- I love how young people
are just at the helm of, (chuckles)
just the most drastic
and beautiful change that happens throughout the world.
(upbeat music)
- Hey, I'm Rollie Williams.
I'm best known for my YouTube channel "Climate Town."
- Hi there.
My name's Kristy Drutman,
and I'm most known for being an environmental media host
and advocate.
- My name is Ronald Griswell.
My work is tied to exploring the intersection
between the outdoors and blackness specifically
and working with historical black colleges and universities.
- We we've been trying to tell you.
- Okay, I'm about to react to some movies in the Netflix,
One World, Infinite Wonder collection.
- Let's get it.
- It would damage the, the entire planet, not just a house.
- Bummer. - The entire planet.
Okay, well, as it's damaging,
will it hit this one house in particular?
That's right on the coast of New Jersey.
It's my ex-wife's house--
- Oh my (laughs).
- I'm sorry, are we not being clear?
We're trying to tell you
that the entire planet it's about to be destroyed.
- That's how I feel a lot of times
- Just something we do around here,
we just keep the bad news light.
- Right, it helps the medicine go down.
- That's the whole outta sight, outta mind thing.
It's just like, if it's not affecting me directly
then why care about it?
- [Woman] You can see this spike here is when Riley Bina,
asks to take DJ Chello back on the segment before you,
we saw engagement across all social media platforms.
- Yap.
- Unfortunately there was an immediate backlash
that quickly became a meme.
- Oh Jesus.
Oh, that's, terrible.
They just think I'm crazy.
- It is much more easier
for our brains to wrap our minds around,
oh, well look at this celebrity
and this is the break they're going through.
- People love the, the romance, the drama, the gossip
and we need to bring more of that
into the conversation with climate science,
if we're gonna get people to pay attention.
we need to fuse pop culture, comedy, satire, storytelling.
What's important that we have all different types
of communication techniques, not just the doom and gloom.
- [Female researcher] We have evidence going back to the 50s
that government and the fossil fuel industry knew
that if they continued to burn fossil fuels,
that it would cause catastrophic impact.
- Absolutely.
- [Male Researcher] That's when they started editing
climate reports.
- I love primary document polls.
- [Reporter] 21 young people ages 11 to 22
are suing the federal government
over policies they say are destroying their world.
- I love how young people are just at the helm of,
just the most drastic and beautiful change
that happens throughout the world.
- I love watching a document, hit the screen
and get a poll quote.
That's just so damning.
They're just saying like, oh, there's no evidence
that climate change has ever been known
to a fossil fuel company.
And then it's like 100 articles from fossil fuel companies
that are like, "Hey, we found out about climate change,
"but don't tell anybody."
- Why go after a corporation?
Why go after the government?
These are things that a lot of us can't wrap our mind around
or we don't see a light at the end of the tunnel.
So I really appreciate that these group of young people
have done their research
put the data together and say, you know what?
This isn't our fault.
Let's take this back to whose fault it actually is.
- A lot of the plaintiffs that are featured in this film,
all have their own unique story
and take that they brought into these court cases,
to talk about the climate crisis was impacting
their families and their communities.
And I think showing such a wide diversity of that
allows the film to have just such a stronger impact
because it just shows that everyone deserves
a place in this discussion.
- It shows just how interconnected we are
when it comes to the solutions
and things that we need to do to move forward.
- What's that?
- My gray water recycler.
Yeah, it treats and reuses the dishwasher water
as drip irrigation for our new garden.
- No, that's disgusting.
Wouldn't you want clean water for your veggies?
Come on.
- Everyone I talk up to gray water about has that reaction.
- That's the point?
The recycler cleans the water...
You're messing with me, ain't you?
- He's flirting with her over her gray water recycling.
- Look, I'm falling in love with that guy
'cause I got a pair of eyes, okay?
That guy is a hunk and a half.
- I love it.
I've been waiting for an eco friendly love story.
It makes these topics just
less of this like nerdy science thing,
but it's like, no like you're really cool.
You can be that independent woman doing your thing
having your small business.
- The power to reuse something or give something a new life,
even water, is really amazing
when we don't have that understanding,
we can see it as alien.
As, why would you do that?
Or that's disgusting.
(eerie tense music)
Now this is a cruel scene.
(animal roaring)
(alarm buzzing)
(loud bang) - Oh no, my God.
So traumatizing.
- And to seeing everything unfolding on her face,
making the realization that this is what's going on
and happening to not just my pet,
but my friends, someone that I love.
- It's all edible, all edible except the squeal.
(animal roaring)
- (sighs) That's a hard clip to watch.
- Definitely a factory farm setting.
It's definitely like, cold hard metal walls,
animals treated like numbers,
workers basically having to like serve in the exploitation
of these animals.
- I thought about the inhumanity and how,
unsustainable, slaughter houses are
and how a majority of the world receives its protein.
- But, if you see the horror of reality
without having to be spoonfed the information.
If your brain comes to that conclusion on your own,
I think it's much more impactful
- Makes you sit with that reality and just be like,
wow, there should be a better way
and a different way that we need to approach these things.
- When you're eating kale, your body doesn't consume kale.
The bacteria consume the kale.
- This is making me so hungry.
- [Dr Kristine] And feed off of what the bacteria
have processed and released,
by the consumption of that kale.
- I had no idea that's how the nutrients from kale
were consumed.
That's wild.
- We need to eat, what's in the dirt,
that's transferred to the plants
that then we eat and create health.
(indistinct chatters)
- I love that he's in this.
This is great.
- You know, my husband is an athlete for living,
so he wants to provide his body
with the best possible nutrients so he can perform.
- I beat my body down so much over the course of the season.
The last thing I want to do is add a bunch of food
that I won't be able to properly digest.
- I love that an NFL quarterback is talking about
regenerative agriculture and plant-based diets.
- I think there are a lot of people
who love Tom Brady
and haven't really considered how their own nutrition
impacts the global ecosystem.
- Tom Brady, speaking about this from
his knowledge of football and those accomplishments,
but cool.
I think me and this guy have the same language.
I can understand this person as he talk about this.
Not only that I can believe in what he's saying
because it is just not coming from him,
he's surrounded by scientists
and people who actually know what they're talking about,
and he's just like the diffuser there.
- You're not allowed to drill at the North Pole.
- Now the young person trying to change the world.
- Don't? And why would that be?
- It will go wrong.
Huge quantities of methane gas will be released
into the atmosphere.
- Well, well,
the little expert knows what she's talking about.
- So you're classic room full of smoking villains?
- Global warming will become unstoppable
and it will lead to extreme weather events.
- That's facts.
That's facts.
- Let me guess, you are here to save us from it all.
- Ooh.
- People have thought for centuries
that the end of time is drawing near.
- Corporate interests over the health of the planet
is such a common theme in real life. (chuckles)
This is just spot on.
- That just brought so much anger in me,
because I just see that happen all the time,
where maybe people in power will address young people
and be like, yeah, yeah, we hear you, we hear you,
but it's really not that bad.
But it's like we say the message
and the science loud and clear,
and it just goes over their heads.
- It's about cumulative problems
and not like one single issue.
- [Alan] We have had a series of incidents
in the last 10 years,
that have eclipsed anything that we've had
in the history of firefighting in California.
- That is a long list of fires
- That is insane.
- [Alan] Extremely rapid fire spread.
Resistant to control.
None of our tools able to fight fire
having guys out, having-- - I remember that.
- The part that's affecting us the most is our weather.
And that's what's driving these fires.
We're setting records every year,
our humanities are lower,
the fire's burning as aggressively at night
as it is during the day,
and so we don't ever get that chance to get ahead of it.
And the toll on our people is extreme.
- Wow, yeah that was a really powerful clip.
- I had no idea there were that many fires happening.
These aren't just, okay, one tree burned down,
every single one of those fires that were named,
were fires that impacted large ecosystems and communities.
- When Alan was describing the way fires are now occurring
at night resistance to fire mitigation techniques,
like that feels pretty apocalyptic.
Yeah, it's scary.
- I think hearing that directly
from someone who is an expert on the ground,
who has witnessed these transitions
send such a powerful message than just saying,
these are the wildfires
and we're not really addressing the cause
and the impact of them.
- And I think when we dive deep,
when that we're able to tell these stories
from the bottom up.
From looking at the people impacted on the ground the most.
When we listen to their stories,
I think that's when we can have more empathy
and truly start to care more.
(both speaking foreign language)
- You are gonna have to keep letting this movie play.
I need to see this whole thing. (chuckles)
- The whole community is coming together to like build it.
Oh my gosh
- It takes a village.
- He's up so high.
That's insane.
What!
- The bicycle to power the windmill.
This is awesome.
- That's amazing.
He identified a need in his community
then everyone just saw his vision,
even though they didn't know
what it was going to result into, and contributed to it.
- It definitely is gonna take that community.
It's definitely gonna take that village,
when it comes to these ideas
and the solutions that we know will work
but we're gonna need the backing of our communities.
- So this movie is set in Malawi, Africa,
which is one of the regions
that is currently being pretty seriously
negatively affected by climate change.
So, we kinda sometimes think about climate change
as like a problem that is coming down the pike right now
coming at us,
but there are lots of places
that are already dealing with the fallout of climate change.
- And as the climate crisis continues,
these frontline communities that are predominantly
black indigenous and people of color around the world
are going to need support
and are going to need to be recognized
for the solutions that they're creating
in their own communities.
I would say I was really surprised
by the range of the films in this.
It was really nice to see some sci-fi,
some comedies, some romance, I love that range.
Because we need all different approaches and tones
to reach a wide array of people.
- The power of storytelling
is actually the power to relate to someone else.
And when you're able to relate to someone else,
you're able to care,
and I think when we care, that's when change can start
because we see ourselves, we see our neighbors,
we see our families, our friends, our communities,
and from there, we are able to make
a bigger and better change in our lives.
Thank you so much for watching with me.
- You can watch all these movies and more,
at netflix.com/earthstories.
- See you later.
(whooshing)
(birds chirping)