Life Among the Gorillas How I Met Your Mother

(In 1988, a little boy is reading a book)

Ted from 2030: When your Uncle Marshall was ten years old, he read a book called Life Among the Gorillas. It was written by an anthropologist named Dr. Aurelia Birnholz-Vazquez, it told the story of the year she spent living among the Western Lowland Gorillas of Cameroon. When Dr. Birnholz-Vazquez came to the local community college to give a lecture, Marshall, the youngest member of the audience, raised his hand with a question.

Marshall: What advice do you have for a budding anthropologist?

Dr. Birnholz: So you want to be an anthropologist?

Marshall: Yep. When I grow up, I want to go live with the gorillas, just like you did.

Ted from 2030: What she said next changed his life.

Dr. Birnholz: Oh, that's wonderful, but I'm afraid you can't. They'll all be dead by then...



[in 2006]



Marshall: ...and if economic sanctions and trade restrictions aren't enforced, the destruction of the rainforests will continue and over a million species will be wiped out.

Ted: So you don't want coffee.

Marshall: I'm saying that the coffee industry is causing irreversible...