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Ali G interviews environmental activists about solar power, pollution and tree protection, then urges violence while they insist on nonviolent protest.
0:01 Check it. I is now off to meet the husband and wife team that ran the Environmental Protection Agency. 0:07 Then be called Christine and Todd Whitman. Boom! 0:17 Let's talk about solar energy. Ain't you worried that if we use a lot of this solar energy, 0:23 Mm. 0:24 that we will use the sun up? 0:26 No, the sun's burning anyway. I mean, 0:27 Aye. 0:28 and we're not, what we're doing is taking what's already coming down and putting it to good use. 0:33 But Mia, there's some countries like in Alaska where there's already run out of sun, and there's like darkness for like months of a year. 0:40 Well, that's, that's because of the rotation of the Earth. It's not because the sun is running out, it's because the relationship of the sun and the Earth to one another. 0:49 Why is water getting dirty? 0:51 If you change the oil of your motorcycle or your car in the driveway and you just dump it there, it gets washed down in a rain, it gets into the water table, 0:59 Right. 0:59 gets into the water, it dirties the water. 1:01 Ain't the main reason why the water is dirty, though, that a lot of fishes does their toilet inside the water? 1:09 Well, fish do it, uh, whereas that the animals get, if you let cows and pigs and sheep go into the streams, then they're dirtying the water. 1:17 So why don't you tell the fish, whatever the now you tell them, but make sure they ain't doing their plop in the water? 1:26 But I really think it's more us than they. 1:28 So what about whales? Don't they make massive pollutions in the water? 1:33 Again, they're still, they're not, when you consider the amount of water there is in the ocean and the seas, and you consider the number of whales, they're not the problem. 1:42 But they, you've seen the size 1:43 They're big. Oh yeah. 1:44 They must do massive ones in there. 1:45 They gotta be massive. 1:53 What is Earth First? 1:55 Earth First is, um, it's really an idea of putting the earth before yourself. 2:02 You know that me and the West Staines massive did a protest against McDonald's in Staines. 2:06 Nice. 2:07 McDonald's definitely deserves it. The consumption of meat is definitely adding to the world's starvation problem. 2:13 Oh, no, no, no, we weren't against that. We was against they started charging for their ketchup, like 8 pence for like a little bit of 2:20 Oh. 2:20 ketchup. 2:21 Right, taxing people every chance 2:22 Yo, so we was like, yo, protesting, saying ketchup should be free, and it shouldn't be like a limit to how many ketchups you can have. 2:31 There's lots of good reasons to protest McDonald's, and they're definitely using a lot of pesticides, they're definitely using a lot of chemicals, you know, the slaughter of of cattle, 2:42 you know, mass slaughter of cattle is 2:44 The ketchup thing, though. 2:45 Right, that's a big thing too. 2:51 So, what is things like this tree used for? 2:55 Mainly luxury items. 2:57 Alright. 2:58 As we'd, we'd say, you'd see like a lot of redwood hot tubs, um, a lot of redwood decks. 3:07 Is you telling me that this tree wouldn't prefer to be a hot tub with a couple of flower honeys in, but then having, you know, uh, you in? 3:17 Our good friend. 3:18 Safe respect. 3:19 Whisper. 3:20 So, yo, what's your name again? 3:21 My name's Whisper. 3:23 What? 3:23 Whisper. 3:24 Why is that? Does he like whispering? 3:28 Get it? Because his name, Whisper. All you lot out there, and I was speaking for me and my friends here, saying that go out there, publicize this thing, talk to your friends, make something that makes a difference, 3:43 burn a car, whatever, mash people up, but let them know that you was doing it for this cause. 3:49 So then we can get publicity for it, innit? 3:52 Stay non-violent. 3:53 Yo, but 3:54 We don't do property destruction. 3:56 But wouldn't it be more betterer for your cause? 3:58 No. 3:58 People is smashing things up 4:00 No. 4:00 anyway to say, yo, I was doing this for the tree people. 4:03 No. 4:04 Wouldn't it be good if it weren't just smelly hippies who was doing it, but it was also like 4:08 If it was everybody doing it, then they'd find a way to demonize the regular people. 4:12 Or they if them come at you with axes, you come at them with guns, they ain't gonna come back, yo. 4:17 They'll come back with guns. 4:18 Right. 4:18 Yo, well, you get Uzis, man. No one's gonna take 4:20 Then they'll get a 9 millimeter Glock, man. 4:23 They'll, they'll get AK-47s. 4:25 Yo, will you get a bomb? 4:26 They'll, if we get bombs, 4:27 Yo, you 4:27 they'll get bigger bombs. 4:28 Yo, will you nuke them, whatever. 4:30 Oh, we nuke them, then the trees get blown up. 4:32 Then everything. 4:33 Yeah, and then whatever, forget about them. At least you've won. 4:36 Did you want to just give a final message to the camera? 4:39 Sure. 4:41 Rise up and rebel, you know, with non-violence. 4:44 So what's your message to the camera? 4:46 My message. 4:46 It's not about non-violence as well, is it? 4:49 I, I would say it has to be. I encourage you to rise up, do whatever you can to make the earth a better place. 4:59 Yo, whatever you. Can, violent or non-violent. 5:02 No, I did not say that. 5:03 Yo, well... 5:04 I can't advocate violence. 5:06 Yo, but man, if I start advocating non-violence, come back to the street, man, you know. 5:12 People be, yo, you's a non-violent guy, yo. 5:15 That's the power, part of the power structures that we're working on chiseling away at with our actions, with our words, with our thoughts, with our songs. 5:23 What songs has you got? 5:26 Gentle warrior with a heart like gold and a rainbow in your eye, brave companion. 5:36 That's just the first part of it. It's called Gentle Warrior. 5:39 No offense, but that song, in my opinion, is a bit crap. 5:43 Each has their own opinion. 
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