What if the solutions to building a better future already exist?
How to Live on Earth is an ambitious feature documentary that explores how humanity can build a safe and thriving future by working with nature, not against it.
Presented by Benedict Cumberbatch, the film presents the ultimate hack, showing what becomes possible when we team up with nature to solve our greatest challenges.
Heart-warming, entertaining and energising, the film presents a hopeful vision of a future within reach – one in which nature thrives, and so do we.
How to Live on Earth is an Open Planet Studios production, in association with Villars Institute Foundation and Silvania.
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CREDITS –
Director: Fredi Devas
Producers: Fredi Devas & Jonnie Hughes
Executive Producers: Jonnie Hughes & Colin Butfield
Director of Photography: Stuart Dunn
Editor: Matt Meech
Main theme: Hans Zimmer and Jacob Shea for Bleeding Fingers Music
Original score: Jacob Shea and Ho-Ling Tang for Bleeding Fingers Music
Original end credit track: Imogen Heap
IMPACT PARTNERS –
Conservation International
Forest Future Alliance
The Nature Conservancy
Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures
UNDP
UN Environment Programme Financial Initiative
UpLink – The World Economic Forum
CHAPTERS –
00:00 Opener
00:43 Welcome to the world’s greatest how-to video
02:52 Meet the people doing the bees’ work
06:10 Smart, but not yet wise – three big puzzles to solve
07:00 Day of the Dead and the wisdom of the ancestors
09:51 How to value nature: more than the sum of its parts
11:03 People and elephants restoring landscapes together
16:00 Mapping biodiversity in the forest
22:20 How to feed the future: the challenge
24:39 Cattle, cacao and the true cost of meat
28:28 Watching a rainforest fall
32:24 Replacing the wild with the tame
34:06 The hidden network beneath the forest
36:03 A river, its salmon, and the largest fish kill in American history
40:14 What’s the value of living nature?
41:41 How to feel human: what nature does to the mind
44:09 Behind bars, caring for endangered turtles
48:30 Nature keeps us stable
49:40 Gold mining, mercury and a poisoned river
54:05 Why living nature is invisible to the market
56:34 A share price for ecosystem services
59:52 Biodiversity is bankable: green is the new gold
1:00:50 Protein from thin air, steak grown from mycelium
1:05:22 Eating the invaders
1:08:42 Coral jazz: calling a dead reef back to life
1:14:20 Forest healing in a hyper-urban nation
1:20:33 The city that made room for nature
1:24:24 The four chapters in the story of our planet
1:25:26 When the river runs free, life returns
1:32:00 Becoming a force for good on this planet
1:33:20 Credits roll
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