 Okay, welcome everybody. Thank you so much for joining us this afternoon here in our virtual play house. My name is Dan. I am the director of development and programming for the bed for play house. And we are very, very happy to present this program in partnership with bed for 2030. And the Wheaton Foundation, and I'm sure you're going to find it all incredibly fascinating. Before we start. I just wanted to remind everyone if you are unfamiliar with the zoom format that there is a Q&A button, which if you are on a computer is at the bottom of your screen. If you are on a portable device like an iPad or iPhone is at the top of your screen. We ask that you submit your questions through the Q&A button at any time. And we will try to get to as many of them as we can at the end of the program. Please try to refrain from using the chat feature. It gets a little complicated in this particular format but the Q&A button will work just as well. Without any further ado, I would just like to say that we're very grateful to bed for 2030 and the Wheaton Foundation for including the play house in this program. And all of these organizations are very much worthy of your support and we'll hope you'll take some time to check out our respective websites and help support us, especially in this period, still in this period of uncertainty with COVID-19. So without any further ado, I'd like to introduce Sarah Douglas who is going to introduce our guest and take the program the rest of the way. Hi, Sarah. Hello. Thank you so much, Dan, and thank you for having you on the other side. Thank you so much for having us. We are absolutely thrilled to be here to be launching our, but for 2030 climate action now. And we're thrilled to have Dan and Camo here with us all the way from Australia. So it's very early in the morning for him and we are absolutely thrilled that he is able to join us. Thank you to the playhouse and to the Wheaton Foundation for making this possible. And please, as Dan said, in this time of uncertainty, please support your small but mighty nonprofits like the bed for playhouse and bed for 2030 by making a small gift or a large gift to keep the background of the playhouse and to keep our climate action plan going for the next 10 years. Damon, thank you so much for waking up early for us and for bringing us this incredible film. So many of the climate films are riddled with gloom and doom. And this one is hopeful. And we're thrilled that you brought the viewers through your journey, through your daughter's eyes, really for a more regenerative future. We're absolutely thrilled to have you here. And our, I think I explained a little bit. Damon and I know each other from a few months back. I explained a little bit about our small but mighty organization bed for 2020 is now bed for 2030 and we have a very ambitious climate action plan. We've been able to reduce our greenhouse gases by 44% the past nine years and we're looking to reduce our greenhouse gases by 80% in the next 10 years. So it requires, as you know, a village for all of us and through your film, the solutions that you bring really reminded us here at bed for 2030 of the solutions that we can do in our own backyards in our own homes with our families. Whether they're baby steps or giant leaps. We're really thrilled to have this night and this time with you with you now. So I wanted to just start off with with a few questions and then we'll open it up for Q&A. But Damon, you are a former actor and a very acclaimed director with that sugar film. And we're curious to know how you decided to tackle the largest existential crisis of our times climate change in your film. Thanks for having me first Sarah. It's lovely to be here. It's not that early in Australia at 730 in the morning so and we've got a one year old daughter so I've been up for a good couple of hours already. I basically had a, my daughter was four at the time, our other daughter and I had always been sort of acutely aware of ecological problems and climate change but struggled to connect or engage with the topic. And I found myself, we had a big major coral bleaching on our Great Barrier Reef in 2016 and I remember reading an article about it and I got halfway through the article and then I turned the page and started reading a different article. And halfway through that second article I stopped and thought, why couldn't I finish that article? This is something I care about, I have children, but there was something about the messaging and the way that made me completely paralyze and switch off. So I just started talking to a couple of people, some psychologists in particular about messaging around climate change and the psychology and all of them said to me that when we only tell the stories that are infused with dread and fear and overwhelm, it does activate a part of our brain, a limbic system and when that limbic system is activated, it shuts down the prefrontal cortex which is where we problem solve and where we think creatively. So if we're only using that one form of narrative and information, there is a wide scale paralysis going on for a lot of people because they just don't know what to do, it's too hard. So I then thought well, I wonder if there are things we can do and obviously as a parent I wanted to be able to articulate to my daughter that there's a lot to do and we're in trouble, but what I didn't have in my arsenal were the solutions or I couldn't point her to people or communities that were doing incredible things because those stories just weren't being told in the mainstream. And the more I started researching those stories, I flabbergasted with how many stories are out there, it's extraordinary what people are doing. But then I felt my own spirit slipped, I felt a shift in my own understanding of this problem and started to actually see it as an opportunity that this isn't a story of depravity and sacrifice and what we have to give up. On the other side of this is actually waiting a far better world, stronger, more connected communities, healthier food, cleaner air, vibrant waterways, ecosystems that are flourishing. These are the stories I think we need to be telling because then we're all fighting for something, the moment we know what we're fighting against but we don't know what we're fighting for. And human beings I think are motivated by hope, we know that's what gets us up every day, the idea of a better future, we're a better outcome. So I just thought it was really important to bring that narrative into this discussion. It's not to say that we ignore the severity and the urgency of what's required. But I think the analogy is that you can sound the fire alarm, that's really important, but if you don't show people where the exits are, they will panic and freeze and not take action. So that was a huge motivation for me and I think seeing the response to the film around the world now, not just at the box office or we've shown it to world leaders and all sorts of people, but it's been our community engagement. The solutions that we showed in the film have been brought to life largely by our community equity crowdfunding or donating their money or their time. So we're building a seaweed platform in Tasmania. People are paying farmers to put carbon back in the soil. They're mentoring young girls online. We've had a million kids be taught the curriculum materials because people are desperate for actions and entry points to get engaged. We're sick of being told that it's all hopeless and doom and gloom. So it's been a really interesting five year experiment process exercise, met some extraordinary people. And I understand the incredible challenge that's ahead of us, but I could say categorically that I know we can do it now. I know we have everything we need in this moment to turn this around. We're not waiting for some miracle solution or something that needs to be invented in the next 20 years. There will be those things and they might help us enormously, but we could actually do it now by using the earth's biological processes, reengaging that carbon cycle again and storing the carbon, decentralising our energy. We've got it all. We just know what the barriers are. They're obviously the political will, the vested interests, the architecture of our system which incentivises extractive behaviour and doesn't sort of reward regenerative behaviour. But these are all the seeds of these ideas are starting to emerge right around the world. And I'm quite excited what's going to happen in the next couple of decades. I really am. I just think there's a bit of a groundswell that's happening right around the world at the moment. And we're sort of seeing the complexity of peril and possibility at the same time or chaos and creation. All these things are happening at the same time. But I think there is an opportunity here to come out of this with a far better world for all of us and all our living systems. That is great. And I do want to get to the solutions, but you bring up the actions and that's really what Bedford 2030 is about is taking action and finding little ways and we pride ourselves on being able to meet people where they are. Not everybody is Uber green and is composting and is keeping their yards healthy and they want to take baby steps. So I'm curious about your 2040 plan and how it was just very unique the way you inspired viewers to create a plan for 2040 and to take action. Can you talk to us a little bit about some of the actions that have come out since your, I know that your film was released first in Australia and Europe and then most recently in the US, but you have such an incredible way of tracking impact. And that's really what we're about as an organization so we'd love to hear from you about that. Yeah, I think the first point was that I mean I love documentaries and watch a lot of them but quite often you feel an intense emotion at the end, whether that's anger and frustration or hope and inspiration. And there's often not much to do with that energy. It dissipates very quickly because you can't channel it and the system's got so much inertia in it that suddenly you're back looking at something else and look at your newsfeed or social media and you just sort of let all that beautiful emotion go. And so we really wanted to make sure that there was a place we could send people straight away when I was still in that state after they'd seen the film and then we're going to cater to that emotion and try and channel it into action somewhere. And I think the other probably mistake we might have made with the climate movement is that we've been very prescriptive with people about what they should do. You know, eat less meat, ride your bike to work, change your like globes, but that's not going to resonate with everybody. So what we try to do is say, well, everyone's going to have particular individual passions and things that light them up. How do we access some of that? So we teamed up with about 50 different organizations and people go to our site and they activate their own plan. So we ask some questions about the type of person they are, what their passions are, how much time they might have, have they got any finances they want to give. And then we tailor make six or seven things that align with those values for them to do. And we just seen, as you said, just that the response to that has been so wonderful because, you know, people could choose the thing that lit them up in the film and then they were able to act on that. And they did, you know, in incredible numbers, whether that was the microgrid setup that we did here. We did an equity crowdfund so people could not just donate money. They got a stake in that company and we raised a million dollars in three weeks doing that. And I think there's something in that because, again, this deals with the other problem we have right now, a very top-down hierarchical model. We've got huge income inequality problems which is causing all sorts of tensions around the world. So there are ways that we can solve the climate problem, but also give a greater sense of ownership to people so that we're dealing with both of those problems simultaneously. And again, like I said, anything that you saw in the film, whether it was educating and empowering girls, helping farmers, the seaweed, all those things, we gave entry points for people. And we've just seen a remarkable follow through. And then we report back our status quite regularly to people. So if they go to our website, there's like a metrics bar across the website. And we update that every day and you can see how many teachers have downloaded the materials or how many farmers have signed up to the plan, how the seaweed's going. It's just a constant feedback loop to the community so they can see that they're making a difference. This is not just a frivolous donation of their time and then they move on, forget about it. There's a community around the world of regenerators who are growing and making change. And I'm really excited because we're about to launch a program where people have been submitting their own videos of saying, my name is Damon and I've joined the regeneration by and it's people that have quit their jobs and started a business that has fully compostable deodorants or someone's offsetting car emissions by a sticker you put on the car. All these people that have been inspired by our community to make change and then are sharing their stories and inspiring other people. And I really think that's a way we're going to get through this is to see that people aren't alone. There are billions of people that care about the future, our children's future and saving this planet. And we need to amplify those stories instead of just frightening people. That's great. Well, you've absolutely cracked the code and inspiring people to make those changes. So congratulations on having such effective impact too because it's not often that a documentary can have the kind of impact that yours is having all around the globe. I do want to get to the solutionists because they were truly inspiring. And we were curious as to how you could possibly have kept some six solutions. Was there some sort of a vetting system that you did or were there certain subject matters that you knew would resonate? Yeah, it's a great question. So it was a huge task. It was about eight months. I had a researcher, the two of us just sort of trawled the globe looking for different solutions and wrote them all up on a whiteboard. And I could have just filmed that whiteboard alone and people would have felt so hopeful. There was just so much going on. But it came down to obviously wanted to focus on key areas and give a sense in the film that there's no silver bullet for climate change. I mean, I think in my country, a lot of people think that if we just stop our emissions, that's going to be fine. If we go to renewables, that's all we need to do. But really, as we know, that's electricity is only 30% of our emissions. And then we've also got to pull down the carbon that we've already put into the atmosphere. And even when we do that, a lot of those aerosols and particulates of pollution in the air are actually cooling the planet as well. So even when we clean our air, we're probably going to increase the temperature at the same time as well. So all the complexities and nuance of this problem, which is why it's so tricky. But I lost my train of thought there. What was I talking about? How did you pick the solution? My follow-up is that you had a favorite. Yeah. So we then, I thought, obviously we have to focus on key areas, whether that's energy or transport or agriculture and the oceans are resources. And really it came down to saying, well, even if there wasn't climate change, even because I really wanted to appeal to as many people as we could. And I know there's a lot of climate skeptics out there. And we very rarely mentioned the word climate change in the film. It's to say, even if climate change wasn't a problem, what are the solutions that we want to do anyway? Because they benefit communities or income inequality or the natural world or children. And so really if you think about everything we showed, regenerative agriculture is a great example. Once you get the carbon out of the atmosphere and put it back into the soil, even if you don't think climate change is happening, getting that carbon back into the soil has just these wonderful benefits to the quality of the food, the quality of your soil, the way it retains the water and holds the water and just brings the farm's ecosystem back to life. You can use less chemicals and inputs on the land. So a lot of farmers, even in the Midwest in the US, who don't think climate change is real, are switching to all these practices because they can see the benefits there. So that's the perfect example of just these cascading range of other things that will benefit from helping the climate. And the same with the micro grids in Bangladesh. Yes, the solar energy is terrific, but that decentralizing the energy keeps the money in the local economy, creates resilience and independence when the main grid might go down due to a large storm. So again, it has these cascading benefits. So that was how we eventually decided. And then I also had conversations with lots of different people to see who was going to resonate on camera and have a nice, you know, be endearing for people. But my favorite solution, I mean, it's a tricky one because I do love them all. But probably the big surprise, apart from the educating girls, that was a big shock to me, the impact that would have on the planet. But seaweed, I think, you know, such a terribly named organism because it is so much more than a weed. And I think that just to see the benefits that does in terms of alkalizing the ocean, creating a habitat for the fish to lay their eggs. People are using it for plastic now. McDonald's have just ordered millions of straws made of plastic that just dissolve in hot water. People are using it for fibers and clothes. But because it grows half a meter a day and up to 50 meters long with big red seaweeds, it just is such a huge sequester of carbon. So I do love the idea of these beautiful kelp forests out at sea as we used to have hundreds of years ago. But then coming back again and creating this like a forest on land, all this biodiversity in life that can exist in those ocean forests. And the beautiful thing is that once we harvest that seaweed and the bits you don't use for other resources can be stored on the ocean floor. Because the weight of the ocean, once it goes below 1000 meters, that weight will store it for millennia on the ocean floor. So there's lots of engineers and ocean experts coming to get it at the moment. Just to work out where we would plant those, where the best place for the forests are. How would you store that? Do you want to pile the seaweed in one big trench or do you want to move it around the ocean? All these very things we need to carefully consider. But there's a lot of excitement around it. And I think especially once governments get on board and see it as a food security issue. We know that even in South Australia, where I live, just south of where I live, their government just invested in the first commercial scale seaweed farm in Australia. And it's a variety called asparagopsis and they use it to feed to cattle. And it lowers the methane emissions by 99% on the cattle. So you're getting sort of, especially if they're managing the cattle carefully, you're getting sort of climate friendly beef, which is a strange thing to say. It probably brings up a lot of doubt in people's minds. We certainly have to eat less meat than we are right now, but there are ways of feeding the animals and managing the animals that can be very climate friendly, which is, again, very exciting. And this is another attribute of seaweed. So, yeah, I do really enjoy the seaweed story and there's lots of it happening around the world. And I've been to visit quite a few farms that are emerging and it's going to be talked about a lot in the next couple of decades. That I got on seaweed for many, many hours. I've been living in Los Angeles where there are kelp forests that people come from all over the world to see and to visit and to scuba in. It's amazing that the millions of people that live in Los Angeles have no idea that they're actually there in Santa Monica Bay growing 10 feet a day. So, but yeah, but I'm moving from ocean to land because here in our community, we are zoned for larger yards and we're able to really create opportunities for carbon sinks within our own community too. Around regenerative ag, when you speak about the farmers and the call to action of the farmers is we can't do this without you. Are you encouraged? Are you skeptical? Do you think that farmers will step up to regenerate their land and their process? Yeah, because I think they're going to have to unfortunately. That's why I think the climate movement will be the greatest movement that we've ever seen at some point because of the weather and people will be forced to change. It's not going to be an option and it's happening in Australia already. The tricky thing is I think we need to understand that especially my country farmers are under enormous pressure. We have a duopoly of supermarkets here that put ridiculous pressure on them. There's a huge amount of waste. They don't they get really undervalued for what they do. So it's a big risk. They've got a lot of investments already in machinery. They've got agronomists in the ear telling them that they have to use these chemicals. They're essential. So there's a lot for them to do to make those changes. And that's why we set up help to set up one of the initiatives we've done called carbonate, which actually is a public donation of $8 a month. And that money goes to the farmers for every percentage of carbon they put back into the soil. So it's like a transition for them to make that change. But yeah, in Australia, we're up to almost 15% of farmers that are using region ag and all the sort of we've got a lot of sort of wise elders or pioneers of the community in Australia. And they all talk that even five years ago, they were getting 60 or 70 farmers to their webinars or seminars. They're now getting five or 600 and doing multiple farm visits a year, especially since the fires happened in Australia. That was a big shock for us. And I think if COVID hadn't happened, we would be on a very different path with climate here. There was so much momentum there after the fires. A lot of the dunce and I has got suppressed and a lot of people wanted to know what they could do. And farmers wanted to start fireproofing their lands as well, which does involve getting that carbon to the soil. Because then that soil holds the water. And for anyone that I think we mentioned it in the film that for every, you know, one 1% of carbon one that you put into 30 centimetres of soil, the water holding capacity is just extraordinary. So this is a way we're going to get through the droughts and look after our lands. We're going to get huge rain dumps that's happening right here out in our farming regions right now. But a lot of that water doesn't get held on the land. It just washes off because the soils aren't healthy enough. And that's a great shame. And it's going to keep happening. We're going to get larger, more intense rainfalls right around the world. So we want to be able to hold on to that water. In the U.S., I think there's some really encouraging signs. Again, you have some wonderful innovators in the region ag space. I know that General Mills made a commitment to a million hectares, acres of region farming by 2030. But I can't say who it is, but there's another very, very large company that's about to announce 50 million acres of region farming over the next 10 years as well. I'll look out for that in the next month or so. So it's going to happen quickly. A lot of the studies now are showing the economic benefits of doing it. In fact, a recent one at the South Dakota State University found that the region ag farms were 78% more profitable than conventional farms. They looked at 20 different farms because of those inputs, the less inputs being used and because of the market value of the food. So I think that's going to increase as well as people understand this. They'll want and demand healthier foods. And once they understand the difference between a carrot grown in a sort of a chemical paddock versus a region ag paddock, I think things will change very quickly. And I wanted to also briefly touch on, you had the renegade economist Kate Raworth as one of your experts. And her donut economics, it's a fascinating model. And I don't know if everybody has seen the film or if they're waiting to do the Q&A first and then see the film. So I don't want to spoil anything, but it's an incredible book. And I'm curious if you could help us to explain donut economics in a simpler way. And in my preparation for this, I said, I'm going to ask him how he would explain donut economics at a cocktail party because I want people to be spreading this model. And I guess it's understanding that a lot of the western construct that we've developed, especially since the scientific revolution has been very linear. So there's this idea of exponential growth and we're all, that's what being progressive is. We sort of have this idea that things will keep growing and growing. And as Kate rightly points out that if we keep growing at even 3% a year roughly, we're going to double the size of our economy every 20 years. Now, the fact that we're already crossing planetary boundaries in terms of how many chemicals were on the land, climate change, ocean acidification, land use to double the economy is just madness. We're using about 100 billion metric tons of resources every year on the planet. And we're only reusing or recycling 9% of those resources and the earth going replenish 50 billion. So we're using double the amount that the earth can give back. So instead of this continued exponential growth, bigger and bigger, using more resources until we fly off the cliff. Kate's developed this beautiful model that is more of a circular idea. So it says we can still have the growth. But if we reach a particular planetary boundary like too many chemicals or climate change, like an alarm should go off and say, okay, that's great. It's raining in there. We can still exist within the circle. That's fine. But if we're going to start destroying ourselves, whether that's ecologically or even in a social sense. If income inequality gets too big that causes all sorts of disruptions amongst society, which we're seeing around the world as well. Something should remind us and tell us, hang on, come back within the circle there. So we can still thrive and exist and do all the things we do. But as she says, nothing in nature grows forever exponentially. A tree grows and then it matures and thrives. Our noses are, you know, mushroom. Things don't just keep growing and growing and growing. But we've just developed a system that thinks it's okay to do that on a planet with finite resources. So I guess it's just a model of trying to, it's a lovely transition to say, look, down the track, we probably have to vent a very different system. But what we can start to do is pivot to these donut models that just bring us within our own boundaries. And what's been really wonderful for her and the world during COVID is that some cities and countries have even looked at implementing it. So Amsterdam is going to be the first city in the world to, they're going to rebuild with the donut model as we come out of COVID. I know that even Gavin Newsom in California in LA, they've been looking at it as well. So we're going to hear a lot more about it. She's getting a lot of traction around the world because it's just common sense, you know, and I think people can see that now that we are crossing all sorts of boundaries and a range of areas. So this is just a way to rate us in a little bit. It is. It's absolutely common sense and it really resonated, but I don't know that enough people know about it. And to your point that the narrative is one that is, is less positive. Her call to action and in the film too, I think she says this, it's our generational challenge. This is something that we are absolutely saddled with and you know, through the eyes of your daughter and certainly the next generation is going to have a lot more cleaning up. But we all have to have the mops and the brooms to do the cleaning together and that's really what that for 2030 is about to look around us. So if you're not a farmer and you're not a seaweed harvester and you're not creating my friends in Bangladesh, what can you do in your home that you feel is the largest impact? Yeah, well, there's so many things we can do now. And again, depending on your interests and depending what region you're in, we have, we are in an area here that's quite abundant in terms of the climate. So we're able to grow foods in our garden that are very good at sequestering carbon. Certain foods, people are starting to chart these, the ones that sort of are the best sequesterers. A lot of them are those perennial type trees. So, you know, avocados, mangoes, these kind of things, especially in our area, macadamia nuts, but also cassava, for example, cassava is one of the highest sequesters of any plant now it's a perennial. It can do about seven tons per hectare every year and it is one of the highest nutritional foods we can eat for our gut and other areas. I know of people around here that are doing these incredible gardens now that are almost offsetting their yearly emissions just in their backyard food projects. Also, you know, food waste, I think is one of the most important things we can do no matter where you are in the world, how you're dealing with your food waste. There's companies now, there's a little bin you can get called a sub pod and they're selling them right around the world and you just put your scraps in it even if you're in a little tiny apartment. And it comes with its own little flower bed and worms and the worms just break down the food for you. They take it out through some little holes and then turn it into soil so you can plant your own little organic vegetables and herbs, even in your own little mini flower bed. It's great for schools and whatnot. Solar obviously if you can prices are coming down very, very quickly, especially in my country. Lots of people are getting solar here now. So that's just a no brainer you can do if you can afford that. There's even now people developing systems where if you're renting, you can actually rent solar. They're setting up community solar gardens in the same way we had community food gardens. People are now providing panels that people can rent for their own home if they can't afford to put it on their roof or they're living in an apartment. And I would say especially in your country, perhaps, and maybe your community is already across this, but we've just got to talk about it more too. We're still so scared to say the words climate change and it's so triggering for people in it. It pulls apart family communications. It's shocking. The same happens in my country. So it's just about finding different ways to come in. As you said, meeting people where they're at. You don't necessarily have to say climate change. Sometimes you can talk about soil health or these other things that are going on ecologically with the planet. And just we need to have more conversations about an amplify and it will happen. We're going to get there. As I said before, the weather is going to keep demanding we talk about and take action. So you may as well become an earlier doctor and get out in the front foot. Yeah. That's a little creature. That's awesome. I want to take some questions from our audience too. So feel free to write into the Q&A chat. One question. Here we go. Along the lines of fact based dreaming, which I love how you reference that in the, in the movie as well. I'm going to use fact based dreaming and all of my thinking, but you said, I mean, just sorry, I'll just, I'll just deal with the one year old. I'll just take it. Give me one second. Yeah, no problem. The cycle of life. Well, I will use this moment to tell you that if you're interested to know what you can do in your home and in your community, you can check out our brand new beautiful bed for 2030 website. We have created sections where you can learn about what you can do inside your home, outside of your home in your yards for our community so that you can join us in our climate. Resolved. Resolved. Yes. Thank you. Beautiful. So along the lines of fact based dreaming. You said in the movie that fossil fuels are subsidized to the tune of 10 million a minute or five trillion a year. How do we apply this kind of money to solve problems instead of worsening the situation? Yeah, that's an excellent question. And that's, you know, one of the most important things we can do. We're a bit stuck until we get some help there. I would say the encouraging signs are that there is a huge shift happening in the finance sector. Not fast enough, but it is happening because people are starting to understand the climate risks to some of their assets. I think it's been measured that there's about $10 trillion in climate risks that haven't been assessed yet in the markets. So there are new measurements and metrics starting to appear rating systems that actually value a particular investment or a company on their climate vulnerability. So that's going to change things very quickly. Bloomberg put out a report only recently saying that last year we spent about $400 billion on non-polluting technologies, but we spent 1.6 trillion on polluting technology. So we just need to tip that more. But a lot of people I've spoken to said that might happen in the next 10 or 12 years that that threshold will cross and we'll be investing more in regenerative and renewable technologies than we are the polluting ones. But yes, this is obviously a long way to go. We're not getting the support we need, especially in your country and my country. And it's no coincidence that we are both heavily controlled by a particular man who owns our media and Fox News and in Australia he owns the Australian and controls our politicians. And that's why we have more sun than anywhere in the world. We should be a renewable energy superpower in this country, but we're very beholden to the fossil fuel industry. We're even talking about rebuilding with gas right now when we just have all this battery and renewable technology sitting around waiting to go. So it's very infuriating and that again comes back to storytelling and was a big reason I made 2040s that we need an intervention on those narratives. And it's very tricky right now as you know in your country better than anyone. There are so many counter stories and narratives flying around. No one knows who to trust anymore. Institutions are eroded. Our media institutions are not trusted. It's a very complicated time to be trying to come together and solve huge existential problems like this if we can't even decide and agree on smaller things. This is where the huge challenge ahead lies. Very, very true. And while speaking of leadership, we have a question from George. He says you say you presented the movie to some world leaders. Can you be specific as to who and what was the overall reaction? Yeah, so quite a few different world leaders have seen it. Some private governments, so the French environment minister and other people have reached out to see it. But we were invited to the UN Climate Action Summit this time last year and actually mapped some of the film to the walls of the General Assembly at the UN and show that to some world leaders. Showed all the youth delegates the film afterwards. Look, everyone knows this stuff. I think at that level it's just this is what I guess where I get the most frustrated is that there is so much inertia in the system. It's such a complicated system and all the relationships and interconnected structures are really not conducive to us doing these things and pushing regenerative solutions. There's so much skin in the game investments that have contracts that have been done that are 20 years long that are in fossil fuels. Governments have their hands tied if they talk about degrowth and all these things that I mentioned about the resources. They don't want to go into a recession. They don't want to lose the votes. So it's a really wicked complicated problem. And that's why I think ultimately that we can do some of these things and the seeds are growing, but we're going to need a huge revamp of our democracy and of our system in general if we're going to get through this. Climate change is just a symptom. It's one aspect of the land degradation we saw and I just saw a report last week, but since 1970 we've wiped out 68% of all animals on the planet. It's astonishing what we're doing as a species. And that's the architecture of our system where we are rewarding extraction and domination. We're not rewarding doing the right thing and protecting our planet. So unless we start to pivot that and change the rewards and we stop putting people in positions of power that have, you know, sometimes sociopathic, very narcissistic traits, most politicians around the world what either side of the politics you're on. They don't have our interests at heart unfortunately, the majority of them. So unless we flip that as well and start governing in very different ways. And again, thankfully, people are coming up with incredible solutions there. I urge anyone that's interested in this to look at what Taiwan's done in the last three years. It's just breathtaking how they've revamped their entire democracy and taken it online. They now make policy decisions based on the health of the rivers, the air. They have a consensus tool for the public that the politicians can see that everyone's exposed to its extraordinary story. So there are glimmers of hope. But really, we're not going to fix climate change by tinkering around the edges. We really need to do a system 2.0 if we're going to get through this. To embrace these solutions absolutely. Well, I also I want to leave a little bit of time at the end to talk about our relaunch week and some of the activities that our viewers can do to get involved this week. But I wanted you to be able to leave us with a little bit of hope and inspiration coming from you having been on the ground and been on this journey and seeing all these solutions. And you know, I know that you're going to create a much better world for all of us. And we're all joining together to help you for a more regenerative future. Yeah, one of my favorite quotes is by by an author Raymond Williams and he says that to be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing. And I think that's incumbent on all of us right now is that we all have a responsibility to tell a particular story and be smarter and more strategic with the stories we're telling our friends our community our family what we're sharing online this giant collective hive mind that we've created. What are we putting into that mind? Is it fearful, negative stories or is it solution stories and wonderful examples of what communities like yours and other communities around the world are doing. We need to amplify this desperately because at the moment we have all these people around the world totally hijacked with their limbic system they're stuck online and debating whether they're right or something or a conspiracy theory. All this stuff is just wasting precious time while the earth is just patiently sitting there for us saying, come on, I've got all the magic you need. I've got all the one you need. Come and come and put your attention on to me. And like I said, I think this is an extraordinary moment for the human race. There's not many times through history that you get to be alive in a transition that would be as enormous as this over the next 20 or 30 years and I want to be a part of that and I want to see it happen and watch what these young kids are going to do and see how we can fundamentally change an entire energy system and entire agriculture system start to heal our oceans again. I mean, what a legacy. This is our moment in time and all the history of space and time. We get this tiny little blip to be on this planet and why not act as a custodian of it and serve it and try and make it a better place than when you found it. So that's what gets me up every day and I'm so buoyed by what so many people like your communities doing like what all the young kids are doing around the world. This is a remarkable time and it's only going to grow and grow and grow in the years ahead. So you may as well get on the right side of history. Well thank you so much for inspiring all of us and thank you for through the eyes of your daughter we're able to see these solutions and I think we are all stewards of this planet in this generation and for generations to come. So we are grateful for what you've been able to do and to amplify and I'm sure there's more more amplification coming in the future as well. Yeah, please send me some information for office. No, the system wouldn't eat me up right now especially my country, my God, but it would be great if you could send me any information. You know the fact that you guys lowered your mission so much in the last 10 years and what your goals are really what we try and do is share. We've got a huge community now of people so please share any information and we can turn it into story or support any videos you might have made and get it out there and inspire other communities as well because it sounds wonderful what you've done. That is super. Thank you. Yeah, we're in launching the new website our team our staff at November 2030 went into the community and was able to talk to people about getting heat pumps and geothermal and making their yards healthy and so we do have these little videos and you can share with you that will inspire you to do. Yeah, excellent. Thank you so much. I want to throw it to Mitch to to wrap up with a few more minutes to talk about what we have in the week ahead. Thank you so much. Damon happy climate week. Thank you for joining us. You're the best pleasure. Thank you. So hi. So first of all, thank you Sarah and Damon inspiring wonderful conversation and so really this you know as Damon said this is all about storytelling and so I just want to and as Sarah mentioned this you know we have a nice story from the first nine years but much, much, much, much, much more important as we're starting today. This week climate week, we are relaunching bed for 2030 and bed for 2030 we're an organization but we are a community. And we're going to start, you know, telling some making and telling some amazing stories and we can start this week during climate week we if you go to our website. We've got 20 events you can go to a hawk watch you can go to Nate, you know go on nature walks and see our natural world and be inspired about, you know what it is we have to protect and save. We have an eco anxiety talk. We have a, we're doing a community read Thursday night there's a book discussion. Many of our local houses of worship are doing sermons about climate week so please please please go online and check it out and be a part of it and as soon as you participate you're becoming a part of the story and tell us about what you saw what you did what you learned and how you want to get involved. We want to get every member of this community involved to the dark green super involved people to the you know just thinking about shifting from yellow into green. This is for everybody. So, join us call me email me. I want to make stories with you. Thank you all so much and please do join us and we look forward to meeting you where you are and taking climate action and definitely make your 2040 plan and make your 2030 plan and we hope that you'll support us at bed for 2030 and please do support your playhouse as well. Yeah. Oh, and you know I'm sorry I'm just going to chime in one. I sorry Dan. I thought there was going to be a slide but it's okay I was supposed to really want to promote to to events the best stories the biggest stories we're having an energy tour where you can go to people's homes and learn what they did. You can go to socially distance big posters. You can talk to these enter these homeowners and learn about their solar panels their heat pumps how they made their homes energy efficient how they're reducing emissions composting. We're at four o'clock. So, like a garden tour but this is an energy walking tour. And then we're also on Friday afternoon having an EV parade and car show that's going to drive through our three hamlets. And then it's going to stop in Katona and you can meet on we've got like 25 different EVs and you can meet your friends and neighbors and find out how they're driving clean and what they love about their EVs. Thank you. Bravo. Well thank you everybody this was a great program. I hope we can do it again soon. And best of luck for everybody happy climate week. And I will just say that for anyone who would like to share who couldn't attend. We will have a recording of this talk available. And you can check it out from either the bed for Playhouse website, or the bed for 2030 website. I guess we can. We'll share that link to make it available to everybody who wants to watch in case friends or family whoever couldn't couldn't make it so thanks again. We appreciate everybody's participation. Thank you and thank you Damon. Thank you. Good luck everyone. Cheers.