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This is the land that I know

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better than any land on earth.

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It's like a close friend

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or a relative.

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I will be buried here.

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And to tell you exactly how I
arrived at this bank

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and shoal of time,

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I have to go way back,
way, way back to a time

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I can't hardly remember.

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2019.

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By 2019, over 70% of all
wildlife on the planet

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had disappeared, burned, flooded,
or paved over.

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In 2019,
the International Panel on Climate Change

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announced that we had only 11 years left
to change everything.

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Climate emissions were through the roof
and increasing.

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We were a mere decade away
from a completely unlivable future.

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In 2019, a handful of
mega billionaires owned

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the same amount of wealth,
than nearly everyone else on the planet.

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Oddly, they kept trying to leave.

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Jeff Bezos announced Blue Origin,
an endeavor to put millions of people

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in giant centrifugal salad spinners
in the sky.

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Totalitarian cities where the weather
is always vaguely like Florida

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and anything and everything you want
can be supplied to you by Jeff Bezos.

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While billionaires fortunes skyrocketed,
Rachel Carson's worst nightmare

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of Silent Spring had arrived.

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2.9 billion birds mysteriously
vanished from the continent,

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and a third of all mammals on the
planet had become endangered.

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A third of all sharks and
34% of conifer trees.

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The system of turning the
bounty of the earth

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into dizzying wealth continued
to rip the planet to shreds.

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All the while,

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we plunged deeper and deeper into the
full tilt nightmare of climate change.

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You're probably being burned out by a
fire or flooded out by mega storms.

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Everywhere was on fire.

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Not just us, too.

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Australia, Europe,
even Malibu was on fire.

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But if you wanted to ignore
what was happening,

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you could escape the planet
at any time.

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Mark Zuckerberg was perfectly happy
to collect all your data points while

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supplying you with endless dopamine hits
every time you heard that little ding.

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So, many of us just didn't notice
how ugly the earth was becoming.

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In 2019, SUVs were on the rise.

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Cars becoming the number one
source of emissions for the country.

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And all of the oil and gas
that we couldn't get

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by destroying, fracking, extracting
and polluting our own backyard,

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America obtained through other means:

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endless wars that killed
hundreds of thousands,

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20 thousand alone executed by those
giant flying metal hornets

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piloted by men sitting
comfortably far away

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sipping diet cola in a
Las Vegas basement bunker.

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Hundreds of thousands
were killed by oil wars.

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But friends, the fossil fuels themselves
are even more deadly than that.

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In 2019, 10 million people
died from air pollution.

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In fact, 10 million people die every
year from fossil fuel air pollution.

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And so, my friends, throughout
the decade I did my duty

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and I went on the box
to tell people the bad news.

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We were headed towards
the promised end.

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Apocalypse. Now.

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- You just want us to be dependent
on foreign oil forever?

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- Multinational oil companies who
will do the classic exploitation model.

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What's happening in America right now is -

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- What you're doing is scaremong-
You're doing scaremongering.

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- We don't need another 50 years.

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- All right, I just wanna -

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- We were making our own end.

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Ripping the world to shreds.

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Ecosystems crashing.

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- What is your plan, Josh?

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- The only thing that we will never-
I am about to explain to you.

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I don't believe that you should be
trivializing my position in that way.

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And once again, the airwaves were
no place for my arguments

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to find purchase.

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And so, friends,

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we went out screaming into the streets,
didn't we?

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Across this land, righteous folks

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placed their lives on the front lines
to try to bend that long arc of U.S.

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history towards the justice

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we've never known.

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Things were so out of whack that many,
many more of us ran out into the streets.

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I grew up that way, with the songs of
Pete Seeger and protest.

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♪ Which side are you on? ♪

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Ours was a frontline movement.

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We are being penned in.

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Whether that was getting shot at

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at Standing Rock,
sitting in to stop pipelines,

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fighting the constant ecocide
which is the fossil fuel industry.

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We nosed in head first and brain first and
got battered and bruised and roughed up.

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And as Henry David Thoreau
once said, "In an unjust society,

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the only place for a just man is in jail."

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So I tried to keep up.

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And the long arm of Johnny Law
compelled so many of us

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to participate in that great
American tradition of civil disobedience.

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But in 2019, you-know-who

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was you-know-where.

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So in spite of the passion
and action of the best and brightest

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of the youngest and oldest generations
and everyone in between,

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nothing would spur
our government to action.

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Not with El Cheetolini in
the White House.

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Instead, he passed enormous tax cuts
for the wealthy when many folks couldn't

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afford insulin or basic medical care,
and the vast number of us

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were on our way to bankruptcy
and ruin.

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In 2019, most people had to have two

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or three jobs just to pay rent,
and you had to be extra quick on your feet

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because in 2019 there were hundreds
and hundreds of mass shootings in America.

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In 2019, the gap between rich and poor in
America was at an all time disparity,

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a system kept in place by over policing
and incarceration with almost 3 million

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people in prison in the United States,
mostly poor and black, and brown.

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So we screamed and marched
and got nabbed,

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and screamed and blockaded
and got nabbed,

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and we screamed and acted out
and got nabbed.

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A decade of fracking, endless wars,
tiki torch Nazis,

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billionaire-contorted
megalomaniacal fantasies,

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an algorithm-induced orange
dumpster fire presidency,

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and the US economy turned into an
autocratic, carceral company store,

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delivered to you in under 24 hours
by Jeff Bezos.

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Oh, my friends,

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we were in a pickle indeed,
a worldwide global-warmed pickle.

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No matter what we tried to do we
could not stop emissions from going up.

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No arrests, no media appearances,
no presidential campaigns,

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no teenagers who don't need no
education, no earnest, narcissistic

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celebrity faces reflected in the warm
glow of an Amazonian solar farm.

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No hippies with puppets
clogging the streets of major cities.

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No divesting our bank accounts,
leveraged 30 to 1 by pedophiliac

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hedge fund managers.

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No personal carbon footprint pledge

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to recycle your polyester
undergarments.

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No climate scientists pushing
nuclear fission

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or Jesus crucified on a wind turbine.

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No vegan palm oil,
henna "Meat is Murder" tattoo.

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No climate influencers hawking
package-free placenta.

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No anti-fracking folk song,

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awkward earth-conscious rap
or Daybreaker sober rave.

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Nothing would stop emissions
from rising.

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Nothing. fucking. worked.

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Emissions just kept going up.

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Our fate as a human race
and every other

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biological species on the planet
imperiled more day by day.

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As if we were chugging blindly

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at a thousand miles per hour
directly into a brick wall.

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I went on TV anyway.

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- You win, you win, Josh.
- When you burn fossil fuels -

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- You beat me in the cliché contest,
we're out of time.

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I appreciate it, though.

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- Even though by then Tik-Tok had
arrived and not many were watching.

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But oh, my friends, in 2019

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we did not know how good we had it.

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And just when we all thought

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things couldn't possibly get any worse,

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this little bugger was born.

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And just as the decade
turned in January of 2020,

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I got it.

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In this most squalid state
of fever dreams,

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I was racing through the woods,
running from bears,

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running from Nazis.

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I felt like I was being beaten
with baseball bats.

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I couldn't breathe deeply.

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My lungs and airways were clogged.

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I was drowning in my bed.

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Gasping for breath.

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I was dying.

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I didn't know why,

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I didn't know how,

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but I was sure of it.

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But in spite of my certainty,
I did not die.

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All of a sudden, my fever broke.

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And when I awoke,

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COVID was everywhere.

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But, oh, the virus had ripped
through my brain.

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It mixed and matched synapses in ways
that didn't seem to go together.

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I had brain fog,

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the next words struggling from
thought to lips,

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stuck inside, stuttering.

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Headaches came from out of nowhere.

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Neurological attacks
where I could not stop blinking.

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The blinking lights, the sirens,
the incessant prefrontal

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strobe of doom scrolling
made it all so much worse.

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So I went off to the woods to live
deliberately away from the wi-fi

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and the cell phone signal,

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away from the noise and the violence
that made the fog in my brain worse.

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Home, to the land that I know better

00:12:03.001 --> 00:12:05.516
than anywhere on earth.

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One room, no cell phone signal,

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and no one around.

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I came to heed this global call
to introspection,

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just me and the ghost of
old Pete Seeger.

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It's like nature told all of us,

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all of humanity,

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"Go to your room and think about
what you've done."

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What have we done?

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How can we heal now?

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♪ Sing together ♪

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♪ On our knees ♪

00:14:17.624 --> 00:14:19.924
♪ Let us all ♪

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♪ Bow down ♪

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♪ Oh, Lord, and face ♪

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♪ The rising sun ♪

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♪ Didn't old John ♪

00:14:31.999 --> 00:14:34.224
♪ Cross the water ♪

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♪ On his knees ♪

00:14:37.999 --> 00:14:40.081
♪ Didn't old John ♪

00:14:40.790 --> 00:14:42.990
♪ Wade the water ♪

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♪ On his knees ♪

00:14:46.472 --> 00:14:48.972
♪ Didn't old John ♪

00:14:49.436 --> 00:14:52.036
♪ Wade the water ♪

00:14:52.168 --> 00:14:54.568
♪ On his knees ♪

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♪ Let us all ♪

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♪ Bow down ♪

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I've been to nine doctors,

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nine different doctors,

00:15:06.906 --> 00:15:10.242
to find out what's wrong with my brain.

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What happens to me?

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- This is the cerebellum.

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That's the part of your brain
that deals with your balance, right?

00:15:17.917 --> 00:15:21.128
So I know you said sometimes you feel a little
bit woozy or weird, but this is totally normal.

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Structurally, there's no tumor or mass or
bleed or stroke that's impinging on it.

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You have Broca's area,
which creates speech,

00:15:30.971 --> 00:15:34.516
and then you have Wernicke's area,
which is the fluency of speech.

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And so that's getting whacked, too.

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- So this is the eyes?
- Yep.

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- What's that called, eye...?

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- Frontal eye field.

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- Frontal eye field.

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- So, this is blinking.

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This is dry eyes.

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This is the stuttering.

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- And those are all happening
because something is happening

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in the amygdala, which is telling me
that I'm being attacked.

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- Right.

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- So what happens is really simple.

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Like I, if I get stressed,
especially if I'm on a phone call

00:16:04.338 --> 00:16:06.465
or on a Zoom or a FaceTime,

00:16:08.759 --> 00:16:12.846
uh, I start to feel all this pressure behind
my eyes, then my eyes get really dry.

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I start to blink, like, incessantly,

00:16:15.474 --> 00:16:17.393
and I can't find the next word.

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And then I, I have brain...

00:16:20.354 --> 00:16:23.774
fog, brai- brain problems, and I
can't keep up with the conversation.

00:16:23.774 --> 00:16:26.443
I get very, very irritable.

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It's terrible.

00:16:32.032 --> 00:16:33.784
It's happening now.

00:16:33.784 --> 00:16:35.619
It's been happening all day.

00:16:35.619 --> 00:16:37.329
Oh, my God.

00:16:39.790 --> 00:16:42.126
Spring is almost here.

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It's about 36 degrees.

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There's a deer poop here.

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And right next to the deer poop,

00:16:54.931 --> 00:16:56.098
is a bear poop.

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Somebody is competing over here.

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Deer poop.

00:17:03.022 --> 00:17:05.857
And that is definitely a bear poop.

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There's the house.

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The bear is around.

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A bear, or many bears.

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It's just a matter of time
before we run into each other,

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I guess.

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But I don't know how I feel
about the bear being this close.

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That looks like coyote poop.

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It's coyote poop for sure,
because it's got hair in it.

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So the coyotes are coming around here.

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Right here.

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Right here next to the pond.

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Listen to all those spring peepers.

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It's like a circus out there.

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I got a lot of stuff to do before dark.

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I - I gotta get to it.

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Oww, fuck.

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That's enough wood for tonight.

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I'm settling in for the long haul.

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However long this takes,

00:18:13.425 --> 00:18:15.302
I'm going to be here.

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I'm going to heal from this disease

00:18:20.557 --> 00:18:22.684
and I'm going to survive it.

00:18:30.984 --> 00:18:32.152
As peaceful as this place seems,

00:18:32.152 --> 00:18:35.155
it's been a perpetual battleground
since the Europeans arrived.

00:18:37.407 --> 00:18:41.829
Wars, conquest, land grabs have
always defined this landscape:

00:18:41.829 --> 00:18:44.039
the Dutch versus the original people,
the Lenape,

00:18:44.039 --> 00:18:47.417
the British versus the French,
the Iroquois versus the Lenape,

00:18:47.417 --> 00:18:51.792
and the American colonists versus
just about everybody.

00:18:51.797 --> 00:18:54.883
In 1798, the colonists settled
at Cushetunk.

00:18:55.883 --> 00:18:59.997
The Lenape called the Delaware,
"the river of human beings."

00:18:59.999 --> 00:19:01.999
They'd lived here for 10,000 years.

00:19:02.001 --> 00:19:05.001
Now, there's only 350 left
in Pennsylvania.

00:19:05.269 --> 00:19:08.188
The colonists clearcut the forest
for timber and farming.

00:19:12.234 --> 00:19:13.902
The river was so jammed with logs

00:19:13.902 --> 00:19:15.904
you couldn't see the water.

00:19:19.825 --> 00:19:21.952
If they hadn't done the clear cut,
we'd have trees here

00:19:21.952 --> 00:19:23.996
as big as redwoods.

00:19:29.126 --> 00:19:31.253
There are always survivors.

00:19:31.253 --> 00:19:33.714
And I found one in the forest,

00:19:34.798 --> 00:19:39.460
a giant old tree that dwarfed
all the others.

00:19:42.848 --> 00:19:43.974
They left this one.

00:19:54.742 --> 00:19:55.999
Gorgeous, huh?

00:19:57.002 --> 00:19:58.622
Look how tall it is.

00:20:03.702 --> 00:20:06.788
My family were survivors, too.

00:20:06.788 --> 00:20:09.625
Survivors of the Holocaust.

00:20:13.503 --> 00:20:16.215
My grandmother had nine brothers
and sisters before the Holocaust.

00:20:16.423 --> 00:20:18.175
Only one survived.

00:20:18.175 --> 00:20:22.012
My grandfather lost his entire extended
family, all of them murdered by the Nazis.

00:20:22.305 --> 00:20:23.305
And they were lucky.

00:20:23.305 --> 00:20:25.933
They were one of a handful
of families of Jews

00:20:25.933 --> 00:20:28.936
who were let into the
United States in the '50s.

00:20:29.019 --> 00:20:30.320
What people don't understand is that

00:20:30.322 --> 00:20:32.981
most of the Jews who tried to get into
the United States for asylum

00:20:32.981 --> 00:20:38.401
were turned away, sent back to the Nazis,
sent back to the gas chambers.

00:20:40.155 --> 00:20:43.742
A survivor has to tell the world
about the past.

00:20:45.077 --> 00:20:46.119
A survivor

00:20:46.119 --> 00:20:49.331
also has to warn us about the future.

00:20:49.331 --> 00:20:52.751
That's a survivor's obligation.

00:20:59.895 --> 00:21:00.895
Enormous.

00:21:04.638 --> 00:21:07.641
The forest is a place where you see
the battle between what survives

00:21:08.141 --> 00:21:11.144
and what doesn't.

00:21:16.566 --> 00:21:19.611
The scars are written into the land,

00:21:22.406 --> 00:21:25.001
just like I can feel
the scars of generations past

00:21:25.003 --> 00:21:26.577
deep inside of me.

00:21:30.664 --> 00:21:33.001
The mist on this, on the half ice.

00:21:37.671 --> 00:21:40.340
Getting down into the 20s at night.

00:21:41.300 --> 00:21:46.145
When the snow recedes you can see
the remains of the coyotes' winter kills.

00:21:48.056 --> 00:21:49.441
Dragged it.

00:22:19.129 --> 00:22:21.170
They must be celebrating a kill.

00:22:25.761 --> 00:22:27.179
Fucking amazing.

00:22:40.650 --> 00:22:43.653
- ...before the coronavirus outbreak
comes under control.

00:22:43.653 --> 00:22:46.406
So how long must we live
under tight restrictions?

00:22:46.406 --> 00:22:49.659
President Trump ventured an answer
at yesterday's White House briefing.

00:22:50.118 --> 00:22:54.247
- People are talking about July,
August, something like that.

00:22:54.915 --> 00:22:57.250
- At today's briefing, though,
Anthony Fauci

00:22:57.250 --> 00:23:00.295
cautioned against setting too specific
a timeline.

00:23:00.670 --> 00:23:03.131
- You have to be careful
when you get a number.

00:23:03.131 --> 00:23:04.341
You own the number.

00:23:04.341 --> 00:23:06.551
And then if the number
doesn't come out, you're in trouble.

00:23:06.553 --> 00:23:09.304
- ...August, which is 4 or 5
months from now.

00:23:18.551 --> 00:23:21.753
♪ Oh, had I a golden thread ♪

00:23:24.999 --> 00:23:27.853
♪ And needle so fine ♪

00:23:30.450 --> 00:23:32.327
These are the weeks

00:23:32.327 --> 00:23:34.788
where life hides most fervently,

00:23:35.831 --> 00:23:39.167
where the brown trees
and the brown mud mixes

00:23:39.167 --> 00:23:44.756
with the gray in the sky and says,
"Wait, it's coming."

00:23:50.804 --> 00:23:54.182
But my friends,
something was charging inside of me.

00:23:54.724 --> 00:23:56.810
The feeling of seeing the ground,

00:23:56.810 --> 00:23:59.896
finally, after all that snow.

00:23:59.896 --> 00:24:02.607
I ran towards my favorite field.

00:24:02.607 --> 00:24:04.359
Oh, no.

00:24:04.568 --> 00:24:08.405
It was overrun by this weird
kind of bush.

00:24:08.738 --> 00:24:11.575
A craggy, evil, thorny.

00:24:11.575 --> 00:24:13.999
Ichabod Crane-looking bush.
Honeysuckle.

00:24:15.001 --> 00:24:17.039
It's a shrub. Invasive.

00:24:17.080 --> 00:24:20.709
It's a thing that Europeans brought
over to create hedgerows.

00:24:21.126 --> 00:24:24.129
The ultimate suburban fence plant.

00:24:25.918 --> 00:24:26.918
There's another one.

00:24:26.923 --> 00:24:27.712
There's another one.

00:24:27.716 --> 00:24:28.967
There's another one,
there's another one.

00:24:28.967 --> 00:24:29.999
There's another one.

00:24:30.178 --> 00:24:31.178
Everywhere.

00:24:31.178 --> 00:24:33.305
I had to crawl around
on my hands and knees

00:24:33.305 --> 00:24:35.140
just to try to get through the field.

00:24:38.018 --> 00:24:41.354
And when I emerged, ticks all over me.

00:24:42.355 --> 00:24:45.501
There's always ticks in
the honeysuckle.

00:24:48.487 --> 00:24:49.487
Fuck.

00:24:57.644 --> 00:25:02.844
♪ We are climbing ♪

00:25:05.999 --> 00:25:09.999
♪ Jacob's ladder ♪

00:25:11.801 --> 00:25:14.971
Much to my chagrin,
the battle for this patch of forest

00:25:14.971 --> 00:25:19.309
was being won by a dastardly,
colonizing suburban shrub.

00:25:26.775 --> 00:25:28.401
But to my delight,

00:25:28.401 --> 00:25:32.280
the more I battled and cleared,
the more my brain felt clear.

00:25:32.781 --> 00:25:36.576
The more I worked with my hands
and arms the less embattled I was.

00:25:36.868 --> 00:25:39.871
I can feel something happening to me.

00:25:39.871 --> 00:25:42.874
I can feel it happening, like,
I don't wanna go indoors.

00:25:45.293 --> 00:25:47.379
I don't want to go back.

00:25:48.338 --> 00:25:51.967
Like, something settling in.

00:25:52.175 --> 00:25:53.635
Something that's

00:25:55.220 --> 00:25:57.847
always been there that
always has wanted to be here.

00:25:59.015 --> 00:26:01.643
It's saying, "Don't go back."

00:26:03.105 --> 00:26:04.688
Hear the blue jays?

00:26:15.240 --> 00:26:16.950
I'm getting through here.

00:26:16.950 --> 00:26:18.451
I got a little bit more to go.

00:26:19.744 --> 00:26:22.539
I'm gonna get over towards
that big tree there,

00:26:22.789 --> 00:26:25.250
and that's where I'm gonna
make my stand.

00:26:40.184 --> 00:26:43.999
♪ Well may the world go,
the world go, the world go ♪

00:26:44.001 --> 00:26:46.847
♪ Well may the world go
when I'm far away ♪

00:26:47.001 --> 00:26:48.999
♪ Well may the skiers turn ♪

00:26:49.001 --> 00:26:50.999
♪ The lovers burn,
the swimmers churn ♪

00:26:51.002 --> 00:26:53.999
♪ Peace may the generals learn
when I'm far away ♪

00:26:54.547 --> 00:26:57.999
♪ Well may the world go,
the world go, the world go ♪

00:26:58.002 --> 00:27:01.247
♪ Well may the world go
when I'm far away ♪

00:27:02.495 --> 00:27:04.664
I didn't know what I was
building, or why.

00:27:05.999 --> 00:27:07.459
I just knew I had to get up higher.

00:27:08.918 --> 00:27:11.796
I guess you call that instinct

00:27:12.464 --> 00:27:14.591
or insanity.

00:27:28.063 --> 00:27:29.773
Okay.

00:27:29.773 --> 00:27:32.776
Okay, so I got some leverage now.

00:27:32.901 --> 00:27:35.320
Push the motherfucker up.

00:27:37.656 --> 00:27:39.499
Shit, it's really heavy.

00:27:41.618 --> 00:27:43.703
Don’t go over, no! NO!

00:27:43.703 --> 00:27:46.289
Oh, shit.

00:27:46.289 --> 00:27:47.791
Shit.

00:27:47.791 --> 00:27:49.417
Oh, man.

00:28:21.825 --> 00:28:24.202
That's all the invasive species.

00:28:25.286 --> 00:28:27.080
All invasive.

00:28:27.080 --> 00:28:29.249
All honeysuckle.

00:28:29.249 --> 00:28:30.625
See how much area it takes up?

00:28:38.591 --> 00:28:40.719
My inner peace didn't last long,

00:28:40.719 --> 00:28:43.263
so it was back up the hill
to find a signal

00:28:43.263 --> 00:28:45.348
and another doctor.

00:28:45.515 --> 00:28:47.225
Thanks for seeing me in this way.

00:28:47.225 --> 00:28:48.225
- Of course.

00:28:48.309 --> 00:28:50.437
You know, we don't really understand

00:28:50.437 --> 00:28:53.732
how COVID interacts with all of the
body's systems just yet.

00:28:54.482 --> 00:28:57.819
Um, so how it interacts with the central
and peripheral nervous systems.

00:28:58.027 --> 00:29:01.740
It's well documented
that a physical medical illness

00:29:01.906 --> 00:29:07.328
can be the source of, or even exacerbate,
already existing mental health conditions.

00:29:07.495 --> 00:29:10.290
So it's very likely that a
bad COVID infection

00:29:10.331 --> 00:29:12.625
could lead to worsening PTSD.

00:29:13.334 --> 00:29:16.129
And then even if you're physically
healed from that COVID,

00:29:16.421 --> 00:29:17.630
now you still have to deal

00:29:17.630 --> 00:29:22.091
with the residual effects of the
mental health consequences, right?

00:29:22.594 --> 00:29:27.849
Um, and this could manifest in a
myriad of ways including worsening of tics,

00:29:27.849 --> 00:29:30.852
agitation, headaches, you know,
GI upset,

00:29:31.352 --> 00:29:34.481
really any type of somatization.

00:29:39.319 --> 00:29:40.570
- That night,

00:29:40.904 --> 00:29:43.531
I found out my disease has a name.

00:29:43.531 --> 00:29:46.284
- Long COVID has left thousands

00:29:46.284 --> 00:29:49.496
with a laundry list of sometimes
debilitating symptoms

00:29:49.496 --> 00:29:52.749
many months after first getting
infected with the coronavirus.

00:29:52.749 --> 00:29:55.752
Scientists do not know yet
what causes it.

00:29:56.044 --> 00:29:59.589
But as NPR's Will Stone reports,
they have found some clues

00:29:59.589 --> 00:30:00.882
for what could be going on.

00:30:00.882 --> 00:30:05.678
- Most people have dozens of symptoms
over multiple organ systems.

00:30:05.678 --> 00:30:09.140
- There's brain fog, shortness of breath
and extreme fatigue,

00:30:09.224 --> 00:30:12.435
also rashes and heart palpitations,
hearing loss.

00:30:12.685 --> 00:30:13.686
The list goes on.

00:30:13.686 --> 00:30:15.730
- Is COVID hiding in the
body somewhere?

00:30:15.730 --> 00:30:17.999
- Bad headaches more days than not,

00:30:18.002 --> 00:30:19.999
sudden high-pitched whistling
in her ears,

00:30:20.001 --> 00:30:23.514
aches and pains all over her body,
brain fog so bad

00:30:23.517 --> 00:30:26.901
she had to quit her job as a nurse
and is afraid to drive.

00:30:26.903 --> 00:30:30.870
- These symptoms, they come and go
and you think it's gone.

00:30:30.870 --> 00:30:32.999
You think, "This is it, I'm getting better",

00:30:33.002 --> 00:30:36.038
and then it'll just rear back up again.

00:30:41.231 --> 00:30:45.343
- I don't even know what
all those animals are.

00:30:45.385 --> 00:30:46.803
I'm scared.

00:30:48.596 --> 00:30:49.889
That's a bullfrog.

00:30:49.889 --> 00:30:52.433
What happened to my brain?

00:30:52.559 --> 00:30:55.687
Why won't my brain work?

00:30:56.563 --> 00:30:58.898
In the middle of the night

00:31:01.067 --> 00:31:03.111
the pond has so many sounds.

00:31:05.989 --> 00:31:07.365
Why won't my brain work?

00:31:09.965 --> 00:31:11.119
The intensity of all this life.

00:31:12.745 --> 00:31:15.039
Why won't it work, why?

00:31:15.915 --> 00:31:17.834
Why is this happening?

00:31:18.126 --> 00:31:21.713
All the frogs singing,

00:31:22.088 --> 00:31:23.965
♪ Find me ♪

00:31:25.133 --> 00:31:27.093
♪ Find me ♪

00:31:28.553 --> 00:31:30.513
I can't focus.

00:31:31.055 --> 00:31:35.310
It's the song of the species
trying to continue itself.

00:31:36.102 --> 00:31:37.729
You're lucky you didn't die.

00:31:37.896 --> 00:31:39.564
You're lucky you didn't die.

00:31:39.564 --> 00:31:43.318
Sometimes I can hear footsteps.

00:31:43.735 --> 00:31:45.445
I feel like I have, like,

00:31:45.945 --> 00:31:48.448
five minutes left to live.

00:31:48.448 --> 00:31:49.365
Goddamn it.

00:31:49.365 --> 00:31:50.909
What happened to my brain?

00:31:50.909 --> 00:31:52.911
So many of my friends have died.

00:31:54.746 --> 00:31:56.913
Passed on before me.

00:31:56.915 --> 00:31:59.208
Will this ever stop?

00:31:59.334 --> 00:32:01.085
Hear those footsteps?

00:32:01.294 --> 00:32:02.795
Something is out there.

00:32:02.795 --> 00:32:05.006
I can't remember what it's like
to be normal.

00:32:05.006 --> 00:32:08.009
Hundreds of thousands of people dying.

00:32:08.635 --> 00:32:10.509
You're lucky, you're lucky.

00:32:10.511 --> 00:32:13.637
Across the world, where do the dead go?

00:32:15.183 --> 00:32:17.686
I'm not afraid.

00:32:18.895 --> 00:32:20.480
I'm not afraid.

00:32:20.480 --> 00:32:23.483
Will I wake up?

00:32:23.650 --> 00:32:26.653
Will I wake up tomorrow?

00:32:29.072 --> 00:32:32.075
Wake up at six in the morning,

00:32:34.953 --> 00:32:37.956
right before the sun comes up.

00:32:40.083 --> 00:32:43.086
Kinda nice to hear all the birds.

00:32:45.004 --> 00:32:48.007
Beautiful things.

00:32:50.134 --> 00:32:52.437
Good morning.

00:32:54.430 --> 00:32:55.932
I feel like there's something out there

00:32:55.932 --> 00:32:58.935
that's an antidote
to what's going on in my head.

00:33:32.969 --> 00:33:35.304
And just as the season changed

00:33:35.304 --> 00:33:38.057
and the cold let up for good,

00:33:38.057 --> 00:33:40.768
I found I had some neighbors.

00:33:40.768 --> 00:33:42.270
Hi, guys.

00:33:42.270 --> 00:33:44.105
Eager little neighbors.

00:33:45.999 --> 00:33:46.999
Did you just get born?

00:33:47.002 --> 00:33:50.028
Are you a brand new beaver?

00:33:50.653 --> 00:33:52.488
Hey, buddy.

00:33:52.488 --> 00:33:55.033
Listen, you're putting stuff
into the culvert,

00:33:56.117 --> 00:33:58.995
and the pond is going
to get all messed up.

00:33:58.995 --> 00:33:59.995
Okay?

00:34:01.205 --> 00:34:04.000
Listen, dude, you can't do that.

00:34:04.959 --> 00:34:08.171
This pipe is really important
or else the pond overflows,

00:34:08.838 --> 00:34:11.257
and they're putting all sorts of
stuff in it and damming it up.

00:34:13.384 --> 00:34:14.969
I gotta figure out what to do.

00:34:19.057 --> 00:34:20.933
They built their house

00:34:20.933 --> 00:34:23.895
right across from mine.

00:34:23.895 --> 00:34:26.898
Did you see him go down
under the water?

00:34:27.356 --> 00:34:30.359
So they haven't gotten
to this part yet.

00:34:33.029 --> 00:34:35.448
The water drains

00:34:35.448 --> 00:34:37.784
down through this little spot

00:34:37.784 --> 00:34:40.078
and all the way down
through the forest,

00:34:40.787 --> 00:34:43.698
and it drains down
to where it rejoins the stream.

00:34:44.874 --> 00:34:47.752
So every day I come out here
and I un-dam what they dammed,

00:34:48.878 --> 00:34:51.547
and every night they come
and dam it back up.

00:34:51.547 --> 00:34:53.800
It's kind of a fun game.

00:34:53.800 --> 00:34:56.469
I know you really want to dam that up,
but every day

00:34:56.469 --> 00:34:59.889
I have to come over here
and put it back.

00:34:59.889 --> 00:35:02.476
Bye.

00:35:06.020 --> 00:35:08.481
Okay, guys, it's on.

00:35:09.774 --> 00:35:11.647
Okay, you're going to go off
and find some stuff

00:35:11.649 --> 00:35:12.735
and clog it all up.

00:35:13.402 --> 00:35:15.154
And you're going to do
the same thing, aren't you?

00:35:17.782 --> 00:35:20.159
I wish I could swim like that.

00:35:20.535 --> 00:35:21.744
Whoa!

00:35:22.912 --> 00:35:25.998
That's what they do when they get mad.

00:35:26.499 --> 00:35:28.751
Stay away from my dam.

00:35:28.751 --> 00:35:30.795
And so it went on like this for days.

00:35:31.337 --> 00:35:34.757
They would clog up the outflows to
the pond in the north and in the west,

00:35:35.133 --> 00:35:37.960
and I would head out
trusty hoe in hand and clear them.

00:35:39.095 --> 00:35:41.389
I don't know why
this perturbed me so much.

00:35:42.557 --> 00:35:45.977
I guess like all human beings,
I got nervous,

00:35:47.687 --> 00:35:48.980
anxious,

00:35:49.939 --> 00:35:50.857
worried

00:35:54.527 --> 00:35:56.279
that somehow the pond

00:35:56.279 --> 00:35:58.739
would break its banks
and swamp my little house.

00:36:03.494 --> 00:36:04.871
So one night,

00:36:04.871 --> 00:36:08.291
I waited till almost dark
and then surreptitiously

00:36:08.291 --> 00:36:11.752
crept up to the brand new beaver dam
and poked a hole in it.

00:36:17.884 --> 00:36:19.468
You're coming towards me?

00:36:20.970 --> 00:36:24.140
By some - some deep driven instinct,

00:36:24.682 --> 00:36:26.726
One of the two
young beavers just came over

00:36:27.810 --> 00:36:31.313
and started to repair the
hole right in front me.

00:36:31.314 --> 00:36:33.566
I just did that,
and you're damming it up.

00:36:50.166 --> 00:36:52.335
And at one point it stopped

00:36:52.335 --> 00:36:55.087
and it looked straight at me,

00:36:55.296 --> 00:36:58.424
almost as if to say,
"What are you doing here?

00:36:59.383 --> 00:37:02.178
What kind of an animal are you?

00:37:02.178 --> 00:37:04.889
What's your purpose here?"

00:37:06.307 --> 00:37:08.809
And no one had ever just looked at me
and asked me that.

00:37:09.143 --> 00:37:11.646
Just straight looked at me
and asked me,

00:37:13.481 --> 00:37:16.484
"What's the meaning of your life?"

00:37:29.163 --> 00:37:31.624
And then, my friends, it dawned on me.

00:37:32.541 --> 00:37:35.086
I had no idea what my purpose was.

00:37:38.631 --> 00:37:41.384
So I stopped fussing at them,

00:37:41.384 --> 00:37:44.845
and let them do what they wanted to do.

00:37:45.805 --> 00:37:49.350
What is a person's purpose here?

00:37:49.934 --> 00:37:52.478
How do we fit in to this planet Earth?

00:37:54.230 --> 00:37:56.983
What is our role here?

00:38:02.905 --> 00:38:04.031
And all of a sudden it's like

00:38:04.031 --> 00:38:08.035
all the animals in the forest
were all wondering at me.

00:38:13.601 --> 00:38:14.601
You're just a baby.

00:38:15.167 --> 00:38:19.669
Imagine, if you will, everything and
everyone around you staring at you, going,

00:38:20.923 --> 00:38:22.883
"What's your deal?"

00:38:35.206 --> 00:38:37.706
(lowing)

00:38:42.528 --> 00:38:44.071
Hey, bunny rabbit.

00:38:47.241 --> 00:38:48.451
Nobody here.

00:38:48.451 --> 00:38:49.660
Don't worry.

00:38:52.038 --> 00:38:53.664
I'm a human,

00:38:54.582 --> 00:38:58.836
so maybe I should go do
some human stuff.

00:41:00.833 --> 00:41:02.084
I stayed all night.

00:41:04.322 --> 00:41:06.622
But then I realized...

00:41:12.761 --> 00:41:15.306
COVID had stopped the planes
in the skies.

00:41:16.640 --> 00:41:20.349
COVID had stopped the cars
rattling along the roads.

00:41:28.068 --> 00:41:30.112
And the sky was more vividly blue

00:41:30.779 --> 00:41:33.949
than any sky I've seen
since I was a child.

00:41:57.806 --> 00:41:59.808
And with all the pollution
and noise gone,

00:42:00.518 --> 00:42:03.354
I could hear the music of the spheres

00:42:03.771 --> 00:42:06.941
and the melody of the forest.

00:42:46.564 --> 00:42:49.233
I discovered the most
delightful thing in the world

00:42:49.984 --> 00:42:53.445
is just finding food in the forest.

00:42:53.571 --> 00:42:56.365
Hickory nuts, hickory nuts.

00:42:56.365 --> 00:42:58.951
Get your hickory nuts.

00:43:03.747 --> 00:43:06.500
Bass from the pond,
sometimes a chain pickerel.

00:43:09.003 --> 00:43:12.381
I gathered stinging nettles for
nettle soup.

00:43:18.387 --> 00:43:21.557
More ostrich ferns right there.

00:43:22.057 --> 00:43:23.434
It's called sour grass,

00:43:23.434 --> 00:43:26.299
'cause it's sour and it's delicious.

00:43:39.450 --> 00:43:41.785
Boom boom, boom boom.

00:43:41.827 --> 00:43:45.150
You put the pieces in
the middle, to here.

00:43:45.653 --> 00:43:47.763
And then you raise it up
a little at a time,

00:43:48.375 --> 00:43:50.294
and then screw it in.

00:43:51.545 --> 00:43:53.297
That's the way to do it.

00:44:32.461 --> 00:44:34.672
I'm going to tell you a story

00:44:34.880 --> 00:44:37.174
about my grandparents.

00:44:37.883 --> 00:44:41.637
Well, really, about my grandfather,

00:44:41.637 --> 00:44:44.223
how we got to these woods.

00:44:45.851 --> 00:44:50.604
My grandfather was a Yiddish poet,
and he left his village in Poland,

00:44:50.604 --> 00:44:52.690
the story goes,
in the middle of the night

00:44:54.024 --> 00:44:57.820
because he heard - he got a tip

00:44:57.861 --> 00:44:58.987
that the Nazis were coming

00:44:58.987 --> 00:45:02.866
the next morning to round up
all the Jews.

00:45:04.493 --> 00:45:05.411
He said, "All right, that's it.

00:45:05.411 --> 00:45:07.371
We're leaving right now.
We're leaving at midnight."

00:45:08.455 --> 00:45:09.415
And they fled,

00:45:09.415 --> 00:45:12.000
he and my grandmother and

00:45:12.000 --> 00:45:15.629
his one infant child,
his son, Mayer, my oldest uncle.

00:45:16.255 --> 00:45:19.007
They fled five long years,
all the way across

00:45:19.007 --> 00:45:22.302
Russia to Kazakhstan,

00:45:22.302 --> 00:45:23.637
where my father was born

00:45:23.637 --> 00:45:25.973
just before the end of the war.

00:45:27.891 --> 00:45:32.813
But, all my grandfather's
brothers and sisters

00:45:32.813 --> 00:45:35.816
and all my grandmother's
brothers and sisters who didn't leave

00:45:35.816 --> 00:45:37.943
right that moment
in the middle of the night,

00:45:41.238 --> 00:45:44.116
they all went to the gas chambers.

00:45:45.743 --> 00:45:48.454
Nine brothers and sisters,
their whole extended family,

00:45:49.246 --> 00:45:52.166
murdered by white supremacists, Nazis.

00:45:56.589 --> 00:46:01.133
Well, after the war,
they went back to Poland.

00:46:01.133 --> 00:46:03.260
Jews were being shot on their
own front steps.

00:46:03.260 --> 00:46:05.999
They would come home to their
houses and say,

00:46:06.002 --> 00:46:08.307
"Hey, this is where I used to live.
This is my house."

00:46:08.307 --> 00:46:11.143
And someone would come to the door
and say, "Just wait a moment",

00:46:11.143 --> 00:46:14.271
and they would come and, pop,
shoot them right on their front steps.

00:46:17.483 --> 00:46:18.901
That's what happened to
my Uncle Mayer.

00:46:18.901 --> 00:46:20.611
He was a kid, he got shot in the eye.

00:46:20.611 --> 00:46:22.404
Some kid wanted to shoot a Jew.

00:46:22.404 --> 00:46:24.364
He lost the eye and they said,
"That's not safe.

00:46:24.364 --> 00:46:25.157
We're getting out of here."

00:46:25.157 --> 00:46:27.743
And they came on a boat to America.

00:46:29.995 --> 00:46:33.290
And I can see them arriving in
New York City with the Statue of Liberty

00:46:33.290 --> 00:46:36.999
right there, a place of
a thousand dreams,

00:46:36.999 --> 00:46:38.212
a thousand languages.

00:46:38.212 --> 00:46:40.509
New York City saying,
"Here's a hustle for your bustle.

00:46:40.511 --> 00:46:42.154
Here's an egalitarian dream.

00:46:42.299 --> 00:46:45.803
Here's your place at the table.

00:46:45.928 --> 00:46:49.097
Here we respect your perseverance,
your courage,

00:46:50.432 --> 00:46:52.309
and your poetry."

00:46:56.447 --> 00:46:58.647
(phone ringing)

00:47:01.985 --> 00:47:03.862
Hey, Dad. How's everything?

00:47:03.862 --> 00:47:05.572
- All right, it's fine.

00:47:05.572 --> 00:47:07.866
- But you told me a story

00:47:07.866 --> 00:47:12.371
about your father escaping from Poland,
and they had to go through the woods

00:47:12.371 --> 00:47:14.623
and they had to eat a bear,
or something like that.

00:47:15.710 --> 00:47:20.170
- They fled Lodz to Bialystok,
a city on the Russian side

00:47:20.420 --> 00:47:21.380
of Poland.

00:47:21.380 --> 00:47:25.634
Poland had been divided, there were
so many Jews who had fled there

00:47:25.634 --> 00:47:27.469
there was no room for anybody.

00:47:27.469 --> 00:47:30.639
Then Stalin said, "All of you folks,

00:47:31.098 --> 00:47:34.351
I'm taking you to work in Siberia."

00:47:35.352 --> 00:47:38.438
They were made to work incredibly hard.

00:47:38.856 --> 00:47:41.108
At least half the people, if not more,

00:47:41.441 --> 00:47:44.653
who went there died pretty quickly.

00:47:45.237 --> 00:47:48.115
And children, of course,
young children in particular,

00:47:48.115 --> 00:47:50.576
babies, died almost immediately.

00:47:51.535 --> 00:47:54.329
They didn't have much food
and certainly not much meat.

00:47:54.913 --> 00:47:58.834
One woman told my mother
that her husband had killed a bear,

00:47:59.167 --> 00:48:03.463
and it was hung up in the woods someplace
and that she could have some.

00:48:03.463 --> 00:48:04.715
There's a lot of it.

00:48:04.715 --> 00:48:09.887
And she went up to the bear
and the bear had been skinned,

00:48:12.389 --> 00:48:14.683
and it looked like a
human being to her.

00:48:16.101 --> 00:48:18.395
And she didn't take any.

00:48:27.613 --> 00:48:29.740
- There's, like, a honeycomb
in the ground,

00:48:29.740 --> 00:48:32.159
and the bear has dug it out.

00:48:32.367 --> 00:48:36.872
They can eat the entire hornet's nest and
they just dig in the ground and eat it.

00:48:36.872 --> 00:48:40.417
And the bear came and
ate half of this hornet's nest.

00:48:41.084 --> 00:48:45.001
I've been, like, totally avoiding this
nest this entire time because...

00:48:45.999 --> 00:48:48.420
just get stung by these guys,
it lasts, like, a week.

00:49:04.999 --> 00:49:06.171
Oh, fuck!

00:49:06.181 --> 00:49:08.009
AHHHHH!

00:49:34.721 --> 00:49:36.848
Look at that.

00:49:37.140 --> 00:49:39.434
That's unbelievable.

00:49:43.563 --> 00:49:46.441
Look at the size of that beaver dam.

00:49:49.820 --> 00:49:53.198
Look how much water it holds back.

00:49:58.999 --> 00:49:59.999
Wow.

00:50:04.918 --> 00:50:07.838
Every day I wake up and walk.

00:50:07.879 --> 00:50:10.048
Walking through the forest,
looking at the plants,

00:50:10.048 --> 00:50:12.592
walking through the forest.

00:50:12.676 --> 00:50:16.555
Smelling the smells,
hearing the sounds.

00:50:19.141 --> 00:50:20.183
It changes my brain.

00:50:21.601 --> 00:50:24.021
It's settling me down.

00:50:28.525 --> 00:50:30.861
So beautiful here.

00:50:32.946 --> 00:50:34.364
The way the light comes

00:50:34.364 --> 00:50:37.576
through the trees and
lights up the ferns

00:50:37.576 --> 00:50:39.244
this time of year,

00:50:40.370 --> 00:50:43.790
it's like you're floating
through the forest.

00:50:43.832 --> 00:50:46.710
Floating through a sea of ferns.

00:50:49.999 --> 00:50:50.999
Look at that.

00:50:51.715 --> 00:50:54.669
It's like waves of the ocean.

00:50:56.178 --> 00:50:59.181
So I follow the deer trails.

00:51:00.724 --> 00:51:01.721
Deer trail.

00:51:01.723 --> 00:51:03.977
You see that?
See that right there?

00:51:03.977 --> 00:51:05.771
That's a deer trail.

00:51:06.229 --> 00:51:08.815
It's not made by a human,
it's made by a deer.

00:51:10.484 --> 00:51:13.986
Deer trails inspired human trails.

00:51:15.197 --> 00:51:18.116
I mean, for thousands of years,

00:51:18.116 --> 00:51:19.618
they were shared.

00:51:19.826 --> 00:51:25.165
In fact, before colonization,
there was a whole complex system

00:51:26.165 --> 00:51:28.999
of trails that went all
across this continent

00:51:29.002 --> 00:51:32.755
and all the way down to South America,
from Canada all the way up to Brazil.

00:51:35.008 --> 00:51:36.760
These deer trails give me
so much energy

00:51:36.760 --> 00:51:37.427
I just wanna run.

00:51:43.683 --> 00:51:45.310
But when the Dutch

00:51:45.310 --> 00:51:47.479
came to Manhattan

00:51:49.564 --> 00:51:51.817
and forcibly took the land from
the people there,

00:51:51.817 --> 00:51:54.027
killing them and driving them away,

00:51:57.364 --> 00:52:00.534
they started to widen the trails,

00:52:00.534 --> 00:52:02.577
and those deer trails became streets.

00:52:03.954 --> 00:52:05.497
Broadway

00:52:06.081 --> 00:52:08.500
was once a deer trail.

00:52:08.500 --> 00:52:09.835
Nature

00:52:10.627 --> 00:52:12.295
is an x-ray

00:52:12.712 --> 00:52:15.382
upon which our entire civilization
is a hologram.

00:52:16.049 --> 00:52:20.001
In fact, the entire U.S. interstate
highway system,

00:52:20.762 --> 00:52:21.972
a lot of it

00:52:22.722 --> 00:52:25.559
is based on old trails,

00:52:25.559 --> 00:52:29.771
foot trails of the people who
were here before colonies,

00:52:30.730 --> 00:52:33.150
of the Native Americans.

00:52:33.150 --> 00:52:35.110
The history is written into the land.

00:52:36.319 --> 00:52:38.446
Most of this land that I'm
walking around on

00:52:38.446 --> 00:52:40.782
doesn't belong to me.

00:52:41.783 --> 00:52:43.001
There's just nobody here.

00:52:43.702 --> 00:52:44.702
See this?

00:52:45.287 --> 00:52:47.831
This isn't a deer trail,
it's an old logging road.

00:52:55.130 --> 00:52:57.424
And this tree has fallen
right in the middle of it.

00:52:57.507 --> 00:52:59.259
Wow, that's a huge tree.

00:53:01.636 --> 00:53:02.846
Big guy.

00:53:12.981 --> 00:53:15.692
Hear that?

00:53:18.153 --> 00:53:19.446
Not the blue jay.

00:53:21.990 --> 00:53:25.744
No, the gunshots.

00:53:25.744 --> 00:53:27.787
You know you're in Pennsylvania

00:53:27.787 --> 00:53:30.373
if you're walking around in the woods
and you just hear gunshots.

00:53:35.462 --> 00:53:37.464
And if you follow the deer
trails long enough,

00:53:38.632 --> 00:53:40.759
you run into one of these.

00:53:40.967 --> 00:53:42.802
No trespassing.

00:53:43.970 --> 00:53:46.556
So the law in Pennsylvania is

00:53:46.556 --> 00:53:49.517
if there's this
"Posted, no trespassing" sign,

00:53:50.727 --> 00:53:52.020
you can't walk there.

00:53:52.020 --> 00:53:54.022
But if there is no
"no trespassing" sign,

00:53:54.022 --> 00:53:55.565
you can walk.

00:53:57.275 --> 00:53:58.860
You run into "no trespassing" signs

00:53:58.860 --> 00:54:01.029
in the woods all the time.

00:54:01.029 --> 00:54:02.989
You just sort of walk around them

00:54:02.989 --> 00:54:05.033
to where there is no
"no trespassing" sign.

00:54:23.260 --> 00:54:24.260
Dogs.

00:54:27.305 --> 00:54:29.724
Dogs and guns and
"no trespassing" signs.

00:54:31.810 --> 00:54:35.355
I think I'm going to go
the other direction.

00:54:48.076 --> 00:54:50.870
There's one little loophole to the
whole "no trespassing" thing,

00:54:52.122 --> 00:54:54.416
which is that if you're in the water,

00:54:56.501 --> 00:54:58.545
if you're in the stream,

00:54:59.421 --> 00:55:01.464
you're navigating a
Pennsylvania waterway.

00:55:01.965 --> 00:55:04.175
You're not trespassing.

00:55:08.555 --> 00:55:10.515
You can walk up and down,

00:55:10.515 --> 00:55:13.435
you can walk the banks,
you can walk in the water,

00:55:14.936 --> 00:55:16.730
but you're free to move.

00:55:18.648 --> 00:55:21.526
Nobody can own the stream.

01:01:08.081 --> 01:01:09.999
Neighbors from the farm

01:01:10.002 --> 01:01:12.710
up the hill

01:01:12.710 --> 01:01:15.713
came down to pay me a visit.

01:01:20.468 --> 01:01:23.001
- What are you doing standin'
in the trail, Josh?

01:01:24.597 --> 01:01:26.891
They said, "Well, you know,
you got bears around here.

01:01:26.891 --> 01:01:29.142
Bears in the woods.

01:01:29.143 --> 01:01:31.020
We can take care of those bears for ya.

01:01:31.020 --> 01:01:32.772
Don't wanna to get between a
mama bear and the cub.

01:01:32.772 --> 01:01:35.441
You don't wanna get between 'em.
You're in trouble.

01:01:35.441 --> 01:01:37.009
You know what else?

01:01:37.999 --> 01:01:39.895
You got a snapping turtle in that pond.

01:01:39.898 --> 01:01:41.948
You got a big ol' snapping turtle.

01:01:41.948 --> 01:01:43.866
Big ol' snapping turtle.

01:01:43.866 --> 01:01:45.493
And, you know,
we tried to get it one time.

01:01:45.493 --> 01:01:48.705
We put a cage in the water
with a roast chicken in there

01:01:48.705 --> 01:01:49.622
off the side of the boat.

01:01:49.622 --> 01:01:53.000
And then the snapping turtle grabbed
onto that chicken in the cage

01:01:53.000 --> 01:01:56.170
and boy we couldn't pull it out because
we would have capsized the whole boat.

01:01:56.170 --> 01:01:57.922
We tried to pull that turtle out
and we couldn't.

01:01:57.922 --> 01:02:00.341
It was bigger than a VW bug,
you gotta get rid of that turtle.

01:02:01.384 --> 01:02:03.344
You're gonna lose a finger.
You gonna go swimming?

01:02:03.344 --> 01:02:04.929
You're gonna lose a finger,
you're gonna lose a toe.

01:02:04.929 --> 01:02:07.265
And we can come
and take care of it for you."

01:02:12.854 --> 01:02:15.857
And they said, "You know,
you got a beaver in that pond.

01:02:15.940 --> 01:02:18.484
You got a beaver in that pond,
that beaver is gonna eat

01:02:18.484 --> 01:02:21.237
all your fish, it's gonna
clean you clear out.

01:02:21.237 --> 01:02:23.406
We can take care of it for you.

01:02:23.406 --> 01:02:26.409
Get rid of that beaver,
trap it, chewed it."

01:02:29.036 --> 01:02:32.039
And I said, "Well, thanks."

01:02:40.965 --> 01:02:42.008
So I looked it up.

01:02:42.008 --> 01:02:45.428
There hasn't been a single recorded
instance of a snapping turtle

01:02:45.845 --> 01:02:48.473
taking off a person's finger in the water.

01:02:48.473 --> 01:02:49.891
Ever.

01:02:49.891 --> 01:02:51.768
And beavers?

01:02:51.768 --> 01:02:53.561
Beavers are vegetarians.

01:02:53.561 --> 01:02:55.564
They don't eat fish.

01:02:56.856 --> 01:02:58.900
But now all those people have

01:02:58.900 --> 01:03:01.944
Trump signs in their front yard.

01:03:02.403 --> 01:03:04.447
And the roads up there
and up on the roads up there,

01:03:04.447 --> 01:03:07.366
Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump,
Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump.

01:03:11.871 --> 01:03:14.874
Now my curiosity was piqued.

01:03:14.916 --> 01:03:18.044
I did wonder why these people
were living in the woods

01:03:18.044 --> 01:03:21.047
If they were afraid of everything.

01:03:25.593 --> 01:03:28.596
And on a hunch,
I looked up one more thing,

01:03:30.097 --> 01:03:33.100
and I about fell out of my chair.

01:03:39.816 --> 01:03:41.234
"Nature.

01:03:41.234 --> 01:03:43.986
The physical world collectively

01:03:43.986 --> 01:03:46.989
including plants, animals,
the landscape,

01:03:47.949 --> 01:03:50.952
and other features
and products of the earth,

01:03:51.494 --> 01:03:55.873
as opposed to humans
or human creations."

01:03:56.457 --> 01:03:59.460
It's written into the very language,

01:04:01.045 --> 01:04:04.507
the definition of nature
as opposed to humans.

01:04:05.383 --> 01:04:09.554
And that definition arrived upon
these shores 500 years ago,

01:04:10.513 --> 01:04:12.849
and the Europeans

01:04:12.849 --> 01:04:15.852
sure as hell separated themselves.

01:04:18.312 --> 01:04:19.505
The European colonists

01:04:19.507 --> 01:04:22.108
saw nature as separate from them.

01:04:22.316 --> 01:04:24.999
They saw every piece of land as
something to own,

01:04:25.002 --> 01:04:29.115
and every animal on it something to
fear, tame, kill, harness, or trap.

01:04:29.407 --> 01:04:30.449
So they did.

01:04:30.449 --> 01:04:35.246
They killed off 300 million beavers,
their glands and their pelts used

01:04:35.246 --> 01:04:40.042
for fashionable hats and perfumes in
the streets of London, Paris and Rome.

01:04:40.751 --> 01:04:44.964
All the beavers in the northeast
killed off, eradicated to extinction.

01:04:45.214 --> 01:04:49.468
The beavers you see now in
Pennsylvania are descendants of beavers

01:04:49.468 --> 01:04:53.999
that were re-imported in the 1920s
from Canada and the Great Lakes,

01:04:54.002 --> 01:04:56.350
immigrant survivors of the
beaver genocide.

01:04:56.392 --> 01:04:59.999
The Europeans killed off
2 million black bears,

01:05:00.015 --> 01:05:02.999
3 to 5 billion passenger pigeons,

01:05:03.005 --> 01:05:07.899
10 million elk reduced to just 41,000,

01:05:07.902 --> 01:05:10.865
60 million bison reduced to
a herd of a thousand,

01:05:10.865 --> 01:05:12.867
all the gray wolves in the
United States,

01:05:12.867 --> 01:05:15.912
the mountain lions,
billions of prairie dogs.

01:05:16.078 --> 01:05:19.081
All the wildlife you see
out in the forest,

01:05:19.248 --> 01:05:23.711
every one is a survivor of the
separation of people and nature.

01:05:24.128 --> 01:05:28.799
And of course, Europeans saw
the Native Americans as animals,

01:05:29.592 --> 01:05:33.846
part of nature, part of the nature
that they were separate from.

01:05:34.805 --> 01:05:36.582
And so they killed them, too.

01:05:38.225 --> 01:05:41.228
95 million.

01:05:41.562 --> 01:05:44.357
I was coming to terms with what
this land really was.

01:05:44.357 --> 01:05:47.318
It was creeping
deep inside of my consciousness.

01:05:47.318 --> 01:05:51.696
I could see it in a way
that I had never seen it before.

01:05:54.492 --> 01:05:56.702
There are always survivors,

01:05:56.702 --> 01:05:59.705
and I needed to call one, a friend.

01:06:00.039 --> 01:06:03.042
So I road up the hill,
found a place I could Zoom.

01:06:04.210 --> 01:06:07.213
Hello! There's the Myron
I know and love.

01:06:08.923 --> 01:06:11.884
Right off the bat, he could see
there was something wrong.

01:06:11.884 --> 01:06:14.887
My face was twitching.
He asked me about it.

01:06:15.262 --> 01:06:17.515
- I could see the wheels turning
in there with you.

01:06:17.515 --> 01:06:19.392
Pretty heavy, you all right?

01:06:19.392 --> 01:06:23.771
Every single tribe across the country
can tell you about their historical trauma

01:06:23.771 --> 01:06:28.067
from colonization, from land theft,
from mineral extraction.

01:06:29.777 --> 01:06:31.946
And every tribe has their own

01:06:31.946 --> 01:06:34.699
dealing with historical trauma
from the loss of land,

01:06:34.699 --> 01:06:37.702
the loss of language,
of course loss of dignity,

01:06:37.868 --> 01:06:40.621
indoctrination, colonization,

01:06:40.621 --> 01:06:43.624
the loss of their traditional
harvesting areas.

01:06:43.624 --> 01:06:46.377
My tribe lost 100% of our fish.

01:06:46.377 --> 01:06:48.254
We're called Agai Dicutta, trout eaters.

01:06:48.254 --> 01:06:52.591
Every tribe has its different way
of dealing with historical trauma.

01:06:53.926 --> 01:06:56.012
And I think about when you're
sharing with me about

01:06:56.012 --> 01:06:57.179
what happened to your people.

01:06:57.179 --> 01:07:01.851
And that process is hard, you know,
and we're in the same boat together.

01:07:02.143 --> 01:07:06.105
It's like we're in constant fight
or flight mode to protect this land,

01:07:06.105 --> 01:07:07.773
this Earth, this water.

01:07:07.773 --> 01:07:10.651
Something will remind you that
the trauma is there,

01:07:10.651 --> 01:07:14.864
like smell, like memory, like tastes,
like visual objects and invisibility.

01:07:15.698 --> 01:07:18.701
And for our trauma, it's invisibility.

01:07:18.743 --> 01:07:21.999
And as America continues to use
their gurus to say,

01:07:22.002 --> 01:07:24.467
"Focus on tomorrow not the past,"

01:07:24.469 --> 01:07:27.334
that's one way of invisibility.

01:07:27.334 --> 01:07:29.545
The white supremacy,

01:07:29.545 --> 01:07:32.131
this is alive and real today.

01:07:32.131 --> 01:07:35.134
This country was built on genocide
and slavery.

01:07:35.468 --> 01:07:38.429
Bigotry, theft, manifest destiny.

01:07:38.429 --> 01:07:42.600
And so that's where the trauma comes
in, is there was no justice for this.

01:07:43.434 --> 01:07:46.899
And that's what we need is that there's
some accountability.

01:07:46.906 --> 01:07:49.999
There's healing that needs to happen
in Western culture's DNA,

01:07:50.002 --> 01:07:52.999
because it comes from deep,
deep violence.

01:07:53.235 --> 01:07:56.113
If you don't think you did it,
you benefit from it,

01:07:56.113 --> 01:07:58.157
from all of those things that happened.

01:07:58.157 --> 01:07:59.575
And so that's just part of the history

01:07:59.575 --> 01:08:03.329
that we got to start the
hatchet-in-the-sugar kind of gig here.

01:08:03.996 --> 01:08:05.999
You know, we got to
come with the hard stuff

01:08:06.002 --> 01:08:07.750
and sit through in those
healing circles

01:08:08.167 --> 01:08:10.836
and start that process or we're going
to continue to repeat this

01:08:10.836 --> 01:08:12.129
over and over and over.

01:08:14.548 --> 01:08:16.300
- Thanks, brother.

01:08:16.300 --> 01:08:19.303
- Keep up the good work.

01:08:20.805 --> 01:08:23.766
Later that night,

01:08:23.766 --> 01:08:25.893
someone was up on the hill,

01:08:25.893 --> 01:08:28.896
firing off what sounded
like a machine gun

01:08:33.526 --> 01:08:36.529
for over an hour.

01:08:42.159 --> 01:08:45.162
This was a different
kind of target practice,

01:08:45.371 --> 01:08:48.749
with weapons meant for killing
human beings.

01:08:52.545 --> 01:08:55.506
This was sending a message

01:08:56.215 --> 01:08:59.093
to everyone in earshot.

01:08:59.093 --> 01:09:02.096
All of a sudden the woods
weren't so safe anymore.

01:09:03.973 --> 01:09:06.225
This is what a bear hears.

01:09:06.225 --> 01:09:08.686
This is what a deer hears.

01:09:08.686 --> 01:09:10.697
This is what the hunted hear

01:09:10.699 --> 01:09:12.699
and run from.

01:09:18.487 --> 01:09:21.490
I'm out here on the boat

01:09:22.533 --> 01:09:25.536
in the middle of the night.

01:09:29.832 --> 01:09:32.835
This is a place where I come

01:09:33.127 --> 01:09:36.130
when I'm scared,

01:09:39.550 --> 01:09:42.553
when I'm worried.

01:09:44.765 --> 01:09:48.100
I see the winds of authoritarianism
blowing right now.

01:09:48.934 --> 01:09:50.269
I see them here in this country.

01:09:50.269 --> 01:09:55.566
I see the seeds of hatred and racism,
ignorance and anger, violence.

01:10:01.405 --> 01:10:04.408
And the Nazis have come back.

01:10:04.700 --> 01:10:07.703
There's Nazis in America right now.

01:10:09.914 --> 01:10:12.875
There's Nazis in America right now.

01:10:15.044 --> 01:10:17.129
And people don't remember
the Holocaust.

01:10:17.129 --> 01:10:18.005
They're not taught it.

01:10:18.005 --> 01:10:21.008
They don't understand what that means,

01:10:21.884 --> 01:10:25.763
But to exterminate 6 million people
in ovens and gas chambers,

01:10:26.347 --> 01:10:29.266
systematically rounding them up,
placing them on trains,

01:10:29.266 --> 01:10:31.685
men, women and children and
working them until they were dead.

01:10:31.685 --> 01:10:33.729
And then

01:10:33.729 --> 01:10:35.314
putting them in chambers

01:10:35.314 --> 01:10:38.317
naked, a hundred at a time,

01:10:38.943 --> 01:10:41.946
pumping in so much gas that

01:10:42.071 --> 01:10:45.074
they would be clawing at the windows
and the walls trying to get out.

01:10:46.492 --> 01:10:49.536
And when their bodies had been
mutilated and puffed out

01:10:49.536 --> 01:10:55.457
and burnt and destroyed by the
toxic chemicals in the air,

01:10:56.835 --> 01:10:59.838
soldiers would come through

01:11:00.047 --> 01:11:01.799
and pick the gold out of their teeth.

01:11:06.430 --> 01:11:10.057
So when people say, you know,
"Well, it won't be so bad,

01:11:10.599 --> 01:11:13.602
things can't get that bad",

01:11:15.354 --> 01:11:18.357
I think about those soldiers

01:11:18.524 --> 01:11:21.485
picking the gold out of folks' teeth.

01:11:21.485 --> 01:11:23.946
That was their job.

01:11:23.946 --> 01:11:26.949
And they didn't refuse.

01:11:28.242 --> 01:11:29.785
It's well documented that Hitler

01:11:29.785 --> 01:11:32.788
got his inspiration
from the American genocide.

01:11:34.206 --> 01:11:36.875
He wanted to imitate and
do to my people

01:11:36.875 --> 01:11:39.878
what the Europeans did here.

01:11:40.379 --> 01:11:42.464
Hitler was a continuation

01:11:42.464 --> 01:11:45.467
of the ideology that happened here.

01:11:46.093 --> 01:11:48.220
To exploit the land,

01:11:48.220 --> 01:11:51.223
they killed the people on it.

01:11:52.935 --> 01:11:57.646
Every corner you turn, every street
you drive on, every strip mall

01:11:58.731 --> 01:12:01.734
was once a forest.

01:12:01.775 --> 01:12:04.778
Those who were protecting those forests

01:12:04.987 --> 01:12:07.156
and taking care of them

01:12:07.156 --> 01:12:09.908
were murdered.

01:12:09.999 --> 01:12:14.204
Genocide, racism,
and the destruction of nature

01:12:15.456 --> 01:12:18.059
are connected.

01:12:25.591 --> 01:12:27.051
Well, friends,

01:12:27.051 --> 01:12:30.137
hurricane season never used to be
a thing in Pennsylvania.

01:12:36.999 --> 01:12:39.999
Record-breaking torrential rains came.

01:12:40.999 --> 01:12:44.655
It was easy to see that it wasn't
just me that was unhealthy.

01:12:44.855 --> 01:12:46.111
The forest is sick.

01:12:46.111 --> 01:12:48.155
We're living on a different planet

01:12:48.155 --> 01:12:50.458
with a changed climate.

01:12:50.547 --> 01:12:51.847
Too much water.

01:12:55.037 --> 01:12:56.413
Water comes pouring down

01:12:56.413 --> 01:12:59.416
and rots the trees from the inside out.

01:13:03.998 --> 01:13:05.698
It died in just a couple of weeks.

01:13:06.799 --> 01:13:09.802
Fungal infections
taking out the white pines,

01:13:09.802 --> 01:13:12.805
the red pines, the spruce.

01:13:13.999 --> 01:13:15.461
So many dead.

01:13:18.999 --> 01:13:20.389
The forest is sick.

01:13:24.316 --> 01:13:25.943
So much water,

01:13:25.943 --> 01:13:28.946
the beaver dam which looked so
strong and formidable

01:13:29.238 --> 01:13:32.241
was completely overwhelmed.

01:13:40.707 --> 01:13:42.710
And when the rain stopped...

01:13:43.199 --> 01:13:44.979
The sun just does not look right.

01:13:45.379 --> 01:13:49.009
...smoke all the way from the
wildfires in California

01:13:49.258 --> 01:13:52.261
painted the sky orange.

01:13:53.053 --> 01:13:54.471
Our climate system

01:13:54.471 --> 01:13:57.474
is tipping into unchartered territory.

01:13:58.809 --> 01:14:00.894
The pollution and emissions of conquest

01:14:00.894 --> 01:14:04.940
and colonialism are trapping us
in a planetary fever dream.

01:14:05.357 --> 01:14:08.360
Soon the Earth will hit
two degrees of warming,

01:14:08.402 --> 01:14:11.999
and then the climate will finish
the eradications and extinctions

01:14:12.002 --> 01:14:14.867
that the colonists began
all those years ago.

01:14:15.576 --> 01:14:20.247
At two degrees of warming, half
of the species on the planet go extinct.

01:14:23.667 --> 01:14:25.294
But that's not the worst.

01:14:25.294 --> 01:14:28.172
The ocean's getting so damn hot
it may fundamentally

01:14:28.172 --> 01:14:31.175
change its nature
from incubator to teakettle.

01:14:31.508 --> 01:14:34.219
If we keep on this path,
the ocean gets so hot

01:14:34.219 --> 01:14:37.222
that phytoplankton stops
creating oxygen.

01:14:37.931 --> 01:14:40.267
The ocean begins to die.

01:14:40.267 --> 01:14:43.270
Mass extinction grips the planet.

01:14:43.687 --> 01:14:47.107
So unless you've got a ticket to Jeff
Bezos' floating Floridian

01:14:47.107 --> 01:14:49.999
totalitarian salad spinner in the sky,

01:14:50.002 --> 01:14:51.904
then you're gonna be stuck down here

01:14:51.904 --> 01:14:54.907
in their greenhouse gas chamber.

01:14:55.949 --> 01:14:59.995
And the billionaire colonizers will keep
dreaming of Mars while down here

01:15:00.037 --> 01:15:02.998
what's worse than genocide will occur.

01:15:03.957 --> 01:15:05.417
Omnicide.

01:15:05.417 --> 01:15:08.420
The murder of all.

01:15:11.441 --> 01:15:14.899
Friends, these were hard
lessons to learn

01:15:14.901 --> 01:15:18.013
all alone in the woods in Pennsylvania.

01:15:18.555 --> 01:15:21.558
I fell into a depression.

01:15:23.685 --> 01:15:26.605
Just got a tornado watch over the,
over the radio.

01:15:32.611 --> 01:15:34.905
Trees are moving.

01:15:34.905 --> 01:15:37.908
I was about to make some blackberry
jam over here on the fire.

01:15:38.242 --> 01:15:41.870
I've been dealing with a pretty bad
bout of symptoms and depression.

01:15:42.496 --> 01:15:45.499
When the blackberries arrive,
you make the jam.

01:15:45.582 --> 01:15:48.143
So if I'm in a depression or not,
it doesn't matter.

01:15:50.671 --> 01:15:53.340
Actually, it's pretty hard
to mash 'em up.

01:15:53.340 --> 01:15:56.009
Takes some elbow grease.

01:15:56.009 --> 01:15:59.012
Mash 'em up, mash 'em up, mash 'em up.

01:15:59.388 --> 01:16:00.389
...make things happen this way.

01:16:00.389 --> 01:16:02.724
Why does it come?

01:16:03.924 --> 01:16:05.727
Depression is hard.

01:16:05.811 --> 01:16:08.105
Anxiety's hard.

01:16:08.105 --> 01:16:09.940
You just mash your way through it,

01:16:09.940 --> 01:16:10.973
mash your way through it,

01:16:11.003 --> 01:16:12.344
mash your way through it.

01:16:12.444 --> 01:16:14.091
I think it's loneliness.

01:16:15.999 --> 01:16:17.103
I think it's loneliness.

01:16:20.367 --> 01:16:23.370
Mashin' my way.

01:16:35.132 --> 01:16:37.435
Cook that jam down.

01:16:39.386 --> 01:16:41.597
You feel depressed.

01:16:41.597 --> 01:16:43.682
Can't give into it.

01:16:43.682 --> 01:16:45.392
If you feel a thing,
you can go through it.

01:16:49.479 --> 01:16:52.482
I don't wanna cook my
sadness into my jam,

01:16:53.525 --> 01:16:56.528
but I need sweetness right now.

01:17:07.080 --> 01:17:09.583
But I'm different now.

01:17:10.500 --> 01:17:13.103
I've become something different.

01:17:13.879 --> 01:17:16.882
And I don't know if I'm going crazy,

01:17:17.424 --> 01:17:20.052
or if I'm just feeling
what everybody else is feeling.

01:17:20.052 --> 01:17:21.720
Am I crazy?

01:17:21.720 --> 01:17:24.123
Blue jays?

01:17:29.999 --> 01:17:31.999
(whistling)

01:17:34.358 --> 01:17:37.361
I can see the sky in the jam.

01:17:43.659 --> 01:17:44.955
Holy shit.

01:18:05.847 --> 01:18:08.250
Don't waste a drop.

01:18:09.226 --> 01:18:10.977
And at my worst moment,

01:18:10.977 --> 01:18:13.605
at the nadir of my depression...

01:18:13.605 --> 01:18:15.973
The beavers are out of
the water up there.

01:18:19.945 --> 01:18:21.822
...this little guy

01:18:21.822 --> 01:18:24.825
showed me the way once more.

01:18:25.826 --> 01:18:28.537
They're clearing the honeysuckle.

01:18:28.537 --> 01:18:30.580
Get that honeysuckle.

01:18:30.580 --> 01:18:32.850
Get it out of there!

01:18:33.250 --> 01:18:35.999
Get that honeysuckle out of here.

01:18:38.338 --> 01:18:40.465
All right, let's get to it.

01:19:03.655 --> 01:19:05.157
I feel like I'm cutting
my way through...

01:19:06.074 --> 01:19:07.743
...through history.

01:19:07.743 --> 01:19:09.002
It's like cutting my way through

01:19:09.004 --> 01:19:12.956
hundreds of years of
darkness and garbage,

01:19:13.415 --> 01:19:18.168
and getting the sun and
the deer trails back.

01:19:21.298 --> 01:19:22.674
I'm a part of history.

01:19:24.468 --> 01:19:27.095
And I refuse to live like those

01:19:27.512 --> 01:19:30.265
who murdered my ancestors.

01:19:33.518 --> 01:19:34.644
I'm a gardener.

01:19:35.228 --> 01:19:37.647
That's our purpose here.

01:19:37.689 --> 01:19:39.775
To take care of this place,

01:19:39.775 --> 01:19:42.778
to take care of all of this.

01:19:44.446 --> 01:19:47.491
What's good for the garden
is good for us.

01:19:47.616 --> 01:19:50.827
What's good for the forest
is good for us.

01:19:53.288 --> 01:19:55.707
The earth dreamed us,

01:19:55.707 --> 01:19:58.710
and it did not make a mistake.

01:19:58.835 --> 01:20:01.838
Nature needs us.

01:20:02.214 --> 01:20:05.299
Without us, the weeds grow
higher than the garden.

01:20:08.720 --> 01:20:12.265
Our purpose is to take care
of this place.

01:20:14.309 --> 01:20:17.312
That's what nothing else
knows how to do.

01:21:06.945 --> 01:21:10.240
We cannot heal ourselves
without healing the planet.

01:21:10.999 --> 01:21:15.120
We cannot heal the planet
without healing ourselves.

01:21:28.425 --> 01:21:29.843
I feel like a little kid

01:21:31.553 --> 01:21:32.553
taking a walk.

01:21:44.774 --> 01:21:46.026
Holy shit.

01:22:45.835 --> 01:22:48.838
Just another friend in the forest.

01:22:49.965 --> 01:22:52.068
Nothing to worry about.

01:23:32.999 --> 01:23:34.699
♪ And my time ♪

01:23:35.003 --> 01:23:37.799
♪ Is swiftly rolling on ♪

01:23:38.999 --> 01:23:42.920
♪ And I know that I must die ♪

01:23:45.894 --> 01:23:47.999
♪ And my body ♪

01:23:48.999 --> 01:23:50.899
♪ To thee ♪

01:23:50.902 --> 01:23:52.703
♪ Dust to return ♪

01:23:53.999 --> 01:23:57.199
♪ And there forgotten lie ♪

01:23:59.999 --> 01:24:01.999
♪ You may sing ♪

01:24:02.433 --> 01:24:04.633
♪ Those songs I used to sing ♪

01:24:06.301 --> 01:24:08.002
♪ Talk about ♪

01:24:09.001 --> 01:24:11.999
♪ The things I've done ♪

01:24:12.999 --> 01:24:14.433
♪ When you take ♪

01:24:15.999 --> 01:24:18.999
♪ Me to the little hillside ♪

01:24:21.001 --> 01:24:24.899
♪ And lay me there alone ♪

01:25:14.067 --> 01:25:16.319
Touching the walls of the grave,
I could tell

01:25:16.319 --> 01:25:19.322
the dirt was made of the
same stuff as me.

01:25:22.408 --> 01:25:24.661
I realized, I will be earth

01:25:24.661 --> 01:25:27.664
for a lot longer than I am human.

01:25:30.125 --> 01:25:34.003
It was comforting, like coming home.

01:25:34.921 --> 01:25:39.968
Something shifted,
and I felt the fear leave.

01:28:17.750 --> 01:28:20.753
Ladies and gentlemen.

01:28:27.010 --> 01:28:29.429
Bears, beavers, birds, deer,

01:28:29.429 --> 01:28:32.432
and all other forms of
life in the forest.

01:28:35.643 --> 01:28:38.896
I present to you a small fraction

01:28:39.272 --> 01:28:42.233
of the diversity of nature.

01:28:53.161 --> 01:28:55.164
The wood fern.

01:29:03.546 --> 01:29:05.549
The ostrich fern.

01:29:08.593 --> 01:29:10.928
Jo Pye weed.

01:29:21.230 --> 01:29:23.233
This is barberry.

01:29:24.776 --> 01:29:27.070
This is white pine.

01:29:28.070 --> 01:29:30.070
Red pine.

01:29:30.999 --> 01:29:32.899
Chestnut.

01:29:32.999 --> 01:29:34.077
Walnut.

01:29:34.077 --> 01:29:36.120
Yarrow.

01:29:36.920 --> 01:29:38.247
Apple.

01:29:38.247 --> 01:29:39.540
Chicken of the woods.

01:29:41.042 --> 01:29:43.253
Spruce.

01:29:43.753 --> 01:29:45.922
Red oak.

01:29:45.922 --> 01:29:48.174
Goldenrod.

01:29:48.174 --> 01:29:50.177
Milkweed.

01:29:51.302 --> 01:29:52.261
Eagle.

01:29:52.261 --> 01:29:53.362
Turkey.

01:29:53.999 --> 01:29:55.723
Blue jay.

01:29:55.723 --> 01:29:57.726
A robin's nest.

01:29:58.999 --> 01:30:01.227
Deer skull.

01:30:02.397 --> 01:30:04.400
Sugar maple.

01:30:05.525 --> 01:30:07.652
Bee balm.

01:30:07.652 --> 01:30:10.321
Wasp.

01:30:10.321 --> 01:30:12.198
Evergreen holly.

01:30:12.198 --> 01:30:13.198
Elderberry.

01:30:13.898 --> 01:30:14.909
Ash.

01:30:14.909 --> 01:30:15.909
Blackberry.

01:30:15.911 --> 01:30:17.294
Wild grapes.

01:30:17.894 --> 01:30:19.288
Cherry tomato.

01:30:19.288 --> 01:30:20.831
Shaggy parasol.

01:30:21.931 --> 01:30:23.242
Japanese knotweed.

01:30:23.842 --> 01:30:25.670
Nettles.

01:30:25.670 --> 01:30:28.339
Honeysuckle.

01:30:28.339 --> 01:30:31.050
I don't know what this one is.

01:30:31.050 --> 01:30:33.394
It's a mystery.

01:30:33.594 --> 01:30:35.721
I don't know what this one is.

01:30:35.721 --> 01:30:38.041
It's a mystery.

01:30:38.641 --> 01:30:41.044
Mystery?

01:30:41.686 --> 01:30:44.480
A mystery.

01:30:44.480 --> 01:30:47.003
It's a mystery.

01:30:47.233 --> 01:30:49.594
A mystery.

01:33:53.585 --> 01:33:55.008
What is that?

01:34:12.106 --> 01:34:15.691
Looks like there's all this
green stuff in the guts.

01:34:18.819 --> 01:34:21.822
And then there's this little hand here.

01:34:29.540 --> 01:34:32.291
I think something ate
one of my beaver friends.

01:34:33.793 --> 01:34:35.920
Sure looks that way.

01:34:37.680 --> 01:34:39.672
Coyotes, maybe?

01:34:52.228 --> 01:34:54.831
The planet is cruel.

01:35:13.124 --> 01:35:15.545
Sorry, little guy.

01:35:22.633 --> 01:35:24.468
One death.

01:35:26.887 --> 01:35:29.890
Coming to terms with a single death

01:35:31.100 --> 01:35:33.303
is nearly impossible.

01:35:35.062 --> 01:35:36.230
The loss holds

01:35:36.230 --> 01:35:39.483
an infinity of grief and questions.

01:35:41.819 --> 01:35:43.738
What, then,

01:35:43.738 --> 01:35:46.741
of a million deaths

01:35:46.741 --> 01:35:49.744
that we just experienced?

01:35:50.920 --> 01:35:53.623
Does the grief last forever?

01:35:54.623 --> 01:35:57.126
Of course it does.

01:35:57.877 --> 01:35:59.503
It's so hard.

01:35:59.503 --> 01:36:02.506
But we have to let ourselves feel it.

01:36:04.425 --> 01:36:06.510
And the earth

01:36:06.510 --> 01:36:09.113
takes it all in.

01:36:10.139 --> 01:36:13.142
The earth takes in all our death,

01:36:14.435 --> 01:36:17.396
and somehow

01:36:17.396 --> 01:36:20.399
turns it back into life.

01:36:21.400 --> 01:36:24.403
Turns it back into something beautiful.

01:36:25.988 --> 01:36:28.991
Over and over

01:36:29.033 --> 01:36:31.736
and over again.

01:36:42.713 --> 01:36:44.757
This much we know.

01:36:44.757 --> 01:36:47.635
Long COVID is a new pandemic.

01:36:47.635 --> 01:36:49.762
One study showed that
one out of every four

01:36:49.762 --> 01:36:52.765
Covid survivors
suffers from impaired cognition.

01:36:53.724 --> 01:36:56.268
Another showed that
of those were hospitalized,

01:36:56.268 --> 01:36:59.230
two out of every three suffered
cognitive difficulties

01:36:59.230 --> 01:37:01.440
six months later.

01:37:01.440 --> 01:37:05.275
So a whole lot of us are just
a little bit or a lot slower.

01:37:07.613 --> 01:37:10.616
Telling our stories is healing.

01:37:11.058 --> 01:37:12.999
The story is what heals me.

01:37:15.996 --> 01:37:17.589
And I am better.

01:37:17.889 --> 01:37:20.834
Not 100%, but better.

01:37:25.217 --> 01:37:27.999
I'm well enough to fight for this forest

01:37:28.002 --> 01:37:32.638
which cured me enough to
fight for this forest.

01:37:58.497 --> 01:38:01.667
And so the great lockdown
that stopped the cars

01:38:01.667 --> 01:38:04.962
and industry and noise and pollution
came to a close.

01:38:05.546 --> 01:38:09.842
Scientists gave it a fancy
new name, the anthropause.

01:38:10.217 --> 01:38:12.970
And since that time,
science has gotten busy

01:38:12.970 --> 01:38:16.891
and examined that great stoppage
of the grinding gears of the economy.

01:38:16.974 --> 01:38:21.020
And they put some numbers and facts
to that time we all experienced.

01:38:21.520 --> 01:38:23.606
Let us, for the moment, consider

01:38:23.606 --> 01:38:26.942
those first six months when COVID
was having its way with us.

01:38:27.234 --> 01:38:30.237
Rivers all over the world ran clear.

01:38:30.237 --> 01:38:34.033
Beaches from Mexico to Spain
were cleaner and clearer than ever.

01:38:34.408 --> 01:38:37.999
Noise pollution, with the sharp
reduction in traffic,

01:38:38.002 --> 01:38:39.540
had a truly polyphonic bounty.

01:38:40.080 --> 01:38:43.083
Bird songs increased in complexity,

01:38:43.250 --> 01:38:47.796
our flightful friends recapturing their
former glory and sonic vocabulary.

01:38:48.505 --> 01:38:51.508
Pollution was measurably lower
across the planet.

01:38:51.634 --> 01:38:54.595
And as it turns out, in Wuhan, China,

01:38:54.929 --> 01:38:59.642
although COVID killed 3,200 people
in the first cycles of the disease,

01:38:59.850 --> 01:39:04.939
it was estimated by Stanford University
that the downturn in industrial pollution

01:39:04.939 --> 01:39:10.110
actually saved the lives of 77,000 people
in the same time period,

01:39:10.402 --> 01:39:14.073
prompting the question,
which was the real pandemic?

01:39:14.490 --> 01:39:17.493
COVID, or the fossil fuels
we love to burn and choke on?

01:39:17.952 --> 01:39:21.830
And most significant of all, perhaps,
for the first time in history

01:39:21.830 --> 01:39:26.418
this civilization significantly
reduced emissions.

01:39:26.710 --> 01:39:28.899
We reduced emissions.

01:39:28.901 --> 01:39:31.883
For the first time,
we met our climate goals.

01:39:32.383 --> 01:39:37.012
The single most difficult problem
on Earth stopped in its tracks.

01:39:37.388 --> 01:39:40.432
Did we heed these lessons
and sharply change course?

01:39:40.683 --> 01:39:45.062
Did we listen to the birds singing and
radically revise and change our ways?

01:39:46.981 --> 01:39:49.984
Well, you know exactly what happened.

01:39:53.070 --> 01:39:56.573
And the country collectively refused
to learn the lessons of how to

01:39:56.575 --> 01:40:00.094
defeat climate change and restore
the balance to ecosystems worldwide,

01:40:00.097 --> 01:40:05.674
would once again prioritize the
economy over the deaths of millions.

01:40:06.417 --> 01:40:09.294
We did not pay people to stay home.

01:40:09.294 --> 01:40:13.048
In fact, those who were given
the honorary title of "essential"

01:40:13.215 --> 01:40:15.718
our government sent back out
into the disease,

01:40:15.718 --> 01:40:19.763
and they failed to raise the minimum
wage or give them health care,

01:40:19.763 --> 01:40:21.501
or enforce basic workplace safety,

01:40:21.503 --> 01:40:24.443
or treat them like human beings,
let alone essential ones.

01:40:25.185 --> 01:40:26.729
So we did not pass Go,

01:40:26.729 --> 01:40:28.856
we did not collect $200.

01:40:28.856 --> 01:40:31.191
We dared the virus to grow and mutate.

01:40:31.191 --> 01:40:32.818
We encouraged new variants.

01:40:32.818 --> 01:40:35.821
We submitted to years of future
lockdowns and anguish.

01:40:35.904 --> 01:40:36.904
As soon as we could,

01:40:36.906 --> 01:40:40.325
we stuffed cotton in our ears
and blinded the skies to the stars.

01:40:40.826 --> 01:40:44.913
And soon the mean, pinched, bitter,
dimpled mug of Jeff Bezos

01:40:44.913 --> 01:40:48.542
shot himself up into space,
dressing the stratosphere in black carbon,

01:40:48.751 --> 01:40:51.002
and so did the likes of
Richard Branson.

01:40:51.004 --> 01:40:53.999
And Elon Musk kept shooting those
little rockets up all the time,

01:40:54.002 --> 01:40:59.178
dreaming the escape of a planet that we
all know they've never actually been to,

01:40:59.178 --> 01:41:02.639
daring the ghost of Icarus to save us
all from their vision of the world.

01:41:02.973 --> 01:41:06.143
And along with their rockets
and plantations and industry,

01:41:06.393 --> 01:41:10.105
all of the emissions reductions
of the anthropause were erased,

01:41:10.355 --> 01:41:14.109
and the mega billionaire class
added $1 trillion to their wealth.

01:41:14.443 --> 01:41:17.321
And COVID cases went through the roof,

01:41:17.321 --> 01:41:20.449
and the emissions which had fallen
went through the sky.

01:41:20.824 --> 01:41:23.994
And our politics once again
devolved into a contest

01:41:23.994 --> 01:41:27.331
between mega fascism
and neoliberal corporate control.

01:41:28.540 --> 01:41:31.126
We didn't stop worrying and
stop everything else

01:41:31.126 --> 01:41:33.504
and learn to love the anthropause.

01:41:33.504 --> 01:41:35.964
Instead, cyber pioneers hell-bent

01:41:35.964 --> 01:41:40.385
on colonizing our minds built AI,
which can track our every move

01:41:40.385 --> 01:41:42.304
and knows our every inner desire.

01:41:42.304 --> 01:41:43.680
Well, it's 2025.

01:41:44.098 --> 01:41:46.266
And once again, you-know-who

01:41:46.266 --> 01:41:47.643
is you know where.

01:41:47.643 --> 01:41:49.186
One of the first things he did
was to create

01:41:49.186 --> 01:41:52.773
an executive order to cut down
most of America's remaining forests.

01:41:53.065 --> 01:41:56.860
280 million acres, about three times
the size of California.

01:41:56.985 --> 01:42:01.198
A proposal to kill or make homeless
millions upon millions of bears,

01:42:01.240 --> 01:42:04.493
bunnies, bees, deers, beavers,
and all the souls and species

01:42:04.493 --> 01:42:07.204
that keep this country
a little bit more than human.

01:42:07.204 --> 01:42:12.000
In addition, you-know-who appointed
an actual Nazi parading around

01:42:12.000 --> 01:42:13.999
with a chainsaw,
the richest man on Earth,

01:42:14.002 --> 01:42:17.631
to dismantle the CDC and
defund the NIH,

01:42:17.923 --> 01:42:21.760
which, you know, gives us info
about pandemics on the rise.

01:42:21.885 --> 01:42:24.847
He chainsawed all foreign aid,
which among other vitally

01:42:24.847 --> 01:42:28.267
important things like keeping millions
of children alive around the world,

01:42:28.267 --> 01:42:32.312
also keeps diseases in check,
like Ebola, Polio.

01:42:32.396 --> 01:42:35.065
So maybe the next pandemic
could be a throwback.

01:42:35.065 --> 01:42:36.900
Maybe it's tuberculosis, cholera.

01:42:36.900 --> 01:42:37.818
Why stop there?

01:42:37.818 --> 01:42:38.999
Bring back the Black Plague.

01:42:39.002 --> 01:42:41.999
And then, of course, you-know-who
appointed a rabid anti-vaxxer

01:42:42.002 --> 01:42:45.659
with a worm in his brain as head
of the Department of Health,

01:42:45.659 --> 01:42:48.662
even though it was unquestionably
the vaccines that got us all

01:42:48.662 --> 01:42:50.205
out of the state of terror and death

01:42:50.205 --> 01:42:52.040
that was the first year of COVID

01:42:52.040 --> 01:42:55.752
which, you know, under you-know-who,
killed about a million Americans.

01:42:55.878 --> 01:42:59.005
And of course this government,
run by actual Nazis,

01:42:59.007 --> 01:43:02.926
pushed through $150 billion
in funding for the new Gestapo,

01:43:03.135 --> 01:43:06.722
ICE, the largest government police force
in the history of America,

01:43:06.930 --> 01:43:10.809
to deport people to concentration camps
both here and abroad, and making it

01:43:10.809 --> 01:43:14.605
scarier and scarier to be an immigrant
or a dissident or a scientist

01:43:14.605 --> 01:43:16.190
in you-know-who's USA.

01:43:17.941 --> 01:43:20.951
And so it's on us to be
on the right side,

01:43:20.954 --> 01:43:22.654
more than it ever has been before.

01:43:23.071 --> 01:43:26.074
We cannot heal ourselves
without our forests.

01:43:26.325 --> 01:43:27.492
We cannot stay healthy

01:43:27.492 --> 01:43:30.871
without science, love, technology,
intelligence and community.

01:43:31.413 --> 01:43:33.498
And where, where is our power?

01:43:33.498 --> 01:43:34.958
Where are the movements

01:43:34.958 --> 01:43:37.878
which are the design of justice?

01:43:37.878 --> 01:43:41.590
Will we come back to beat back
those genocidal forces?

01:43:41.924 --> 01:43:44.927
Will we adopt new family members,

01:43:45.928 --> 01:43:48.780
a new family of survivors, each other,

01:43:48.782 --> 01:43:51.183
the trees, the beavers, the earth,

01:43:51.350 --> 01:43:54.353
which are all of our relations?

01:43:55.687 --> 01:43:58.774
Perhaps out of the terrestrial memory

01:43:58.774 --> 01:44:02.778
of the anthropause,
a new consciousness can be born.

01:44:03.612 --> 01:44:07.999
That memory, cellular and deep
within all of us,

01:44:08.001 --> 01:44:11.793
shows we can scrap climate change

01:44:11.795 --> 01:44:15.005
and reverse our apocalyptic ecocide.

01:44:16.750 --> 01:44:18.210
Can you remember the Earth

01:44:18.210 --> 01:44:21.546
with each decision you make,
with each breath?

01:44:22.923 --> 01:44:24.999
♪ Many good men have fought and died ♪

01:44:25.002 --> 01:44:28.136
♪ so we could be here side by side ♪

01:44:28.136 --> 01:44:30.387
♪ Keep your hand on the plow ♪

01:44:31.001 --> 01:44:34.351
This civilization wants us to forget.

01:44:36.977 --> 01:44:38.021
Forget our history.

01:44:38.272 --> 01:44:39.999
Forget the genocides.

01:44:40.002 --> 01:44:40.983
Forget the dead.

01:44:40.983 --> 01:44:42.317
Forget the forest.

01:44:42.317 --> 01:44:45.320
Forget who we are.

01:44:45.529 --> 01:44:47.613
But the survivors remember.

01:44:48.699 --> 01:44:52.327
And the land remembers, too.

01:44:52.828 --> 01:44:55.372
Which side are you on?

01:44:55.372 --> 01:44:58.375
Will you remember that
moment we stopped

01:44:59.251 --> 01:45:02.254
and the Earth took a breath?

01:45:02.796 --> 01:45:06.091
Will you remember that
you are the earth?

01:45:08.927 --> 01:45:12.097
And that the earth
needs you to survive?

01:45:19.604 --> 01:45:20.856
Will you hold on with me?

01:45:23.650 --> 01:45:27.446
Will we be the earth rising up
to defend itself?

01:45:32.540 --> 01:45:34.840
♪ Keep your hand on the plow ♪

01:45:41.835 --> 01:45:43.128
Will we see

01:45:43.128 --> 01:45:46.131
that the edge of nature is us?

01:45:48.008 --> 01:45:50.969
The birds are singing.

01:45:50.969 --> 01:45:53.972
I wish I knew what they were saying.

01:45:54.389 --> 01:45:57.392
I feel like I know what
they're saying, though.

01:45:58.477 --> 01:45:59.999
Don’t you?

01:46:11.899 --> 01:46:18.799
(Music: Pete Seeger,
"If I Had A Hammer")