The Age of Stupid

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Welcome to the global archive,

a vast storage structure

located 800 kilometers 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,

I was always an introvert.

For years, you know,

the non-business needs, needs a face

blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

A personality.

- The year 32-year-old

entrepreneur Jeh Wadia,

he's starting up India's

third low-cost airline, in 2005.

- Time for India is now, the time for

developing businesses 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?

Uniforms.

- Uniforms are the first point.

- Do I care? - The 31st--

No no, do I care?

Babe?

- Why are you scared of a little smoke?

Do you 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 in London at the time, where Stelios Haji-loannou,

you know, created Easy Jet,

and I was always fascinated

with basically how he did it.

Evacuate, evacuate!

Go this way, go this way!

Go this way!

- We'd be offering fares from 600 rupees,

okay, all the way down to one rupee.

How many people can afford a one rupee fare?

I would imagine every single Indian can.

That the, a rickshaw driver can, and servants.

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

having a elite class who can fly in

a country of a billion people is ridiculous.

- Search, visible impacts of climate change

leading up to 2010.

101 degrees Fahrenheit.

It's the hottest day ever recorded.

- 700 people are now feared dead

after the strongest ever-recorded

day's rain fall in India's history.

- Now, it's official, the past year

has been the driest in Melbourne's history.

- The desert is advancing at the phenomenal rate

of three miles every year.

- Dozens of Antarctic ice shelves

collapsing faster than anyone predicted.

- 18 countries are under water

and one and 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's the oldest guide

still working in France.

All his lifetime he's witnessed

huge changes in the mountains.

- Now, there's a ladder extension

on the bottom here now.

Wow.

Wow.

Extraordinary to think that

these are the Alps in December.

Here in Chamonix as across the Alps,

there is a dramatic lack of snow

and exceptionally warm temperatures.

It is a glimpse into the future.

- More than half the ski resorts in Europe

could shut down in the next 50 years

because of global warming.

- So nobody goes skiing, big deal.

But the thing is it's not that, is it?

That's the whole point.

The fact you can't go skiing anymore or

that the glaciers are melting is not really the point.

The point is that that signals

that basically the earth is destabilizing.

And all the norms that have

allowed life to exist

as it has done 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 Saturday morning

and there was a buzz in the neighborhood.

Everybody was 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, bullseye.

This is a monster, and it's coming.

Walked through the house a few times,

putting things up, you know.

My silk rug from Nepal up on a 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 your stuff and go, that's option one,

probably the best option.

I didn't grow up in that option.

The biggest blue marlin--

- Alvin collected his 84-year-old father

just then barricaded the two of them inside

his house as the hurricane approached.

- You stare Mother Nature in the eye,

usually she's fairly benign.

Then she comes along,

methodically, ruthlessly.

And then she stands toe to toe

with you and dares you, dares you.

Go ahead and get your best equipment out.

Go ahead, do it, let's dance.

- I think one's 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 hurricanes

is associated with global warming.

- By first light, the water in Alvin's house

was chest-deep and still rising.

So he helped Alvin Sr. into their boat

and headed for dry land.

At this point, the boat'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's a lot of people who stayed behind.

There was no coastguard or police or,

most of our national guards

was elsewhere in the world, Iraq, Afghanistan.

- Alvin rescued over a hundred people,

and their pets, over two long days,

including a 95-year-old man

and a six-week-old baby.

When 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, just 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,

but 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 have concluded--

Unequivocable, is the word

they used, human activity is--

- Contributing to changes in our earth's climate,

and that issue is no longer up to debate.

In Andermatt,

they've covered a glacier with a special

protective sheet to 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 of the efforts to control pollution

and its effect in our climate,

the level of greenhouse gas emissions has reached

a record high and shows no signs of being reversed.

- Despite the Kyoto treaty, and all the talk

of reducing emissions of carbon dioxide,

levels of this key greenhouse gas

are rising faster than ever.

- 6:30 a.m. on a cool autumn morning