He could see around corners. Not just one corner, many corners. It started with an idea so audacious, so unthinkable. Nobody believed he could pull it off. Absolutely crazy, absolutely crazy. Except once in a lifetime, a guy like him comes along, ted turner. He wanted to save the world. Save everything. Save everything. Its all part of saving everything. There you go. I think im getting it. Were fast approaching the tipping point. Now the question is do we rise up . That is pretty dang cool. Wow. Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam and the deer and the antelope play where seldom is heard a discouraging word and the skies are not cloudy all day it is quiet. You thought it would be louder, but its not. No, its not. Its pretty quiet. That sounded pretty much like mm, didnt it . Yeah, thats exactly that sound. This is all for you part of the protecting the planet, having these bison here like this, doing what youve done, right . Yeah. Honestly, when i first heard the bison idea, i wasnt quite sure what to make of it. How did this 80yearold billionaire end up on a ranch in montana, and how exactly were bison going to help save the planet anyway . The story starts a long, long time ago, long before the world first came to know ted turner. Driving, trip it, lower the pole he sailed on the scenes in the 1970s as captain courageous a bare chested businessman who won americas cup. By that point, a young ted had already leveraged his familys business to buy a struggling tv station, turning it into the first satellite super station. And with his signature arrogance, he bought a losing baseball game and branded it americas team. Come see the big league team, and hey, were in atlanta. Reporter he liked to win, take risks, and he could convince you of anything. A lot of times, people give up just when theyre on the verge of succeeding, you know. I just never quit. Reporter ted was born Robert Edward turner, iii, in cincinnati, ohio, 1938. If youve heard anything about his childhood, youve heard it was difficult. Teds father was known to treat him harshly both physically and emotionally. Then came the loss, teds sister developed lupus and died at the age of 17. Thats what i would say was the great tragedy that occurred in my family, and had a big influence on all of us. My mother survived it, but she was never the same. My father didnt last too much longer after that, just a few years. What he means is that his father, the man ted turner most wanted to please, killed hims f himself. Everything with ted started back when he was a little boy. He spent his childhood outdoors. He became a fisherman. He became a hunter. Ted found solace in nature. When you live on the land and you develop an appreciation and a love for nature, and you realize its value. What motivates ted is that hes so devoted to saving nature because its a way of saving himself. Hes able to help himself heal from the trauma. Tragedy that occurs in your life can either wreck you or make you stronger, but i determined to be stronger. I knew thats what my sister and father would have wanted me to do. So, yeah, i heard you want me to call you mr. Turner, is that right . No, call me ted. Did you grow up watching western movies . Did that appeal to you, the western movie . Was that part of it . The cowboy, the rustic sort of character in those movies . Im not really a cowboy. Youre not a cowboy . I dont have any cows. So youre a bison boy . Thats right. Bison boy. When did you first start thinking about bison . When i was a little boy about 10 years old. I Read National geographic magazine, and it had an article about bison and it said how close they came to extinction. I decided then that if i could, that i would do what i could to help bring the bison back. Its hard to separate the image of the bison from america. Its a national symbol. The u. S. Government estimates 30 to 60 million roamed north america in the 1500s. By the ended of the 1800s, just a few hundred wild bison remained. So what happened to all the bison . They were killed. This has been a long, a long standing thing for you. Lifetime. A lifetime. And so starting with just three bison, ted began quietly pursuing that childhood dream. Watch out, youre about to step in the poop. But back to my original question. How do these biasson help save e planet . When you were thinking about saving the bison, was the larger picture that this could help save the planet . Save everything. Its all tied together. You have to save the environment if youre going to save the species. Save everything . Its on my bumper sticker. Its an audacious task. How do you approach that . I had to make a lot of money first because ranches are not cheap. Owning a baseball team, basketball, starting this media empire, that was your mindset, even back then . 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The skies over baghdad have been illuminated. The rescuers are making progress literally by inches. Liftoff of the Space Shuttle mission. Obviously a major malfunction. Ted turners been at the cutting edge of every Major Movement of our time. I dedicate the news channel for america, the cable news network. At 6 00 p. M. On june 1st, 1980, ted turner changed the face of television. Good evening, im david walker. And im lois hart. Now heres the news. Starting the worlds first 24hour cable news network, cnn. Ted was a huge risk taker. He upset the rules of the cable tv business. We dont watch an hour of news a day and its painful and youre going to put it on 24 hours, nobody is going to watch that. I felt that america needed an indepth voice in whats going on in the news. Heres whats happening at this moment. It was being called the chicken noodle network. It was such a bold idea, and nobody believed he could pull it off. So far everything weve done has been right, and this is going to be right, too. Everybody wrote him off about cnn, but he was right, and everybody else was wrong. Im willing and have been willing all along to risk everything that i have to provide that service. Were going to provide it come heck or high water. For ted, cnn was a platform to show the world what was happening in every corner of the globe. In is a cnn special report. But there was always a larger message as well, a message to look around, care about the environment, dont sit it out. My good friend and a man who needs very little introduction, captain kustow. Teds own captain planet was a captain himself, jacque cousteau. What kind of guy was jacque couste cousteau . Wonderful, he believed in saving everything. We hit it off from the very beginning. Ted of course had seen cousteaus documentary and seen him profiled on a number of tv specials. Ted agrees to start green lighting some original episodes, environmental documentaries. Theres a story, youre on the amazon on his boat calypso. This is in the early 1980s. Cousteau invites ted down to the delta of the amazon, and they go down there and ted takes his sons. I was about 13 or 14, and that was a really great experience to be in peru and brazil on the calypso. From piranas to these beautiful porpoise that inhabit the amazon, it was a spectacular trip, and the boys go to sleep and ted and cousteau are out on board the deck. And hes telling you,reefs a, bell weather species are being lost. Icecaps are melting, there are fresh water droughts. What did you think at that time . I was concerned and resolved to do whatever i could to help it. He basically was saying enjoy the time that you have because its already too late. We passed the threshold, the beginning of the end has started when youre having that conversation with him, he also says, ted, you worry too much because i dont feel that i worry too much . He said ted, you worry too much. He worried more than me. He was a fulltime worrier. Mankind can expect from exploiting the amazon maybe very little, maybe a lot. I dont know. Ted said, captain, i came down here to be inspired, and this is all bumming me out. And being myself very ecologically minded. What do you want me to do . And he said you need to use your reach through cnn to affect peoples lives and to educate them. Have we passed the threshold . No, i dont think so. Im very hopeful. Im a human being, and i like being a human being, and i like the other human beings that i know. But we have to work hard. But how to get people to care, how to get people to realize that the environment could and would become our greatest and most pressing crisis . Sure, ted turner could convince just about anyone of anything, but to save everything . He started by surrounding himself with likeminded people. Im al gore, and ive known ted turner for 45 years. He certainly does have an ability to see beyond the horizon. He shares the passion that i feel for solving the climate crisis. Ted and al gore met in the 1970s, long before gores oscar winning documentary on Climate Change. Temperature increases are taking place all over the world. He also has used his resources and passions to conserve land and save the bison, all of those concerns are connected to the cry mlimate cr. Dr. Drew harlem brutla in, was also one of those people. Norways first female Prime Minister and the chair of a report called our Common Future delivered in april 1987. When we started on this climate issues were not on the agenda at er term, this can only result in disaster. It was the first true global document that really stealed the focus of the world. Cousteau issue add dire warning, brotlands report had backed it up, and ted he was more resolved than ever. Ill be remembered what im remembered for. If we dont straighten up the environment, nobodys going to be remembering anything. Make the money to buy the land, to save the bison and restore the earth as it was, as it should be. By the end of the decade, ted was set to make another move that would change the game completely. Tmobiles newest signal reaches farther than ever before. With more engineers. More towers. More coverage its a network that gives you freedom from big cities, to small towns, were with you. Because life can take you almost anywhere, tmobile is with you. No signal goes farther or is more reliable in keeping you connected. man hey. N banjo . Go home. woman banjo sorry, it wont happen again. Come on, lets go home. After 10 years, weve covered a lot of miles. Good thing i got a subaru. man looks like you got out again, huh, banjo. avo love is out there. Find it in a subaru crosstrek. Its like going back in time, i think, isnt it . Well, it is. Thats true. Standing here on snow crest ranch in the american west. Its hard to imagine what these wide open landscapes might have become without ted turner. Just looks like this is just the way it should be, but a lot of this wouldnt be here without you. Pretty close to being extinct these bison. Theyre certainly a lot safer now that theres more of them. Teds bison herd is now the largest private herd in the world, 50,000 strong and spread out over 15 of his ranches. Getting to this point, though, took a steep learning curve. What youre looking at here is 30 years of letting nature take its course, and ted having the vision to make this happen. My names Danny Johnson. I manage the flying d ranch for ted turner and ive been with him for 25 years. Its about 113,000 acres, roughly 175 square miles. Ted bought the flying d ranch outside of bozeman, montana in 1989 a crown jewel he thought, where his childhood dream could finally be realized. This has always been historically a cattle ranch, and converting it to bison, people are worried about bison not staying on the property. They were worried about their own livestock. They were worried about disease transmissions. He alienated a lot of local people. It was an audacious thing to say im going to replace all the cattle with bison. Absolutely crazy. Absolutely crazy. When these cattle ranchers and other people came to you and said ted, this is cattle land, why are you doing bison here . Its bison land. The bison were here before the cattle. The cattle came over from europe. The bison were already here. Ted was battling perception on a personal front as well. His public image preceded him. Its really hard for me to face anything without offending somebody, so what ill try and do is be totally democratic and try and offend everybody. Riding into town was the sharptongued media mogul and his movie star bride. They thought he was a loud mouth. They thought he was full of himself because he was married to jane fonda, they thought he was some sort of liberal. My name is jane fonda. I met ted turner in 1989, and ive loved him ever since. Frankly, hes the kind of guy that can sweep you off your feet. The first date we had was i flew up to montana. He drove me around, got lost. He wasnt familiar enough with it, and it was breathtaking. He knew all the flora and fauna. I was just stunned. But the rookie bison rancher still did have a few things to learn. For starter, the cattle days had done a number on the flying d. It was used much, much harder, a lot more livestock on the property. Bison use the land differently. Where cattle on a hot summer day might be loafing in a rye pairon area which would compact the willow, bison would prefer to be on a hill top catching the breeze and seeing the vista up there. Theyre always on the move. Theyre a sharp hoove animal. Which allows seeds to take root. Theyre such majestic creatures, and it just feels like the way the earth should be. The Natural Environment like this actually means that the glass is going to be different, the way that they graze. The soil is going to be different because of the grass thats growing in it, and as a result its grass like this thats actually pulling Carbon Dioxide out of the air. So these bison can actually help save the planet. The whole ecosystems come back together now. Its all in balance it feels like. To see this vision now with all these bison, lush green grass, i didnt have that vision 25 years ago at all. Ted did. Ted saw it. Saw around the corner, envisioned the change. All parts of saving everything. That is pretty dang cool. Ted eventually won over some of the montana cowboys. Now it was time for the rest of the world to take note, especially the next generation. I am captain planet. A little cartoon character that does good rather than going around blasting people. Its the answer to rambo. Its mighty mouse of the 80s. He used his minds rather than guns. He got the idea that he needed to educate youth about issues of global importance, so he thought, well, why dont we have an eco superhero. Im really proud of captain planet. We cant win without the young people, and we cant lose with them. My work here is done, but yours is just beginning, plan planeteers. I was just 5 or 6 years old and watching this cartoon. It didnt just talk about fake made up problems but real problems. If it wasnt the dna in my system already for conservation, captain planet did it in a way where it was perfect. We always knew that we would be part of a quest to save the environment. The power is yours. While captain planet was reaching a new audience, teds own planeteers, his children and grandchildren were learning from the superhero himself. Hes kind of always been captain planet, you know. We would be reprimanded for not turning off the lights or the tv whenever we left the room, and i mean, it was serious business. We would go fishing, and spent time together everywhere where we could get outdoors as quickly as we could. In 1990, ted gave his plan planeteers a way to step up, starting the turner foundation. The family has since funded 400 million worth of environmental projects. Dad doesnt do anything small. He doesnt do anything frivolous, you know. Everything he does is for kind of a purpose. We all needed somebody to look up to and somebody to follow and be inspired by, and hes definitely that person. But his boldest step was yet to come, so unprecedented, it would shock the world. Ur best i. And your best is needed every single day. Amber Jaggers students that come from underserved backgrounds, they dont think ill leave you wi they think thats it for them. If we dont give them the tools that they need, theyre not going to be competitive in the workforce thats waiting for them. In the past, shawnee had no technology. With verizon innovative learning, it was like someone had been listening to my thoughts on what education should be. It gives students hardware and connectivity, and provides curriculum to train teachers. Now, we are a school that has high growth and high achievement. I see new opportunities for our students, and i see them truly hopeful for what they may achieve. Its only money, its only business. No, no, its not. Its your whole life and your reputation and everything. By 1997, ted turner was on top of the world. The little boy who had first read of bison in National Geograph geographic, he was now a billionaire. Is capitalism a fundamental barrier to being able to get some of these things done . No. Capitalism depends on how you use it. Do the right thing, figure out what it is, and then do it. Ted had more money than he could have imagined, and his childhood plan could now really go into effect on a big scale. All based on the idea that capitalism and conservation need not be mutually exclusive. On september 18th, 1997, ted turner stunned the world with this announcement. I decided, though, it would be really exciting to do is im going to donate a billion dollars to the u. N. Causes myself. Nobody saw the billion dollar donation coming. I thought that was really inspiring to people, giving a billion dollars of his personal funds to the united nations. At that time the u. N. Was kind of back on its heels. The u. S. Wasnt paying its dues. It was in trouble in a lot of other countries, and it needed a shot in the arm. A lot of people would say thats the governments job. Let them handle it. I agree, but if the government doesnt do it, then somebodys got to do it. That was you . That was me. Ted turner who tonight as you know, thats one of the largest is that, i guess, its got to be a record, huh . We dont know, but i didnt even know. I didnt check. I only got the idea 48 hours ago. Knowing you there will be a way youll make money. Ive always felt like you have to learn to give its not easy. Youre not born as a giver. Youre born pretty selfish, you know. People love money, it doesnt matter how much you got. You want more. Look at the ballplayers, look at bill gates, he feels like he cant get by you know. My name is bill gates. Ive known ted turner for about 40 years. I think i got called like the day before, and there was even a period of time after the announcement where he was kind of criticizing even warren and i by name. Bill gates could give ten times more tomorrow hes got a whole lot of money. He can buy and sell both of us, you know, and then keep the change. There was some good natured criticism there, which i wanted because later wed come together, have this initiative thatd encourage fiphilanthropyy people who were very, very successful. I think it was a turning point in leaning on and changing the face of american philanthropy. If ted didnt give to the united nations, who would have done that. The answer is very clearly no one would have done that. Because a private citizen cant donate to the united nations, ted went about the business of setting up the u. N. Foundation. Teds first call was to senator tim worth. He obviously had thought one, two, three steps about it, and we had to focus on two things in particular. One was population, and the second was Climate Change. That same year, ted would also begin another organization, centered around a cause close to his heart, the turner endangered species fund. He put Mike Phillips in charge, the man who helped bring wolves back to Yellowstone National park. Back when we began, i said ted, nobody as ever done this before. He said mike, we always do things for the first time, and he just walked away. I thought, okay, got it boss. Thats the marker were going to be guided by. At the core of this idea of saving everything, is that in order to save the planet, you have to save all the species that make up the planet from the biggest bison down to the smallest prairie dog, and including predators like the endangered gray wolf. A personal dream of teds was that they find their way to the flying d ranch in montana on their own. It was just a matter of time before gray wolves found the flying d. It is superb habitat managed against a deep land ethic that celebrates ecological relationships, celebrates wildness, so once they found the d, they were, my lord, in heaven. I was with ted, and he gets a call from Mike Phillips, and mike says, ted, ive got good news for you. Wolves have been seen on the flying d. Ted was giddy, almost child like. Gray wolves have been on this rarc ranch ever since. It is typically one of the largest packs in north america. Weve got bison, elk, mule deer, white tail deer, antelope. Today spread across the flying ds 113,000 acres. Wolves, grizzly bears, black bears, mountain lions, bobcats, coyote coyotes, fox. Youll find more species than ranch manager Danny Johnson can list. Golden eagles ospreys. For ted, his childhood dream was blossoming into reality. He would soon become the largest private landowner in the United States, in the name of conservation, not status. But theres a funny thing about dreams. As beautiful as they are, theyre also fragile. And on the horizon were threats that would risk everything ted turner had created. Yes hey sean hey dan on a scale of one to five . One to five . Its more like five million. Theres everything from happy to extremely happy. Theres also angry. Im really angry clive actually, really angry. Thank you. 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There could be an accident, miscalculation, and we might end up destroying the world. Sam nuns former u. S. Senator and proud partner of ted turner. Ted said i thought the cold war was over, this was in 2000. He said i thought the cold war was over, but its not. Weve got all these Nuclear Weapons. They pose a danger to the world. Got to do something about it. Teds own sense of urgency wouldnt allow him to wait, so he and nunn cofounded the Nuclear Threat initiative. Probably the worst environmental disaster possible for mankind would be a nuclear war. To have a nonstate actor think they could affect Nuclear Weapons or improve the relation of the soviet union, there arent many people who would have even considered those things. There is no greater legacy that we can leave our children and grandchildren that a pean a peaceful and safer world. Ted had reason to feel good about all he was doing to help save the planet, and in 2001, aol and time warner merged giving ted 10 billion worth of stock. He has this hope that hes going to rise and be called to be the chairman and to lead this great media company, and then the dot com bubble burst. It was tough on ted, i mean, when he was running cnn, he made the decisions. He became part of aol, so he went through a lot of agony about the decision he made to merge. Ted turner was in a spiral, no longer leading the company he built and hemorrhaging money losing 10 million a day for more than two years. At the same time, his marriage to jane fonda came to a public end. Since ted and i split up, one of the things thats fascinated me so much is watching his survival mechanisms. He realized that turner broadcasting and cnn could be taken away from him, which it was, and that he had to have something after that, things that could be continued that would make him feel good that were worthwhile. And so the story of ted would go back to the beginning, back to the bison, his childhood spirit animal. In 2002, ted opened the first teds montana grill serving up the very animal ted had committed his life to saving. If that doesnt make sense, remember, ted has a knack for seeing around corners. He knew that he wanted to bring back the bison, and unlike some he knew bison had to have an economic place in our system. Ted sees the big picture. He translates that bison into a burger and a job. Eat the bison in order to save them. So when youre making the case that you should eat bison instead of beef, you sell both at your restaurants. Right. Whats your preference . Bison. Did you ever think about becoming a vegan . That would be the most sustainable, wouldnt it . Well, it depends on how you do it. In terms of just Pure Resources and to product out. It takes 600 gallons of water to eat a burger. Is it really 600 gallons. 660 gallons for a third of a pound burger. I havent just turned you into a vegetarian, have i . No, but im going to give it some more thought. In america at least, the appetite for bison doesnt seem to be sated, more demand means more bison raised in their native north america, better for the grasslands, better for the environment. Sometimes it feels just so big and Climate Change seems like a really hard thing to understand, and then you come out to a police like thplace like this and it feels like the only thing you understand. The planet is warming. Reports out this year paint a dire picture of extremes. Were gaining momentum, but were not yet gaining on the problem. Its still getting worse faster than were getting better. Prolonged heat waves, crops no longer able to survive. The clock is ticking, and we are running out of time. We need to move as quickly as possible. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says already parts of the world have seen a 1. 5 degree celsius increase. Just another half degree would be devastating. Its hard not to get emotional about it, and were fast approaching the tipping point. You think were going to rally on this one, ted, around Climate Change . Are we going to rally as a world . Tmobiles newest signal reaches farther than ever before. With more engineers. More towers. More coverage its a network that gives you freedom from big cities, to small towns, were with you. Because life can take you almost anywhere, tmobile is with you. No signal goes farther or is more reliable in keeping you connected. Ive known ted turner for nearly 20 years now. Hes been my boss, a counselor, a friend. I remember talking to you in your office just about the mission of cnn, and i remember because i wrote this down, to act upon ones convictions while others wait, to create a positive force in the world, to provide information to people when it wasnt available before. I got it. Im all in. Im still here. I mean, that was very inspiring to me. What about with climate . What is the clear message . Its a life or death issue. We only have one climate, and we better take care of it. It is true that he now deals with louie body dementia and its sometimes tough to watch, but spend a couple of days with him and youll see he remembers the dreams very well, and he is still resolved to see them through. If you talk about the bison specifically, and you say i read that article and saw those pictures early on in life and now look at this, do you get . Its a dream come true. Really very satisfying and it gives me a great, great deal of pleasure to see those bison. Yeah. [ laughter ] everywhere in teds world there are reminders of his number one message, save everything. Theres a bumper, you were in line. There it is. I told you. Save everything. I would sometimes sit on his flagship ranch, the flying dee in montana and envisioned what would have happened to this land if he hadnt bought it. There would have been 800 ranchettes and roads and where would the critters have gone . He refuses to accept being sold short when people say you can never do it. This is the wrong thing to say to ted turner because hell go out and hell prove you wrong. Were deregulating coal, ted. Were putting more Carbon Emissions in the air over the last couple of years than we have in the past. And were reducing emissions, too, in other places. I mean, its not over yet. Its still going on. The bison. The foundations, the climate, the nuclear weapon, the endangered species, the land. When we started this journey i wasnt quite sure what it all meant. The big question was what had ted turner done for the environment . But perhaps the better one is where would we be, all of us, every human, every creature, everything. Where would we be without him . The environment is in his soul. Its in each of our souls. Were too busy and too selfcentered to see it sometimes, but he sees it, and he feels it. Has ted turner done enough . He will say no. I think the rest of us would say youve done plenty. The number of people that he has inspired in his life will be a fundamental part of his legacy. Its hard not to be proud of being the son of ted turner. Hes given so much to every one of us. I think the single most important lesson ive learned from my grandfather is courageous perseverance and thats what this planet had with the real captain planet. Hes a guy that doesnt wear a cape to save the planet, but he does talk about it every day, and you cant walk down a street with ted without him stopping to pick up a piece of trash, and his point is, without ever having to say it, everybody should be doing something every day. I think of you as captain planet. I think captain planets always been inside of you. Did you ever have periods when you got discouraged . No. I dont get discouraged. Do you think well rally on this one, ted, on Climate Change . Will we rally as a world . I think so. We need to shape up and start doing the right thing instead of the wrong thing. He inspires all of us to want to get up and rally. If not us, who . If not now, when . The clock is not mother earths friend. Do you feel like sometimes youre going it alone . No. I feel like theres a whole army with me. Its an army that has followed ted and would never leave him. An army memorialized in one of teds favorite poems. To hear it now, at this time by this man on this land rallies all of us against insurmountable odds to rise up and yes, to save everything. M then step forward hor ash us, he said to every man and woman born, death cometh soon or late and how can man die better than facing fearful odds for the ashes of his fathers and the temp else of his gods. You down the bridge sir counsel with all the speed he may, i, but two beside me, will hold the foe and play, on the band of thousands might well be stopped by three, now who will stand on either end and guard the bridge with me . As a former fbi agent and chairman of the house intelligence committee, i had oversight of all 16 of our nations intelligence agencies. My name is mike rogers. I had access to classified information gathered by our operatives. People who risked everything for the United States and our families. You dont know their faces or their names. 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