Nature Now Greta Thunberg & George Monbiot 2020

Sep 19, 2019
There is a natural solution to the climate breakdown protecting forests. Climate activist Greta Thunberg and writer and climate activist George Monbiot explain.

This independent film was made possible with support from Conservation International, Gower St., The Food and Land Use Coalition and guidance from Nature4Climate and Natural Climate Solutions.

Narrated by Greta Thunberg & George Monboit

Directed by Tom Mustill
Producer Andrea Walji
DOP & Offline Editor Fergus Dingle
Sound Recordist Ewan Dryburgh
Motion Graphics Páraic Mc Gloughlin
Sound Designer & Audio Post Tom Martin for Mcasso
Online Editor & Picture Post Bram De Jonghe for Special Treats Productions
NCS Guidance Charlotte Latimer
Music Rone - Motion with kind permission of the artist InFiné & Warner Chappell Music

A Gripping Films Production

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my name is Greta Tim berry we are living
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in the beginning of a mass extinction
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our climate is breaking down children
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like me are giving up their education to
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protests but we can still fix this you
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can still fix this to survive we need to
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stop burning fossil fuels but this alone
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will not be enough lots of solutions I
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talked about but what about a solution
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that is right in front of us I'll let my
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friend George explain there is a magic
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machine that sucks carbon out of the air
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costs very little and builds itself it's
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called a tree a tree is an example of a
Natural Climate Solutions
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natural climate solution mangroves peat
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bogs jungles marshes sea beds kelp
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forests swamps coral reefs they take
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carbon out of the air and lock it away
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nature is a tool we can use to repair
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our broken climate
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these natural climate solutions could
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make a massive difference
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pretty cool right but only if we also
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leave fossil fuels in the ground
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here's the great part
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right now we are ignoring them we spend
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a 1000 times more on global fossil fuel
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subsidies that are natural based
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solutions natural climate solutions get
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just 2% of all the money used on
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tackling climate breakdown this is your
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money it is your taxes your savings even
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more crazy right now when we need nature
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the most we're destroying it faster than
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ever after 200 species are going extinct
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every single day much of the Arctic ice
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is gone
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most of our wild animals have gone much
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of our soil has gone so what should we
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do what should you do it's simple we
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need to protect restore and fund
Protect Restore
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protects tropical forests are being cut
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down at the rate of 30 foot for pictures
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and minutes where nature is doing
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something vital we must protect it
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restore much of our planet has been
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damaged but nature can regenerate and we
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can help ecosystems bounce back fun we
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need to stop funding things that destroy
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nature and pay for things that help it
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it is that simple protect restore
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this can happen everywhere many people
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have already begun using natural climate
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solutions we need to do it on a massive
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scale you can be part of this vote for
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people who defend nature share this
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video talk about this all around the
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world there are amazing movements
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fighting for nature join them
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everything counts what you do counts
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[LivingNow]

Send Greta to have a meeting with Elizaveta Khromova 😊

[stevegoddard]

Great idea. Now tell it to the children digging cobalt out of the ground by hand. Ask them if we have robbed them of their childhood.

[m.e.]

Yeah, right.. and NASA really landed humans on the moon.

[robertcasey]

Millions of years ago when dinosaurs walked the earth c02 levels were as high as 2000 parts per million. Currently c02 levels are just over 400 parts per million.

Climate salesman are not too good at maths.