COMING UP ON NEXT ON HEADLINE HUMBOLDT WE SIT DOWN WITH EMILY KAWANO FROM DECOLONIZING ECONOMIC SUMMIT.
AND HOW IT MIGHT BE DONE.
RYAN HUTSON UPDATES ABOUT OUR AREA HOMELESSNESS INCLUDING A RECENT DEATH THAT HIGHLIGHTS THE RISKS OF LIVING ON THE STREET.
COMING UP ON HEADLINE HUMBOLDT RIGHT NOW.
UNDER THE TOP OF THE HUMBOLDT HILL AND I'M JAMES FAULK THANKS FOR JOINING US.
LIVING AS WE ARE ON THE RAGGED EDGE OF THIS PRESENT MOMENT WE CAN SEE ALL OF THE CHOICES AND STAKES AND WE'VE ACHIEVED AS A SPECIES.
WE TAKE IT FOR GRANTED ALL OF THE GOOD IDEAS ARE IN PLAY SHIFT THE LIVE AND ORDER OUR SOCIETIES IS IMPOSSIBLE BECAUSE ITCOULD HAVE BEEN DONE IT WOULD HAVE BEEN.
WE END UP AS PRISONERS OF THE PRESENT MOMENT.
AND THE FACE OF A SLEEPY STATUS QUO.
WE END UP SERVANTS TO SYSTEMS THAT ARE NOT PERFECT BUT.
DO WE BELIEVE OUR BEST IDEAS ARE BEHIND US.
COMING UP NEXT WEEK THE DECOLONIZING SUMMIT WILL BE UP VIRTUALLY.
IF ADOPTED CHANGE EVERYTHING.
TO FLESH OUT WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN.
WE'RE PLEASED TO BE ECONOMIST EMILY KAWANO WHO WILL BE TAKING PART AND DEVELOPED QUITE THE TRACK RECORD FOR THINKING OUTSIDE OF THE BOX.
>> WELCOME EMILY.
>> THANKS FOR HAVING ME.
>> LET'S GET INTO YOUR BIOA LITTLE BIT.
>> WELL I'M AN ECONOMIST BY TRAINING BUT I'VE BEEN WORKING OUTSIDE OF THE ACADEMY FOR MOST OF MY PROFESSIONAL LIFE.
I GOT INVOLVED WHEN I WAS IN GRADUATE SCHOOL IN THE CENTER FOR POPULAR ECONOMICS WHICH IS A COLLECTIVE OF PREROGATIVE ECONOMISTS WORKING TO HELP PEOPLE NON-ECONOMIST BETTER UNDERSTAND HOW THE ECONOMY WORKS OR HOW IT DOESN'T WORK AS THE CASE MAY BE.
HELP THEM TO IMAGINE WHAT THE ALTERNATIVE MIGHT LOOK LIKE.
THAT EFFORT GRAPPLE WITH TO CAPITALISM LED TO US SOLIDARITY ECONOMY.
FROM THERE I GOT INVOLVED IN DOING COOPERATIVE WORKER DEVELOPMENT WORK.
TO GET MY HANDS DIRTY, IN AT LEAST ONE OF THE PRACTICES.
THAT THE SOLIDAIRE'S ECONOMY WOULD EMBRACE.
SO THAT WAS MY JOURNEY INTO THIS SPACE.
SO MY DAY JOB IS I AM THE CO-DIRECTOR OF WELLSPRING COOPERATIVE IN SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS.
AND WE ARE DEVELOPING A WHOLE NETWORK OF WORKER OWNED BUSINESSES AS WELL AS SOLIDARITY ECONOMY INITIATIVES IN THESE HARDSCRABBLE COMMUNITIES.
THESE ARE COOPERATIVE COMMUNITY INITIATIVES FOR THOSE AREN'T FAMILIAR WITH THE TERM SOLIDARITY ECONOMY.
JUST DOING A LOT OF THE WORKING IN THE SOLIDARITY ECONOMY SPACE.
I'M ONE OF THE COFOUNDERS OF THE U.S. SOLIDARITY ECONOMY NETWORK.
I WAS ON THE BOARD OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY ECONOMY CALLED REPES.
I'VE BEEN IN THIS SPACE SERIOUSLY SINCE MAYBE 27 WHEN THE U.S. SOLIDARITY ECONOMY WAS FOUNDED.
>> ONE POST CAPITALISM.
THEIR HACKLES RISE AND WE FALL BACK INTO THE SORT OF DICHOTOMY OF CAPITALISM VERSUS COMMUNISM AND SOCIALISM.
WHAT DO YOU MEAN WHEN YOU SAY CAPITALISM.
I'M VERY, VERY DELIBERATE NOT TO SAY ANTICAPITALIST.
POST CAPITALIST HAS A SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT MEANING IN THAT WHAT CAN WE MOVE BEYOND CAPITALISM.
WHAT CAN WE DO BETTER.
WE CAN CREATE AND BUILD AN ECONOMY AND A MORE PRODUCTLY SPEAKING A WORD THAT SERVES PEOPLE AND PLANET INSTEAD OF PRIVATE AND PROFIT.
SOLIDARITY ECONOMY, IN FACT, VERY MUCH IS CLEAR THAT WE'RE NOT -- WE BELIEVE ANYBODY WORDENING A SOLIDARITY ECONOMY SPACE WOULD REJECT WE'RE GOING TO GET TO THAT THE EQUITABLE SUSTAINABLE WORLD BY REFORMING CAPITALISM.
THAT'S WHAT WE MEAN BY POST CAPITALISM.
>> WE WOULD -- HOWEVER, THERE ARE MANY NON-CAPITALISTS PARADIGMS THAT YOU CAN TALK ABOUT.
ONE THING THAT SOLIDARITY ECONOMY WOULD ABSOLUTELY REJECT ARE POST CAPITALIST MODELS ARE AUTHORITARIAN.
WE DO CENTER DEMOCRATIC PROCESSES AND DEMOCRACY IS ONE OF OUR CORE VALUES.
MAYBE AS MANY PEOPLE WOULD THINK OF THE FORMER SOVIET UNIT.
THAT IS NOT A MODEL AS BEING PART OF THE SOLIDARITY ECONOMY.
>> I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT YOU MENTION THAT.
I THINK PEOPLE HAVE PRAEGES OR IDEAS.
ONE OF THE THINGS HAS BEEN HIGHLIGHTED IS THAT THE EVENT IS GOING TO WE YOT TRIBES.
CAN YOU GIVE US A BRIEF SUMMARY WHY YOU THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE LOOK BACK TO THE ETHICS OF NATIVE GROUPS WHAT WE CAN GET FROM THAT.
>> YEAH, SO I'M GOING TO SPEAK FROM A SOLIDARITY ECONOMY PERSPECTIVE.
SO SOLIDARITY ECONOMY DIDN'T START AS A THEORY.
IT LOOKED AROUND THE WORLD TO SEE WHAT SORT OF PRACTICES ARE GOING ON THAT ALIGN WITH VALUES.
AND SO THE VALUE NETWORK.
WE TALK ABOUT PRACTICES THAT ALIGN WITH SOLIDARITY, PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY, EQUITY IN ALL DIMENSIONS, SUSTAINABLE, AND OUR FIFTH VALUE IS PLURALISM.
BY WHICH WE MEAN THIS IS NOT A ONE SIZE FITS ALL MODEL.
THERE ARE MANY PATHS TO THIS MORE JUST AND SUSTAINABLE AND DEMOCRATIC AND EQUITABLE WORLD.
WE'RE NOT SO ARROGANT TO BELIEVE WE HAVE A BLUEPRINT.
WE'RE INDIGENOUS.
I WOULD SAY IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH.
DEFINITELY IN LATIN AMERICA, THIS WORLD VIEW IS VERY MUCH VERY, VERY MUCH INFUSED IN THE SOLIDARITY ECONOMY.
>> REALLY THOSE CLOSE CONNECTS ARE A LITTLE BIT SLOWER TO HAPPEN BUT SOLIDARITY ECONOMY IS REALLY OPEN NOT ONLY OPEN BUT WE KNOW THAT WE HAVE TO CHANGE OUR BASIC RELATIONSHIPS WITH EACH OTHER AND OUR RELATIONSHIPS WITH MOTHER EARTH.
WE CANNOT TAKE THIS KIND OF EXTRACTIVE PERSPECTIVE TOWARDS MOTHER EARTH.
SO IN THAT RESPECT ABSOLUTELY WE KNOW THAT INDIGENOUS CULTURES HAVE A LOT OF EXPERIENCED AND MANY THINGS TO LEARN FROM AND TO RESTORE THOSE RELATIONSHIPS IS REALLY WORTH CENTERING.
WE DON'T NEED TO CREATE THEM ANEW.
MANY OF OUR CULTURES IF YOU GO BACK FAR ENOUGH MANY OF OUR CULTURES HAVE -- HAD A MORE SUSTAINABLE RELATIONSHIP WITH NATURE, AND WE NEED TO GET BACK TO THAT.
>> YOU KNOW ONE OF THE THINGS YOU'VE TALKED ABOUT SO FAR IS THE CO-OP COOPERATIVES AND I MEAN THAT'S SORT OF LIKE THE MODEL UNDER WHICH UNDER WHICH A LOT OF THESE MODELS SEEM TO [INAUDIBLE] >> YOU KIND OF HOW DO YOU DESCRIBE THEM.
>> PEOPLE.
THE WAY THAT HUMAN BEINGS HAVE SURVIVED IS THROUGH VARIOUS KINDS OF COOPERATIVE ACTIVITIES.
BUT NOW THE IS AN ENTITY IS FORMED BY ITS MEMBERS TO SERVE THEIR NEEDS AND SUPPORT THEIR INTERESTS.
SO THERE ARE THREE MAIN KINDS OF TYPES OF CO-OPS.
IN EVERY CASE THEY SERVE THE NEEDS AND INTERESTS OF THEIR MEMBERS.
SO A WORKER CO-OP THERE ARE MEMBERS ARE THE WORKERS.
THE WORKERS OWN AND CONTROL THE COOPERATIVE BUSINESS.
AND THEY BENEFIT AS THE BUSINESS GROWS IF IT'S PROFITABLE THEY PROFIT SHARE.
BUT THEY ALSO HAVE THAT DEMOCRATIC CONTROL ON SOME LEVEL OF THE BUSINESS.
A CONSUMER CO-OP IS OWNED BY ITS MEMBERS AND.
YOU BUY INTO THE MEMBERSHIP AND THEN YOU HAVE SOME VOICE AND YOU MIGHT SHARE IN THE PROFITS IN TERMS OF THE DIVIDEND OR YOU MIGHT SEE IT IN THE FORM OF LOWER PRICES.
THE THIRD KIND IS A PRODUCER CO-OP.
IT'S WHERE A BUNCH OF PRODUCERS COME TOGETHER AND THEY DO SOMETHING COLLECTIVELY.
SOME WELL-KNOWN ARE OCEANSPRAY OR LAND O'LAKES WHERE THERE ARE FARMERS AND THEY COME TOGETHER AND THEY'RE JOUBTLY PROCESSING FOOD AND MARKETING IT.
AND THEN THE FOURTH PIPE IS JUST A HYBRID.
SO IT MIGHT BE A FOOD CO-OP IS OWNED BY BOTH CONSUMERS AND WORKERS.
THAT'S BASICALLY WHAT A COOPERATIVE IS.
>> I WANTED TO DIVE INTO THE TERM DECOLONIZE A BIT.
IT'S HAS A TERM WITH A LOT GOING ON WITHIN IT.
ESPECIALLY OUR EFFORTS OF COLONIZATION HAVE BASICALLY LED TO THE GENOCIDE OF NATIVE-AMERICAN POPULATIONS.
WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN WHEN YOU'RE COLLECTIVE IS ABUSED AND AABUSER CYCLES BECAUSE OF THE DECOLONIZATION.
>> FIRST OF ALL, WHAT DO WE MEAN?
I THINK THAT IT MIGHT BE DEFINED IN DIFFERENT WAYS.
I'M GOING TO SAY THIS IS HOW I THINK OF COLONIZATION.
ONE GROUP HAS THE RIGHT TO GO IN AND COLONIZE, TAKE OVER, MAYBE COMMIT GENOCIDE IN SOME CASES OR ENSLAVE OR IN SOME WAY EXPLOIT FOLKS THAT ARE ALREADY THERE.
SO AND THERE WAS A NEED TO RASH NULLIZE THAT PROCESS.
AND SO FROM THE GET GO THE COLONIAL PROCESS WAS PART AND PARCEL OF BUILDING A RACIST IDEOLOGY OR A CONCEPT OF RACISM THAT THIS RACE IS SUPERIOR.
THIS RACE IS SAVAGE OR LESS THAN, AND/OR DESERVING OF BEING COLONIZED AND MAYBE OUT OF BENEVOLENCE.
THE COLONIZERS ARE BEARING THAT WHITE MAN'S BURDEN OF BRINGING CIVILIZATION TO THE SAVAGE NATIVES.
SO A COLONIAL MENTALITY HAS THIS POWER DYNAMIC IT HAS HIERARCHY, SUPERIORITY, AND INFERIORITY, ARE SO PART OF THE DECOLONIZATION IS ADDRESSING THAT LEGACY OF RACISM QUESTIONING IT, UNDERSTAND WHERE IT CAME FROM AND HOW IT SERVES THE PROCESS OF COLONIALISM AND HOW IT'S STILL VERY MUCH WITH US TODAY.
THAT'S PART OF IT.
BUT BEYOND THAT, I THINK TO ME DECOLONIZATION MEANS A WHOLE DIFFERENT WAY OF THINKING THAT'S NOT GROUNDED IN WESTERN LINEAR RATIONALITY.
IT'S A MORE WHOLE LISTICWAY OF THINKING ABOUT IT.
IT'S NOT TAKING THE VIEW THAT EVERYTHING IS THERE FOR OUR TAKING.
EVERYTHING IS THERE TO SERVE OUR WANTS AND OUR NEEDS AND OUR PROFIT MAKING.
AND UNDERSTANDING OF HOW WE AS HUMAN BEINGS NEED TO LIVE IN HARMONY WITH OTHER HUMAN BEINGS BUT ALSO WITH MOTHER EARTH AND ALL OF THE CREATURES ON THE EARTH.
SO TO ME IT'S A WHOLE WORLD VIEW KIND OF CHANGE.
DECOLONIZING OUR SENSE OF WHO WE ARE, HOW WE SHOULD BE WITH EACH OTHER.
HOW WE SHOULD BE WITH MOTHER EARTH.
IT COMES DOWN TO THE WAY WE THINK AND HOW WE VALUE FACTS, AND DATA AND OUTCOMES AND MEASURES.
IT'S A PRETTY OLD WAY OF THINKING OF OUR WORLD VIEW IN CULTURE.
>> I THINK THAT'S BEAUTIFULLY DESCRIBE.
I THINK THAT HELPS CLARIFY THINGS.
ONE OF THE THINGS I'VE -- THE IDEAS THAT ARE PUT FORTH IN THIS CONFERENCE WHICH IS COMING UP OVER THE NEXT WEEKEND IS THAT BASICALLY THERE'S A LOT OF REALLY, REALLY GOOD AND AMBITIOUS GOOD IDEAS FOR HOW TO MAKE THINGS.
THE PROBLEM I'VE GOTTEN ENTRENCHED ONLY SO MANY CHANGES CAN BE WROUGHT IN OUR SOCIETY.
FOR PEOPLE WHO'RE FEEL LIKE THEY CAN'T MAKE CHANGE BECAUSE OF THOSE RESTRICTIONS HOW DO YOU REACH THEM.
>> YEAH.
>> YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES LEFT BY THE WAY.
>> I THINK I ACTUALLY'S THINK WE ARE IN A MOMENT WHERE THERE'S CONVERGENT CRISIS.
CRISES.
IT CREATES THIS VERY SPECIFIC HISTORIC MOMENT.
THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT REALIZE THAT THE SYSTEM IS NOT WORKING.
THERE'S A THREAT OF FASCISM.
PEOPLE KNOW THAT IN THEIR BONES.
A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT IN THEIR BONES.
THERE IS AN EXCEPTIONAL OPENNESS TO LOOKING BEYOND THE STATUS QUO.
THERE'S THIS JUST IMMENSE TO CHANGE THE NARRATIVE.
THAT'S WHAT I EXPERIENCED WHEN I TALK TO PEOPLE AND I DO A LOT OF EDUCATIONAL AROUND SOLIDARITY ECONOMY.
>> WELL, YOU'RE GOOD AT IT.
>> IT'S A MOMENT.
IT'S A VERY SPECIAL MOMENT WE NEED TO SEIZE.
>> HOPEFULLY THIS CONFERENCE WILL GIVE YOU AN ADVANTAGE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE MOMENT.
DECOLONIZING ECONOMICS.
THE IT'S THE ENTRY FEE IS A SLIDING SCALE.
YOU CAN PAY WHAT YOU CAN PAY.
IT GOES FROM THE 420 TO 4/23.
THANKS FOR JOINING EMILY.
I WISH WE HAD MORE TIME.
>> THANK YOU SO MUCH.
>> WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK AFTER THIS SHORT BREAK.
FOR THE PAST SEVERAL MONTHS REPORTER RYAN HUTSON HAS BEEN COVERING HOMELESSNESS IN HUMBOLDT COUNTY.
AND FIGHT THE ODDS FOR THEIR SURVIVAL.
THIS WEEK SHE FILED A STORY THAT CONCRETE THAT DEATH RUNS THESE SAME STREETS.
>> THIS PAST WINTER HAS SEE A THREE FOLD INCREASE IN HOMELESS DEATHS WITH A TOTAL OF 10 IN THE FIRST THREE MONTHS.
FIRST OVERNIGHT WARMING CENTER HOPING TO PREVENT ADDITIONAL WEATHER RELATED DEATHS.
AMONG EUREKA'S UNSHELTERED POPULATION.
I SAT DOWN WITH THE COMMANDER, AND THE MASTERMIND BEHIND THE CRISIS RESPONSE.
THE CITY OF EUREKA DECIDED TO FOR EXTREMELY ON AN AS NEEDED PROMPTED BY THE NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC.
OPENED ITS DOORS SIX NIGHTS IN THE TWO WEEKS OF THE LATTER PART OF MARCH AND SHELTERED A TOTAL OF 48 PEOPLE AMONG THEM.
ROSEN AND LaFRANCE THAT THE OUTREACH EFFORTS ARE SERVED WITH THE HEALTHY DOSE OF HUMANITY BUT ARE ALWAYS FACING CHALLENGES.
>> BECAUSE THE CITY HAS TAKEN THE STANCE HAVING THESE TYPES OF DEATHS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE AND WE WANT TO CHANGE THAT.
AND WE'RE REALLY FORTUNATE PARTNERING WITH LIFE HOUSE.
FREE MEAL HAS KICKED IN.
IT'S A NICE EXAMPLE OF THE COMMUNITY COMING TOGETHER WITH DIFFERENT NON-PROFITS AND DIFFERENT AGENCIES AND YOU KNOW REALLY KIND OF COMING TOGETHER AND MAKE THIS NOT HAPPEN AGAIN.
IT'S TRAGIC.
AND I THINK IF WE COME TOGETHER AS A COMMUNITY WE CAN FIND SOLUTIONS SO IT DOESN'T HAPPEN AGAIN.
>> IT TAKES A VILLAGE.
>> I THINK A LOT OF IT COMES DOWN TO HAVING THE HUMAN CONNECTION.
A LOT OF THE FOLKS HEY DO YOU HAVE SOMEWHERE WARM TO GO TONIGHT.
ONCE YOU HAVE THAT CONVERSATION A TELLING.
AS A FOLLOW-UP TO THE TENTS TRASH AND TRAUMA REPORTING FROM JANUARY, I BEGAN TO REVIEW AUTOPSY REPORTS FROM THE EUREKA AREA HOPING TO DETERMINE IF THE WEATHER WAS A FACTOR IN THESE TRANSIENT DEATHS AND IF SO, TO WHAT DEGREE.
IN REVIEWING SOME OF THE AUTOPSY REPORTS COLLECTED FROM THE CORONER'S OFFICE A 33-YEAR-OLD WAS FOUND DECEASED OUTSIDE A CHURCH WITH HEAVY RAIN.
RAY CHUN SHIGOLLA OUT OF SIGHT BUT NOT OUT OF THE ELEMENTS.
CAUSE OF DEATH WAS DETERMINED TO BE A HEART ATTACK COMPLICATED BY HYPOTHERMIA.
IT WAS ALSO NOTED THAT MENTAL ILLNESS MAY HAVE BEEN A FACTOR IN THE CIRCUMSTANCE OF HIS DEATH.
IN ADDITION TO ASKING ABOUT THE NEW WARMING CENTER AND HOW THAT WAS OFFERED TO NEW COMMUNITY MEMBERS I WANTED TO BE ABOUT THE VABLT OF ALTERNATIVE SHELTER SPACES IN REGARD TO THIS PARTICULARLY TRAGIC DEATH.
HOW TO FIND SHELTER IN WHETHER IT'S AN EXTREMELY WEATHER WARMING CENTER OR BETTY CHEN OR REAL ESTATE CREW MISSED.
BECAUSE SOME OF THOSE ARE NOT INTIBL FOR SOME PEOPLE.
>> THAT'S A CHALLENGE WE HAVE IS AS YOU CAN THAT THE EACH TOXICOLOGY WAS CLEAN.
SO ANYTIME WE HAVE TO LOOK AT THESE ISSUES HOW DID THIS HAPPEN.
WHAT IN THE SYSTEM DIDN'T WORK.
>> RIGHT.
>> WAS IT HOUSING ISSUE?
>> WAS IT A MENTAL HEALTH ISSUE?
>> WAS THE PERSON BEING PROVIDED THE APPROPRIATE SERVICES?
WERE THEY BEING DISMISSED FROM SERVICES?
IF THEY WERE SLEWING FOR THEM AND WHO DIDN'T HAVE THE COGNITION.
THE NIGHT OF THE 33-YEAR-OLD POSSIBLY CAUSED BY A HEART ATTACK.
THAT'S GREATLY TROUBLING TO ME HE COULDN'T NAVIGATE FOR HIMSELF AND LIKELY I DON'T KNOW THE INDIVIDUAL HERE WE ARE WITH A INDIVIDUAL THAT HAS VALUE AND SOMEONE'S CHILD AND THAT'S THE CHOOLING.
WHERE IN THE SYSTEM CAN WE MAKE IT BETTER TO IMPROVE IT TO STOP THIS FROM HAPPENING.
WE HAVE TO DIG IN DEEPER AND SEE WHAT LED WHERE.
WAS HE LOOKING FOR SERVICES OR NOT.
WHAT HAPPENED WITH THE SERVICES HE WAS BEING OFFERED.
IT'S NOT RIGHT.
>> OVERALL, THE SOMEWHAT EXPERIMENTAL FUNCTIONED AS PILOT PROGRAM FOR THE CITY ACCORDING TO LaFRANCE AND ROSEN IN HOPES LIKE IN EXTREMELY WEATHER EVENT THAT THE PROGRAM WOULD RUN SMOTHLY.
BEING ABLE TO SHELTER IN ADDITIONAL 48 PEOPLE OUT OF THE HUNDREDS OF HOMELESS ON THE STREETS OF EUREKA ON ANY GIVEN NIGHT THIS WAS A SUCCESS FOR COMMUNITY MEMBERS WHO WOULD HAVE BEEN LEFT TO THE ELEMENTS.
THIS IS RYAN HUTSON WITH A TENTS, TRASH AND TRAUMA UPDATE FROM HUMBOLDT.
>> THANKS RYAN.
WITH WTEA'S WE HEAR THAT KEET AND SO MEANINGFUL.
>> ONCE I HIT CARVERVILLE AND GET INTO RICH SON GROVE AND JUST OF THE STRESS OF THE CITY GOES AWAY FOR ME.
REDWOOD TREES ARE SERENE.
IT'S JUST BEAUTIFUL.
IT'S A BEAUTIFUL PLACE TO COME VISIT.
>> SOME PEOPLE HYPOTHESIZE THAT THE BLUFFS IN ARIZONA ARE TREE TRUNKS AND I THINK IF WE TAKE A CLOSER LOOK AT THE EARTH A LITTLE BIT MORE OF A DISTANCE I THINK THERE'S EVIDENCE OF THAT.
ANIMALS WERE BIGGER.
I THINK WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT ARE A BUNCH OF BABIES.
>> THE REDWOODS ARE HOME TO ME.
PEACEFUL.
YOU KNOW WE DON'T WANT TO TAKE THOSE GIANT FIRST ANCIENT REDWOODS DOWN SO THE ROAD GETS WIDENED.
IT IS THIS BEAUTIFUL RAINFOREST.
IT'S THE NORTH COAST RAINFOREST.
THEY'RE SO GRAND AND SO OLD IT MAKES ME FEEL LIKE HUMANS ARE SO INSIGNIFICANT AND THERE'S SO MUCH GREATER THINGS OTHER THAN JUST US.
I ALSO HUGE MASSIVE AND HISTORICALLY BECAUSE THOSE TREES ARE THOUSANDS OF YEARS OLD.
>> THEY'RE GORGEOUS.
THEY'RE BIG, AND THEY'RE TALL AND THEY'RE MY HOME.
THEY'RE WHOLESOME AND THEY'RE THE HEART OF OUR COMMUNITY AND OUR HOME.
>> WHEN YOU PASS THROUGH THE REDWOOD CURTAIN IT'S LIKE GOING TO ANOTHER PLANET.
THEY'RE MAGIC.
THE REDWOODS MEAN MAGIC TO ME.
>> THAT SEEMS LIKE A MUST WATCH.
WE'VE ALL GROWN UP WITH REDWOOD TREES.
IT'S ONE OF THOSE BLINDNESS TO THE THINGS THAT ARE ALWAYS AROUND YOU.
IT'S LIKE MY KIDS IF THEY DON'T CLEAN THEIR ROOM THEY THINK THAT THE SMELL IS INSIDES AND NATURAL.
THAT'S HOW THE REDWOODS.
YEAH.
STAY TUNED, STAY INFORMED.