How to Live on Earth | Feature Documentary | Presented by Benedict Cumberbatch

What if the solutions to building a better future already exist? How to Live on Earth is an ambitious feature documentary that explores how humanity can build a safe and thriving future by working with nature, not against it. Presented by Benedict Cumberbatch, the film presents the ultimate hack, showing what becomes possible when we team up with nature to solve our greatest challenges. Heart-warming, entertaining and energising, the film presents a hopeful vision of a future within reach – one in which nature thrives, and so do we. How to Live on Earth is an Open Planet Studios production, in association with Villars Institute Foundation and Silvania. JOIN THE CONVERSATION – Download film assets and share your reaction: https://howtoliveonearth.net/social-toolkit Discover ways to take action for nature: https://howtoliveonearth.net/guide Host your own film screening: https://howtoliveonearth.net/book-screening Explore learning and education resources from the Villars Institute: https://www.youtube.com/@HowToLiveOnEarthOfficial Listen to the original end credit track, ‘Chapter 4’ by Imogen Heap: https://ffm.to/ih-chapter4 Follow How to Live on Earth: https://www.instagram.com/howto_liveonearth #HowToLiveOnEarth CREDITS – Director: Fredi Devas Producers: Fredi Devas & Jonnie Hughes Executive Producers: Jonnie Hughes & Colin Butfield Director of Photography: Stuart Dunn Editor: Matt Meech Main theme: Hans Zimmer and Jacob Shea for Bleeding Fingers Music Original score: Jacob Shea and Ho-Ling Tang for Bleeding Fingers Music Original end credit track: Imogen Heap IMPACT PARTNERS – Conservation International Forest Future Alliance The Nature Conservancy Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures UNDP UN Environment Programme Financial Initiative UpLink - The World Economic Forum CHAPTERS – 00:00 Opener 00:43 Welcome to the world’s greatest how-to video 02:52 Meet the people doing the bees' work 06:10 Smart, but not yet wise – three big puzzles to solve 07:00 Day of the Dead and the wisdom of the ancestors 09:51 How to value nature: more than the sum of its parts 11:03 People and elephants restoring landscapes together 16:00 Mapping biodiversity in the forest 22:20 How to feed the future: the challenge 24:39 Cattle, cacao and the true cost of meat 28:28 Watching a rainforest fall 32:24 Replacing the wild with the tame 34:06 The hidden network beneath the forest 36:03 A river, its salmon, and the largest fish kill in American history 40:14 What’s the value of living nature? 41:41 How to feel human: what nature does to the mind 44:09 Behind bars, caring for endangered turtles 48:30 Nature keeps us stable 49:40 Gold mining, mercury and a poisoned river 54:05 Why living nature is invisible to the market 56:34 A share price for ecosystem services 59:52 Biodiversity is bankable: green is the new gold 1:00:50 Protein from thin air, steak grown from mycelium 1:05:22 Eating the invaders 1:08:42 Coral jazz: calling a dead reef back to life 1:14:20 Forest healing in a hyper-urban nation 1:20:33 The city that made room for nature 1:24:24 The four chapters in the story of our planet 1:25:26 When the river runs free, life returns 1:32:00 Becoming a force for good on this planet 1:33:20 Credits roll 👉 SUBSCRIBE for first access to new clips, interviews and film content.