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>>CHIEF OREN LYONS: What we have is systemic change taking place.
You're not going to find a faucet anywhere to turn that off.
>>ERNEST WEBB: I think that
the people do need to wake up,
both the non-indigenous and the indigenous people as well.
>>ROSÍO ACHAHUI QUENTI: Our Planet,
our Pachamama
is suffering the consequences of modernity.
She's being destroyed,
she asks us filled with tears
that we stop this aggression
and she also warns us that if we continue
we will also suffer the consequences.
>>JACK KOLHER: In the last hundred years, we have put a dam on every single major river and stream on this planet.
Dams destroy ecosystems, from the headwaters, all the way down to the mouth and out into the ocean.
The earth is a living being.
Picture all of the rivers and streams like the arteries and veins of our body.
It's not our right as human beings to destroy another species.
I don't want to leave this world knowing that I gave to my children and to my grandchildren,
a world that my generation and past generations have destroyed.
>>CARLOS EFRAÍN PÉREZ ROJAS: The hydroelectric project La Parota
is a project estimated to be worth a thousand million dollars.
Since the year two thousand, the people have been fighting for their land.
In the borders of the river
people grow lots of lemons, oranges and bananas
so the lives and culture of the people that live off the land are at stake.
>>AMADO VILLAFAÑA: It's been a big effort
to convince western society
that Mother Earth is like the body of human beings.
Mother Earth is losing a kidney, a lung, a leg, an eye
and still western society wants to negotiate with indigenous people the last kidney it has left.
>>CHIEF OREN LYONS: The earth does not care.
The earth has no mercy.
She's your mother all right.
Abides nothing.
You have to know the law and the rules, live by it,
and then you have regeneration forever.
But if you don't, you won't. And it's as simple as that.
>>MAJA TILLMAN SALAS: What we have to do first is we have to open our hearts
and to recognize that we are all brothers and sisters.
So, to the next person that sits next to you, you know, say, "You are a human, like me.
You feel like me, and I need clean water. I need to see the moon. I have to live with the moon."
So, what we have to do is to reconnect with nature, each of us.
>>ZACHARIAS KUNUK: The plan is to adapt to this climate change.
And we just have to change our techniques,
because we are hunters, we hunt seals in the sea.
And seal is so fat it floats.
And, but these days with climate change, there is so much fresh water on top, they're starting to sink.
So we have to change our techniques to get there faster.
>>IAN MAURO: The question around adaption is interesting because
we often hear about, kind of, these communities being vulnerable,
and I always say, "Well, who's really vulnerable?"
You know, in the next fifty years, what's New York City is going to look like?
New York City is in a lot of trouble.
There's serious, like, water predictions around rising sea levels that this area is in a lot of trouble.
We all have to look at ourselves and say, "How are we, in our own communities, going to navigate this?"
Do we have the resources to be able to adapt, as Zach is saying.
And Inuit communities are saying, "We'll figure it out."
And for me that's a very inspiring message,
and we all need to have that kind of confidence if we are going to move forward.
>>CHIEF OREN LYONS: The fate of ourselves are in our own hands.
No one else's.
None.
Now you pick up that responsibility or you don't.
One way or the other, it's going to play out.
Fight is on.
I'm up for it.
I'm up for it.
These guys are up for it. I don't see them backing down, do you?