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Amazon: The lungs of our planet by BBC

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    [dramatic piano music]
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    (narrator)
    The Amazon:
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    the green heart of South America.
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    The largest rainforest in the world,
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    these verdant riches hold the key
    to humanity itself
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    by breathing life
    into the entire planet.
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    In this film, we visit one of
    our planet's great wildernesses,
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    and discover the invisible contribution
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    it makes to our world.
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    (Dr. Trista Patterson)
    When I'm in the Amazon rainforest,
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    I feel like I'm in the middle
    of the heart of everything.
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    There's like a pulsing
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    and a thriving around
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    that is just deep
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    and really powerful.
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    -For me, it's almost like being
    in the Sistine Chapel,
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    because you look up
    and you're just blown away
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    by the magnificence of life,
    it's like a cathedral of life.
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    (narrator)
    Home to 1 in 10 species on Earth,
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    the Amazon is the richest forest
    in the world.
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    It stretches for almost
    7 million square kilometers,
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    covering an area larger than Europe.
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    (Dr. Sanjayan) What strikes you
    is the endless nature of it,
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    that spreads out like a green,
    rolling carpet in front of you,
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    and you realize that
    that carpet is doing something
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    incredibly valuable.
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    -It's far more than simply
    a collection of trees
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    and amazing wildlife;
    it's doing jobs for the whole world,
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    not least in terms of
    how it's helping to regulate
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    the entire planet's atmosphere.
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    (Dr. Patterson) One thing
    that people find really surprising
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    about trees in general
    is that most of their physical structure
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    isn't made from things
    that they've gotten from the soil;
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    it's made from the air.
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    Literally,
    they are breathing organisms.
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    As these trees are breathing,
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    and they're bringing in
    all the carbon dioxide
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    from the surrounding atmosphere,
    they're storing it in carbon.
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    (narrator)
    It's this extraordinary ability of trees
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    to absorb atmospheric carbon
    and release oxygen
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    that makes them so valuable to us.
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    -Rainforests around the world capture
    something like
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    5 billion tons of carbon dioxide.
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    Every plane, ship, car,
    train, bus...
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    All that emissions is being captured
    basically by rainforests.
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    (Juniper)
    Whilst the world is spending
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    hundreds of millions of dollars
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    trying to make carbon capture
    and storage work,
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    the trees are doing it
    effectively for nothing.
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    (narrator)
    But this wondrous service
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    that the Amazon provides
    is under immense pressure.
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    (Sukhdev)
    Deforestation has been a big problem
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    in the Amazon rainforest.
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    There was a time it was as high as
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    25,000 square kilometers every year.
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    Now, with a lot of effort,
    that has been reduced,
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    and it must, because these rainforests
    are natural capital.
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    They are valuable for the entire planet.
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    (Dr. Patterson)
    We think about rainforests
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    being very far away from us,
    something very exotic,
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    but actually it's an integral part
    of life on the planet.
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    (narrator)
    Dense, wild, diverse,
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    and crucial to our modern world.
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    The Amazon;
    a wilderness endowed
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    with the power of nature.
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    [dramatic piano music]
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Amazon: The lungs of our planet by BBC
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