>> You like animals, right? Animals are amazing, regular animals, dogs and cats and all that.
But what about truly majestic rare animals? Like for instance, the golden lion tamarin get a load
of this animal, doesn't he look delightful or she don't wanna judge
delightful golden lion Tamarin or the Capybara, maybe you follow a twitter account.
Happy Bar daily, very good, you get cute little capybaras. There's also amazing ones, not
necessarily beautiful but amazing, like the giant river otter. Look at that corridor of the giant
anteater. Imagine coming across one of these in the woods. The jesus lizard, for instance,
which is not actually the child of God, but it's named for its ability to run on water.
Well, you might have started to notice a trend. These are not animals that generally you can find
running around LA or anything like that. They are just some of the many amazing animals that
currently live in the Amazon, which the rainforest specifically is home to 427 mammal species,
1300 bird species, close to 400 species of reptiles, 400 species of amphibians.
And the issue is, if you didn't tell this turn was coming, they are very much at risk, and the
risk is growing rapidly. The world's largest rainforest quote has been losing resilience
since the early 2000's risking dieback with profound implications for biodiversity. Carbon
storage and climate change at a global scale as rainforest irreversibly transforms to savannah,
that is the result of new climate change research printed in the journal nature.
Satellite imagery shows that three quarters of the amazon is losing resilience, That is
the ability to restore itself back after suffering from some sort of catastrophe. Whether it's fire
or that sort of thing, it can, it has a capacity to regrow. It is losing that capacity in part
due to global climate change, in part due to exploitation, the cutting down of sections.
And we'll get into more of that, but Brett, this is the sort of thing that I understand. It
is difficult for people to prioritize considering all that's going on, but once we lose it, we can't
necessarily get it back. Not for dozens of years until my new company, the reanimate, the jesus
lizard really gets its footing, but we've had trouble raising money because no one gives a rip.
That's the problem, man, I am of the opinion that we should save the rainforest, the actionable
things that people can do fair trade. What do you do? Go run for office in Brazil,
that's where it breaks down. It's tough to prioritize,
we are killing the animals. It's like, this is the age old problem.
It is the, well, this thing's going to hit a tipping point. Well, I don't want it to happen to
hit a tipping point, so what can I do? And the answer is, well,
just watch more planet Earth documentaries and
fast forward to the end, where David Attenborough goes and quickly, they're all disappearing.
Look, what I would say is there are plenty of individual things you can
do that you're encouraged to do, do those. That's fine, that's not the solution. It's
in many ways to dodge by corporations, I would say centering concerns for the environment,
other species. The climate in our politics is not, look, it may not
be a satisfyingly direct way to address this, maybe that isn't open to us here in the US.
But, we can be a part of a shift in our government priorities where we
get more and more people elected that do not consider the environment to be some sort of
secondary concern or if it's free, maybe we'll do something. We need to actually center this in
our politics and demand that our politicians do the same and that they demand that corporations
undertake the necessary reforms and regulations to limit the harmful effect that they're having.
Not only in terms of the amazon or climate generally, but all the negative environmental
impacts of a lot of corporate activity. >> Yes, I agree, and yeah.
>> Save the jesus lizard's everyone, they are the only savior we have.