Name: Let's make the world wild again | Kristine Tompkins
Uploaded: 2020-11-07T18:20:37.000Z
Duration: 16 min 23 s
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Transcriber: Ivana Korom Reviewer: Krystian Aparta

My siblings and I grew up on our great-grandfather's farm

It was a landscape of our family and our home.

When it was clear that nobody in our generation

wanted to take on the heavy burden of ranching,

and we felt adrift in the absence of that land.

that something valuable can be best understood

just how powerful the absence of those things we love

For 23 years, my working life was with Yvon Chouinard.

I started when he was designing and manufacturing

technical rock and ice climbing equipment

in a tin shed near the railroad tracks in Ventura.

And when Yvon decided to start making clothes for climbers

where creating the best products and doing good by the world

Doug Tompkins, who would become my husband years later,

was an old friend and climbing companion of Yvon's

He cofounded The North Face and Esprit company.

were created by people who had grown up through the '60s,

shaped by the civil rights, antiwar, feminist and peace movements.

And those values were picked up in those years

and carried throughout the values of these companies.

Doug decided to leave business altogether

and commit the last third of his life to what he called

"paying his rent for living on the planet."

I was ready to do something completely new with my life.

The day after retiring from the Patagonia company,

I flew 6,000 miles to Patagonia the place

and joined Doug as he started what was the first conservation project

There we were, refugees from the corporate world,

holed up in a cabin on the coast in southern Chile,

where alerce trees can live for thousands of years.

We were in the middle of a great wilderness

that forms one of the only two gaps in the Pan-American highway,

between Fairbanks, Alaska, and Cape Horn.

how beauty and diversity were being destroyed

mostly because the relentless front lines of development

Doug and I were in one of the most remote parts on earth,

and still around the edges of Pumalín Park,

industrial aquaculture was growing like a malignancy.

Before too long, other threats arrived to the Patagonia region.

Gold mining, dam projects on pristine rivers

The vibration of stampeding economic growth worldwide

could be heard even in the highest latitudes of the Southern Cone.

I know that progress is viewed, generally, in very positive terms,

we saw the dark side of industrial growth.

And when industrial worldviews are applied to natural systems

as a factory that produces all the things that we think we need.

the consequences of that worldview are destructive to human welfare,

and we wanted to be a part of the resistance,

The idea of buying private land and then donating it

Anyone who has ever enjoyed the views of Teton National Park in Wyoming

or camped in Acadia National Park in Maine

we began to acquire wildlife habitat in Chile and Argentina.

we were going for big, wild and connected.

Eventually, we bought more than two million acres

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