how many of you wereere yesterday during bill mckibben sock. how many of you cried. or were terrified. i was crying and terrified for the rest of the day yesterday. and i hope arm while you hear me speak i won't make you terrified arm maybe a little by- also inspire you. to join us and to join indigenous peoples in resistance. for existence and survival for all of us. so you probably have heard about the fires in brazil. and most of the fires have been in brazil. and they were raging across the amazon in brazil and in bolivia and across across the entire amazon and their devastating their catastrophic. and combined with the threats across the amazon oil and gas and agribusiness and deforestation and degradation and mining and mega dams. arm this is what these threats and the fires combined with climate change. this is what. could be the amazon to a tipping point of ecological collapse. bye can we turn this around. that's the question what's the question that we're here to answer today. first the amazon. and our beautiful beautiful planet earth. this is south america

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. >> bill mckibben is an author and environmental acvist who founded the third act in 350.org.ys the previous protests have been. he understands the message in these new demonstrations. >> we live in an incredibly beautiful world. filled with almost unbelievable treasures. we are desecrating and destroying the treasures every hour, every day. it doesn't seem in that context quite so shocking. people decide to throw a can of soup on the painting. i think it is a way to try and get people to understand that much larger desecration that is underway. one kind of protest and figure out another. left to its own devices, inertia invested interest, will win this existential fight. >> millions of people are dying. >> others question the effectiveness of the recent protests. >> who was the target? van gogh? what did he do to create a crisis? >> he's a climate scientist who studies the effectiveness of climate communicion. >> there just wasn't a sensible connection. the headline would say protesters throw soup on van gogh's sunflowers. only if you've got toaragraph six did you learn the p