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🗓️ 21 March 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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0:00.0 | Did you know choosing the train over your car can cut your carbon footprint by up to two thirds? |
0:06.0 | So, one family outing at a time, one little adventurer at a time, one trip to the museum, one dinner in the city, one nap on the way home at a time. |
0:18.0 | One train journey at a time can help create a greener future. |
0:23.0 | So when will you take your next trip? Find out more at nationalrail.co.uk slash greener. |
0:37.0 | Just south of Atlanta, there's this forest, hundreds of acres, and it's filled with ghosts. |
0:45.0 | There are traces of the native Muscogee people who lived here once. They got driven off during the trail of tears. |
0:52.0 | There are remnants of a prison farm where convicts grew vegetables and raised animals. |
0:58.0 | There are burial grounds too. But metal and thick pen of capital B news. |
1:04.0 | She's mostly concerned with the modern day ghosts who haunt this forest. |
1:10.0 | People who have been living off the grid, intense and tree houses for months. |
1:14.0 | She went to go catch up with them a few days back. |
1:17.0 | So when you go in there, there's to be like a gazebo and then a little kitchen that was constructed by the Defend the Atlanta Forest protesters that have since been torn down. |
1:30.0 | It looks a little bit like when you first drive in. There's like slabs of concrete. |
1:36.0 | It looks like there's been like a recent demolition there. |
1:46.0 | These signs of life have been demolished because the Atlanta police are attempting a kind of exorcism of this place. |
1:53.0 | But that doesn't mean the ghosts have left. The people living here call themselves forest defenders. |
1:59.0 | And they're trying to ensure this space stays wild. |
2:03.0 | You can actually see where the forest defenders have set up tents. They have what they call a living room. |
2:09.0 | So there's a large plastic tarp underneath like seating and stuff where they have community events and stuff like that. |
2:17.0 | How many people are living in the forest now? |
2:20.0 | I can't say exactly how many the last time I was there, there were, I mean, there had to be at least 30 to 40 tents. |
2:29.0 | I don't know how many people live in each tent, but it's quite a few people. |
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