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🗓️ 5 October 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Between the massive amount of plastic in our ocean, and the looming climate crisis, it can be hard to be hopeful about the future. Can we save the planet? Yes, but we have to start now– with small changes that make a big impact.
Craig Leeson, the award-winning filmmaker behind A Plastic Ocean, knows how important knowledge can be. We have to fully understand the climate crisis in order to change it. With his new film The Last Glaciers, he set out to do just that– break down the science behind the problems our planet faces, so we all know how to start solving them.
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0:00.0 | Hey, everybody, welcome to the show. This is Dernaline. This is the Dernaline show. What's |
0:09.5 | going on? What are you doing? How's your life? You constructing it, creating it, generating |
0:15.4 | it, lining up everything you want to do in your life and making sure that you break it |
0:21.1 | down in steps that you can actually start to achieve things because as we know, if |
0:27.5 | you're not telling yourself what you want to create, life is going to tell you. And then |
0:33.7 | years go by, time goes by. My next guest, I just have so much respect for this guy, Craig |
0:41.0 | Leeson. He is an award-winning filmmaker, television presenter, correspondent, media entrepreneur. |
0:49.6 | He is passionate about the earth, about the oceans, about surfing and diving and exploring |
0:58.5 | and being in and on and with the planet. He has done this his entire life, an incredible |
1:08.1 | award-winning documentary called A Plastic Ocean 2017 really gave a lot of attention |
1:17.2 | to the horrific nature of this fatal convenience we have in plastics and how it's in our mother |
1:25.6 | earth being buried, not being recycled. If you haven't checked it out, please check out |
1:31.5 | A Plastic Ocean and he's got an epic new release coming out soon to hit IMAX and then |
1:39.4 | it will expand from there, but it's called The Last Glacier. It's coming out later this |
1:44.5 | year and we dive into it. Listen, the last thing you need is more people telling you how |
1:51.7 | this planet is screaming for us to change. Well, it does and we need to. I kind of zero |
1:59.0 | it all down to common sense because all these things that we're doing is harming us directly |
2:07.6 | and that chain of events, that these plastic water bottles, these food containers, these |
2:15.8 | wrappers, whatever it is, we don't see it as a problem in our everyday life, but I want |
2:24.4 | you to see it as that because we as the billions of people on this planet can change our buying |
2:32.8 | habits, our voting habits of our dollars and switch it for other entities and opportunities |
2:41.9 | to create a new future for ourselves. Craig and I had a great time on this podcast. We share |
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