Name: 【TEDx】Saving Our Planet: Nature’s Mysteries Revealed Through a Lens | Louie Schwartzberg | TEDxJacksonHole
Uploaded: 2017-01-31T09:16:17.000Z
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I'm a filmmaker, and I love to tell stories about adversity.

When an animal or human being shares their story with you

because then you have to carry that story  with you the rest of your life.

But we really live, I think, in a very unique time right now.

We're going through what I think is called "breakdown or breakthrough".

but technology and creativity are offering really exciting solutions.

And I think we all chose to be born here at this particular time and place

And a change we need is a shift in consciousness

The big question I think is going to be: will it happen in time?

So let me share a journey with you through the lens of my camera.

Only this moment is life."  - Thich Nhat Hanh]

People who are mindful are more patient and willing to help others.

They look for greater life experiences over material products

Whether you're a scientist, teacher, or artist, or child,

take on new challenges  to improve our skills.

We look back at these challenges as blessings in disguise.

It's these blessings that the heart remembers

["Mindfulness is  about love and loving life.

it gives you clarity and compassion for life." - Joh Kabat-Zinn]

But growing up, I observed gratitude from a whole different lens.

They were born in Poland, and they were both Holocaust survivors.

They met in a relocation camp after the war in Germany,

and after knowing  each other for two weeks,

And they had friends who'd only met for a couple of weeks, who they wrangled

to be their stand-in parents to walk them down the aisle.

They came to America with dreams and hopes of starting a family.

When we talk about resilience, from the ashes comes rebirth.

because when my parents were in camps, they didn't experience nature either.

But I did send popsicle sticks  down the gutter,

which was an amazing white-water  rafting experience for me.

But I did learn to appreciate the little things in life,

like food on the table, a roof over your head,

the miracle to have  children, a steady job.

So I went to UCLA, and I wanted to be involved as a lawyer

There was a revolution going on right outside my door.

The police would sweep the campus, and they'd crack heads,

and the only way to fight back was to pick up a camera,

and I documented the police brutality that was occurring on campus.

And I found out that handing in a photo essay

was a lot easier than writing a term paper.

I fell in love with photography,  I fell in love with filmmaking.

And I'm really attracted to stories of people who've overcome adversity,

So I got involved in doing a film about the bees, Colony Collapse Disorder,

I'm sure you all know about how the bees are disappearing.

Bees and their pollinating partners,  the flowers, are responsible

Well, it's got a lot to do with environmental factors

These chemicals are brought back to the hive,

and the EPA might test like one chemical, and say,

"Well, yeah, that's safe, you know, five parts per million."

But in the hive, they've got 16 different chemicals,

Loss of habitat, that's a big problem as well.

And imagine: living in a box, traveling on the back of a truck,

50,000 miles a year from one monoculture to another.

This keystone event between flowers and pollinators

where the animal world and the plant world get together billions of times every day,

for DNA to move forward, and life to flourish.

So I'm super grateful for the bees and the flowers,

because they give us food, shelter, and medicine.

And after learning so much about the plants, I wondered,

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【TEDx】Saving Our Planet: Nature’s Mysteries Revealed Through a Lens | Louie Schwartzberg | TEDxJacksonHole

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