Sarah Jacquet‐Ray

Our brains are designed, we're social creatures. So to do all that stuff, it addresses so many of the other problems that we have. We know from the U.S. Surgeon General, we have this loneliness epidemic and it's really bad for young people. And so what I like to say is that addressing individualism is the core for both our mental health and it's also what the planet needs from us.

Our brains are designed, we're social creatures. So to do all that stuff, it addresses so many of the other problems that we have. We know from the U.S. Surgeon General, we have this loneliness epidemic and it's really bad for young people. And so what I like to say is that addressing individualism is the core for both our mental health and it's also what the planet needs from us.

Our brains are designed, we're social creatures. So to do all that stuff, it addresses so many of the other problems that we have. We know from the U.S. Surgeon General, we have this loneliness epidemic and it's really bad for young people. And so what I like to say is that addressing individualism is the core for both our mental health and it's also what the planet needs from us.

So that's where collective efficacy comes from.

So that's where collective efficacy comes from.

So that's where collective efficacy comes from.

Chris Jordan is an artist, and he was making a film trying to document the destruction of all the deaths of albatross birds on the Midway Atoll, and he made a film about it called Midway. And he would go out there and... check out the stomachs of these birds and these dead birds all over the atoll, peel them open and take pictures of their bared stomachs with all of this plastic in it.

Chris Jordan is an artist, and he was making a film trying to document the destruction of all the deaths of albatross birds on the Midway Atoll, and he made a film about it called Midway. And he would go out there and... check out the stomachs of these birds and these dead birds all over the atoll, peel them open and take pictures of their bared stomachs with all of this plastic in it.

Chris Jordan is an artist, and he was making a film trying to document the destruction of all the deaths of albatross birds on the Midway Atoll, and he made a film about it called Midway. And he would go out there and... check out the stomachs of these birds and these dead birds all over the atoll, peel them open and take pictures of their bared stomachs with all of this plastic in it.

And just from looking at a picture of one of these albatross, you can tell that this albatross died of ingesting all these small plastics. As he describes it, he's looking at these stomachs of the albatross as like looking at the mirror of what humanity has done to nature or what our relationship, our fraught relationship with nature is. He went eight times and he finally made the film of it.

And just from looking at a picture of one of these albatross, you can tell that this albatross died of ingesting all these small plastics. As he describes it, he's looking at these stomachs of the albatross as like looking at the mirror of what humanity has done to nature or what our relationship, our fraught relationship with nature is. He went eight times and he finally made the film of it.

And just from looking at a picture of one of these albatross, you can tell that this albatross died of ingesting all these small plastics. As he describes it, he's looking at these stomachs of the albatross as like looking at the mirror of what humanity has done to nature or what our relationship, our fraught relationship with nature is. He went eight times and he finally made the film of it.

The first couple of times he went and the way that he felt about it was just sheer horror. He was crying over these albatross bodies. He felt this incredible sense of despair. He had never even seen an albatross before. Very few people ever get to go to Midway. And here was evidence of great human impact happening far, far away from anybody's, any human life at all in the first place.

The first couple of times he went and the way that he felt about it was just sheer horror. He was crying over these albatross bodies. He felt this incredible sense of despair. He had never even seen an albatross before. Very few people ever get to go to Midway. And here was evidence of great human impact happening far, far away from anybody's, any human life at all in the first place.

The first couple of times he went and the way that he felt about it was just sheer horror. He was crying over these albatross bodies. He felt this incredible sense of despair. He had never even seen an albatross before. Very few people ever get to go to Midway. And here was evidence of great human impact happening far, far away from anybody's, any human life at all in the first place.

And he felt that if humans could impact the world in such a massive way where they're not even ever showing up or any presence of human activity, this was really a bad state.

And he felt that if humans could impact the world in such a massive way where they're not even ever showing up or any presence of human activity, this was really a bad state.

And he felt that if humans could impact the world in such a massive way where they're not even ever showing up or any presence of human activity, this was really a bad state.

Yeah, so in the beginning, his primary emotion that kind of eclipsed all the other possibilities was this grief and horror. And then over time, he started to realize the beauty of the albatross and the beauty of the place and the beauty of these birds, and he came to love the birds. So...

Yeah, so in the beginning, his primary emotion that kind of eclipsed all the other possibilities was this grief and horror. And then over time, he started to realize the beauty of the albatross and the beauty of the place and the beauty of these birds, and he came to love the birds. So...