Our Blue World: A Water Odyssey | movie | 2024 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Water cycles disrupted by climate change spark droughts, floods, biodiversity loss. Combining ancestral wisdom and moder | dG1fRFA2dWVCT3Y1aGM

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00:00Since the first rains fell four billion years ago, water has nourished all that has ever

00:18lived.

00:20Water has actually made the surface of the planet habitable for life to dazzle us with

00:26its biodiversity and its adaptations.

00:30Water connects all of us.

00:33We are all water, flowing constantly in and out.

00:36We're born, most of the mass of an infant is water.

00:41Every culture views water as being sacred.

00:44Water is the essence of life.

00:48In the last few hundred years, however, our relationship with water has been broken.

00:54Water is like a mirror of how we're living.

00:57There is already more than two-thirds of the insects gone, extinct, similar with fish.

01:03To harm the water is to harm ourselves.

01:07Water plays a huge role in the dynamics of the climate.

01:10A transformational idea is that if we leave more water for nature, it can reverse some

01:15of the effects of global warming and cool the planet.

01:18Faced with a world on the precipice, people around the world have begun to ask if by relearning

01:24the water knowledge of our ancestors and combining this with modern science, we can

01:29restore nature's water balance.

01:32Five thousand years' experience of adaptation to the climate change is a huge amount of

01:39wisdom based on life and death experience.

01:44People in the Andes have been doing it for centuries because without this water, we all

01:49die, no?

01:50They call it their mother.

01:52We are the water people.

01:54Water created the city, water built temple, water created life.

02:00If you say that you want to compete with the mighty Mississippi River, my friend, I will

02:04say you will lose.

02:06You have to work in harmony with nature.

02:08That river's right to be healthy is more important than our right to use it.

02:14Just imagine if five billion people adopt habits that reduce their water usage by 50%.

02:19Together, it's a huge impact and that just gives me hope.

02:23We are such a creative species, so whether it's being an individual, a community, or

02:28an even larger society, a river system, we can do this.

02:34By reconnecting with the value of water, together we can restore our rivers, hydrate the land,

02:40cool the planet, and ensure the future of our blue world.