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Ailing father in southern california. and in 2003 when his father died -- >> oh, he was devastated. >> reporter: and then, in the depths of his despair, a window opened to a whole new set of possibilities. steven made a new friend who had just bought a yacht, planned to sail it around the world. would steven like to go along, be the chef? >> did he know anything about sailing? >> no, nothing at all. >> what did you think about that? >> he's excited about this. it's a nice diversion. it's something for him to focus on after his dad died. >> i thought it was amazing. i said i -- i think it's awe...
This is the road to change. >> whoo! >> let's start with a confession. for years, i considered myself the luckiest s.o.b. in television news. whoa. i got to chase stories all over the globe. but everything is gone -- look at this. each trip brought fresh insight. like a lawnmower in the sky came down. into how much we're losing and how much we have lost. 50 years ago, 60,000 acres might burn in a year. last year, it was almost two
Or three hours this morning. they have been helping out on beaches for over 80 years now. boyd, you have been here since the start. why have you been doing it for so long and why is it so important for you? we started eight years ago and we were on the beach, we saw the litter and started picking it up. there were two or three of us doing it and we thought this is a bigger problem than we can deal with on our own. my wife and i started a facebook page and started getting people to come down, promoting it around the local village. it has grown from there. we know the obvious thing that gets pic...
And within couple weeks one of the side effects of this lockdown was that the air got cleaner, the oceans got cleaner, the kids could suddenly look out and see mount kilimanjaro jrand they hadn't seen that before. and there were fish in the canals they hadn't seen for decades. it just shows it's possible to change. that our actions affect the natural world instantly. the pandemic will pass, it's horrific, but we cannot go back to the ways of the past. we have to move forward. and we have to demand from our leaders that they take action now. that we do invest heavily in renewable sources of ene...