Summary of Our Planet: Our Business.

00:00:00 - 00:35:00

This video discusses the importance of biodiversity and how it affects the Earth's climate, environment, and future. It also discusses how businesses can help to preserve the planet by reducing the amount of resources they use and by adapting to thrive within a finite world.

• 00:00:00 The Our Planet series is a documentary series about the importance of biodiversity and how it affects the Earth's climate, environment, and future. The series has already been popular, with over 25 million viewers in just the first month. In addition, the series has inspired the creation of a global movement to protect Earth's biodiversity. The series also discusses the importance of business in preserving the planet.
• 00:05:00 This video explains how the diversity of different species on Earth is essential to keeping the planet healthy. The different habitats on Earth work like different organs, and each with a specific role to play in keeping the planet healthy. The video also explains how the stability of the Holocene period gave rise to modern civilisation.
• 00:10:00 The speaker discusses the impact of the Great Acceleration, which has seen unprecedented growth in business and technology over the past fifty years. He points out that this has led to widespread exploitation of resources and the destruction of ecosystems, and that without intervention, the economy and culture will eventually collapse.
• 00:15:00 This video explores the risks of continuing on the current path of human development, which is leading to a loss of biodiversity, more frequent and severe weather systems, and a possible global food crisis. The video estimates that the costs of this future are worth twice as much as the entire global GDP, and argues that we are at risk of entering a danger zone where we could trigger irreversible and self-amplifying change that could push the planet away from its desired equilibrium.
• 00:20:00 The video discusses the global problem of climate change and its effects on the planet, and how businesses can help to solve the problem. The author makes the case that businesses must change their way of doing things in order to live more sustainably, and that this change must happen rapidly in order to prevent more catastrophic damage to the planet.
• 00:25:00 This video discusses how businesses can improve their sustainability by reducing the amount of resources they use. The focus is on reducing the amount of deforestation that takes place, as this is a major contributor to the global environmental crisis. The video also discusses how businesses can reduce the amount of waste they produce.
• 00:30:00 The video discusses the idea of a "sustainable economy," which will involve businesses adapting to thrive within a finite world while protecting the environment. It also discusses the idea of a "reinvented model for Business As Usual" which will ultimately begin to mimic nature. This will require businesses to be sustainable and have an impact story. If businesses embrace the transition, they will prosper.
• 00:35:00 This video discusses how the commercial whaling ban has helped to improve the populations of certain species of animals, as well as the overall stability of our planet. The video also points out that if we want to keep the environment healthy and thriving, we need to start reversing deforestation now.