. >> biosphere 2. the idea of biosphere 2 -- why is it called 2?se the rest of us schmucks live in biosphere 1, which is the earth. but those folks basically lived in a terrarium for two years. it was a texas billionaire's sort of pseudo scientific folly in the 1990s. it was a very expensive thing. it's a very strange story. it always will be a strange story. but today we learned that in the mid '90s, the texas billionaire who was losing a million dollars a month on it, he brought in a fixer to try to get biosphere 2 under control. the guy he brought in is the guy who is now running donald trump's presidential campaign. look, there he is, at the biosphere. part of how we know he was there, running things, is this old footage of him talking about biosphere 2 at the time. the other part of how we know he was there is because of court documents. because bringing on steve bannon to run the weird '90s arizona bubble terrarium project, it didn't end well. the woman we saw this, exclaiming with the atmosphere in that footage, she ended up suing for breach

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he talks about is what's missing in all of our projections is the power of life, the power of the biosphere so we shouldn't dismiss it but we need to keep that power and support that power and now i can close with 'that i really like, as i mentioned the friend in texas gets all their water from do, what she says is we can be the beavers on the landscape. we can be the restorers of the water cycle and all that goes with it. so, there we are. the choice we have and i know it's really, really hard and sometimes i think that all of the craziness that is going on right now politically and in all kinds of ways that somehow, it's like a deep concern, it's almost like sparks out of some very profound, not knowing what to do but i do feel very strongly that a couple things that stands in our way his imagination and also how we talk about these challenges and that's why a make a point of reframing change. we talk about these cycles. if it's just climate change like this big looming, it raises fear and there's nothing we can do about it except protest against the oil companies which we certainly need

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he talks about what's missing is the power of life, the power of the biosphere so we shouldn't dismiss it but we need to heed and support the power. i mentioned the friend in texas who gets older water she says we can be the beavers on the landscape. i think it is all of the craziness that's going on right now politically in all kinds of ways that somehow it's like a deep concern almost like sparks not knowing what to do but i feel very strongly about a couple things. what stands in norway is imagination. and also that it's how we talk about the challenges and why i make the point of reframing the climate change. we are talking about these cycles. it's looming and protects to get off fossil fuels. we know that but we also know that isn't going to be enough. if we work on the basis of the cycles i think that the canon by working on the ecosystems and restoring landscapes i think we could get there. >> [inaudible] >> in every chapter we are talking to people who are very hopeful and would have seen tremendous improvements in their land because that's what i wanted to see. i wanted to see