A meat eater in this room will consume, on average, 8,000 animals in their lifetime.

Eighteen percent of our contribution to greenhouse gas emissions worldwide is the result of deforestation.

Now I actually think that these ideas will change the economics of deforestation.

You'll see scenes like this all over the island.

Today's biggest threat to the Ashaninka people and to Benki comes from illegal logging the people who come into the beautiful forest and cut down ancient mahogany trees, float them down the river to world markets.

We had a vegetation cover of 85 , made up of native forest, which was made up mostly of nut and cupuaçu trees.

You can take virtually any parameter that matters for human well being nitrous oxide, methane, deforestation, overfishing

We build cities, suburbs, and farms on top of frog habitat and chop forests and drain the wetlands that serve as home for numerous amphibian populations.

And he's brought the internet and satellite technology to the forest both so that people themselves could monitor the deforestation, but also that he could speak from the forest to the rest of the world.

(Laughter)

Around the world, slaves are used to destroy the environment, cutting down trees in the Amazon destroying forest areas in West Africa mining and spreading mercury around in places like Ghana and the Congo destroying the coastal ecosystems in South Asia.

Trees suck up huge amounts of CO2, which balances the cycle.

These are the 15 commodities that fundamentally pose the biggest threats to these places because of deforestation, soil loss, water use, pesticide use, over fishing, etc.

I was raised in the forests of British Columbia to believe those forests existed to be cut.

At the rate at which we're going now, the Philippines will lose all its accessible loggable forest within five years.

Food for thought, these are things we have to sleep on

For the past 50 years, we've been fishing the seas

Somewhere in the Amazon forest is the marginal tree.

Forest

So I decided that I had to come up with a solution for her but also a solution that will benefit the people that are trying to exploit those forests, to get their hands on the last timber and that are causing, in that way, the loss of habitat and all those victims.

Well, because an elite and its facilitators have been making millions of dollars from supporting logging on an industrial scale for many years.

But this is the complete opposite, a collection of small clearings in a massive woodland.

No, I was thinking about the newscast from California.

Are you a fuckin' treehugger?

There weekly arrive in this town scores of green Vermonters and New Hampshire men, all athirst for gain and glory in the fishery.

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There were a lot of them.

The biggest single cause of global warming, along with deforestation, which is 20 percent of it, is the burning of fossil fuels.

Fire towers?

There's a forest fire up in the mountains just east of here.

And swat us away like flies, the way we swat away flies when we go into the rainforest and start logging it.

More of that in a minute.

Boskamp NALIBOCKA DECEMBER 1941

Mountains were deforested, stripped and leveled.

And the people who made money from Brazil nuts were not the people who made money from cutting the forests.

The air is wonderful in the woods.

We wondered, Do they actually glide in nature?

But over two million people cut trees.

It had occurred on land, in rainforests of South America and Africa, where landowners had been paid not to cut the trees down.

Much of it comes not only because of cutting, but also burning.

Now the fertility has returned to the land.

Let's build the paradise again.

And the grim picture in Africa I love Africa, and what do we see in Africa?

Parts and technical crew for the forest moon.

NALIBOCKA CAMP APRIL 1942