --> 01:14:43.640 on walls with spraypaint just big circle A's! 01:14:43.640 --> 01:14:45.640 Now get into it 01:14:45.640 --> 01:14:48.640 Now choose your side 01:14:48.640 --> 01:14:50.640 We got to do it 01:14:50.640 --> 01:14:53.640 The time is right 01:14:53.640 --> 01:14:55.640 Now get into it 01:14:55.640 --> 01:14:58.800 Now change your life 01:14:58.800 --> 01:15:00.640 Only you can do it 01:15:00.640 --> 01:15:03.400 The time is right