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Living in The Time of Dying is an unflinching look at what it means to be living in the midst of climate catastrophe and finding purpose and meaning within it. Recognising the magnitude of the climate crisis we are facing, independent filmmaker Michael Shaw, sells his house to travel around the world looking for answers. Pretty soon we begin to see how deep the predicament goes along with the systems and ways of thinking that brought us here.
Featured in this documentary are Professor of Sustainability and founder of the Deep Adaptation movement Jem Bendell, award winning journalist and author of "The End of Ice" , Dahr Jamail, Dharma teacher and author of Facing Extinction Catherine Ingram and Stan Rushworth, a Native American Elder, teacher and author who brings an especially enlightening viewpoint to these questions.
While it becomes clear that catastrophic climate change is now inevitable it also opens up a whole new set of questions: How exactly did we arrive at this point? What new choices can we make now re how to live our lives and what actions make sense at this time. The people interviewed in the documentary, all highly regarded and well known spokespeople on the issue, argue it's too late to stop what is coming but in no way is it too late to regain a renewed, life giving relationship with our selves and our world.
Festivals & Awards
Winner: Outstanding Excellence. Docs without Borders.
Winner: Merit Award. Impact Docs
Winner: Merit Award Nature Without Borders
Finalist: Melbourne Documentary Film Festival
Selected: Colorado Environmental Film Festival
Selected: North Dakota Environmental Rights Film Festival
Website:
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Subtitles (much gratitude to the following)
Spanish translation: Enrique Fuentes
German translation: Birgit Ackermann
French translation: Johann Bourquenez
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[@jacobfinder7476]

I am 68 years old; I have been involved in the environment and conservation since I was 10. Every day I think about our world and where it is heading. This documentary says it all. The greed and selfishness of humans have created this. It is too late to change direction. My heart aches for all the nonhumans, wildlife, oceans, insects, all other beings that did nothing to deserve to die because of us.

[@EmeraldView]

I'm a couple decades younger and been an environmentalist since my teens. I've finally concluded that humanity isn't going to fix this and it's almost certainly already too late. 😕 overall we're just not a worthy species

[@ovenpilot0]

At 68 you should know that the ice has been melting for the past 10K years or more. Eventually this inter-glacial period will come to an end and the global glaciers will return. Climate changes, plan on it and adapt.

[@bubu345]

fuk jewss christians islaam

[@lawrencefox563]

@@ovenpilot0 Capitalist excesses involves very few people , adapting which means depriving those who weren't involved in that excess of few remaining resources .

[@evanablock]

😢

[@markdoolittle7183]

Last night it was warm and humid. Not a mosquito or nat to be seen hovering around the deck light. When I mentioned it to my wife, She just said “ good”. Most of us are blind to the situation. Thank you for being there. It’s lonely out here in the new world.

[@jbaccanalia]

Most of us don't even see our own food supply let alone the food of another species.

[@sandraalegria3439]

I noticed not many frogs or cricket sounds. The fish and Coral here in S.Florida are dying. I hope its not to late.

[@wakranich3488]

Yes! I've noticed less squirrels, various birds, especially crows & pigeons.. I remember more of all of the above.. Of course there were people that had natural lawns instead of mowed lawns in the 60's/70's. So there were plenty of butterflies & moths, mice, snakes..

[@tiffanylindfield9157]

I have too many 🦟 mosquitos

[@jimbobaggans1564]

Look at a light that you leave on all night. I remember when that there were all kinds of insects flying around that light I looked at that light last night There was not even one insect around that light. Not even one moth. Not even one. I remember seeing Luna moths. In fact all of the big moths. I don't see any now. I don't see the dragonfly or damselflies like I used to. Fewer and fewer butterflies as well. Grasshoppers. Something is happening.

[@annethacker8292]

Superb! Thank you to all... I am 66 years old and have been living with such grief over all the destruction I have witnessed for years... I feel so supported and comforted and inspired by all of you in this documentary...I am blessed to have found it at this late date (September 2023)...My best to all...May we all be able to extend the glide...💙

[@stevangelical7052]

I understand your exasperation Anne. I was an "environmentalist" from the age of ten (I am now sixty). Didn't even know the term. Without the reality of extinction I would have lost my mind. Not enough people cared or care. Ironically though I find comfort knowing that all suffering will end. I am a Thacker too.

[@paxwallace8324]

Paul Beckwith, Guy McPherson, Natalia Sharakova, these are 3 climate scientists who truly understand what's up. Paul Beckwith is the one who truly understands the Arctic as he's the Scientist who coined the term Blue Ocean Event. Also nobody truly comprehends the impact that Arctic Methane will inevitably have. In Addition nobody's willing to confront the reality of The Aerosol Masking Effect

[@paxwallace8324]

One more thing when the human population truly starts being curtailed drastically then our socio economic constructs will fall to pieces along with our ability to feed ourselves at that point the 260 operating commercial nuclear power plants will begin going Fukushima one by one. Collectively releasing enough ionizing radiation to eventually destroy the atmosphere exposing the surface of the Earth deadly solar UV radiation

[@annethacker8292]

No kidding?! A Thacker?!.... Yes the idea of extinction has for the most part come as a relief to me, although I have days when I see such beauty in nature and also in humanity (music, drama, architecture,etc) that I cannot imagine it all being gone...It makes me incredibly sad...@@stevangelical7052

[@Herculine1984]

Less travelling (like flying all over the world) helps the environment tremendously. Covid grounded all the planes. Cleared the air.

[@Asdfzxcv092]

This documentary should somehow be turned viral. EVERYONE must see and understand this !!

[@amusedBYfools]

And still, some will call it Fake. Even when they directly feel the changes.

[@TheBorderRyker]

I am 56 years old and I grieve for the world I once knew. We have destroyed ourselves with greed. Ultimately the world will survive. We won’t!

[@gamingtonight1526]

AT 56, you will be around for the end. I am 67, so I won't be - thank god!

[@TheBorderRyker]

@@gamingtonight1526 I never thought I’d say it in my lifetime but I hope I’m not around to see it! Be safe my friend.

[@orion1816]

Unfortunately this time the world won't survive. It is unlikely bacteria will survive the fallout of the catastrophic and radioactive mess we will end up leaving behind. Don't forget that 400+ nuclear waste storage facilities around the globe will eventually lose power for their cooling systems and no one will be there to do anything about it.

[@alexandraw.4012]

People keep calling me cruel lately just for stating things as they are. It is staring everyone in the face and they don't want to accept it. This is exactly why I didn't have children. I know I'm NOT crazy about what's going on around me. Of course I don't want it this way, but that's what's happening. Denying it isn't doing anyone any favors. People denying what is happening around them is cruel. To be honest, I wish I could deny it as well. It's a very hard thing to witness.

[@flower4598]

I feel the same, I wish I could ignore everything going on. I don't understand why anyone would want to bring a child to such a depressing place. I'm 51 n have no regrets I didn't reproduce.

[@MrSirGareth]

@@flower4598 You failed to fulfill your reason for living.....you were trained to be depressed and vote Democrat - the Democrat run schools have succeeded in their task with you....life is wonderful and children are a blessing, just keep them out of their schools. Their schools are wrecking the planet.

[@nenmaster5218]

@@flower4598 May i recomend high-quality Climate-Coverage?

[@MrSirGareth]

@@thetechnicanwithaheart1682 *RE: "Co2 emissions the the leading cause of the climate hell that is occurring on earth. Hurricane Ian is the 4th most powerfull hurricane to his Florida. Watch some of the videos on my KZbin Chanel on CLIMEAWARE."* I'm sorry but I have been monitoring this fraud for more than 30 years, all of it is untrue. CO2 as a heat trapping gas is insignificant. In fact as the greening agent of the plant carbon dioxide is the Earth's only "green" gas not "greenhouse" gas. A greener planet is a cooler planet Hurricanes have been hitting the South Eastern US shores for our entire history, none of this is new. In fact we have had a dearth of hurricanes over the last decade. What is new is massive coastal development making the damage they do far more excessive. Hurricanes don't cause a nickel of damage to a deserted beach. They just rearrange the sand. Hurricanes are neither more intense nor more frequent - you are reciting the nonsense of politicians and their paid lackeys who are all consummate liars. You have been propagandized by your government-media-education complex. The internet is full of junk, you must learn to use logic and experience to avoid being suckered by junk salesmen.

[@gavinspiby8304]

It’s denial

[@noellevan]

excellent documentary! 11 years ago, I was part of a 4 person sailing crew (from a tiny marine conservation ngo) that visited various islands in Vanuatu/the Solomons. These small island communities invited us to assess their coral reef ecosystems and help establish marine protected areas. At one island community, after I spoke about climate change and adaptation measures, a 6 year old asked me 'what is your country doing to help climate change?' and my heart broke as I realised I had no answer. I still don't. Many marine biologist friends of mine quit this field (including myself for the last few years) because of low pay and the mental toll of knowing the facts and not seeing much happen to counteract this. I've been sad for years and I can't un-know humans' ecological impact - climate change, ocean acidification, loss of our forests, plastic pollution, etc. I decided that I'd rather live simply and be in the ocean and just turned in my notice at my job with the plan on going back into marine conservation. What an absolutely gorgeous planet we live on!! 🐳🌏

[@jayleeper1512]

I am 70 and to watch the total destruction of our planet over my life time has left me sad and heartbroken. I live on forty rural acres and have dedicated it to regrowing the forest and restoring wildlife habitat all the while that I was as effective at changing the out come as I would be pissing into a hurricane

[@maggiebrooks433]

This is where I'm at... now. I see the effects on my own farm. I try to just be in the precious present. Thank you for this incredible work.

[@DamonHowell-o8p]

I've said all my 43 years that we are living in the garden, so it was nice to hear Stan say it. I was saddened to see how few people shared my perspective. I'm 16th Cherokee. I have always been at odds with the common culture of disregarding nature and not seeing how wonderful it is to be in this beautiful place.

[@kleorhoades2362]

I am someone who has been directly affected by climate change. 2 years ago a wildfire destroyed the place we had lived for 13 years. Everything was burned. Diaries, poems, pictures, clothing, everything. I would have appreciated a little more about the anger this loss can cause, not just sadness. It is probably easier to just be sad if it hasn’t taken so much away from you, yet. How could the oil companies just ignore what they knew to be true? Greed. The world behaved like there was no tomorrow, and now there isn’t any. Actually, that might be preferable to dying slowly like lobsters in slowly boiling water. Our insurance company wouldn’t give us all our money unless we moved back into the same circumstances we were in before, in the same area. Crazy! I’m very afraid we will encounter yet another fire, the drought is so bad. It would also be better if we weren’t killing off so many species in addition to our own. So the earth may continue to exist, but without birds, fish, animals, people.

[@regrichard4533]

The world behaved like there was no tomorrow, and now there isn't any. Well said. Mind if I put that in a song? The part about the insurance company is indeed insane. I'm sorry you had to lose so much, just to know how to bring these words to us.

[@ozdigg9254]

@@regrichard4533 asking a poet if you can use her poetry for your song? Maybe wait until she agrees.

[@7Samadhi777]

Not all of it. The Zionist West has been setting fires and causing catastrophic so-called natural disasters and blaming it all on global warming….

[@shivakoliar4846]

How To Live In Harmony With Nature And Reduce Pollution 1. Many Production Which We Do Not Need Actually For Human Beings Has To Be Stopped We manufacture so many products and it is creating pollution. So if we minimise our products, pollution would be less. We produce so many things which we do not need, like cold drinks, leather products, potato wafers, chips, fruit juices, chocolates, biscuits, pickles, ice creams, etc. Cold drinks, fruit juices, pickles, ice creams, etc. Should be cooked at home only. If we stopped producing this things which are not required for humans, so much pollution could be reduced. If we colour the clothes pollution occurs. So if we don't colour our clothes, the pollution resulting from colouring the clothes can be stopped. Let everything remain in natural colour. 2. We Should Cook Foods In Its Natural Form We can cook rice and wheat in our homes and eat it. Rice and Wheat is produced in farms. Then it is packed and transported to big warehouses, then wholesalers buy from them and supply to retail shops. But if a manufacturing company makes bread from rice and wheat, then to make bread a manufacturing company has to be set up, machines and working staffs are needed. When a company is built many other things are also needed. Then at last a plastic pack is required to pack the breads. So if we start cooking eatable things in its natural form then we do not need many companies like bread manufacturing company, tomato ketchup, noodles, fruit jam, pizza, burger, etc., the things required for the company and the plastic pack, paper box pack and glass bottles. If done like this, so many companies will not be required and hence less pollution for the world. Also we could save our money like this. If you buy a packet of bread, it would cost you more money than if you cook wheat and rice in home. Previously before industrial revolution, we didn't have technology, but our foods were rich with nutrients. Now we have technology, but technology is polluting our foods and our foods are not rich with nutrients, and because of that also we have health problems. If this is done, then many jobs would be lost. For that many peoples should do farming and they should be given loans if they do not have enough money to start farming on their own. Food, Medicines, Surgeries and Education's should be made free to the world till the world settles down with farming. After that food, medicines, surgeries and education's should be stopped free to the world. Many people should study botany subject so that they have knowledge of plants and they should do farming. Is their any another solution, that humans won't lose jobs and also pollution would decrease. Humans have to take this step certainly instead of going on polluting the earth, making wildlife extinct and also mass extinctions of humans in future. 3. Electricity Pollution We create electricity from many types of sources like coal, water, etc., but it creates pollution. If electricity created from windmill and solar energy then no pollution occurs in the creation process. But still to manufacture windmill and solar machines pollution would occur. As I previously said that if we shut down many manufacturing companies which are producing things which are not needed for humans, then the world would not require so much electricity. If less electricity required, then less pollution generated. 4. Could We Stop Drinking Cow's and Buffalo's Milk Whatever vitamins and nutrients we get from milk, if we can get it from other eatable things, then we can stop drinking cow's and buffalo's milk. As milk has to be packed in glass bottles and plastic packs and then transported to places. All of this can be stopped. For infants whose mother's have died or mother's who cannot breast feed their infants, only for them cow's and buffalo's milk should be given. We use milk in tea and coffee. Instead of milk we must use lime with tea and coffee or just plain tea and coffee. A lime should be cut into a few pieces and cooked with tea and coffee or something else can be used instead of lime. 5. How Much Should Be The World's Population Every place should have a single house. No buildings, everything ground floor. If we do this and the whole lands of our planet earth would be occupied one day with homes, farms, forests, schools, hospitals, etc., then we would come to know how much our planet earth can have maximum population. Once the population is determined, then we have to maintain that population. For example if our earth can have a population of 10 billion peoples, then when the population reaches 10 billion, then everyone should have only one child till the population reaches 9 billion peoples. As if we have only one child then the population decreases. When population is 9 billion peoples, then everyone should have 2 children's till the population reaches 10 billion peoples. After that again we should have only one child. In this way population can be maintained.

[@7Samadhi777]

@@shivakoliar4846 Ethical common sensical advice, thank you, that unfortunately is ignored by all the world’s leaders and so-called experts. What the West is now proposing in the name of sustainability is just its latest racket to pick pocket more of the world’s wealth. You won’t find most of your suggestions among theirs….

[@liselalonde117]

A resounding appreciation for verbalizing how my heart is breaking. It has been crystal clear to me that we are in the eye of the storm. I am still in grief and will eventually be accepting while living in the present moment and minimizing my personal impact. Thank you for your sacrifices during the making of this film ... it is an important message and I am glad that I found you. Most people are not ready to hear the truth ... as I was thinking of who I could share this film with, very few friends would welcome the topic. Wishing you both a meaningful journey filled with love in the present moment.

[@MrSirGareth]

it's working then.....vote for Democrat communists and become their slave.....that's why they filled your head with this garbage

[@MrSirGareth]

We need to smash our computers, get off the internet and start living. Do you realize the "Carbon Footprint" of the internet is in gigatons and far greater than all world wide jet travel? And what is being spread on this wonderful internet - 100% garbage, lies and distortions to idiots who have no real life and is their target market - its so easy to swindle fools.

[@elsajohnson6663]

Yes most people are not, my friends are in complete denial. Its heartbreaking, I feel so alone with this knowledge

[@earlysda]

Less people are dying from natural disasters than ever before. Facts like these are inconvenient for the Climate Change Religion.

[@brucefrykman8295]

This is a common illness among environmentalists, they are all heartbroken. This is a symptom of a bad marriage. My advice it to leave the Earth as you would a bad marriage since its bringing you nothing but misery. This will make room for someone else who loves and enjoys his Earth. I take a trip to Fiji or Tahiti whenever the weather turns foul way up in the freezing cold Northlands. It does wonders to lift my spirits to soaring levels. This works great for all those tens of thousands of "climateers" too; they all take trips to 5 star seaside resorts (but they get us to pay 100% the costs) - its not only great fun but truly dirt cheap this way. All you need to pay for some tee shirts for the kids: "My dad is a climate scammer and he got to spend a whole week at the beaches at Sharm el Sheikh and all I got was this lousy t-shirt" The climate is always perfect at Sharm el Sheikh - sun and sea and sand on the Red Sea, I've been there - perfectly lovely. unfccc.int/cop27

[@tomcloud54]

Thank you for creating this. I've felt so alone as I watch the birdless skies and what few wasps and bees that I see refusing to leave their nests and now almost non-existent. There used to be red wasps in nearly every porch or doorway in Arkansas. This year I watched one buzz around, and one robin, and when the starlings came through the flock was a couple of dozen instead of the thousands that I remember from my middle age. The birds used to line the power lines all winter long, now you might see one or two on the same roads that used to have endless birds perched on them. It's a rare moth that comes to a lighted window, no June bugs, no bugs flying around the street lights. It's all so sad.

[@elleh3495]

😔this reminds me i havent seen a moth in years...i live across the road from a lithium refinery

[@charlescoryn9614]

How sadly true....... I remember well from my childhood the tremendous flocks of birds of all kinds flying north and south over Ohio in their migrations yearly........ And having studied anthropology and archaeology, I see the 'survival of the fittest' (at 24:50) reflected in the population statistics, as the wealth of the world repeatedly goes into the hands of a smaller and smaller percent of the population, for whatever reason. Does evolution even care what the reason is? They gain in whatever is valued while others fall behind. It appears to be a tautology: The rich survive because they're the strongest and smartest of our species, and they're the strongest and smartest of our species because they have survived!

[@mischevious]

@@charlescoryn9614 The survival of the fittest precept only applies to this technologically dependent, extractive civilization that relies entirely on the subjugation and exploitation of literally every other form of life. All nature, every life form that is save us, lives in reciprocity. Each has it’s place within it’s own ecosystem, it’s own critical function to perform within that system including in the end of it’s life, to be food for other life and have the sum of it’s physical being recycled and transformed into new life. That is the primary reality we all live in, that we are all inextricably bound to regardless of what false, meaning this ultimately unsustainable illusion of abundance that depends entirely on taking what the Earth no longer has to give, false reality that civilization has taught us to live in. Primary reality is not survival of the fittest. Primary reality is survival of the fit-ins. We find our niche within nature or like every other species that’s ever lived and gone extinct, we die.

[@jasminha9785]

❤ I'm feeling your pain.

[@Fireneedsair]

@@mischevious good thoughts. We outgrew our niche and deserve to shrink or disappear. No other species that disappeared from not fitting in ever took so many others down with it. Humans would be ashamed if they were honest with themselves

[@jwallaby7895]

This morning a man was walking past me while I was seated on a bench on a forest trail, he and I felt compelled to speak to one another. We ended up finding out how connected we already were in spirit. We became fast friends. We spoke about the plight of mankind, why we run to nature, why so many are disconnected from each other etc. After connecting so deeply with this stranger, I realized that it's possible to find others with the same vibrancy. Our eyes are open to the problem, therefore we can have our eyes open to the solution, and open to recognizing those who will contribute to the solutions. Our grief/guilt for our disconnection to Mother Earth is certainly real, but so is our love and childlike fascination with her. THAT is what we must tap into; our power to cooperate, coordinate, and create new things together with a similar vision that includes the well-being of everything on this planet. We need not live in despair for there is hope. As Stan Rushworth brought out, we are not captive by time or distance. And those of us who are awake to this plight of humanity, WILL FIND EACH OTHER. There will come a time when our courage will be activated and it will move us to connect and form a tribe of renewal and regeneration. IMO it's inevitable.

[@earlysda]

The problem is that mankind is turning its back on its Creator - Jesus Christ.

[@jwallaby7895]

@@earlysda Im familiar with the Christian God, and I agree with Stan Rushworth on this. While the Bible has some good advice, as all religions do, the conceited notion of having divine right to rule and for man to have dominion over all of nature is problematic. We were kicked out of the garden as Stan Rushworth eloquently stated. So the Christian mindset does not propagate love for nature because it doesn't identify it as "sacred." They are not focused on the present... 'God will fix things.' 'It's not my responsibility.' This is a real shame. It didn't have to be this way. When one is neohumanistic, as all indigenous people were at one time, then everything is sacred and treated as such. Animals, rocks, trees, the ocean etc. If all religious people put aside their heavenly calling, and instead took responsibility for their relationship with the planet, we would all be living in paradise.

[@earlysda]

@@jwallaby7895 J Wallaby, I'm praying you will humble yourself, repent, and start learning about and following the true Jesus as revealed in his holy words - the Bible.

[@jwallaby7895]

@@earlysda thank you your words are just what the doctor ordered. A sider of shame with a main course of religious obligation. 🙏

[@dermotmeuchner2416]

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. Voltaire

[@robertjones3968]

As a young child growing up in NYC in the 1960’s, from my youthful observations and readings, my eyes and gut feelings told me we humans were not long for existence as a dominant species. Somehow I made the prediction that not only will we destroy ourselves, but most of the living things on this planet as well. Fast forward 50+ years and over 50 countries later to which I’ve traveled, I am fully convinced (and saddened) that my initial observations seem to be confirmed. Thank you for this documentary. Unfortunately, those who should REALLY read this, will dismiss it as propaganda to spook the financial markets. My son told me as a teenager that humans won’t last another 100 years, and I argued that he hadn’t done enough research to reach such a conclusion - now I’m not so sure. Frankly, I’m terrified of what will happen over the next few decades.

[@wmanadeau7860]

My grandfather was a native woodsman in the north woods, hunting, fishing, trapping and foraging as much as possible in a modern life in a modern world, where people have to have a job, a vehicle, insurance, and all that. In the early 60s he told me the world had been warming for a hundred years or more, that in his grandparents day the northern spruce forests were normally buried in snow so deep in winter only the tips of the treetops poked through and how people had to be careful to not fall into the deep snow beneath the trees and great caribou herds roamed south of the St. Lawrence river. He said he'd seen so much change in his lifetime I should understand we have no way of knowing what might happen in the future, but it was definitely going to be hotter. In the 80s I was convinced by a scientist friend that adding CO2 to the atmosphere would more likely cool the planet. Guess gramps was right and the friend was wrong. This year, as I work on the exterior of my old house and take my walks and bike rides around the area, I'm seeing very few birds and almost no insects. A crow has been hanging around the last few days, calling out periodically, getting no response. I saw a bee the other day, wow! The few I see make their general absence all the more obvious. The Great Waves of Change are here, this is a prophecy I read years ago, now I'm watching it happen. Look it up people, everyone everywhere needs to know.

[@jayleeper1512]

Over the last five years, all of the insects have disappeared around my farm and many bird species have disappeared. When I noticed the animals disappearing, I contacted the EPA. I was told that under the current political climate, the EPA could only investigate if a corporation was losing money. The loss of insects means that a lot of my fruit trees don’t produce because they are not getting pollinated. You are now the firth person to describe the same thing to me. One lived in Arizona, one lived in New Mexico and the other lived in the outback of Australia. They were all as frightened as I am about the ramifications of what we are seeing. The land I am on was purchased from the original homesteader by my great Grandfather in 1906. My Grandfather said that up until WW2, the cows would always get out walking over the fences on snowdrifts in the winter. Since WW2, you never know what you might get. I am only 70 and I have seen massive change in my life.

[@wmanadeau7860]

@@jayleeper1512 I'm 65 and in Massachusetts. People in the Connecticut River valley have told me the same. Seems very widespread. When I hear this crow calling outside my house I talk back, "Where are your buddies?" Several years ago there were dozens, all hanging out together. The government works for the corporations, obviously, so mass extinction doesn't rate a response. The Great Waves of Change are here.

[@questionreality6003]

a bible bonehead: no use to anyone :)

[@davidabbott9425]

Seems clear to me we are in overshoot and that dooms us to chaos and tragedy in coming years.

[@junglajuan]

Great Wave Of Changes What a book❤❤❤

[@ssake1_IAL_Research]

As a documentary filmmaker myself, I want to especially express appreciation for the editing. It is absolutely seamless and invisible, which is the highest praise I could give for it. Well done!

[@VeganSemihCyprus33]

The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 💖🌳💖

[@EnergeticMan]

Pure Plagerisim

[@ssake1_IAL_Research]

@@EnergeticMan Nonsense. It's a totally different cinematic treatment of the same theme. There's room for everybody in getting this message across.

[@thetechnicanwithaheart1682]

@@ssake1_IAL_Research hey I like to talk to you about creating documentaries especially about the climate. I actually have a series of powerful tools that shows global temperatures and sea surface temperatures around the Earth. I wish I did something 20 years ago but I didn't realize climate change was becoming or will become more serious in the future.

[@ssake1_IAL_Research]

@@thetechnicanwithaheart1682 I'm afraid my skills are out of date, as my documentary was also released 20 years go.

[@shaunhall6834]

In High School I read Rachel Carson's Silent Spring in 1982. She changed my world view. No matter what happens we need to do whatever we can to change our ways.

[@MrSirGareth]

The internet is wrecking the planet....get off of it. Have you any idea what the carbon footprint of the internet is?

[@teristeapot1823]

Agree. We owe it to the animals and our children to do whatever we can.

[@johndodson8464]

Except we later discovered that the bird deaths weren't caused by DDT.

[@brucefrykman8295]

@@johndodson8464 Exactly, the lies are amplified by the media while the truth is locked up doing life in solitary. Same with the polar bears, acid rain, and the ozone hole all the rest of the eviro BS. Trust the "news" by reading a paper, "googling it," reading the NY Times, or the other useless outfits that relay their BS and you will become terminally stupid.

[@johndodson8464]

@Al Says a clown that thinks "facts" are whatever CNN tells you.

[@mrp1924]

The Planet will always be here, not only people are suffering so are the animals/wildlife.

[@ohioskane363]

This is such a beautifully sad and important documentary. As a psychologist who's practiced for more than 40 years in the U.S. I've observed such a widespread fetish for happiness and resistance to sitting with sad truths. But it's only through immersion in truth that there is any hope of true healing. Thank you for this.

[@annethacker8292]

I have found over many decades of seeing therapists here and there, that it is the rare therapist that can handle listening to my anguish about the environment. Thank you for your awareness!

[@ohioskane363]

@@annethacker8292 Thank you also! Choosing to remain conscious is worth the anguish. All the best to you.

[@elleh3495]

"fetish for happiness" is exactly the correct wordage. Anything at all remotely deep that triggers feelings of sadness is dismissed. It's more devastating to not be able to talk about this with people for fear of being called doomer or alarmist or "out there".

[@robertmarmaduke186]

​@@elleh3495 The 'Fetish for Happiness' is really the bright sunshine of the thoughtless mind, so easily pierced with 'Signs and Tribulations! and "End of Days' and Cricket Fridays and Climate Tithes. The last Dark Ages lasted 1,000 Years. The flat-earth Vatican slogan then was 'The One True Science.' When you explain that simple truth, the Green's eyes go blank, like sheep.

[@FactsCountdown]

​@@elleh3495 people just want to live in fools paradise

[@charlessoukup1111]

Perhaps this is why large segments of us are going berserk...we know we and our Earth is dying, and mentally we can't accept it, or deal with it.

[@carollong7941]

I am interested . What / WHERE ARE LARGE ARE GOING BERSERK ? Are those on the ON THE EVENING NEWS SHOWS?

[@johnnymcnoodle27]

Capitalism in a word. The single greatest cause of our woes and impending catastrophe. Our biggest mistake was and is allowing it to continue.

[@deborahschumann8286]

Yes, true. Capitalism is the root of all evil.

[@VeganSemihCyprus33]

The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 💖🌳💖

[@omememe]

Any ideological "ism". All of those are detached from the nature and natural world.

[@em945]

Industrialism. Communism damaged possibly more land.

[@CelestialWoodway]

All civilizations are heat engines. Communism uses up resources just as capitalism does.

[@chinookvalley]

11:30 Climate is going to ruin our way of life. Isn't it more realistic to say our way of life has ruined climate? Beautifully done documentary. My dad was 3/4 Cherokee. He'd take the family on vacation to see the reservations. He would always cry and tell us how connected we ARE to Nature, and then tell the stories of what happened to my People and why they now lived on government land with no hunting or rituals allowed unless under the scrutiny of the government. He was forever bringing home injured animals and rehabbing them to return to Nature. As I watched forest after forest get mowed down I'd ask my parents where did the animals go? I'd see hundreds of dead animals on the roads, who were trying to escape with nowhere to go. They'd tell me not to worry. 60 years later, it's deep inside and I will worry. I am watching my "brothers and sisters" the birds and beasts of the wild still trying to escape and find someplace to hide from humans. I am of the belief humans might have belonged here at one time, but our minds have changed, as well as our hearts. We need to go to let Nature heal and recover.

[@LivingintheTimeofDying]

What a stunningly beautiful comment. thank you so much fr taking the time to say that. . and yes your right re our way of life and mind set has ruined our climate not vic versa.

[@musicseedsinternational999]

I think most people know we are connected to nature. You dont have to be first nations to get it. Corporations dont care. Stock markets dont care. Greed doesnt care and greed is a human thing not a racial thing. I dont act my life like I got kicked out of the garden so this first nations man metaphor doesnt feel like my truth. It feels divisive actually. The world is perfect in its imperfection. It is designed like this for karma to be played out. That wisdom is from a Tibetan Llama in Nepal and quite frankly it makes sense to me. We are in a school of sorts. Want to graduate. Then evolve. Stop coming back. Stop failing. If you dont stop greed in your own life the game will show you larger lessons. Everyone is pointing the fingers at the bigger picture instead of looking at their own fear and greed in their lives and admitting it, making amends and evolving. The bankers are an example of greed, corporations destroying the planet....geed. Now look t yours through your life. Got Greed? Of course you do. If you didnt you would be in this grade of the school. You ould have passed or become one of the masters who teach us here on this level 0f the game.

[@karlbutler3351]

@@LivingintheTimeofDying Why are geoengineering programs left out of the discussion on climate change? How quiet can we be on the fact that our governments are spraying 50-60million tons of aluminum nanoparticles?

[@carlyg1977]

You explain so well

[@J.M.-nb4gw]

I'm just a 63 year old white guy in the US Midwest, third generation Irish Catholic, and yet your comment resonated with me deeply. I'm saddened beyond words to see how humans have so destroyed the environment and ecosystems that support all life on Earth. I'm especially sad about all the non-human earthlings we have destroyed due to our collective ignorance and greed 😥

[@jamesduggan5846]

Have you seen the reactions to just wearing a mask during a pandemic for public good? We have to accept that this whole ride is over and that only the ones who have concentrated most of the wealth in their hands will survive the longest.

[@Lyra0966]

The multi-billionaires living in their bunkers or on guarded islands after they have helped destroy the biosphere for the rest of humanity and most other species will neither be happy nor safe. Do they really believe their utter selfishness will inspire respect and loyalty in their servants? They will live fearful and paranoid lives as they contemplate the devastation and death for which they were primarily responsible.

[@obrien99999]

They will TRY to outlive this, and us, but many will finally acknowledge the greed of the few as the catalyst/accelerant for the demise of all. Hopefully they'll be held accountable by sharing in our misery.

[@jaywalker3087]

As a boy in the 60's living in semi-rural surroundings, then learning about pollution and smog I started to worry. Addressing this and trying to engage the ' business giants ' , and see them using every dirty trick to beat us down. I demonstrated and educated myself. I started a degree in Ecology but left to go and live in Snowdonia, North Wales. I have joined and supported many groups. I saw French Special Forces murder a Green peace protester. I have done everything I can and now at 64 , I'm very depressed. Literally.... I wish I'd never had kids. I'm so sad to see that the world I grew up in is being destroyed. Sterile baron and dying. The Sociopaths, the 1% of the population Owns More Money Than The Other 99% put together. They now run the World for greed and power. They will Never Change... I will go down fighting them though. I've nothing to lose.... !!😢

[@markcampbell7577]

It is amazing how much people have forgotten about the environment beyond the battlefield.

[@markcampbell7577]

The chemical weapon manufacture treaty enforcement and obligations refers to the serious and persistent damaging effects to the environment beyond the battlefield caused by chemical weapon manufacture pollution. In 1972 after 50 years of studying global warming and global infertility.

[@javiersantos4385]

Every person needs to watch this

[@ruthnolan13]

So glad to see Stan Rushworth interviewed at length in this documentary. His indigenous wisdom, knowledge and guidance is a gift and light for us all and absolutely essential to know.

[@elephantintheroom5678]

In Nth Queensland you used to see dingoes and wallaby's everywhere in the bush. Wildflowers grew in far more variety of species, the Wet was MUCH longer and wetter, and the Winter was longer and cooler - MUCH cooler. There was much more of the native grass species. There were more butterflies and way more wild ducks, geese, wrens and wagtails, and lorikeets and Black cockatoos. At night the creeks had clouds of thousands of fireflies - and now there are none. Most people don't even notice the changes because they live in towns and cities. It's so sad. But most people don't even notice or care.

[@truthspeaks623]

Who's bright idea was it to graze 60,000,000 ( sixty million ) sheep in Austrailia?

[@elephantintheroom5678]

@@truthspeaks623 The English.

[@bengrin7822]

@@truthspeaks623 60 million in New South Wales Victoria South Australia Western Australia bottom of northern Queensland there is no sheep in Northern Australia

[@jennklein1917]

​@@truthspeaks623The English.

[@wakranich3488]

I think people care but don't know what to do besides change what they can in your own life

[@JackBQuick79]

The arrogance and the greed of the human species has without doubt caught up to us. I can't feel bad for humans as a species, but all other species living by instinct, surviving with the tools they have evolved with over hundreds of millions of years, I genuinely feel remorse for all other creatures. Most of us didn't make the decisions to create the mess we are are, but almost all of us are guilty in one way or another of taking advantage of the very things destroying the only earth we have. Each day we are gifted should be spent mindfully loving and respecting whatever it is we have left.

[@ethephious]

were nit regulated enough if we we cant be living by instinct with such advancment

[@donfields1234]

I became aware of what I termed as "the unsanity of humanity" when I was about 6 yrs old. Back then it was not specifically the climate, it was the general state of conscious awareness in everyone. It felt as if my species was callous and blind, thinking mainly of itself as seperate from the rest. I was the last of 6 children and there were 3 teenagers in the house as i grew up... that made everything pretty clear. I am 53 now and dying myself, I enjoyed my life as fully as I could even while carrying this immense weight. The effect of this realizattion at such a tender age was devastating to my psyche, yet i managed through it all to go on just the same. Presence is our greatest power, the stillness by the pond is an excellant example of entering the now, zen, the end of suffering, heaven right here in the midst of us.

[@tcrowesemler6184]

💜🙏🏼💜👁💜🙏🏼💜

[@mistyhess3546]

💛🙏

[@tr7b410]

Living in the zen zone-love that aphorism. To balance out how spiritually confused we seem to have become 2 profound NDE,s that I highly recommend on utube-Jose Hernandez Atheist dies and is shocked by who he sees in heaven 2.3 million hits.No he didn't meet Jesus or Satan. And- Seeing thru God's eyeglasses 750k hits. The amount of information being downloaded into the conscious minds of NDE survivors is now unprecedented. A needed solution to the problem of spiritual indifference. Meditate-dont medicate...Namaste.

[@kayakMike1000]

You do know that zen Buddhism is an actual religion that you do not likely follow, nor know anything about. If you understood anything about zen, you would know that carrying any weight is your choice and you really only chose to suffer through what sounds like a great life.

[@tr7b410]

@@kayakMike1000 Zen is similar to kundalini yoga-No GOD,but the practice produces certain effects leading to samadhi. For a brilliant breakdown on the different types of Samadhi see on utube;Ramana Maharshi Be as You Are Chapter 12 Experience and Samadhi...Sahaja samadhi-the unified field of awareness or Born Again.When the ego is destroyed along with its karmas.

[@jsukrishnaleela3126]

As the insects are leaving so do I feel that we must soon leave. Yes listening... with inner dialogue so quiet only our heart can hear. The greatest, most loving prayer. Thank you so much for this film and for everyone's comments.

[@hiz-n-lowz1577]

Construction creates the illusion of progress but we notice less the fact that we regressed

[@VeganSemihCyprus33]

The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 💖🌳💖

[@mikeallosso]

Wow, whoa 😒 As Bill(Guy) said "In the age of extinction, only Love remains."

[@VeganSemihCyprus33]

The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 💖🌳💖

[@donrad]

A man named Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha) comprehended this reality of civilization suffering about 2,500 years ago and spent his life teaching the truth of this human-created suffering. What was unique about Siddhartha was that he offered a solution. A path (the Eightfold Path) that anyone can follow to escape from this suffering. This path was based on logic and science, not religion. It is a path that is not very well known in the "Western" world, but is followed by millions of people in the "Eastern" cultures. This path is an individual endeavor an can not be followed with beneficial results as part of a social consciousness. It is not an easy path because it requires that the person relinquish the concept of the the "self". Much easier in Eastern cultures. Almost impossible in Western cultures.

[@CarolSamuels-k7l]

I am unconcerned for myself at 65 yo, but I grieve for the young ones. Many millions, billions of people are going to die in agony. I believe it whether it is the extinction of the human species or not. You did end your documentary in a lovely way, full of love.

[@madbadoberan]

It’s sad because many young people today feel they have no chance. Tuning out and turning to drugs to cope with impending doom on the horizon getting closer every day.

[@creepytoecurrency2213]

Yes you understand

[@wholeness5871]

I am because of we. Consider helping each accept & grieve. Love is all that remains to be done. I love you.

[@Killane10]

I watched your very important video but could not help thinking that pretty much all respected spiritual teachers express that everything is perfect and that the relative truths we experience often do not convey the true state of what is really occurring on our planet today. I have read hundreds of books and have concluded that the true crisis we face is actually a crisis of meaning. Environmentalists and anty capitalists have spent all their efforts fighting the fire up in the branches rather than at the source beneath the ground, and it is why we have failed. The crazy thing is the science that has helped trash our world is now grappling with truths that it is uncovering through incredible space telescopes and quantum physics. We need to spread the message that was clear to all spiritual teachers and mystical religions throughout the ages and is becoming clear to a reluctant scientific community. We are all one, you are me and I am you. Ukrainians, Russians and Americans are all brothers and sisters and manifestations of an indescribable, infinite intelligence, We just need to dispense with our greedy nailistic egos and listen to the voice of our true selves. That voice expressed collectively will transform our world.

[@ViridisAmbrosia]

it's causing despair in the west now bc our leaders are barely mentioning it. in US one political party denies it's even happening or that it is even a problem if it is. meanwhile corporations continue their chokehold over it all and politicians are bought out by them often it seems. if our leaders, if corporations would start admitting it so it can all be brought into the light so that we can all organize a crisis response globally, that would end the despair, the learned helplessness. it's also affecting the poor in the US now, especially, the storms, the fires, the people who were red zoned into neighborhoods with no trees which get significantly hotter during heatwaves. it's affecting the younger generations who when aware see the end of the world as in their futures

[@pamlacooper3288]

I agree and am so relieved to hear this and know others feel similar. Thank you

[@carolinebarnes6832]

I cannot understand how nobody joins the dots to the real problem, overpopulation of humans. I understood this when I was 13 and that was in 1965 and made the decision then I would not have children. I kept to that and I am so grateful that I do not have grandchildren facing a future of collapsing ecological systems, wars for clean water, and on and on.

[@paulone805]

I make you totally correct,, scary fkn planet too exist let alone survive, 🙋‍♂️🇬🇧

[@KateFrancis-eo2rp]

You are smart. Well done for seeing the truth.

[@jairorincon8368]

Just came across this enlightening documentary. The dual monster we are facing is us, together with the global economic growth model we are addicted to. 250 years of industrial and technological revolution is what we have to dismantle. Getting back to simpler ways of life is no longer a choice. It's imperative. Aboriginal cultures always practiced it, and always knew that living in harmony with Nature, and within its boundaries was the wise way to live and prosper. Our arrogance made us lose the compass long ago. Earth and Nature will teach us the final lesson. We will suffer, all eight billion of us on this beautiful planet. We must start living simpler lives, consume less, buy less, be humble, be happy with an spartan life. Communion with Nature's outdoors will easily provide us with the fortitude to face the immense challenges ahead of us.

[@marisabelv4879]

🎯.

[@davereynolds3403]

what i love about this doccie - cos we have all seen so many doccies about climate change - is that i see the importance of processing death. many humans are dying from ecological disasters already & it’s escalating. one thing that i cling to in my conversations with middle class people is that we can’t live in the same way anymore. it’s not just that we’re propagating inequality and natural destruction, it’s our own extinction that we’re fueling. literally. i stopped eating fish & beef when i was 17. it wasn’t at all hard. the earth can’t support 300 million tonnes of humans, 100 million tonnes of wild animals AND 700 million tonnes of domestic animals. subsistence fishing by non middle class communities is sustainable, fish in supermarkets and restaurants is not. as middle class people, which is everyone with wifi & youtube, i believe we can convince each other to walk away from beef & fish. (sheep & pigs will follow as soon as the consciousness flips - chickens, poor miserable chickens, could perhaps be the last stage of transformation. without lifestyle changes, of which diet is primary, we can’t access the truth about our future. we’re just pretending everything is going to be ok, like a hollywood movie. it’s not. be the change.

[@newsfrombeyond6160]

I stumbled here when I was trying to find some advice for us empaths. Witnessing the current mass extinction is very hard for us, when already the death of a bird can make us grieve for days. It surprised me that they call awareness of the environmental situation for awakening. For the moment there is also a huge spiritual awakening, fueled by many near death experiences (NDE) and personal contacts with the spirit world. Our consciousness never dies. Some NDE'ers have seen the future of humankind, while on the other side. They have been shown immentent, very difficult time lasting several decades, called for purging. Lots of deaths and collapse of societies. After a couple of hundred years from now those few thousand people who have survived on the planet are living in harmony with each other and with nature.

[@rul4522]

A lovely documentary maker and many remarks that are well worth to ponder upon.

[@islandman9619]

Thank you for doing this video. I'm on my way, in the middle of minimalizing my belongings and leaving my home in Hawaii, moving to a sailboat, and spending the rest of my life trying to help solve or mitigate these problems. I almost feel guilty buying an old boat with all that comes with that, but it's a start and allows me more flexibility to be in nature while having the flexibility to explore what can be done and where I can make the most impact. See you out there.

[@elsajohnson6663]

Omg i balled all the way through that. A beautifully done documentary. I think I've been stuck in the shock, panic and absolute fear stage of all of this for the past few months. Ive always thought it would end but not in my lifetime, it is just so incredibly sad the earth is dying of this horrible cancer that we have caused. It is truly frightening knowing it is goung to be very very ugly.

[@LarryCleveland]

Humans are the cancer.

[@aob4214]

We can’t kill the Earth. Thankfully the Earth will survive. It’ll keep on turning in space as it has done for billions of years and it will continue to do so it is we who will die and because we have corrupted this beautiful world for so long and so much, I think we deserve to. There is no Saviour to rescue us, we can’t even help ourselves anymore. And I don’t think we even want to. Or certainly not enough of us.

[@michaelbacigalupi5734]

we are a very small community ridiculously low views. In a perfect world this should have millions of views. Credit to Guy McPherson for opening my eyes a few years ago. Once i understood what awaits us, in the not to distant future and wrapped my head around exponential change and the aerosol masking effect, not to mention tipping points and i’m afraid to speak about it. In the end only love remains- Guy McPherson Phd

[@cheecharron1244]

Earth is a sentient being and all we are doing is hurting ourselves. As George Carlin said, "The Earth is not F****d - we are." That might be true, but it is important to not give up on hope or trying to be a better human while we are still here. Excellent documentary thanks!

[@lenakrupinski6303]

Love George carlin , He knew so much 💞🍁🌻🌷🌹🌿🍁🌸🌿

[@HowToWithCraig]

I pray that you can discover, before you leave this plane, that we are all eternal beings. Your remaining time will be so much more meaningful to you if you can. It is likewise found in silence, stillness and gratitude. Thank you most sincerely for your artful creations and your gathering and sharing information. It is greatly appreciated. Bless you and yours.

[@F15CEAGLE]

Psalm118:24.

[@Sapwolf]

What silliness.

[@Paladiea]

Ecological health is an extension of self-preservation.

[@VeganSemihCyprus33]

The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 💖🌳💖

[@prakashkeegel756]

Michael and Michelle lead small international support groups where we are encouraged to share our feelings about the issues in the documentary..

[@elleh3495]

how can someone be a part of this?

[@VeganSemihCyprus33]

The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 💖🌳💖

[@earthrooster1969]

As a kid, i used to worry about bonfires as fire eats up oxygen. Instead of having wordly ambition, i used to think of buying a big piece of land to house wild animals. All naive thoughts but would go on in my head. Today i look at the world horrified and wonder...how did it go so bad so fast!!! So sad to hear about the native gentleman to be told he and his kind were extinct 💕

[@karenjimenez7346]

It's like you were trying to build an ark... in your head.

[@earthrooster1969]

@@karenjimenez7346 that's a great analogy 💕

[@joseenoel8093]

Man got kicked out of the Garden of Eden, it's as if we're jealous of the animals who get to live wild, would never adhere to our way of life! Re-wild where you can, it's a radical un-colonial way of thinking!

[@asmallwhitedog0479]

I live in NE Vermont. I have lived here most of my life. Im 65. In the summer of 2022 on one July morning at 5am it was 72. On one July morning in 2023 it was 73, at 5am. That's just mind blowing.

[@christopherm5958]

I'm 60 now and have grown to realize what horrible selfish creatures human beings are. I have very little interest in mixing with people any more. I know It may sound negative and......it is just the truth I really dislike people. Majority of them are awful. This could include myself.

[@sereneseventeen4919]

I’m 30, and I prefer solitude outside of my family. I trust no one and I like silence.

[@livethemoment5148]

yes, now multiply that by 8 billion....imagine how Mother Earth feels with all these scumbags on her

[@christopherm5958]

@@livethemoment5148 I completely agree

[@christopherm5958]

@@sereneseventeen4919 I can certainly agree with your choice

[@RaymondStukas]

I am a white middle class retired university educated male raised by immigrant parents who came to Canada from Lithuania as refugees after World War 2. I am trying to change my way of life to live in harmony with living in the Time of Dying.

[@rosamrc923]

Absolutely beautifully made. The calmness and clarity of the documentary and the perspectives of other ways of thinking and living in Nature are beautifully enlightening. Yet, the documentary finishes with a fossil fuel-based car. Even if we wanted a change -which we dont-, we dont know how. Mobility, water access, energy, food, health...Our idea of development is based on linear consumption and resource cannibalism. This is life as we know it. It is not the only way, but it would take a new civilization to change it.

[@jasondaniels640]

There's a lot more believers around the world, places like Florida, California and Australia already. The America's, Africa, Asia... It's endless. Been called a doomer, but seems more likely that too many are oblivious to the facts, the concensus or even the possibility. It's hopeless.

[@paintedwings74]

The opposite of a "doomer" is far more pathological at this point. At some point, being on the fence about our planetary fate stopped being a viable thought-process and began to be a delusion.

[@VeganSemihCyprus33]

The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 💖🌳

[@uweeins1]

I have many equal thoughts. My mom died this year of cancer and I was sitting quietly all the last 14 days of her life and contemplated. And its birth and death when some of the most profund and deeper truths are offered to the ones who wants to listen. And one truth is that everything is ending. And starting. A cycle forever. So part of that truth means we're going to end after all. All of us. Every single one. We are just in denial of that fact. I had this kind of revelation moment. Same applies for climate change and its effects on our ways of life. After all it will all end and each person in it as well. We seem to be kind of surprised to hear that fact but that just peaks volumes about our destruction and denial. Our way life is going to end? Yes, and so does everything. So what you do with that? Nihilism and hedonism is a bad choice for my taste. Listening and taking in quietly, living a life that I can look at myself in the mirror and hold up to my moral standards and observing beauty is my choice. There will be something after us, but that will not be us.

[@ericblair54]

Looking truth in the eye, and accepting it.

[@lovitusia]

this is a beautiful documentary, thank you and all the speakers for sharing your experiences

[@brianbishoff194]

Sad, beautiful, powerful, profound. I've worried about this since the 70s and it's really happening now. The earth is not infinite and it can't handle unlimited exploitation and destruction. Our civilization that puts selfishness and lust for wealth and status over all other values will destroy itself and the planet.

[@amusedBYfools]

Minnesota resident. We had no winter 2023/2024.

[@johnmitchell2741]

just imagine what all these wars are doing to the climate

[@tomjohn8733]

Beautiful way of thinking and living with the reality of humans stupidity of what he in his vanity has destroyed, for wealth and power…

[@VeganSemihCyprus33]

The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 💖🌳💖

[@Dennis_Reynolds]

Really powerful documentary. And a Refreshingly humanising style of production for this topic, instead of the usual scaremongering, statistics and doom/gloom. Thank you.

[@MrRandythibeault]

How did you not speak with Guy McPherson about this? He's being trying to share this for so long. Including hospice Earth. You should speak with him

[@mikeharrington5593]

Nicely done Michael. A few memorable quotes included that demonstrate we still have our lives to live in sorrow & in joy - "Even in a world of dying there are new loves being born"

[@VeganSemihCyprus33]

The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 💖🌳💖

[@TennesseeJed]

So glad this is available in full here!

[@zerochance8581]

I watched this sometime ago..likely when it first came out. I was moved. So well done and ringed true. I found the video again and again, not quite able to finish as the message and truth so hard to accept. I finished this morning Christmas 2023 while both my daughters home and asleep as well as my wonderful wife. I am so thankful for this time with my girls. I am so broken hearted to know that the future may be tough or not survivable. The tears just come. Thank you for this message.

[@LivingintheTimeofDying]

Thank you🙏🏼 I wish you and your family love in the days ahead.

[@treefrog3349]

I LOVE the earth in the same way that a mother loves a child or a child idolizes his father. And for that reason, acknowledging the fact, that empirically-speaking, humans are the very worst thing that has ever "happened" to the Earth, I must reluctantly suggest that our "disappearance" might be a good thing. Humans have the technological capacity AND the arrogance to turn this lush green vibrant Earth into a sterile void like Mars or Venus. If you compare the ego-centric activities of humans to the long-nurtured symbiotic activities of EVERYTHING else, you come to realize what parasites we have proven ourselves to be. Our disappearance would be a cosmic kindness.

[@stevenzerbach6447]

I agree. Humanity IS THE invasive species, and I CAN imagine Mother Earth without humanity.

[@singingway]

I must disagree. the selfish humanity you describe has only recently arisen due to the vicious style of economics imposed by the comparatively few sociopaths, which then catapulted them to positions of wealth and influence. for 2-300,000 years of homo sapien history and 4 million years of hominid history, the ONLY way to survive was in communal groups, we are a cooperative synergistic species.

[@VeganSemihCyprus33]

The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 💖🌳

[@stevenzerbach6447]

@@singingway And yet we ignore the symbiotic being, Mother Earth, to our own detriment.

[@greggorham7064]

Yes but we have such potential for ecotopia.

[@life13525]

touching...and lovely to see Catherine Ingram in it...

[@LivingintheTimeofDying]

agreed!

[@VeganSemihCyprus33]

The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 💖🌳💖

[@dianeneubert9183]

The challenge for me is to retain my humanity and have faith that that our Creator is still with us to guide us through this troubled time. Everything is sacred. Change has always been the constant. Death for everything is followed by rebirth as everything is eternal. Only the form changes. We are One.

[@D0praise]

Superb work and Stan, wow! I’m going to go back to try and remember some of how you put your points. Such wisdom is seldom found!

[@likeke.benoyt]

"So it goes." -Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

[@jamespotter1990]

I can see it when old people say hello to me. They somehow recognize I understand what they are thinking as they look at the society we have today.

[@MB-bk1vq]

omg the emotion that the native gave with his message got me all teared up

[@drabbit61]

Ouch! 🙄 the truth hurts,....but we, people continue to fail to comprehend the severity and/or, fail to seek solutions

[@sheila9893]

Thank y'all for sharing the reality of our earth for the people that doesn't believe in climate change feel sorry for them because they choose to not see I'm sorry about your friend cancer is hard ✌️❤️ to y'all

[@rockskipper5353]

we are all gardeners, guarding this earth. with the atmosphere we create

[@tscottshea]

I was thinking how I was going to thank you for putting this together, for how right to the point and right on all your interviewees were, and how much they and you had helped my understanding, and then the last quotation, by Leonard Cohen, pushed me right over the top, and I had to weep. Somehow you saw right to the heart of things. I'll have to watch it again. Thank you!

[@LivingintheTimeofDying]

Thank you for this deep acknowledgement 🙏🏼

[@maiqueashworth]

When he talks about people not living within sight of an iceberg not understanding, I don't think that's relevant. Often we simply don't understand the implications of what we're seeing. A friend recently sent me photographs of the Atlas mountains in Morocco, where he was holidaying. Most of it is near- desert, or desert, but in the clefts between the mountains lush vegetation is to be seen, along with snow-capped mountains. As I was looking at the photographs it came to me why it was so barren: a small herd of goats and a herder in search of greenery to eat. Wales is also a kind of desert, a green one. No new trees can grow because the 13 million sheep ensure that no tree grows beyond a sapling, and there is almost no wildlife because all the nutrients from the soil go into the sheep which are then taken off the land for our consumption. Wales is much cooler than Morocco, so the grass is still growing. The Atlas mountains are mostly bare because the goats do the same as the sheep in Wales. The effect of this human desertification is far-reaching, reducing rainfall much further south. These are just two examples of situations where there is a missed opportunity to start storing carbon on a grand scale: take some of the sheep and goats off the land and trees will start to grow, the ecology massively improve and global warming to some extent slow down. This is happening across the world: billions of animals stripping ecological systems which could be storing carbon. I was extremely disappointed to see Bill Gates say we shouldn't tell people to eat less meat, that it isn't enough. When we are looking at extinction or collapse of civilisation, we have to pull out all the stops, do every last thing we can do to halt it. If you're in the Titanic you can't say "this end of the ship is rising, let's all just go there".

[@KatsCorner]

I knew this was going to hit us in the seventies as many of my family were scientist and opened my eyes. I made a choice not to have kids and I am glad I did. Scientist were silenced and labelled kooks of they pushed environmentalism. It is unfortunate people need to eat and live their lives so they remain silent and watch the end come closer. My only hope is one percent go with us.

[@KateFrancis-eo2rp]

Thank you for not procreating 🖤

[@andrebarcellos698]

Only love will set us free! Thank you! ❤

[@parkercroft7066]

This seems to be the reality of our place in time. I want to add that there is the possibility of disparate communities surviving and recreating another version of humanity.

[@ronkirk5099]

I'm 72 and just during my lifetime, the world population has almost tripled, species extinction has really accelerated, and the planet has exceeded its' limits to absorb our pollution. Something has gotta give, because this is definitely NOT sustainable.

[@livethemoment5148]

and the worst thing that humans have created , worse than pollution and climate change, is the creation of masses of moronic ignorant humans who cannot see that we are destroying our natural habitat....so sad

[@doomedtolinger2213]

So nice to find out there are like-minded people out there. There are occasions when I want to grab folks by their shoulders, shake them and scream into their faces, "Can't you see?"!

[@joseenoel8093]

Oh don't spoil their day, or worse yet their next useless and selfish shopping 🛍 experience!

[@26MECH]

Same here same here!!! And I'm looked at as a fool because of it...but it's ok

[@justynaaleksandra5590]

This is such an important documentary. Why the hell is this not broadcasted on every TV and radio station worldwide!??

[@theunbreaking]

Because people wouldn’t believe it anyway. They aren’t capable of accepting it

[@Magik1369]

This is easily the best climate video available. The love and compassion and understanding in this video hit me at a very deep level. Thanks for creating and posting this!

[@lshwadchuck5643]

It's a perfect film for those of us who are already here. KZbin served it to me because I watch so many climate science videos. There's nobody in my life I can share this with. It takes a lot of time to stay informed, to have monitored the shifting predictions for 20 years. Just this week I found Prof. Nisbet and his discovery of the methane being released by tropical wetlands. And here I'd been worrying about Siberia all these years. We're into huge feedbacks. I will check out the Deep Adaptation forum. I do feel alone in my sadness.

[@nimhu]

As someone who has the luxury of international travel, you cant help but realise how dire the situation is every time you go snorkeling. There is no coral, there are no fish.... its all gone already. its an udnersea desert.

[@willieamgurb2392]

we have been given the answers sadly not enough of us are listening

[@northerniltree]

In the grand scheme of things, where we are was unavoidable. However, where we go from here requires a deep understanding and appreciation of what we all must do to first: adapt to the changes which are here and still coming, and second: adapt our behaviour and tolerance of what it will take to sustain what will be left. The sixth great extinction is upon us; we are not any longer the drivers of our fate, but the unhappy recipients of our own greed and blindness.

[@susankohi1992]

I wonder how different things would have been had we devoted our resources to sustainability instead of endless wars.

[@tomt55]

Thank you for this extremely important documentary. I am 57 and went from an atheist as a teen, to a Marxist some years ago and now transitioning a deeper understanding that we must greive and accept things as they really are. It is more important than ever to live with as much love, caring and understanding for those close and distant from us for what little time we have left. As Dahr Jamail said, we must listen to the Earth and to those around us with as much compassion and empathy as possible. I grew up largely unaware of any of these things. It's a lot to take in but it must be done, that's the least I can do is understand our collective reality and try to help others do the same to the best of my ability. I wish I would have had this level of understanding much earlier in my life but I do appreciate the fact that I have it now and I'll try to do as much as I am able to help others who are ready to transition to this type of understanding and help the earth and people through these massively difficult times the best way I can.

[@garudastan]

Quite remarkable team of interviewees. Thank you bringing them together and giving them a platform I am able to access.

[@Dandelion0962]

Sad thing is, I and others, as innocent children have known this and spoke out, to be shut-up, reject, and abused in hate.To hear “Take it, it’s what they tell us to teach you,” “it’ll be o.k.,” “such is life,” or “just go with it,” or “your so negative and non-Christian,” etc., blah, blah, blah

[@TonyHiggs-n2j]

The world is your oyster,not anymore,don’t know if the oysters will survive,apologies if this sounds flippant,it’s not meant to be,deadly serious 😢

[@Dandelion0962]

@@TonyHiggs-n2j No need to say your sorry, I understand what your trying to say. Damn it !

[@musicwithshona751]

In the 50s my beautiful tamoko (tatooed) healer great grandmother despised trains and vehicles. She would walk 22mls to visit relatives refusing rides saying "Dats poison!!" We laughed. 2 weeks ago I realised her vision of truth with global catastrophes. I honor my Gr Grandmother my 1st Climate change activist.. We sing to Our Mother Earth to connect.

[@yaksauce]

If there was a singular cause for ALL the problems in this world, undoubtedly it is Monkey Mind. It is the default program of our species (dogs just know how to be dogs, elephants just know how to be elephants, etc) and this program operates in the background of every person … from peasants to presidents, from popes to professors, from doctors to prisoners, and so on. The 3 Elements of Monkey Mind were elucidated by ancient Hindu and Buddhist philosophers with texts dating back 5000 years. All throughout Asia many monkey habitats thrived and were easy subjects to observe and investigate. In contrast, the 3 Abrahamic religions were conceived in regions barren of simian/monkeys/apes and for the few that existed there at the time were displayed as exotic curiosities and kept as imprisoned pets. Therefore, to the detriment of succeeding civilizations, Abrahamic religions missed out on key understandings of, “who are we” and synthesized mythologies based on magical thinking and story telling. But Truth is liberating and just like the sun and the moon, truth cannot remain hidden! The 3 Elements of Monkey Mind are common to many other animals on this Planet of the Apes, however, through specific practices it is possible to breakthrough our default program and attain enlightenment (many in throughout history have done so). Past civilizations attempted to elevate culture en masse beyond our feces-flinging ancestors, but had limited success. And so, the 3 Elements are: 1) Limitless Greed - nothing is enough for us, especially if it is pleasurable to the senses or rewarding to ego. The popular idea that ‘greed is good’ has many fans. Ex: Got a pay raise? Not enough, want more! Enjoyed sexy time? Not enough, want more! Feeling powerful with a gun? Not enough, need more power! Etcetera ad nauseam. 2) Tireless Fear - Nothing in life is certain, except uncertainty. Uncertainty is certain and is a Law of Physics. One can plan, scheme, organize, rehearse, but tomorrow is still uncertain. Fear is the result of uncertainty and inability to control variables beyond one’s reach. Fear is crippling and keeps people from living life fully (happiness). Governments and businesses (insurance industry in particularly) understand and exploit peoples’ fears to enslave and dominate their patrons/subjects. 3) Impassive Dominance - monkeys seek the highest position in the trees, especially when under threat, to get ‘above it all’. People ambitiously seek the Supreme by reaching and grasping for higher social status (fame), higher career positions, higher educational degrees, higher athletic achievements, higher domicile dwellings (skyscrapers), higher highs, etcetera ad nauseam, all believing it will reduce their suffering but often times has the opposite affect! These 3 Elements (Limitless Greed, Tireless Fear, and Impassive Dominance) have not been sufficiently handled by the ancients and so today’s civilization continues to bring suffering to the planet and all life living on it. Good for us, bad for everything else. Capitalism is fundamentally exploitative and is divorced from the economics of Nature. However, through practicing the 3 Virtues of Human Mind, we could transform suffering into caring. The 3 Virtues of Human Mind are: 1) Limitless Generosity - you will always have more than another in need and kindness does not cost anything. Practicing limitless generosity alone can generate an abundance of positive merit (good Karma) to turn the Wheel of Becoming. Very powerful practice that does not have to involve money, but just being helpful to others - the definition of Human Being. To the giver, comes the fullness of life. To the greedy, just an empty hand. 2) Tireless Trust - trust is the foundation of human civilization (past-present-future(?)). Trust forms the basis for all relationships. It builds confidence and instills security. Trust implies an understanding that we are all same, with same circumstances and our survival depends on our trust. “Trust yourself, Trust Others, Trust God” is a wonderful book for everyone to read! More importantly Trust dispels Fear and opens a world of possibilities! Do not fear your enemy, for he is your greatest teacher! 3) Passive Abiding - dominance is rigid and unyielding, therefore subject to fracturing and breaking. Abiding is soft and conforming, like water. Our bodies are 70-80% water, for it is the most powerful element in the universe, yet it is soft and abiding. Water conforms to its’ surroundings, seeks its’ own level, extinguishes fires, wears away rock, moves the wind, permeates all life, and transmutes states of matter (from solid, to liquid, to vapor) in cyclic forms. Water is Life itself! So get with the flow and as Bruce Lee famously said, “Be Water, my friend”! Practicing these 3 Virtues causes a breakthrough in Monkey Mind and can transform this planet’s tragic history. But it can not be forced or indoctrinated because truth speaks for itself. As Michael Jackson once sang in “Man in the Mirror”, “… that’s why I’m starting with me!” It is more than a catchy tune, but insightful wisdom! There is no alternative to our Gaia Earth and we must all learn to coexist in unity. We may not be able to reverse the rape and exploitation of this Eden caused by the ignorance of prior societies, but we can stop the hastening of its death … until Gaia 2.0 is located! ✌🏼🌞🙏🏼

[@diegooland1261]

We've crossed the tipping point. If change is happening, it sorta suggests the cause is already in place.