The Age of Stupid

Welcome to the global archive,

a vast storage structure

located 800km north of Norway.

It contains the artwork

from every national museum.

There are pickled animals

stack up two by two.

Every film, every book,

every scientific report,

all stored on banks of servers.

But the conditions we are experiencing now,

were actually cause by our behavior

in the period leading up to 2015.

In other words, we could've saved ourselves

We could've saved ourselves.

But we didn't, it's amazing!

What state of mind were we in,

to face extinction, and simply shrug it off?

By nature or by disinterest,

there is always an introvert.

For years, you know,

the non-business need, need a face

blah, blah, blah,personality.

The year 32-year-old entrepreneur Jeh Wadia,

he started up India's

third low-cost airline, in 2005.

Time for India's now, the time for

developing business in India is now.

He's got 1200 employees, most of whom

have never set foot on an airplane.

What are the different kinds of

hijackers that you might have?

Why are you scared of a little smoke?

Do want to be scared and run of fire?

It's not a toy, it's not a perfume bottle,

you've got to aim it, hold it. That's it.

I was at London at the time, where Stelios Haji-loannou,

you know, uh, he created the EZ jet,

and I was fascinated with

basically how he did it.

Evacuate, evacuate

Go this way, go this way

We've been offering fares from 600 rupees

, ok, all the way down to 1 rupee.

How many people can afford a 1 rupee fare?

I would imagine every single Indian can.

That the, a rickshaw driver

can, and servants.

You know in year 2005, I mean, you know,

having a elite class who can fly in

a country of a billion people, it's ridiculous.

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visible impacts of

climate change leading up to 2010.

it's the hottest day ever recorded.

ever-recorded days rain fall in India's history.

Now, it's official, the past year has

been the driest in Melbourne's history.

The dessert is advancing at

the phenomenal rate of 3 miles every year.

Dozens of Antarctic ice shelves

collapsing faster than anyone predicted.

a half million people are affected.

Fernand Pareau has climbed Europe's

highest mountain Mont Blanc over 150 times.

Here he's guiding a family from England.

At 82, Fernand is the oldest

guy still working in France.

All his lifetime he witnessed

huge changes in the mountains.

Now, there's an elaborate

extension on the bottom here.

Extraordinary to think that

these are the Alps in December.

Here in Chamonix is across the Alps,

there's a dramatic lack of snow

, and exceptionally warm temperatures.

It is a glimpse into the future.

More than half of ski resort in Europe could

shut down in the next 50 years because of global warming.

So nobody goes skiing, big deal. The thing

is it's not bad, is it? That's the whole point.

The fact you can't get skiing anymore or

the glaciers are melting is not really the point,

the point is that signals that

basically the earth is destabilizing.

And all the norms that have

allowed life to exist are changing.

List:
climate change,

major events, up to the present day.

This is a couple of days

before Katrina struck.

Most people are following the evacuation

order in getting out of the city.

But New Orleans-borne Alvin DuVernay

had no intention of moving.

I got up at Saturday morning and

there's a buzz in the neighborhood,

everybody were running around and

I was like what's up, what's up?

You know, the hurricane's coming.

I checked on the web and sure enough all of

the models had it, aiming right for us. Bulls eye.

This is a monster, and it's coming.

Walk through the house a few times,

putting things up, you know.

My silk rug from Nepal up on

the top shelf, and my guitar,

I mean, you know, you just

do these things, you know.

I mean another way to do that is get

all you stuff and go, that's option 1,

probably the best option.

I didn't grow up in that option.

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Alvin collected his 84-year-old father

than barricaded the two of theminside

this house as the hurricane approached.

You stare Mother Nature in

the eye, usually she's fairly benign.

And she comes along,

methodically, ruthlessly.

And then she stands toe to toe,

and dares you, dares you.

Go ahead and get your best equipment,

now, go ahead, do it, let's dance.

I think ones got to be very careful about

attaching a particular event to global warming.

But nevertheless the intensity of hurricanes

is related to surface sea temperature,

so increased intensity of hurricane

is associated with global warming.

By first light, the water in Alvin's house

is chest-deep and still rising.

So he helped Alvin Sr. into their boat

and headed for dry land.

There's just one boat that's floating, so it's no

big deal to launch the boat, it's launched.

There's no landmarks, really, to speak of

that's a real different perspective,

driving through your

neighborhood at tree level.

Then, all of a sudden you realize

there is a lot of people who stayed behind.

There's no coastguard or police or.

Most of our national guards were

elsewhere in the world, Iraq, Afghanistan.

Alvin rescued 200 people,

and their pets, over 2 long days,

including a 95-year-old man

and a six-week-old baby.

that little basket came out of the window,

that was a pretty special time.

And just as peaceful eyes-closed, it just

stops you, in your tracks, dead stop,

take a breath, you know, there's

nothing more precious than that.

Alvin's neighbors were the lucky ones,

hurricane Katrina was America's worst

weather related event to that date.

And it was just a taste of what was to come.

"It is our fault," after years of debate

, some of the world's top scientists.

"Unequivocable," this the word

they used, human activity is.

Contributing to changes in our earth climate,

and that issue is no longer up to debate.

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In Andermatt,

they've covered the glacier with a special

protective sheet reduce its summer melt.

One way I do my bit for the environment

is turning to 30 with Ariel.

This is offsetting all those flights that I take

that I have to for my job.

David Cameron even wears recycled shoes

made from old fireman's trousers.

Despite all the efforts to control pollution

and its effect in our climate,

the level of greenhouse gas emission has reached

a record highand shows no signs of being reversed.

Despite the Kyoto treaty, and all the talk

of reducing emission of carbon dioxide,

level of this key greenhouse gas

are rising faster than ever.

heading up to work, searching for more oil.

Ironically, the oil infrastructure off the coast of New Orleans

suffered major damage during the hurricane,

but Shell moved fast to carry

out repair and just 9 months later,

the rigs are online, and

everyone's back at work.

Oil was formed when ancient plant life in the ocean

absorbed energy from the ancient sun.

When these plants died, they settled in the ocean floor

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