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The 11th Hour

This is Gulf Coast 3629, radio 811.
We gotta mobilize that area.
--responding to incident.
When you look at the history of humanity...
It 's basically a relationship between the two most complicated systems on Earth: Human society and nature.
And whether people have, in fact, lived in a good balance in that regard.
When they don't, they' re gone.
At the end of the day, when we all talk about saving the environment...
in a way it's misstated because the environment is going to survive.
We're the ones who may not survive.
Or we may survive in a world we don't particularly wanna live in.

Our biosphere is sick.
We have a planet that's behaving like an infected organism.
If you look at it from space, you see all these lights...
and it's the lights of planet Earth, it's the lights of the people...
but it's also almost like looking at an organism that has an infection on it...
that is forming a crust of some kind.
Well, I don't only think that the biosphere is in trouble...
I know it is.
I just have to look around in the environment in which I live.
What I hear in my dreams...
is generations in the future screaming back to us in time...
saying, "What are you doing? Don't you see? " We are at this critical point in time.