Paul Rosolie

It was just months and months out in the jungle alone.

And yeah, it's a Tom York track that we had just been listening to again and again, and it was just so low.

um there was then you know the there's a huge new invasion where they just they just burned the whole side of the river and just you know it's it's it's never going to come back and it's part of the forest that i loved and i knew the animals there and it's um it's gone and so we have to live through that on a on a weekly basis at least a day-to-day basis and when you take on responsibility for something like this you

you go to sleep thinking, yeah, if we don't do it, then world's burn.

If we don't save it, then every time you said the sadness that surrounds a happy moment, well, it's like, how am I supposed to go to a party and talk with people about anything?

Or how am I supposed to even go to sleep when if we don't succeed at what we're trying to do, if we don't outrace the chainsaws and the roads,

then those trees die, those millennium trees.

And we're the only ones out there protecting them.

And when you see that black scorched earth with nothing left, it's just ashes on the ground and all the cacophony of life is silenced.

And it's just this horrible, violent silence.

It makes you sick.

And so, yeah, there's a lot of weight that comes with that where

we're not theoretically doing something.

We're black and white practically doing it.

So that's the other side of the advice to young people.

Oh yeah.

Well, it's not going to be easy.

No, the, I mean, when they say, they say, how do I get your job?

It's like, well, you don't want my job and you don't want the bot flies and you don't want the dengue and you don't want, you know, don't, don't even inquire what a normal life looks like.

Like, you know, I lived out of a backpack for 20 years.