We’ve discussed that perhaps sometimes Harrison Ford goes a tad overboard on ways he raises environmental awareness, so it’s a little refreshing that this time around, his activism is taking the form of sitting in front of a camera and answering questions.

The website Big Think has a multi-part interview with Ford, asking questions that range from “Is Indiana Jones an environmental hero?” to “How has your love of nature informed your acting?” But the most interesting answer, I think, comes from the question, “Can we live green and also live well?” To that Ford answers, in fact, we have to live green to live well. As he continues, Ford hits on a very important point regarding our depletion of the earth’s resources:

If we are not able to commit the resources and the energy and the wisdom that we do have to solving these problems, we’ll likely disappear, and the world will be a better place for it. The world will continue without human beings - that’s not a problem.

Sometimes we forget that the ecosystem is self-correcting. Just as the financial markets right now are being “corrected” at the expense of the housing market and the value of the dollar, there earth will “correct” itself at the expense of humans. Technically, we’re not destroying the planet through pollution - we’re destroying a planet that is hospitable to human life.

takepart to see the videos of Ford answering the questions, and takepart here to visit Conservation International, where Ford sits on the Board of Directors.