have a right to live. so it's like taking our degraded places and trying to make them beautiful and biodiverse. the action of trying to repair land helps people repair themselves. [♪♪♪] [drum beating] [tv reporter] the coffin is symbolic of the death of the grand river. labrador land protectors say the water is being destroyed by the hydro dam project. [flowers] this was our land. this was our water. this was our food. and now, suddenly, it's just going to be taken? and we can't say anything? they're telling us, legally, we're not allowed to say anything. i mean, that's, to me, that's like revolutionary time. i think it's time for revolution. this drastic-- it calls for drastic measures, like walking up to the police officer and saying "no, no. just i'm not backing down."

[♪♪♪] i went to jail, i went to jail several times, and i'll do it again, because i still feel that somebody has to hold on to that-- that hope. you know? that thread. because if not, what? what next? we've completely surrendered? that can't be the way it turns out. [♪♪♪] [thunberg] to have hope, you have to actually do something. i decided to stand outside the swedish parliament. whilst i started really planning that, i got energy and i felt... happy. i felt like i-- i did something good. i could do something good. when i first started school striking, i didn't really expect anything.

it got really big. [crowd buzzing] people are striking today in over 150 countries! more people than i realized understood the emergency. [♪♪♪] [hallam] existential rebellion is just regurgitating, rediscovering what you might call classical non-violent struggle. the fundamentals go something like this-- when you're dealing with entrenched power, then the way to overcome it is through challenging it, break the law in a non-violent way. [playing aggressive, rousing percussions] [♪♪♪] [♪♪♪] has to be non-violent, has to be on an issue which is universal and moral and obvious. can't be on getting people to wear red hats,

it has to be on something that the whole society is concerned about, so classically, that is dictatorship, or racism, or institutional oppression, or, of course, climate breakdown. [♪♪♪] [farrell] we had a strategy which was, basically, you go and shut down the capital city on the street. [reporter] protestors have blocked off five major bridges. [reporter #2] ...four main roundabouts, a bridge, and parliament square, which is essentially the british state, and we stayed there. i am willing to be arrested, i'm willing to be jailed, and i can tell you something-- i'm willing to die for this movement, because i am not leaving my kids with the future that they're set on. [farrell] i was based at oxford circus, and the boat had been painted pink and it had "tell the truth!" written down the sides. we're not supposed to be blocking the centre of london day after day, so then they had to start arresting us. -out of the way! -[protestors shouting] got an arrest as well. had a thousand arrests, which is more arrests than at any point in british history.

i'm not quite sure about the medieval period. i think they killed each other then. i am in rebellion against the british government, and my message, british government, is "come and get me." guys, we're going to stay till at least 3:00, 'cause hopefully we'll get a few more arrests. [farrell] i thought it would last three days. we held it for close to two weeks. what do you think has been achieved? our first demand is, "tell the truth." tell the truth. we had managed to hold and lead a conversation. it's, like, torn open a big space that didn't exist before. we were at wallaby scrub road and we were protesting about the closure and... [sighs] ...we were in a zone where they were going to be blasting. we knew we would have to move. these policemen come along... [taggart speaking]

i really thought he was going to die. [taggart straining] [officer] you're under arrest. [hansson speaking] we're just gonna put some cuffs on. [hansson speaking] [♪♪♪] [taggart speaking] [hansson speaking]

[taggart speaking] [♪♪♪] [vargas speaking spanish]

[gualinga speaking spanish] [tong] i had to come to terms with what i always call the brutal reality of what is coming. you've gotta come to terms with that, 'cause until you come to terms with that, you'll remain in a state of paralysis. so you've got to take a position, whatever it is. whether right or wrong, go ahead and do it.

who do we appeal to? and turn to, for our people's right to survive in the challenge of climate change? [♪♪♪] [thunberg] for me, it's such a huge contrast because i've always been basically invisible. no one has listened to what i have to say. people always told me "you have to speak louder" and "you have to take more space." [crowd cheering] recently, some of my old teachers have come up to me on the strike, to say, "you were so quiet in class, and now you're speaking to the whole world," and so it's... it's so strange. it's hard to realize, and everything has happened so fast. [♪♪♪] this is all wrong. i shouldn't be up here. i should be back in school, on the other side of the ocean. [quietly seething] yet you all come to us young people

for hope. how dare you? you have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words, and yet i'm one of the lucky ones. people are suffering! people are dying! entire ecosystems are collapsing! we are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is the money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth! how dare you? -[applause erupts] -whoo! [clock ticking] [dodds] so, when my mother died, that's the top of the list of horrible things to happen to me, and it was a difficult death from cancer.

seeing those final moments were horrendous. it was completely unacceptable to my entire being that it be happening, and yet there it is, happening, and there's no option. death just gets behind the dead and the living, and just pushes you forward, and there's nowhere to go with that. certainly, dealing with the fire and with coming to terms with climate change, having been through that furnace of the death of a loved one, felt those things, and survived them, if i can do that, then i can face this. yeah. it's true, you have to be out alone to face death. it is such an existential crisis, climate change, and is there any meaning to our life? it's really interesting to hear you both speak about this, because, um, tch, you know, my mom currently has stage-4 ovarian cancer. obviously, it's the most awful thing, but the really unexpected aspect of it for me is how profoundly alive i have been feeling

every day since her diagnosis. living with death-- like, really looking at it every day-- you just... you can't not be alive. it's having this completely different impact from what i thought it would be. there's something in the fragility and the quivering aliveness of that vulnerable place, when you really, really care about something and you know it is dying. yeah. so that gives, actually, that gives me hope. like, not that my mom's gonna live, 'cause she's not going to live, and neither is the great barrier reef. but if i can be alive to it, like, if i can bear witness to what is happening, and i can keep loving what is, it's what keeps me going, it's the only thing. [♪♪♪]

[narrator] i'm experiencing a subtle yet significant shift. i seem to be integrating the deep acceptance of my death with the deep acceptance of my life. i understand both will ask much of me and they don't really feel so far apart. we don't have a word for this, so i've had to create my own. i'm calling it my life-- a non-dual perspective of this one precious and wild life/death or death/life thing we are. it was only when i fully and deeply accepted the reality of my death, even feeling a deep peace and rightness in it, that i felt a new spark of life bubble through. no spinning, flipping, leaping, galloping anywhere. just a simple quiet

openness to all that is. [♪♪♪] our lives are going to end. we're going to die. people we love are going to die, and, you know, part of life is that we have to end up reconciling that. so i think you-- you change. you change your attitudes, you change your values, you change your priorities, and i think, so too, with climate change, is that once you're aware that this is no longer theoretical, it's not something that's happening in the distant future, and i think that you have to think about it now-- the climate's changing. the climate is changing. the climate is changing! the solution to this really requires acknowledging that there's a very big problem.

[♪♪♪] [narrator] breath by breath, i come to accept, deeply accept, what is to come. and so, my dearest friends, i hope you will journey with me on your own ride, walk, jump, or dance. i will meet you there. [♪♪♪] [sister's voice] after you died, you visited me in a dream. i told you how hard it was when they carried your body down these narrow stairs.

how i held vigil from this hilltop. listening... [♪♪♪] for days afterwards, i kept looking for you, but you weren't there. it was like you had just... disappeared. but in my dream, you looked at me and said, "i didn't disappear.

now i'm everywhere." and just as you said those words, i woke up, and it started to pour. so now, when it rains, i love to feel, in the water, traces of you. [♪♪♪] [vargas speaking spanish] [♪♪♪]

[narrator] if you're lucky, there are doors that open once or twice in your life, where you get to witness a plane of reality deeper than the one you normally have access to. my sister opened one such door for me, though i can't entirely describe the place it took me to. [winds blowing] with climate change, it may be the opposite. instead of showing us a passageway into the great mysteries of life and death, it's showing us what we might have seen, had we stopped looking forward and looked around. [winds whistling] [sister's voice] i will never forget the day the ash fell in the middle of summer

and how i thought it was snow. as i will never forget how you taught me death can also be mistaken for something it's not... ...something to turn away from, to pretend it isn't there. accepting your death is one of the hardest things life has asked of me. facing the magnitude of the climate crisis is another. but soon, after you died, i walked into the forest as if it were a womb... ...and lay among the trees. i miss you more than anything but can only describe the feeling i had as rapture. meeting your death, i felt reacquainted with a part of myself that had gone missing,

and, because of you, i let grief in. your grief. my grief. grief for this beautiful, broken world. and for just a moment, all of my broken pieces came together and i knew that i was not alone, that i never could be, and i could face what is to come. ["sanvean: i am your shadow" by lisa gerrard plays] [♪♪♪] [gerrard vocalizing throughout]

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["golden" by frazey ford plays] [♪♪♪] ♪ wa-hey, yeah ♪ ♪ you're so light ♪ ♪ while we ♪ ♪ find might ♪

♪ we're golden ♪ ♪ and holdin' ♪ ♪ why don't you ♪ ♪ do what you gotta do? ♪ ♪ why don't you ♪ ♪ do what you got to? ♪ ♪ and light is up ahead ♪ ♪ get wrung out and let go of it ♪ ♪ get higher ♪ ♪ and love yourself ♪ ♪ i'll be a drop in the sea ♪ ♪ and that's why... ♪

♪ oh, my darling ♪ ♪ the time of days ♪ ♪ gets harder ♪ ♪ when you bury it ♪ ♪ ain't you had enough? ♪ ♪ put your head up ♪ ♪ why don't you ♪ ♪ do what you got to do? ♪ ♪ and light is up ahead ♪

♪ get wrung out and let go of it ♪ ♪ get higher ♪ ♪ and love yourself ♪ ♪ in this whole world let yourself be helped ♪ ♪ in the hard times ♪ ♪ you're lighting up your head ♪ ♪ you need to wrung out and take your day ♪ ♪ get a-higher then love yourself ♪ ♪ i'll be a drop in the sea ♪

♪ endlessly ♪ ♪ i'll be a drop in the sea ♪ ♪ and swim ♪ ♪ endlessly ♪ ♪ in the hard times ♪ ♪ you're lighting up your head ♪