 
I am campaigning for the definition or
the establishments of crime against
present and future generations when we
look at the the world today we see that
they are at least 2600 legislations that
protect corporations and they are barely
any that protect people communities and
the environment
this documentary crimes against the
future is about how unless we stop the
destruction of a livable environment
which is now going on future generations
will suffer indeed people are suffering
now climate change humans have become so
powerful we are altering the bio
biological physical and chemical
properties of the planet
we are in the time of the sixth greatest
extinction in all of time on earth
global warming because as they exist in
a different amendment are responsible
for a lot of the greenhouse gas
emissions of the carbon emissions that
are damaging the planet climate change
is not a problem climate change is a
symptom of a deeper problem life
destroying radioactivity caused by
nuclear technology and more the accident
is not over for America's greatest
nuclear power plant accident can kill
everyone on earth with lung cancer
correct
after threat David Suzuki says as a
biologist of course I'm often interested
in the question of human origins when
did we arise as a species and where did
we arise and all of the evidence
indicates that humans arose as a species
in Africa a hundred and fifty thousand
years ago it's interesting Africa the
great plains of Africa where our home
were we evolved why we moved out of the
plains of Africa is anyone's guess could
be the population began to increase
resources became less less common but
for whatever reasons we began to move
and as we moved out of the plains of
Africa we were an invasive species we
came to new ecosystems without any idea
of how the systems work holy look at all
those big birds with no wings are easy
to catch and they taste yummy and you
can actually follow a wave the
extinction of large animals as we moved
across the planet well what does that
mean then as we moved into new areas we
began to deplete plants and animals
because we didn't have any idea how
systems worked but eventually people had
to say hey we're running out of stuff
what do we do so you had two choices you
have to move and find more somewhere
else or you stay and say we've got to
live in a different way and I believe
the roots of indigenous knowledge all
over the planet are found in those
people who said we've got to stay and
learn from the experience of our
ancestors our ancestors made mistakes
they suffered failures they had
successes all of that was remembered and
passed on from generation to generation
and that's why indigenous people all
over the world are the one group of
people that know how to live in a
sustainable way now to barbra pile a
veteran environmental journalist we had
a nurse summit 20 years ago in your
opinion what was the results or positive
results from that one and how can we
improve on exactly well the Earth Summit
20 years ago produced a wonderful agenda
it produced the first climate change
convention the international agreement
that governs action on trying to reduce
greenhouse gas emissions and to adapt to
climate change it produced the
biodiversity convention it produced
agenda 21 which was an enormous 200 page
long document of what should happen in
all parts of our society in the economy
in the education field in the
agriculture field and transport but we
were not very good at implementation
it's not that we did nothing we did some
things the world is better than it would
have been if we hadn't had Rio 20 years
ago but it's not getting better it's
drifting slowly down instead of drifting
rapidly down now we've got to turn up
the pace move up a gear so that we
actually improve the world rather than
letting it deteriorate slowly
what is different now than say 20 years
ago we know more we are much more aware
as a public the media have picked up
environmental issues in a huge kind of
way I mean the headlines today are just
as much on environment as most other
issues put together so we are in a
position of knowledge and awareness that
is far advanced but on the other hand
the situation is not so good I mean
we've got more poor people in the world
since 40 years ago and certainly since
real we have less in the way of certain
kinds of resources species are becoming
extinct at an alarming rate our climate
is changing at a rate that's quite
worrisome and indeed frightening if it
really is the way scientists tell us it
is you know we have to believe in all
that and what's terrible I think and
less of it for me the most important
thing is when we talk about environment
and all that it's always you know it's
going to be threatening it's going to be
costly oh it's going to be difficult no
it's a desirable future so it's the Rio
+20 should be this is the desirable
future we need to build together what we
need now is to invent planet policies
we're having common goods the atmosphere
the fisheries lots of things and we have
to invent new tools new institutions new
economy to manage that we don't know how
to do it yet we are closing you know
lots of things are happening we're
having a panels everywhere people are
working on it but we haven't found it
yet it's not there so we have to get we
have to get that otherwise we're not
gonna manage what are some of the
strategies moving forward
for to get those kind of promises I
think we have to invent something like a
world public opinion and you're gonna
help us if you don't mind on that yes we
have to have all the civil society to
get involved much more stakeholders we
got to have the political communities
cities towns we have to have the
scientific community we have to have the
teachers and we have to get all these
people to move to put pressure on the
government because right now we've lost
momentum we have a sort of a these are
busy people there's a pointed after
governor and all that they don't believe
so much in United Nations in
international community so we have to
wake them up again and say come on you
have to stick to what you're doing we
have an agenda there are lots of signs
that on the horizon we are now heading
for massive food shortages it's not
going to be fun when the price of food
becomes so high that only a few people
can afford it and the rest will have to
starve and I believe that the
international community and even
national governments are not paying
adequate attention to this so that's
what is a major emerging issue but the
other emerging issue is that if we're
going to get off this race to who's
going to be over the cliff first we are
going to have to change many of our
institutions and technologies and these
are not easy things to do because we got
used to them and we're comfortable and
then invested interests and people have
a lot to gain by the status quo and
keeping it things going yes they are we
call it business as usual but business
as usual is really heading for a fair
number of disasters and on many fronts
we've seen what it did to the financial
system we've seen what it's doing to the
climate Gulf to the Gulf
we've seen what is doing to the
acidification of oceans which is a very
dangerous trend for life in the ocean
we've seen fisheries collapse we're
seeing within the last literally few
years coral reefs
being bleached at a rate that's never
happened before and in fact many
scientists think that we are into the
sixth major extinction period we're
talking about time which is comparable
to when the dinosaurs disappeared
periods is very seriously
the green economy is an absolutely
crucial issue and that means how do we
manage the world's economy so that we
are less prodigal with the resource of
the world so that we don't run out of
oil and other fossil fuels other
minerals so that we use much more
renewable energy things that can keep
going into future generations go ahead
at the moment we are behaving in an
incredibly wasteful way some people say
that we are using every year one and a
half times what the planet can afford to
be used up so we need to manage our
economy know much less waste for a much
more efficient but more sensitive to the
environment way you want to be sure that
whatever you do doesn't screw up
opportunities for coming generations and
that is I believe the nature of our
crisis for most of human existence we
lived in what I call a bio centric
worldview we recognized we were one
species among a complex web of living
things and we were utterly dependent on
the rest of nature for our well-being
and our survival
the International Federation for human
right did a very good report recently
where they did a whole study about what
do we have available in order to hold
accountable not only corporations but as
well
CEOs it is important that we established
legal mechanism it is important that one
day we'll be able to hold accountable
CEOs and management of corporations that
have endangered the lives of people or
communities of indigenous and tribal
people and who have destroyed the
environment and have put in danger and
risk present and future generations
a giant in the battle against nuclear
power and nuclear war
dr. Helen Caldicott a founder of
physicians for Social Responsibility the
corporation's took the propaganda that
was developed by the government to teach
Americans to hate the Germans and call
them Huns and they'd translocated it
into corporate America to teach you to
buy stuff you didn't need and to become
a consumptive destructive wasteful
Society
which is now being emulated by the whole
world because you're the country
everyone wants to copy now as Jefferson
said an informed democracy will behave
in a responsible fashion this democracy
is not informed how do they listen to
but that Russ Linda or whatever his name
is guy who who puts out a negative
energy of hatred and you see that makes
people more disturbed and he's lying
about the environment if you've got a
patient who's dying the heart fails
irrevocably which causes the kidneys to
fail you put the patient on the dialysis
machine but it doesn't work and then the
liver packs up and then the bone marrow
packs up and the patient dies no matter
what sort of life-support systems you
have the planet is reaching that point
in time whereby the ozone is
disappearing very fast we're doing it
for money because dark chemical and
Monsanto I can't afford to stop making
CFCs all their profits will fall we're
heating up the whole earth by driving
our cars turning on our electric lights
and the like I've got toxic waste dumps
everywhere such that eight out of ten
Americans live near a toxic waste dump
we're chopping the forest down at the
rate of one football field per second in
which live about half the world's
species of which there are 13 million so
we'll make them extinct within a 25 to
50 years and we're over populating like
flies around the
planet this particular species called
Homo sapiens
and we think we're gods give to the
planet I would suggest we're the
opposite I think God made a mistake I
think maybe we're an evolutionary
address we're the only species that
destroy other species I swim with the
dolphins in the morning where I live in
Australia gorgeous creatures they are
with brains as large as ours mammals
highly intelligent but I don't think
they say to each other I think I'll have
a human steak for dinner tonight George
we're the ones that kill other species
and hang their heads on our walls we
walk on their skins on the floor we kill
them because we have two quotes develop
the country which means destroy it never
use that word again always replace the
word development which is a euphemism
for destruction and call a spade a spade
its destruction this country was once
covered with forests coast to coast such
that a squirrel could go from one side
to the other without ever touching the
ground now you fly crosses it's a
virtual desert
our so-called leaders in business and in
politics are not thinking with a mindset
seven generations away corporate
executives what do they think of the
quarterly report every three months a
quarterly report comes out and boy do
you get nervous if it indicates that our
company isn't growing anyway so
corporations have a very short view and
politicians of course think from one
election to the next everything they do
has to pay off before the next election
which means nobody's thinking seven
generations ahead in Time magazine you
I've been loved there's a three page ad
for a car what does that add mean that
ad means that the earth may heat up five
to 18 degrees Fahrenheit in the next 50
years that ad means that the oceans may
rise five feet drowning one-third of the
human population or turning them into
ecological refugees that ad means that
the whole United States may turn into a
Dust Bowl whereby you won't even be able
to feed yourselves let alone the cows
that ad means that the tropical
temperament will move further north and
further south so mosquitoes will
proliferate in their trillions and
malaria will become epidemic in
proportions and we can't cure malaria
now it's resistant to all unknown drugs
it means epidemics of in careful ATIS
with infection in the brain because
mosquitoes transmit that virus
it means the tropical rainforests around
the equator will all die because they
can't withstand those elevations in
temperature that's what those car ads me
they don't mean get in a car and go from
north we do to 80 miles an hour in two
seconds
they mean the death of the earth
now dr. michio kaku
a nuclear physicist a scientist a
professor at the college of the city of
new york the general public believes
that the reactor accident Three Mile
Island is over because most of the
damaged uranium fuel has been taken out
of the core however they don't realize
that there is enough debris uranium
debris left inside that reactor to cause
an accident to start up once again at
Three Mile Island
you've got 45,000 radioactive waste
dumps in this country and the stuff is
leaching slowly slowly into your water
supply and concentrating into the food
chain by orders of magnitude at each
step and you don't eat a fish or a
vegetable say hmm I can taste the cesium
in this fish because our sensors were
not adapted during evolution to pick up
radioactive material
we don't know enough to do it in a
sustainable way and in the process we
are undermining the very things that
keep us alive the accident is not over
for America's greatest nuclear power
plant accident only 200 pounds of debris
reforming at the bottom of that reactor
would be sufficient to give you
criticality to essentially start up the
reactor accident all over again in other
words if there is a fire a chemical
explosion perhaps a hydrogen gas
explosion or even human error and the
core begins to jostle a bit and uranium
debris reforms at the bottom of the
reactor it is now generally believed
that the accident could start all over
again the neutron count would start to
rise water would start to boil once
again enormous heat would be generated
however this time without any of the
safety systems impact eternium
adequately distribution can kill
everyone on earth with lung cancer
divided died of lung cancer caused by
plutonium and automated that the
plutonium doesn't disappear it just goes
out the chimney so you can breathe it in
ad infinitum for ever more
the body thinks plutonium is iron so it
handles it like iron combines it in the
hemoglobin molecule stores it from the
liver where it causes liver cancer it
crosses the placenta the placenta let's
very few things past viruses bacteria or
toxic chemicals plutonium gets through
in the first three months been triage on
life the baby forms all its organs after
that it just grows in size so if you
turn him lodges in the fetus or the
embryo in the first three months of kin
killer cell it's going to form the brain
or the right arm or the septum of the
heart that's what the lead amar did
years ago that pregnant women took to
alleviate morning sickness and their
babies were born literally without arms
that's a sort of thing Fatone ium does
only at last to do it to feed yourself
to fears for the rest of time not just
humans and we're in a way the least
important species on the planet because
we're not threatened most other species
are and there are 30 million of them and
many of them also have INRI audits that
can be damaged by plutonium plutonium is
the most carcinogenic substance known
and it also damages the genes in the
sperm and what that means to future
generations only God knows but there are
3,000 genetic diseases those diseases
will increase in frequency as a
generations passed on Randy Hayes long a
fighter for a livable environment with
foundation earth in economics you know
they say you externalize the costs you
know or externalize the pollution and
somebody else pays those costs you know
where the future pays the cost so to
speak or a species that goes extinct
pays the cost or literally you know if
somebody gets cancer from the pollution
dumped they pay the cost and
with her own death right and so that
shifting of responsibility is really
fundamental to this it's less in my mind
about the costs like a true cost economy
is something that foundation earth is
calling for and but it's really a
responsible economy that we're calling
for horizon's' disappearing so rapidly
that in Australia on the news every
night the weatherman has a graph of the
ultraviolet radiation mild moderate or
severe
I had a skin cancer burned off my face
before I left malignant melanoma a very
dangerous form of skin cancer has
doubled in the last ten years
we can't change nature but we can change
ourselves and I think this is the
challenge we face hunter Lovins longer
crusader for energy we can live with now
with natural capitalism solutions we
work with companies communities
countries on ways to implement
sustainability more profitably could you
define natural capitalism some of our
viewers might not know what that is sure
it's an approach to doing business that
is that works better is more profitable
and solves most of the major problems
facing the planet first through buying
time by using resources dramatically
more productively second by redesigning
how we make and deliver everything using
approaches like biomimicry or Walter
Stiles cradle to cradle or the circular
economy that the Chinese are now
instituting third managing all
institutions to be restorative of human
and natural capital the forms of capital
that we now presently don't value on
anybody's balance sheet but that are
essential to life as we know it give me
some examples of that natural capital
that people don't value the climate most
of agriculture in the world depends on a
very narrow climatic regime right we are
losing climate stability I would submit
to you that climate stability appears on
no corporation's balance sheet and I see
and yet it's essential to how they do
business so for example when Walmart
realized that climate disruption would
disrupt it shipping it began to take
climate a little more seriously oh
that's interesting and Walmart is now
one of the companies that is driving
sustainability throughout its entire
value chain what is it about climate
change let's just think about that for a
second why do we care
I might change well it's a number of
reasons but first and foremost for a lot
of people they'd say well we need a
relatively stable weather pattern so if
it's really about a relatively stable
climatic system or weather system you
could you can also label that part of
the life-support systems of the planet
if we cut down a forest in British
Columbia and so we lose the trees
production of oxygen and removal of
carbon dioxide we remove the forest
roots holding soil so it doesn't spoil
and run into the salmon spawning beds we
don't look at the habitat of we lose the
habitat of all the birds and mammals and
insects economists say oh don't worry
about that those are externalities so
our company now has a real risk in the
market place if it is not managing its
carbon footprint but carbons not on
anybody's balance sheet it is a bit of
our natural capital
similarly water the ability to get it
the purity of it so New York City as
opposed to putting billions in the
building a new water treatment plant
helped protect the ecosystem of the
Catskills so that they would continue to
get what is has for years been
recognized as some of the world's purest
best tasting water put New York City
water up against any bottled water the
city tap water will win because it comes
from this pristine ecosystem well the
city realized if we protect that
ecosystem it will cost us less to
deliver higher quality and it's just a
simple watershed management yes isn't it
yes exactly but it is recognizing the
economic value to the city of this
ecosystem we are seeing companies now
that are prospering because they are
using resources more efficiently because
they're driving they're in a
vation with approaches like biomimicry
asking nature how doesn't how do you do
it take for example a seashell it's
immediately next to the creatures body
it is made in ocean temperature no big
heat when we make ceramics and a
seashell the inner lining of a seashell
is better than the best ceramics we know
how to make right we put them in very
high temperature kilns the seashell
assembles at the molecular level right
next to a creatures body so the guys at
Sandia Labs said wait a minute we've got
to be at least as smart as an abalone
how is it doing it and they found that
the abalone or any little sea creature
excretes a protein that creates an
electrically charged framework onto
which seawater deposits out at the
molecular level this very beautiful
inner shell it's big leak low in calcium
so it's calcium carbonate and a polymer
in alternating layers so they took an
electrically charged silicon substrate
and dipped it in alternating baths of
calcium carbonate and a polymer and the
stuff self-assembled at the molecular
level just the way it does for the
abalone this is think about this as the
future of Industry yeah it is emulating
nature's genius
in the north in the affluent countries
that where industrialization is much
more advanced we feel that technology
has to go back to nature you have to
essentially learn and be inspired by
nature to be able essentially to do the
things that we normally do with large
quantities of iron and zinc and valium
in aluminum and all the other things we
need to be able to do that much less
resource lost and that kind of
technology we might call it green
economy version two we've even been
calling it the blue economy because in
essence we are wasting large quantities
of materials like for example razor
blades men around the world have shaves
and shave every day and they throw away
their razor blades after a while now
those razor blades add up to a huge
amount of metal or titanium very
expensive metal one could say well that
and we've developed our developing
technologies for example using silk made
by spiders which can do a much better
job of Shaving without any use of
titanium every subsequent generation of
a cell phone should leave less and less
of an ecological footprint it should
internalize those pollution
externalities those pollution impacts it
should reduce them you know and yet
that's not the policy
this is the promise of the green economy
and there are all the information that
we need is known we have the
technologies this approach of biomimicry
was laid out ten years ago by a
marvelous woman named Janine Benyus who
is now being hired by all these big
companies to help them ask nature how do
you do it like what color is a peacock
all-comers brown brown that color
pigment of a peacock is brown what you
see with that iridescent is structure my
goodness and so there are companies in
Japan making billboards with changing
structures so that they can change color
and have all this iridescent of a
peacock or littering the libyan beetle
has if you look closely at its outer
shell it has little bumps the bumps are
hydrophilic they like water at the tip
and hydrophobic on the side the dew
collects on the tips of these little
bumps and then lowers down into the
creatures mouth so companies are now
gathering water out of the air in even
desert areas and how what are the what
does something like this look like not
there's the beetle level what is the the
great sheets called fog catchers
catchers that the water then runs off
and this is pure drinkable water even in
a desert area we've we've only begun to
look at nature's wisdom nature's had 3.8
billion years of solving all the
problems facing life on earth we clever
humans heat beat and treat and think
that we're so clever real cleverness is
asking nature and operating as nature
does nature runs on sunlight but doesn't
run on fossil fuels nature shops locally
it gets everything it needs from its
area Nature has no waste the output of
any process is food for some other
nature makes everything at ambient
temperature next to something that's
alive
Nature has a marvelous set of operating
instructions if we're only smart enough
to learn from
but all the ideas for a staff that come
up in the climate change today about
generating our energy from renewable
sources rather than using up all of the
fossil fuels from the past there are
ideas about managing our agriculture and
our use of natural resources in ways
that protect the world's biodiversity
and natural resources there are ways of
managing our oceans as to better protect
all the natural resources there instead
of overfishing them and destroying the
fish stocks and the coral reefs and all
the other wonderful marine resources
this is all very encouraging how do we
get these why don't we get this
information out to the world so they can
see if there's really hope if we apply
ourselves we have the technology let's
start using that to bring the world
together to solve the world's problems
and then let's portray a vision of what
living in a green economy would be like
hunter has laid out many of the
solutions we must act on them we can't
have a clean green livable planet we
indeed can have safe clean green energy
that we can live with one sure thing is
we're all going to die life is a
terminal illness and we're all going to
die and it's precious every day is so
precious and those fat I mean in ten
years will we be smelling a rose or will
be we be looking at plastic roses
because the ozone is so destroyed the
roses are dead I don't know if we have a
responsibility to future generations I
believe this is an intergenerational
it is criminal to destroy a part of the
planet a future that our children should
take for granted what's going on with us
humans have always considered our
children and our grandchildren futures
as our highest priority we wanted the
world to be a better place for them to
have better opportunities than we have
but today we are undermining the very
things that keep us alive and healthy if
that's not criminal I don't know what is
the idea that I am pursuing and I'm
working for is the hope that one day the
International Criminal Court that the
Rome Statute will extend it's Monday to
cover crimes against present and future
generations that are not already
prescribed in crimes against humanity do
you think we have more hope now do you
think there are more people that are
engaged in these issues I think we have
some more hope because more people are
engaged but I think the problem has got
worse so the situation is more critical
so it's wake up time and it's a wake-up
call for all of us now there is indeed
again we can leverage the very best of
technology to begin solving the world's
problems you are really a breath of
fresh air I'm telling you I love these
solutions
you know what Peugeot said we're
confronted by insurmountable
opportunities
I really believe you have to you have to
it's the positive side which is
important and you have to show the
images of the society of the better
world I mean if you don't show that
people or not people are afraid of the
future you know all the all the movement
in history were made by people who
thought the children would live a better
life of course yes and now suddenly
people think all my children are going
to live a better life than me it's gonna
be worse no we're gonna go on on on that
trend of absolutely we have to the moral
abyss come on we can't leave a worse
that's get to work all of us together
must act together to save the planet to
save life on Planet I'm call Grossman
thank you for watching
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