[female narrator] this is how i remember it beginning. It was the middle of a hot, dry summer. Theres a light breeze. The sky is a dramatic orange. And its snowing. Except it isnt snow at all. Its ash, from a distant forest fire fuelled by climate change. Im not sure what surprised me more the ash falling with careless grace or the feeling that rose up within me as it fell. It was grief. I knew it well. [ ] and this time, it was for the changing world all around me. [sarah baike] everyone can relate to grief of losing a loved one, because, i mean, thats universal. But grief of losing your homeland . I never, ever thought of this as being something that. Itll be lost, forever. But. [voice shakes]. It is. [tearfully] i dont know how to explain it, really. Its. It was just part of you, growing up. I never, ever thought about there might be a time when the ice wasnt going to be solid to travel on. I dont think, um. I dont know how to be able to explain it to you. Or anyone. You dont really realize how much youve lost until you stop and think about it. [winds gusting] [derek pottle] when im on the land, a lot of times, i just stop. I stop. And i look. I look out in the distance and i say to myself, are my eyes seeing what my greatgrandparents saw . Are my eyes seeing the same landscape . And i used to listen to their stories and i hear their stories and their love for the land. And i ask myself i ask myself, you know, how much how much has the scenery changed, or the geographics changed . Is the land does it look the same . Does it represent the same thing . Will this landscape still be here 50 years from now . Will my grandchildrens eyes still be able to see what i see . And i dont have the answer. [ ] [water bubbling] [narrator] my sister and i were privileged enough to grow up in a world of beginnings. Starlit skies and secret forests. Fireflies and ducklings. Not nightmares. Not endings. Not saying goodbye. [gulls crying] [ ] [greta thunberg] when i was in maybe second or third grade, i heard about climate change. I became shocked because i didnt have a clue. The more i read, the more depressed i became. Because i thought that if it really was that serious, then someone would have taken care of it, the politicians would have had it under control, but then i realized, they didnt. First, i stopped talking to people outside my closest family. And i stopped going to school because i would only cry all the time and then had to go home. And then i stopped eating, slowly. I lost a lot of weight and ii almost starved to death. I just didnt want to eat because i didnt feel any meaning. As a young person, i feel like my future and everyone elses future is being threatened. I think the scariest part is that we dont know what is going to happen. Everything is so uncertain. Of course, there are many estimations and calculations of when certain tipping points will occur, so we cant know for sure, we dont have a time machine, but i think its very scary because ii have aspergers, and i like routines, and when things are planned in detail, so i, for me, its especially scary that everything is so uncertain. [ ] [anote tong] to see this coming and to feel so incapable of doing anything about it, that, emotionally, was perhaps one of the most difficult things that ive had to deal with in my life. For us, its real, its not something thats happening in a distant part of our lives. Its not somewhere in the background, which has no relevance. Its here, now, and in the middle of our virtually, our home, because during the last very high tide, water was coming into our homes. So we are living with it on a daily basis, and it is getting worse. But i think my greatest fear is that, one day, there will come a storm. [winds roaring]. And it will all be gone before anybody realizes and acknowledges that it is real. [ ] [narrator] the world used to seem invincible to me. Just like you did. But time eventually showed me few things are as they appear. And there are some things that we dont see at all, until its too late. Greenhouse gases do their damage surreptitiously. So did the cancer cells. So. There was nothing i couldve done. Nothing we could have done. No warnings. At least these are some of the stories i try to tell myself. [ ] [click] [charlie veron] it was about five kilometres that way. The firstever photograph of a coral bleaching. I thought, wow this is really strange. It wasnt the colony that was bleached, just part of it. Next year, i found the whole thing dead. As far as i know, its the first photograph ever published of a bleached coral. [ ] i just thought it was weird, i just thought, whats wrong with you . But of course you feel it completely. Youre not separated from it, youre part of it, and if its sick, youre part of the sickness, and it affects you as part of the sickness. [ ] [beeping] [ ] [ ] us wonnarua people believe that lizard is crying. I mean, shes up high and she can see. Shes crying for all the environmental issues. And over there, you can see these great, big cans are just eating everything, eating our country up. Just destroying our country. [truck reverse alert beeping] [taggart speaking] its just the same thing. Were just being brought down. Were just. Were still nothing. Were still nothin. This land and us lizard rock, the trees, the river. Were all just one. And if this land hurts, we hurt. [horses whinnying] [ ] [manari ushigua speaking spanish] [ ] [belen paez] his name is tsamaraw, a word that is from the sapara language that means one energy. One energy that has been always there in the universe, in the galaxies, on planet earth. I have a lot of fear of what is going to happen in his lifetime, because the time is ending for a few months. For animals, for the forests. And in my dreams all this information is coming from my dreams, and i dont want to see it. [ ] [birds singing] [crickets chirping] [makutsawa montahuano speaking spanish] [sighing heavily] [lethly vargas speaking spanish] [ ] [narrator] my dear jen. A big surprise. Ive been told i have a malignant lump in my left breast. I was shocked at first, but have impressed myself with how easily i go on like normal. Will write more later. But i wanted you to know. Love [takes a deep breath]. Your sister, saille. [ ] [ ] [david bowman] so this is a pencil pine athrotaxis cupressoides and its one of the oldest living tree lineages in the world. You can find the imprints of their fossils over 100 million years. They grow very slowly, they have very limited capacity to regenerate after fire. This thing might be anywhere between 800 might even be 1,000 years old, and unfortunately, because of climate change, the next stop is extinction for these things, theyre going to become extinct. Its one hell of an emotional journey because your subject matter, motivating you and moving you, is under threat from ecological climate forces and its being, in some cases, destroyed before your eyes. [thunder crashing and fires roaring] [sirens wailing] we thought we would fence off areas, declare areas wildernesses, and they would be safe theyre not safe. [chopper rotors beating, fires roaring] this is like wartime. This is this is not peace. Whatever it is, its not peace. [ ] [jan harris] our son had been in the shed and said he could smell smoke, and it was just this the wind was just. Absolutely terrifying. So they walked around to where that little building is and there was a tiny wisp of smoke. Oh, this must be about where the. It is really disorientating, isnt it . This must be the deck for the bedroom, yeah . Yeah. Yeah. So the bedroom well, is that. That wall there is that the line is the lounge room. Yeah, and then the kitchen coming out to about here, so, yeah, the deck over there. Yeah. Ive been very drunk right here [harris laughs]. And ive danced a lot right here. [harris laughs] i dont know if you can work it out, but there was a loft up there. Sort of think, if the house, you know, a whole big house burnt down, itd be this really slow. Thing, but it was just bang, and it was gone. So that was, yeah, i shocking . Shocking and. Fuck. You know . We were falling asleep. If pugs hadnt woken us up, we wouldve just. It wouldve been so fast. You wouldnt have known. You know . Just weird. Its still weird. [jo dodds] the fire came all of the way down the road and it burned through every single property, onto our property, and then it stopped at the top of our hill. [chimes tinkling] my pristine little house is at the end of a road that looks like. A Nuclear Bombs gone off. Wallabies and roos and possums and echidnas and the bird life it was. Utterly silent up here, for months. [mournful theme plays] [clicking] as you can hear cicadas now, and i remember the first time i saw an ant in here. [chuckles softly]. And how. Wonderful it was just to see this little guy wandering around and going, how did you survive that . There were times id just go to the big trees that were still standing. Just i wanted to just get the black off the trees and have that on me. [voice breaks] i noticed, as i walked through the forest, id come home and id have black stripes on my arms and my legs, and theyd be from things i brushed past, and ii really. [sighs thoughtfully]. Appreciated having the forest marking me the way it had been marked by humanity, and. It was. Very private that. The loss in here is very private to me, because so much attention and energy goes to the built environment, and the people who lost their things, and my grief was about the loss of a place that doesnt get mourned. So there was a kind of loneliness about it. [ ] [wind chimes tinkling] [narrator] my dearest friends. I wish i may, i wish i might tell you a story. There once was a boy who loved to muck in the marshes, scramble up trees, gallop across the fields, horsewinged. And there once was a boy who once was a girl. She grew into this woman creature, her heart full of joy and pain and wonder. My dearest friends, i wish i may, i wish i might be able to tell you that the cancer has not returned. [clock ticks]. But it has, and in full force. I have been told i have one to three years left. I take this information as part of a larger truth no one is able to predict. [ ] [wind gusting] [clare farrell] we hide birth and death and we also hide sewage. We hide all of our rubbish, we hide all of our waste. What are we doing when we deny the realities of our life and of our situation . This culture is so unbelievably fucked. You know, its like you tell people stuff and it just doesnt go in. You you havent heard what ive said and this is the fundamental problem. Im listening very carefully to you. No, i dont think you are. Youre listening, but youre not emotionally connecting. Your message is so unrelentingly bleak and negative. Its not a message, right . When you go to the doctor and he tells you you have cancer, thats not a message, its the science. Its the science. When were discussing setting up, no one wanted to talk about extinction. No one wanted to talk about rebellion. No one wants to talk about whats actually happening and no one wants to talk about what is the moral imperative for every citizen in the world. [farrell] we live in a society that lacks honesty, and the honest truth is that weve allowed this sort of great big mistake to happen. Its like were all implicated by admitting that the way we live is causing a catastrophe. Its all these things that we do that add up, and then the framework of the system. [tong] it is something that drives me a sense of injustice thats unfolding. [storm raging] its more important to get that marginal rise in economic growth, regardless of what it means for people in countries like mine, and so thats when i said, okay, fine. Go ahead. Increase your emissions, but keep it within your borders, hmm . If you can do that, i have nothing to say. But, of course, you cannot. So how can there be justice . [muck squishing] our islands will be underwater. Not through our fault, not our creation. The information and the science is very clear, that what is happening is damaging my home. Theyve got so much power to do the right thing. Yet why do they hesitate . [ ] for so many years and decades, ive seen it and my father has seen it and my ancestors have seen people come in here and just take the resources, build their dams, cut the forests take, take, take. [ ] when the construction started, i was devastated by what i saw. The amount of trees that were cut. The machinery that you used was just like a blender. It just blended everything right off the land. They didnt care about the people, they didnt care about the land, they didnt care about the animals, they didnt care about any part of the ecosystem at all. [pottle] you cant help to feel angry when its something thats happening caused by some other place in the world, and its impacting us. Without a doubt, inuit leave a Carbon Footprint wherever we go to, but theres 65,000 inuit right across inuit nunangat. Our footprint on the earth is very little, compared to some of the very Big Industrial areas of the world, so its imposed onto us without our welcome. Doesnt make no difference how much you voice your concern, what you present, how you deliver it its still going to happen. [ ] the power thats being generated at Muskrat Falls is being ran through underground cables