INNER CLIMATE CHANGE documentary

[Music] [Applause] [Music] um [Music] do [Music] remember in the morning when the sun rises she's always yellow and we actually have yellow people on earth in our language we call the climate the chi of nature so qi is the fundamental energy matrix that connects both the human body the plant to the animal and the earth then in the south when sunshine highest upon us is always white now we realize they're actually white people on this earth let's do everything we know how to do to participate in the healing of the planet that's why we're here and then there was where the sunset she's always red now we know that there are red people [Music] the indigenous wisdom that i was learning from my elders about how we're all there's only one hoop of life the hoop of life only knows we not me and at night it's always black now we have black people the butterfly cannot force the caterpillar into a butterfly it is a process he has to go within its in of itself and as you have noticed in your life there are many levels and layers of realities within every one of us is to become aware of them which will make a difference take me slow let's be the movement of compassion in the midst of this man's extinction let's be in deepest creep and starboard [Music] optimism four races on earth living we cannot learn to live together we're going to have to learn to live with each other's belief system and being in balance and joy of one another that number one that's new culture we know the population is going to go to at least 10 billion so the challenge is by the middle of this century can we live as 10 billion people together in peace and avoid environmental catastrophe when we go deeper into this conversation is that of course it sits on a lake of trauma my father was murdered when i was 13. and it was race related he was mistaken for someone else during the racial tension of the 60s a white man and a black man had a fight the white man returned to the bar my dad was having a beer after work and just saw his profile and thought he was the black man and killed him on a lake of unacknowledged oppression of power over of exploitation it sits on a deep layer of fractured relationship the insanity of taking a life of not understanding our connection to each other the traumatic past of inflicting cruelty upon each other which lies at the heart the root of climate change you know when we see somebody as an irredeemable enemy then our options are limited the only option is to overcome them by some kind of force or maybe to bypass them to lock them out or something like that but when we understand that this person is as i would be if i were in those circumstances then new options become available the option of changing the circumstances so rather than pointing at somebody else i'm reminded that three fingers are pointing back on myself so understand what's happening internally here so that i can op i can respond i can be in powerful action but do it out of a conscious way it's not either or it's both and and that we have to learn how to grow to hold that inside of ourselves and with each other the people that we see doing things that hurt right everyone's focused on donald trump and monsanto so you could focus on those characters and say well um that desire to being drunk on power or in a bad in a false way you know in a way that's unhealthy and i think they're addicted to that power so i can look inside myself and say where where is that in my psyche and bring some healing there and actually i believe that does have an impact to the collective field the inner climate is much of a science as the outer climate it's both an art and the science so where is the fossil fuel mind in my own thought patterns and where can i just let that dissolve so that the organic mind can rise again how can i open my heart wide enough and be courageous enough and awake enough to be the hands and the ears and the eyes and the voice of the earth and of life and i don't think i need an answer that's known by the mind but i need to remember to keep asking the question and follow where it leads it was about about 15 years ago i was traveling back to tibet and it was a langa and i i saw this um river yangtze river which is in chinese culture we call the mother mother river that has nurtured us with her milk and it was heartbreaking for me to see all the dams all over the world dams are being built on on rivers that are disrupting the hydrological cycle that are flooding some places and draining other places of their water across africa across the sahel this is happening the inner niger delta which is an area the size of belgium full of hippopotamuses and crocodiles and and just teeming with life it will be totally destroyed by this i can't remember the name of this gigantic new dam that is going to produce carbon neutral energy now if we really measured everything if we were able to measure the entire contribution of all of those ecosystems that are going to die then maybe it wouldn't actually be carbon neutral after all [Music] i remember when i was five i lived in a very suburban neighborhood and i remember sitting on the grass on the front lawn and looking around and saying oh imagine if the concrete street was just a forest and in between all these houses we had forest um so there was a wanting everything to be more natural and according to the u.n the destruction and degradation of land is the single biggest reason for refugees and they're saying if we do not change the way we relate to the land we're going to have an unmanageable problem of people being forced to move they're displaced people the refugee problem is a problem of displacement people who are needing to flee or move because of tsunamis or because of intense weather conditions or because their islands in the pacific are disappearing i feel like the plight of people who are already suffering moves me a lot then when i was 13 i learned they were cutting down the amazon forest and i was totally devastated by that news [Music] the lungs of mother earth i've been to only one of them in amazonia that delonge one of the lungs on mother earth we cutting the trees so we disabling mother earth to breathe properly so we can breathe as human beings as animals and the plants and the minerals you know even walking on the beach where i grew up and now seeing all the plastic and styrofoam that's covering it it breaks my heart breaks my heart every day [Music] just a few weeks ago a beautiful whale washed up in philippines she suffocated from the plastics in season 50 kilo of it that means we have polluted the ocean the way we behave and the way we live a healthy climate depends on a healthy body you know healthy organs and healthy organs can handle fluctuations in greenhouse gases but if we destroy the living organs of a living being then the planet becomes very sensitive and our whole mind was shifted to a mechanical paradigm to a mechanical way of viewing the world in a mechanical way that had to get rid of a consciousness my world appeared quite successful and quite normal and um but meanwhile within i had this growing sense of dissatisfaction and something is amiss and um and at that stage having not known anything about spirituality yet made me seem if i'm even imagining it or going crazy because i've got no reason to be dissatisfied or unhappy in any way when i got married had cats was a breadwinner kept taking care of other people and never taking care of myself really and at the same time being very frustrated about that and just going on like this for years um being happy as well as some of the time but you know just running myself down really literally we are caught up in these superficial things that give us identity or val value us according to some matrix so we we turned our identity to those things materials title status we are not meant to be cogs in the industrial and money machine we have a deeper meaning we are not cogs in a machine but for the very young people who are in this room they get it and i always related my process that i went through through that of a butterfly going from the caterpillar to the cocoon and melting in transformation and then re-emerging as this butterfly and once i stopped and i went to lie down my body said this is what i've been telling you for years that you need to do you're to be crazy if you think i'm going to let you move again anytime soon so i by then i had some quite severe neurological damage for about 11 months after that i could hardly talk i went from speaking four languages every day to not being able to have a conversation in even one of them caterpillars are quite um destructive in a sense ask any vegetable grower they would say you would come here they've just chomp chomp chomp through everything and you could see they've left a mess or their mark and they basically decimated your crops your cabbages whatever when i was growing up four percent of india had cars we still have four percent or little more that has cars but my landlord in delhi has five cars instead of being so focused and in the caterpillar world and what the caterpillars are doing is to celebrate my new wings [Music] i experience this is what you might call embodied awakening and that's not about the degree of awakening or anything but but it's about consciousness aspect being integral to how life can be different from what we're doing now so reclaiming our consciousness is also reclaiming the potential of our creativity reclaiming the potential of us being partners with the earth not our masters and as co-creators and co-producers we can address every big problem of our times climate change is one symptom we name the crisis the climate crisis right now but it comes from something much deeper and it will not be over if we succeed in reducing greenhouse gases that's not the core of the crisis we need to hold space for the cultural shift that is not going to just be transitioning energy but the mentality of mankind because so much of how we live and operate in the world is broken further than just the light bulbs we use in the place we get our energy from so much of how we are treating the earth so much of the ideology our generation was grew up learning that we can take whatever we want whenever we want from the earth without thinking about giving back like these mentalities the old ways of thinking that have gotten us into where we are currently with the earth what have we done wrong we forgot to do the ceremony to celebrate life instead we raped the earth so we caused the climate change it started off with the two young men observing that water was coming out in the month of january from the wall of a big ice that's 1963. in 1978 in august i gave a talk in the united nations on environmental conference and i told him about that the big ice is melting i got a standing ovation so i was very proud standing ovation so i ran home to greenland and my mom and dad invited all these beautiful beautiful lovers my father stopped me in the mid-sentence as i'm telling the elders and he said did he hear you and i i looked at my phone father said they gave me a standing ovation 10 15 minutes long and then i carried on telling the story and at the end he stopped me again and looked at me and said put i realized he wanted to know if my message came across to these people now i know that it isn't before copenhagen there was an orchestrated denial that the glaciers are melting we were doing a report on the third poll in the beginning of the report the environment minister was saying yeah the glaciers are melting by the end of it the message has come deny and suddenly they were growing now i have spoken in seven to one countries about climate change i traveled a long ways to bu i wanted to tell you it's too late now it's too late in 1995 or so when the intergovernmental panel on climate change put out its first big report it was very clear to the world scientists precisely what was going on we'd won the argument but we were losing the fight because the fight was not about data and reason the fight was what fights are usually about money and power you cannot reverse your clock you cannot i don't care who you are i don't care if you're a scientist an expert academic or someone knowledgeable it doesn't matter i don't care it's too late you did not change it is literally business as usual that is doing us in it's just all of us getting up every day and doing the same things we did the day before and continuing down the same path you we i depended on you that you heard the message i depended on you that you heard the message now ipcc is saying 12 years from now if we don't change it'll be inevitable to collapse and it is your fault and it is your fault and it is your fault so we are here to assume commitment why did you not listen to the indigenous world who told you over and over and over and over that you need to do something different why didn't you do that the failure of our civilization should teach us that we actually don't know it should bring us to a point of humility [Applause] the strongest feeling that i have around that is grief for my children and um having the feeling that i have let them down because i wasn't focused enough before it became so clear for me that we should have focused a long time ago it's not to turn our back on pain and sadness and grief particularly the phenomenon of anticipatory grief as we think what our world will look like for our children 2020 20 30 20 40 20 50. and for them as well i want to pour every love that i have into yeah doing my part and in creating a more beautiful world [Music] i just needed to come up and say this because it's just burning inside of me that i respect every single person in this room but right now i feel like it's the youth's time i want you to panic because as someone who has had their house burned down around them it is it is terrifying and horrible to be in that situation the ones who come here were hopeful we decided to do something but a lot of us around the world who are not hopeful there's a lot of good reasons that we're not hopeful none of them cared none of them were like there was a couple people but it was just such a level of like oh yeah well it's gonna die anyway so i might as well just you know do drugs and alcohol and enjoy it while it lasts kind of thing and it was just like it hurt so much and they look at their parents who are just burning petrol and just burning and doing fossil fuels and oil and gas and it's just painful to watch them enter a life you know they're following their parents footsteps everyone's perfectly aware that it's coming that climate change is an issue but no one really cares about it none of the adults in my life care about it we drive a big suv please just listen to what we're saying don't just have us talk just to say oh yeah i talk to youth i just listen to them you know they've given me so much hope we're a lot more than that we're looking at this from an entirely different perspective saying what can we do differently we don't need to debate about what's important we already know like it's we can't you know spend millions of dollars lobbying anymore we don't have time for that i guess what i'm asking is if anyone has an experience of being a leader doing what's hard going against the flow because they care and what gives them the strength to do that we need you to be hopeful so we can grow up with an example of someone who's hopeful hope is critical to our work whether that is inner work or out of work it's still critical to keep hope alive which i feel like a lot of hopelessness is occurring and that's i think really people forgotten how to dream because dreams allow you to go beyond the facts there's the facts against this fact that no dreams allow you to see further the possibility and then once we put those in us those dreams and our spirit it pulls us towards that so it swerves us toward that positive action but if you want to be hopeful in this world you've got to work for it all the time because if we're not working flat out to do what needs to be done over the next 10 15 20 years whatever it is then sorry to put this bluntly nobody's entitled to hope at all because unless we're that committed doing that kind of work inside ourselves and outside then prospects are not good the part that says hope is necessary hope is important hope is what young people are asking for from us and then a part that feels hopeless both i dance with both [Music] so that's what i've been dedicating my life and my work to is to build a science of the inner climate to study the carbon the water cycle the soil and the energy of our inner environmental system when you ask where is the deforestation inside of me i think that is the part of me that in the past allowed myself to con to feel like i had to conform to what society expected of me you know put on makeup look fake look plastic if i'm picking at the skin on my fingers which is something that i do when i get overly agitated i know that i have a mind that can be critical and that can pick at myself or other people so i i and then i do my best to catch myself and either go all right my fingers need some kindness here or my fingers have something that they want to express because there's energy in there that's needing to move we know the grief we know the tragedies we know the hope in our bodies and it is through our bodies [Music] that we expand into the resilience that is given to us and that is being kindled by this urgency that we have created so our bodies are both the vehicles of the loss and the vehicles of the transformation so that's the that's the breakthrough it gave me the freedom and it gave me a perspective to make peace with the past and the trauma [Music] what happened after this physical breakdown let's say um was that i faced spirituality and i said well show me what you got and i really went into the spiritual connection with the earth in a whole lot of different ways and i reached a point where all i experienced was just this huge big wave of one love of everything which i i served for like four or five months just that oneness sensation the blessing of the trauma is that when the unifying experience occurs within the human body because it's holistic it's not just something you experience in your heart or you just experience in your brain i experience it and i think everyone experiences throughout the cellular matrix of the unified field of the human body during that time i couldn't even remember what it felt like to feel fear or pain or anger and i couldn't imagine ever feeling anything like that again it was quite mind-blowing it was completely different from my life before and that has remained really important for navigating the love of the earth and the pain of what goes on when that happens when i feel connected because i'm coming from such enormous disconnection it is absolutely a moment or sometimes a longer period of exaltation and that is when i am not only aware of the unified field i am the unified field i had to learn to love myself first if i don't love myself it's impossible to love other people so i had to go back to myself and say holy i really had to learn to love myself i started a journey for three years just being with myself because i realized that a lot of people are searching for love and i was doing that for myself looking outside of myself putting myself in situations and realizing that really i needed to love myself and because of my weakness i take on what people say and then i react on them and i had to stop reacting on them i had to look at myself how am i that is my inner work every day and it's not easy because you have to be very stable very balanced to know what is your fear what is your intuition to checking with myself how am i feeling and it's not like i always want to keep myself feel good it's not like that at all i think that's also a big aware awareness or change in me maybe 20 years ago i would have thought oh i feel grief now i should unload it all so i don't feel it anymore i don't feel that's my practice now it's i feel grief feel it it's like there's a weather forecast weather monitoring station has keep a record of how i'm feeling how do i feel it in my body where do i feel it i feel it in my stomach do i feel it in my heart i feel it in my throat my shoulders where do i feel it and just acknowledge it and say oh welcome grief welcome anger welcome sadness welcome joy welcome hope welcome movement it's not easy it's not comfortable but it's also a relief to make space for those feelings and to and to allow them to have a home inside of me is also a relief because in my experience when those feelings have a home in me then they're not actually as scary and then i get to um well sometimes and enjoy them even as as richness as fuel as um deliciousness might be taking a little bit too far it depends i have had times in the last few years where i've experienced my rage and gone wow that was so cool you know of like ah finally finally i get to have that energy be alive inside of me and feel its potency as something useful and that is actually incredibly satisfying and it isn't destructive so this kind of visceral movement of feelings through me i would say is the most effective way for me to deal with the churning that happens when i see what's happening to my planet my home my home our home [Laughter] one practice that i've been that i've adopted recently is to maintain an altar and touch him with it every day as a way to be anchored to a different reality in my silence in the meditations i consciously connect up to wisdom that goes beyond my small personality and my small brain intelligence i call on it and i find that i am supported i'm not so focused on finding out what that intelligence is that goes beyond my intelligence i'm more focused on connecting to it and i find that whenever i do that and i go beyond my personality and mind intelligence i have insights that surprise me i received climate change and consciousness in complete guidance every component of it was delivered in about 15 minutes maybe less so i meditate an hour a day at least and i often wake up at night and i meditate more but that helps me notice where i have contracted it helps me to digest what is happening during the day i love being alone in the land the moment i have a chance i'll be in my tent and just stay there i will take walks i would chant and i will remember people that need to remember and then the animal will come to me and it is so stunningly beautiful i talk to the animals like i'm talking to you and it's so interesting the intellect and capacity for animals to listen to you and they talk back i received an amazing message from the blackbird and it was sitting up in a tree above my head and singing its heart out in the most beautiful song and i thought my goodness he's singing from pure love and that's what we all need and he gave me this message sing your heart out like me for it can open the hearts of others and heal them never hide your gift but give it as a gift to others when you listen and absorb all around you you are never alone for you feel the oneness the connection to all that is everyone knows that you you turn on the cell phone you can call and as long as you have the number you can call any other cell phone so the premises of this kind of you know psychic communication is the similar principle of nervous system is by nature connected through the wavelengths of the energy of other nervous system so as long as you got the right number you can dial to any other being there was a very famous physicist of india called jc bose he was a physicist you know what he'd do is he'd do electromagnetic experiments with plants and he said but they're living because when you say nasty things the electromagnetic waves show it they get hurt they're sentient beings big debate and you can smell that incredible blossom of all these beautiful plants who say thank you to the great one showing us their diversity how different they are from each other but how stunningly beautiful they are together and that the consciousness of the humans need to learn here in this [Music] world the mountain and the river i felt it always talk it was always talking to me but because china has imported scientific materialism at the time i was born there's no there's no way for me to make sense that experience there's no way for me to talk about it today it's very strange for some people when people talk to the mountains the big father today in the morning was saying they were talking to the ice so then you talk to the trees when you harvest you just don't go and grip you speak to the tree get permission to take from the berries but knowing not all must be harvested the birds must get something the other maybe the lizards must get something and then you lift over some so you would not harvest everything and you'd also bow down and give thanks when you harvest so that was how it was done plants are sentient we got to give them respect animals are sentient we've got to give them respect but not only is all life sentient but all life is interconnected and partnership in a non-violent production system is the only way to get out of the fossil fuel age and the climate trap other beings can be our allies not because they're going to help us win against the military industrial complex but because we're tapping into another world of cause and effect there's some other things that work that i do not know from my senses um maybe not even know for intuition but trusting that great mystery that there are other beings and things that are part of what's going on it's not just you know at this point at this point there's so much as some of the indigenous elders have set the information that we need for the adequate responses are there they're in the air they're in the information that floods around us we just need to start trusting and listening on the climate side it's about being energy clever traveling lighter wasting less and eating healthier none of them are bad for us it's all good it's it's all for the good we have the technologies we have the finance it's on the wrong side of the river but we have it uh we have the we know what the policies are we know you know what we need to do we have to actually be able to change our mindset this is all about our minds 100 renewable electricity all over the world by 2030 just by 2030 is completely doable incoming nuclear ain't going to be gas ain't going to be oil it's going to be renewables it's for certain there's no doubt about it now and it's not just the price of the renewables the price of the storage it's the capability of the distribution system these new hvdc wires you can ship power of a long distance we know that two things are true number one the path toward 1.5 is the only path that we can take if we want to be true to our moral compass we particularly have the challenge to actually give up the material consumption but maintain our real wealth going from extractive to circular systems from the globalized greed economy to local economies number two the path to 1.5 is the only path that we can take if we want to increase economic stability and in fact profitability and economic growth ecology is the science of the earth economy is the management of the earth the management of the earth was forgotten money making became the way to go we cannot choose between the two we have to follow the same path for the two objectives again two realities that sometimes people pit against each other and they are not two realities that to be pitted they're actually two realities should be brought into convergence [Music] protect any ecosystem that is still intact i need to speak to underline the importance of protecting the primary forest and any intact forest landscape that we have remaining without these primal ecosystems amazon congo the remaining mangroves of southeast asia et cetera there's there's more but without these there will be no hope for a living planet when you actually give nature a chance to return it will in strength and that's important because that protecting biodiversity by restoring nature is also one of the big solutions of storing of protecting climates we live in raglan and new zealand there's a beautiful harbour that was completely silted up and there was dead and no fish and no life and some volunteers just started fencing off the waterways and planting riparian margins just a small group the the life of the harbor is transformed and now the harbors seized life again and the the sea grass has come back like wildfire in the last two years and the fish are back in the harbor [Music] just shifting the way you eat eating well eating with a small ecological footprint eating fresh eating organic can be the biggest contribution to addressing climate change leave behind the stuff that the caterpillars are eating leave behind factory farmed animals leave behind food that has been grown in a way that is destroying the earth that has been grown with pesticide that is coming from a faceless place through a changed food and agriculture system that doesn't contribute to greenhouse gases we can address climate instability the scientific evidence is there and it can begin with your eating now climate crisis is the umbrella that is touching and connecting everything we care about whether that's biodiversity or oceans or forestation or animal rights or gender equality or racial equality or global relations and peace like anything you care about climate change is the umbrella that is going to determine and put strain on any issue that we are thinking about climate change is the defining issue of our time [Music] i have learned in my life if it's changed then you have to be the change you want to see then you don't look at the powerful who brought us into this devastation and say please mister will you stop the destruction and bring change we've got to make them redundant to the future young people rise and teach these old people like me i'll take care of the earth i've had a lot of conversations about when is something activism and when isn't it specifically within environment of when i was in calais in the refugee camp in the jungle and probably 90 of the young people working volunteering in the camp if you called them an activist they'd get probably offended or really pissed off i'm really not interested in this in this argument in this fight about ideology i think we need to move past that i think we need to work with practical challenges that are in front of us and for me that's why the people in calais were activists because they weren't just fighting they were actually doing what they thought was right and what they thought other people should do and they were being an example for it and do so in a way where we really trust our ability to uncover new solutions to um take inspiration from nature to sit down and actually uh appreciate our shared humanity and let that inspire something that actually we can be proud of right it's the difference between like like a freedom fighter or you know someone who's rebelling yeah i'm i'm super not interested in acting as a reaction to what i [Music] experienced so i think part of the path is to really look ah this is what's really happening can i really see that fully and feel it fully and then can i create the inner conditions the spaciousness that to listen deeply enough to know that this is now my step maybe my step is to be an artist maybe my step is to do a dance piece maybe my step is to go to the streets of london and stand and stick myself to a london bus but i need to know what is my calling at this moment and then to play that part fully i have full respect for activists and i want to empower them but i want to empower them to help them to dial to that precise aligned action so that they create they generate ignorant sustainability very often people who feel i've got the miracle condition now i'm going to hit you on the head and force you to think like me and be like me it's violent it is this kind of breaking of the pattern of harm refusing to be complicit with it and saying i'm not going to live my life like that and that that that's absolutely critical here it's not about complaining about what's happening now it's about creating something else [Music] my quest my question to myself was how do we create a law of ecocide to criminalize mass damage and destruction to close the door to significant harm but also to create a legal duty of care for the earth and this is about recognizing and upholding the earth's right to life and when i say earth i mean all living beings human and non-human beings you know you can sort of go away and manifest something and try to forget about the mainstream or you can interact and try to turn the mainstream that way which is the more activist perspective this is where something like the extinction rebellion really comes into play i here in the uk and now internationally where people are actually willing to actually create roadblocks and the like to draw attention to the fact that the government is failing in its responsibility to protect humanity against possibly the world's largest ever crisis extinction rebellion is important it's basically saying we will shape our ways well i think we should respond now with the public movement adults joining with younger people in a similar sort of strike as a way of spanning that out as a way of echoing it and making it louder and bigger and we need to do it because we need to change everything quickly and it'll take that scale of of a complete revolution it's a revolution for evolution it's an evolutionary leap but and it's peaceful i think that's why extinction rebellions worked because what they're singing there is all you need is love it doesn't matter if extinction rebellion disappears at the end of this year it'll come again that's the point of the genie being out of the bottle there is no going back now literally no going back on the presence of truth in our lives choosing to actually live in the way i want to see the world remaining flourishing rather than saying oh i wish it was like that but sadly i'm not living it because if i'm not living it then i'm not contributing to it in fact if anything i'm complicit in its demise we have something sad to share tonight but it's also at this special time on easter where death and life are so close together so polly higgins left much faster than we expected she was going to be here at the conference yeah so we want to just [Applause] stay with you in this and robin will read a message and we'll have a silence together all of you dear ones polly's gone just half an hour ago peacefully with her husband beside her and anita and zambodi and on easter the festival of new life in more than one tradition extinction rebellion in london are going to make an announcement at 6 pm tonight and seize the moment to let the whole rebellion know about her and greta who will be there too and to say that she is now passing the baton to all of us it's up to all of us now so much love she'll be there she'll be everywhere [Music] polly stood in a place that has no name that place i call the gap the gap that is um [Music] the split in in human consciousness where denial and manipulation and cruelty and power over and the condoned death of people and planet sit that place that is just so friggin painful to acknowledge in ourselves i've never known anybody for whom the word indomitable was more appropriate honestly you just couldn't believe it in the early discussions about the work she was doing with ecocide you'd say wait a minute these are the different stages you've got to go through that's nearly impossible that's impossible that's impossible and she sort of said yeah yeah but we can do this we do that we do the other literally every stage so that courage that indomitability took her through that and then the other thing and i do hope a lot of people will remember this boy did she know how to have good fun and maybe this is a bit irreverent the day after she died but [Music] she loved good whiskey and that's pretty special i knew polly and we worked very closely on issues of ecocide on working towards recognizing the crimes against nature and it's the crimes against nature that are giving us climate change that are giving us species extinction that are giving out the pollution and disappearance of our water the destruction of our land the toxics everywhere and the death of our bees and butterflies that is the killing of the earth and polly's work of having this declared legally as a crime and a crime against nature is a work i'm committed to continue we'll remember paulie with love and i come from a tradition where we know this body passes but the spirit carries on and holy spirit will carry on want to invite us to like put our hands out we'll put our hands up and say yes i'll take it you know will you take the baton of truth talking or do you take the baton of standing no matter how frightened you are will you take the batten of maintaining your sense of humor and your wild ridiculousness your profound love of nature and when you say yes i will step up in any way that life asks me to i will i will take on polly's mantle and let her life continue to live on through all of us and through her work [Music] i am going to pollinate for polly in every way i can i will stand in the gap whatever that means for me and i know that that means that i am going to do my own healing work i'm going to heal the inner patriarchy in me rather than projecting it out there i commit to doing work on myself to educating myself to having difficult conversations that mean that i can go and ask the questions that need to be asked when i go home now i'm my awareness i'm going to be very conscious about how i can train my farmers to be conscious of climate change how can we contribute in our only two way we are to reduce the co2 emission rather than we wait for paris meeting i feel a renewed commitment to fulfilling the responsibility that my generation has for what we've created [Music] to me the most underutilized resource we have on this planet is our good intentions as citizens our willingness to make a difference and our capacity to make a difference when i go home i'm going to go and talk to the city council i'm going to take the open mic time and talk to the city council about everything i heard here and i'm going to make an appointment with the mayor of my city and if i don't get one i'm going to sit on the steps of city hall with my activist friends and we're going to sit there until they give us a meeting because we have to stand up we need to bring it back home like it's a planetary emergency but we won't address it unless it's relevant for every single person [Music] this week i had the privilege of being engaged in a very raw conversation with someone who i hold a very diametrically opposing view and at the end of the conversation we still disagree with each other but we love each other more and my commitment is how can i bring this energy of i disagree with you but i love you into the world if you want to invite somebody to be part of the solution it's not necessarily important that you educate them on climate science it's not even important that they believe in climate change what's important is that they take a step in their lives toward being in service to life to being living people autonomous sovereign people in a living beautiful planet that identity of earth citizens is the first thing and that can happen in a second because about a paradigm shift and we can do it today what doesn't worry me is the yelling of the inharmonious people on the planet is what i'm looking for is personas the loud voices of the good people on this planet who will stand up and say we are going to accomplish this [Music] a [Music] me [Music] do [Music] to me still it feels a bit like oh yeah we hear the youth and the indigenous people and then we move on to business as usual so how can we create a big inviting warm respectful listening space to really hear what they are saying and apply that everyone matters and so whatever is yours to do whether it's really small or it's huge do it do it with others do it with heart centered because life itself is calling us [Music] do i said all you shareholders [Music] and all you stakeholders we've got to break the spell [Music] of the multinational because we breathe the same air [Music] oh it's everywhere [Music] oh yes we breathe [Music] the same air the dinosaurs before i saw they breathe it too hitler and a jesus and the butter too oh we breathe the same air oh yes we breathe the same air [Music] you shed a breath with a lion you shed a breath with a worm you shed a breath with everything that there is so mama please tell me and papa please tell me why we find it so hard [Music] to share just about everything else let's make it easy to share just like a breathing in the air let's make it easy to share just like a breathing breathing or breathe in the air you

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Keywords: climate change, transformation, nature, environment, resilience, sustainability, ecovillage, vandana shiva, charles eisenstein, angaangaq, findhorn, mystic

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Length: 65min 18sec (3918 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 23 2020