180°以南 180° South (2010) Movie Script

What I see here is the realization of a dream 40 years in the making.

It all started with that trip Doug and Yvon took here in 1968.

This is Conservacin Patagnica, and it stretches as far as the eye can see.

For the last 18 years, Doug and his wife Kris, along with Yvon, have dedicated their lives to one of the largest private land conservation project in the world, Conservacin Patagnica.

In the early 90s, Doug and Kris began raising money and using their own life savings to acquire large tracks of wild lands in Chile and Argentina.

With the help of hundreds of passionate workers and volunteers, they've succeeded in protecting entire ecosystems and fostering sustainable farming and ranching programs.

Added together, the amount of land they've put in to conservation is bigger than Yellowstone National Park.

I've arrived over a month late, but Yvon and Doug are still here.

I heard about their project, but I had no idea just how big it was.

I've always study their trip here 40 years ago as an adventure, but now, I realize it was a turning point.

We didn't change our lives overnight, but it had a big influence on me.

For me, it was the best trip of my life.

The all history of Latin America is on the "conquistadores".

It's not much different from the States, but in the States, at least, we don't trust the government and so we have a history of philanthropy.

So Doug comes down here and he says : "I'm gonna create a National Park and I'm gonna give it back to you Chileans" and they're going : "Give me a break !" "People don't do that." You know, there has to be another reason.

I think first and foremost, people only protect those things they love and you can't love something unless you inherently identify with that.

That's certainly one of the reasons we ended up here.

We have over 2,000,000 acres of land put into conservation and people think that's a lot of land, but really we're on the loosing team here.

First of all, you never know if you're doing the right thing, you got to temper all your thinking that way, but the way I see it, you know, with land conservation, say, of this type, is that the risk of something negative coming from this, seems to be rather small compared with taking an explorative approach.

If we make some errors, they're gonna be rather small, you know, I'm sure we're making errors, the thing is to minimize those errors.

I think it leaves open possibilities for future generations.

It doesn't seem to be worth wasting a lot of energy on attempting to rewrite the past, I just realized, at least, what I was doing was making a lot of stuff that nobody needed and pushing our consumer society, so I went to do something else.

We were really, really different, we had a same viewpoint of the world and where it's gone, but a different approach to it.

He's more bothered probably about the end of society and mankind that I am because he's the one that do something about it, and I'm just kind of a laid back Zen Buddhist and just say : "Well, I'll do what I can and so be it." Well... You tell my buddy Yvon the good Buddhist he has to take his Bodhisattva vows which means that before self-enlightenment, one has to end the suffering in the world.

I never knew about Douglas before, and many people told me that he was a bad man because he bought all these lands from the Chileans, he's taking all the lands for him, that's what people said, like now, because they don't know him, they don't know what he's doing.