The world is a big place and this year it's come home to us like never before.

We have tremendous partisan conflict polarization in the society.

It would be the worst recession since the 1930s.

If the coronavirus pandemic isn't a wake-up call, nothing will be.

What happens anywhere can affect us everywhere.

And even as we face the present,

new challenges are gathering on the horizon.

Our intensive fishing sacrifices millions of fish.

We are at a biological limit.

China has bought our silence with their money.

By the end of the century, four out of ten people will be African.

Tic-Toc, it's given rise to national security investigations.

The Department of Homeland Security says white supremacy will still be the most persistent

and lethal threat in the US through 2021.

Why it Matters is here to help.

We're looking past the headlines and working with the best minds in the business

to understand what's coming and what can be done.

Maybe let's zoom out a little bit at this point. You know what's at stake for the world

when it comes to the survival of the Amazon. So what the Amazon really is,

it's sort of like a climate bomb.

And as soon as you start cutting down the rainforest,

that bomb is released.

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