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Because of global warming, French wine industry had subjected to catastrophe. In the episdoe, it mentioned that a vineyard which produced wine had no harvest in the 2021. Hearing the news, I was shocked by the storming truth. If extreme climate happen next year, the 10th generation vineyard would be faced with the financial problems. However, in the England, warm climate helped their wine ripened which improved quality of champagne. They believed that after several years, England can produce better champagne than France.

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What are the signs of global warming? Glaciers are melting at an increasingly rapid pace. Persistent droughts are spreading. Well, we have another to tell you about - wine, as in what you probably cracked open for Christmas dinner.

Farmers who grow the grapes have seen the effects of climate change in the soil, in the roots of the vines, and the yields of their crops.

France, a major center of winemaking for centuries, is experiencing increasingly higher temperatures and extreme weather conditions that have damaged vintages, and livelihoods; this year was particularly dramatic.

France recorded its smallest harvest since 1957 and stands to lose more than $2 billion in sales - a huge blow to the country's second largest export industry.

And it's hitting nearly all the winegrowing regions where they make dry whites, fruity reds and fizzy champagne.

All bubblies are called sparkling wine. But champagne is made here and nowhere else -

in these vineyards and villages of Champagne located in northeastern France. There's a mystique to champagne, an aura of romance. Coco Chanel once said, "I only drink champagne on two occasions, when I am in love and when I am not." They've been producing this "wine of kings" here for centuries.

Lesley Stahl: So how long has this winemaking business and the vineyards been in your family?

Christine Sevillano: From 1700.

Lesley Stahl: 1700.

Christine Sevillano: Yes.

Christine Sevillano took over the family business and its 20 acres of vines 14 years ago. She's the 10th generation.

Christine Sevillano: This is the cellar of my grandfather.

Lesley Stahl: Oh.

After surviving the French Revolution and two world wars, her family's house of Piot-Sevillano faced its worst year ever in 2021.

Christine Sevillano: We lost 90% of our harvest.

Lesley Stahl: 90%?

Christine Sevillano: Yes.

Lesley Stahl: How many bottles were you able to produce this year as opposed to a normal year?

Christine Sevillano: A normal year, I produce around 40, 50,000 bottles.

Lesley Stahl: And this year?

Christine Sevillano: Zero. It's the first time in the history of my winery that we will not make champagne.

Lesley Stahl: Not a single bottle from this winery?

Christine Sevillano: Yes.

Higher temperatures and extreme weather episodes devastated not only her harvest but much of Champagne's.

Christine Sevillano: It rained in two or three days that it rained normally in one month. Even my father told me that in his career he has never seen that.

Lesley Stahl: Almost flood like?

Christine Sevillano: Yes.

The worst of it, she says, came in June and July when the heat and the rains resulted in a more crippling outbreak than usual of funguses like mildew contamination.

Christine Sevillano: In fact, when the grapes are contaminated, the-- the fruit is drying and after we can't use it because there is no juice, nothing.

Lesley Stahl: And you attribute this to climate change?

Christine Sevillano: Yes, because it was so extreme. It's not normal.

This year's extreme weather not only battered Champagne and the foundation of its economy, but nearly every one of the wine-producing regions in France -- Burgundy to Bordeaux, where some of the highest quality, best-known and best-tasting reds and whites are made.

Lesley Stahl: And these are what grape? What what--

Jacques Lurton: This is merlot.

Lesley Stahl: I love merlot.

Jacques Lurton: Yeah, merlot makes a beautiful, soft-rounded wines.

Jacques Lurton, the head of a wine family dynasty, runs the Château La Louvière and several other wineries in Bordeaux. He says vine disease is getting worse all over France because of the rising temperatures.

Jacques Lurton: We don't have winters anymore, almost. In wintertime, normally you get colder conditions. These cool conditions tend to kill the funguses or the disease. So normally, winter cleans the situation, you see? But the most important problem that we have is what we call spring frost.

Spring frost was so severe in April this year that winegrowers were on their knees lighting bales of hay and candles between their vines in a mostly futile attempt to protect their young buds.

Jacques Lurton: It is the largest catastrophe we have ever suffered. Because before we had some spring frost in some regions, but this is the first time we have it all over France. Now, due to the fact that we don't have these very strong winters, the buds start to open and then expose themself to this series of spring frost that we have.

Lesley Stahl: And that is the crux--

Jacques Lurton: And that, you see, is what affect the most the quantity of the grapes.

Lesley Stahl: So, tell us about this year in terms of the amount.

Jacques Lurton: In average, in France this year, a loss of 30%.

Lesley Stahl: 30% of the yields. And what about you? What's your percent?

Jacques Lurton: And us, we have been affected up to 40%.

Lesley Stahl: So, you're one of the largest wine producers in Bordeaux. 40% loss, I mean that's, that's enormous.

Jacques Lurton: It's huge. It's huge.

For Bordeaux, he estimates a loss of roughly $800 million in sales this year.

Lesley Stahl: Is this something that's happening all over Europe or-or just France?

Greg Jones: No. It's happening all over Europe, definitely.

Greg Jones is a research climatologist with Southern Oregon University who for 25 years has specialized in the study of how climate influences the growing and harvesting of wine grapes.

Greg Jones: What we're seeing today is we're seeing more of these extreme events happening more frequently at greater degrees and causing more problems.

Lesley Stahl: Yeah, we see it everywhere. It's not just in farm regions. I mean, every part of our country is experiencing some extreme weather condition. So how do you know it isn't that normal extreme weather as opposed to a general climate change?

Greg Jones: There's an area in climate science called attribution science. And attribution science is all about trying to kind of understand how much role humans have in the game of-of climate. So the idea-

Lesley Stahl: --or who to attribute it to, okay.

Greg Jones: Yeah, yeah. So what climatologists do is we develop models that look at aspects of climate. And those models that are coming out are really telling us more and more that in the absence of humans, most of these things would not occur to the same degree they're occurring today.

Lesley Stahl: Tie what you're saying about climate to what's going on in France now.

Greg Jones: Sure. In, in France, just like most of Europe, temperatures have gone up. Summers have gotten dryer. And wine grapes are just sensitive. They're sensitive to those kind of changes and, and we've been seeing it worldwide. And Europe has been at the epicenter of it.

A weather map of Europe for June 2021 - the second warmest June in Europe on record - shows a red band depicting high surface air temperatures stretching across much of the continent.

Heatwaves were also recorded over western North America in June 2021.

Scorching temperatures and drought conditions contributed to wildfires in 2020 around Napa and Sonoma - the center of America's wine industry where fields were left blackened.

In Australia, the bush fires of 2019 and '20 burnt some vineyards to the ground while smoke ruined the quality of the grapes.

In 2017 in Italy, spring frost combined with hailstorms and a heatwave known as "Lucifer" led to the lowest harvest in decades. Particularly hard hit was northern and central Italy, where prosecco, barolo and chianti are made.

And in parts of Chile and Argentina, higher temperatures are pushing winegrowers to plant their vineyards at higher altitudes where temperatures are cooler.

Greg Jones says the warming atmosphere is also changing the grapes' growth cycle.

Greg Jones: It accelerates that ripening to the point that we're picking earlier. For example, 2020, in Burgundy, the picking date was August 20th. And prior to that, we've been averaging for the last 30 years about September 15th. And then for 600 years before that we were averaging the end of September, 1st of October. So you can--

Lesley Stahl: --Oh, so it's dramatic.

Greg Jones: So it's pretty dramatic.

These pages of parchment, documenting harvest dates going back as far as 1354, were found in the Church of Notre Dame in Burgundy.

Lesley Stahl: 1354.

Greg Jones: It's a wonderful data record that we've been able to look at to better understand what climates were like back then, how it affected harvests and what that looks like today.

Lesley Stahl: I'm smiling because I'm thinking 1300s, I'm thinking the monks were making wine.

Greg Jones: Well, exactly.

The wine industry in France is so vital to the economy that the government has scientists studying ways to adapt and mitigate the changing environment.

One route to adaption is to introduce new grape varieties.

Experimental vineyards have been planted with vines from warmer climate countries to see if they can grow here so the grapes can be blended in with the merlots, cabernets and other french wines.

Nathalie Ollat is the director of the project at the Bordeaux Science Institute of Vine and Wine.

Lesley Stahl: So, you're looking at grapes that come from southern regions that maybe grow better in warmer climates?

Nathalie Ollat: Yes.

Lesley Stahl: Like from where?

Nathalie Ollat: From Spain, from Portugal, from Greece.

Lesley Stahl: How many are you actually looking at?

Nathalie Ollat: So, in this experimental vineyard, we are studying 52 different varieties.

They've chosen six of those varieties thus far to be planted in Bordeaux.

Lesley Stahl: So, this is your greenhouse?

Nathalie Ollat: Yes. This-- it is.

A second route of adaptation is genetic breeding.

Lesley Stahl: Are you actually creating new grapes, new, different kinds of grapes?

Nathalie Ollat: Yes, the idea is to have grapes- new varieties, which can be resistant to disease and also more adapted to climate change condition.

And do not compromise the distinctive qualities of the French wines. At the institute's laboratory, scientists are studying the genetics of wine's color, aroma and taste.

Lesley Stahl: And that's what you're trying to preserve, even as you introduce new grapes?

Nathalie Ollat: Yes. I think we-- we want to change without changing, I would say.

Lesley Stahl: Yes! How confident are you that you're gonna crack the puzzle, you're gonna figure out how to stay ahead of climate change?

Nathalie Ollat: All together with new varieties, new growing practice I think we can-- we can cope with climate change at least until the-- the middle of the 21st century.

Lesley Stahl: The middle of the century is only 30 years from now.

Nathalie Ollat: Yeah, yeah.

Lesley Stahl: So, you're looking at how fast temperatures are rising and you're saying it's possible that they will rise above a point--

Nathalie Ollat: That it-- it--

Lesley Stahl: --where you can't--

Nathalie Ollat: --It will be much more complicated to keep what we call Bordeaux style and Bordeaux taste.

With all the gloom and doom about warming temperatures in wine country, there's actually a surprising upside.

Lesley Stahl: What about quality? What about the taste, what's important about wine? How is climate change affecting that?

Jacques Lurton: Alors, the climate change is affecting the quality very positively.

Lesley Stahl: Positively?

Jacques Lurton: Yes, ex- exactly. We have never seen such a large quantity of good vintages of Bordeaux wines.

Lesley Stahl: Well, explain that. That's counterintuitive.

Jacques Lurton: Thanks to the global warming and the climate change, now we have warmer summers and which means that our grapes are ripening better. If we get good, warm conditions, we have good color quantity in the-- in the skin. But as well, we have the right amount of sugar.

What a painful irony-- the taste improves just as the yields are shrinking for winemakers like Christine Sevillano.

Lesley Stahl: So, more quality, but fewer grapes. Dramatically fewer grapes.

Christine Sevillano: Yes. It's crazy.

Lesley Stahl: If you have another year like this one, financially, can you survive?

Christine Sevillano: It will be difficult, really. Really difficult. But at the same time, I'm trustful for next year. I mean, I'm trustful. I have to.

Improved taste is not the only unforeseen benefit of climate change for some winemakers.

For some winegrowers, climate change has been a disaster, as we've seen, but as it turns out, climate change has been a boon for others. While higher temperatures have hurt growers in France and Italy, for instance, places that historically have been too cold to produce quality wines are now turning out consistently good ones: places like England.

The notion that in England the only beverage is lukewarm ale at the pub -- is woefully outdated.

Today, a new industry has taken root: healthy vineyards in England are producing some of the world's best wines. This sprawling vineyard with acres and acres of wine grapes ready for harvest is located in Kent -- 40 miles outside of London.

It didn't exist 15 years ago. But Great Britain's wine-producing fortunes have been heating up along with the planet.

Lesley Stahl: So, how has climate change affected the grapes, the wine, in this region?

Stephen Skelton: Well, it's completely revolutionized it.

Stephen Skelton, a member of the highly-respected Institute of Masters of Wine, is a viticulturist, an expert in the science, production and business of wine grapes.

Lesley Stahl: I never heard of really good English wine, I have to be honest with you.

Stephen Skelton: No, it was- it was very, very rare until we realized that you could grow these classic French champagne varieties in, in our climate.

Lesley Stahl: This is what they grow in Champagne?

Stephen Skelton: Yeah. And they now grow very, very successfully here in-- in the U.K..

What used to be a minute cottage industry run by retirees and gentleman farmers is today one of the fastest winegrowing regions in the world.

Lesley Stahl: This is quite an operation going on.

Stephen Skelton: Oh, it's big, it's a big winery.

In 2018, the vintage in England was so bountiful that some vineyards had to scramble to buy vats and tanks to hold it all. Others simply threw grapes away. By the end of the decade, winemakers here will produce an estimated 20 million bottles a year.

Stephen Skelton: The foundation of today's industry is the fact that we can grow these varieties, which we couldn't grow earlier.

Lesley Stahl: So, why couldn't you do it before?

Stephen Skelton: Because the-- the climate was too cold.

Lesley Stahl: You just had to get the temperature up and--

Stephen Skelton: Yeah.

Lesley Stahl: So, does global warming mean that England now has more days for the grapes to ripen? Is that-

Stephen Skelton: Yeah, because we have more days over 85, 86 degrees Fahrenheit. We are, we are in the U.K. now. We're now where Champagne was 30 or 40 years ago. The climate has shifted in 30 or 40 years upwards, north-- northwards.

Lesley Stahl: So, the climate, right now, where you and I are sitting in England, is the same as the climate was 40 years ago in France--

Stephen Skelton: In Champagne.

Lesley Stahl: --In Champagne, France--

Stephen Skelton: In Champagne. Yeah.

He traces the birth of the industry here to 1988.

Stephen Skelton: Then there came two Americans, the Mosses, Stuart and Sandy Moss. They bought an estate called Nyetimber, which is very well-known today. And they were the first people to plant a big commercial vineyard.

Lesley Stahl: What did you think?

Stephen Skelton: I thought they were bonkers. I have to say-

Lesley Stahl: Ok.

Stephen Skelton: Yeah, I thought they were nuts. I heard they were rich Americans from up in the hills. He had a fortune from apparently dental, the dental business. And I thought they were mad. Their first wine took-- took a long while to mature. It was four years in the making before it was tasted. And then it won this major prize.

Lesley Stahl: Right away? Four years.

Stephen Skelton: Yeah, yeah. And the next year, the second year, they won an even bigger prize.

Lesley Stahl: Are you thinking that in a couple of years, the English sparkling wine will be actually better than what they're growing in Champagne?

Stephen Skelton: They produce 300 million bottles a year. The best is still very, very good. The best is superb. But you could line up the best ten English sparkling wines against the best ten champagnes in the same sort of prize category, I can guarantee you the English wines would be-- would be in the top half.

To prove his point, he gave us a taste, opening a 10-year-old bottle.

Stephen Skelton: We're going to open it professionally.

Lesley Stahl: Oh, no pop!

Stephen Skelton: No pop.

Lesley Stahl: Look at that.

The longer sparkling wine ages, he says, the better, and what you look for is the spritz of fizz on the palette.

Stephen Skelton: You see, you've got the bubbles coming from there--

Lesley Stahl: And that's a good thing.

Stephen Skelton: Yeah, you see, they're nice and small. And then you nose it. You get a nice yeasty character. Baking bread-- brioche, as we call it. And that's a gorgeous, gorgeous bottle of wine.

Winston Churchill once said: "I could not live without champagne. In victory I deserve it, in defeat I need it!"

Well, nothing would have pleased him more than to hear that because English bubbly is now so good, the House of Taittinger - one of the most prestigious of French champagne makers - is in England! It's now growing 120 acres of grapes and is making sparkling wine near Canterbury in what's known as "the Garden of England."

Patrick McGrath, who represents Taittinger in Great Britain, persuaded the company to invest here in 2015.

Lesley Stahl: Have you brought the grapes from France?

Patrick McGrath: Yeah. The-- the vines were imported from France as-- as tiny, little vines. And the first crop we had from them was in 2020. And then that wine will be released at the end of 2024.

Lesley Stahl: You know, in-- in France, part of the problem is not just warming, it's extreme weather conditions.You know, too much flooding, too much frost, too hot. Won't England also have extreme situations like that?

Patrick McGrath: Not at the moment. We're fortunate, you know England is coming on to the radar as being an area that is warming but is still moderate in terms of heat compared to south and central Europe where it's becoming very, very hot.

Lesley Stahl: Do you think that wine lovers around the world already know that great wines are coming out of England? In other words, is it "ooh la la" no more? It's "jolly good?"

Patrick McGrath: I think, I think in-- we're still at the sort of s-- in the starting block. But certainly, yes. Over the last ten years the-- from a small base the sales of English have been growing substantially.

Taittinger's aim is to produce 300,000 bottles a year by 2025. Overall, the English wine industry had $220 million in sales last year.

The idea of first-rate English wine would have been laughed at 20 years ago, but a similar migration has happened on the West Coast of the United States, where excellent and increasingly popular pinot and chardonnay grapes are now found 560 miles north of Napa, in Willamette Valley, Oregon.

Greg Jones: In the 1950s and '60s, there were really almost no gr-- grapes grown in Oregon. And that was because the climates were too cold. And so, if you fast forward to where we are today, we're just in a different world.

Greg Jones, a wine climatologist at Southern Oregon University, says grapes are now growing in even more unexpected places.

Greg Jones: We have wineries today in Norway, in Quebec, in-- in British Columbia, in Tasmania, in the south islands of-- of Chile.

Lesley Stahl: Tasmanian wine.

Greg Jones: Yeah, Tasmania's really been burgeoning as really a great wine producing region in Australia.

Lesley Stahl: Oh, well that's interesting. Tasmania is south of Australia.

Greg Jones: Sure.

Lesley Stahl: So, as winemaking goes north in the Northern Hemisphere, are you saying it's going south--

Greg Jones: South. Yes, yeah--

Lesley Stahl: --in the Southern Hemisphere?

Greg Jones: Yeah. It's going further poleward in both hemispheres. In parts of southern Argentina and Chile. And, and parts of- of many parts of northern Europe have started growing grapes.

Lesley Stahl: In real time.

Greg Jones: In real time.

Lesley Stahl: So, if you really want a very vivid-- now, example of what's happening due to climate change, go look at wine.

Greg Jones: Yeah, you can. People are experimenting at, at northerly latitudes that I'm amazed that in my career I didn't think I would see it.

In the United Kingdom, as a measure of its acceptance, English sparkling wine has had the royal imprimatur, the queen serving it at Buckingham Palace. And it was poured at the recent climate change summit in Scotland. Master of wine Stephen Skelton is bullish on the future.

Lesley Stahl: If global warming is intensifying, how worried are you and the other English vintners that it's gonna move north beyond your ability to grow good grapes--

Stephen Skelton: No, I'm not worried at all. I mean, the next 40 years is gonna be fascinating, I think. Because, you know, we're just on the cusp of it being really commercial. Our yield levels are not quite where we want them yet. You know, we l-- would like a little bit more heat.

Lesley Stahl: You might get it.

Stephen Skelton: Yeah.

Lesley Stahl: But eventually.

Stephen Skelton: Who knows? We'll have to start growing oranges and bananas.

Lesley Stahl: I mean, it's a serious question.

Stephen Skelton: Yeah, personally, I think we will cope with-- with what's being thrown at us.

Some of the winemakers we met are benefiting. Some are suffering. But all are seeing first-hand the message that climate change is delivering.

Greg Jones: Wine grapes have often been called the canary in the coal mine.

Climatologist Greg Jones says that's been true since the first wine was made in 6,000 B.C. in eastern Europe and then spread to ancient Egypt, Greece, and Persia. Kings celebrated their victories with wine, and the Christian world put it at the heart of the Eucharist. Wine history, Jones says, is human history.

Greg Jones: Wine touches society in some pretty powerful ways. It's related to civilizations, it's related to history, it's related to geography, it's related to romanticism, art, gastronomy, biology, chemistry. So, there's so many things that are tied to it that it becomes something that we can, we can tell the story of climate change through wine pretty easily.
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Sharyn Alfonsi: You've sung about whiskey, women, weed, love, and heartbreak. Does it get any more country than that?

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Chris Stapleton: This guitar I got not that long ago.

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Chris Stapleton: I didn't even know it was a thing.

Sharyn Alfonsi: What do you mean?

Chris Stapleton: I just assumed when people sang songs on records, that they made it up. You know, and then--

Sharyn Alfonsi: That it was coming from them.

Chris Stapleton: Yeah. And that-- and then, you know, I met somebody who was a songwriter. And then it was just like, that's a job? They're gonna pay you to sit in a room and make things up on guitar? That's m-- that's the-- I need that job. That's the job I want.

In 2001, armed with the songs he'd been writing since high school, Stapleton went back to Nashville. Four days after arriving in town, he got a job with a music publishing company writing for other artists. He'd go on to write for some of country's biggest stars like George Strait, Miranda Lambert, Luke Bryan, and Blake Shelton.

Sharyn Alfonsi: How many songs do you think you've written?

Chris Stapleton: I don't know. Probably in excess of a thousand.

Sharyn Alfonsi: A thousand. How many do you think are good?

Chris Stapleton: Ten.

Sharyn Alfonsi: Stop.

Sharyn Alfonsi: What's a win for-- writing a song? When do you know, okay, this is-- I did this well.

Chris Stapleton: I don't think I ever know that. The win is finishing the song. And there are a lot of songwriters who will claim that they know. "Yeah, I knew this-- when we wrote this one that it was a six-week number one. And-- and I was gonna get a big giant check in the mail." I really just think those guys are full of s***. I don't think anybody knows that. Like, you can't-- possibly know how everybody's gonna feel about a song that you write. That's impossible to know. I don't trust computer research or phone surveys or anything like that. You have to take it to the people. I trust people. And I trust people who have taste.

People like his wife, Morgane. She was the one with the record deal when they met. Her deal didn't last but theirs did. She is the mother of their five children, his muse and harmony singer.

Sharyn Alfonsi: What was your first impression when you heard his voice, when you heard him sing, as a musician?

Morgane Stapleton: It was very much a-- "Whoa." He's so powerful. Just the sheer volume of his voice is just-- it-- he doesn't need a microphone in a room that's quiet. It's powerful.

But Morgane says Chris never craved the spotlight. He was happy writing songs for others and enjoying his side hustle playing in bands. Still, his powerful voice was gaining legend around Nashville's music row.

At age 33, already a 10-year veteran of the country music scene, universal music group offered him his own record deal. Morgane had to convince him to say yes.

Sharyn Alfonsi: You didn't jump on it right off the bat because of what?

Chris Stapleton: Oh, I'm suspicious of most things. It's just part of my personality.

Sharyn Alfonsi: It is?

Chris Stapleton: Yeah.

Sharyn Alfonsi: What were you suspicious of, they were gonna tell you t--

Chris Stapleton: I don't know--

Sharyn Alfonsi: Like, shave your beard and get a spray tan?

Chris Stapleton: Yeah, maybe. I-- I don't know. Just...my answer back was, "Okay. I-- I'll do this. But-- I'm gonna need to, you know-- do what I wanna do."

He went on to release his first single in 2013. But it went nowhere.

Chris Stapleton: The same month that that single died my dad also passed away in that same month. It was-- it was a bad month and I didn't, didn't feel great about it and I was in a real bad spot.

Hoping to help, Morgane bought this vintage jeep Chris had been eyeing online, even though it was 1,600 miles away in Phoenix, Arizona.

They picked it up and on the trip back to Nashville, he wrote "Traveller," the title track to his first solo album. The collection of 14 songs would be a turning point in his career.

Chris Stapleton: We did that whole record in a week.

Sharyn Alfonsi: You did Traveller in one week?

Chris Stapleton: Yeah.

Sharyn Alfonsi: You gotta be kidding me.

Chris Stapleton: We were on a roll. And that's the only way I can describe it.

Sharyn Alfonsi: And did you know in your heart, like, I know what this should sound like, I know what this should be?

Chris Stapleton: Well, I wanted to make a record that I thought my dad would have liked.

Music critics loved it but early on the album was only a modest success. That changed overnight, when, at the 2015 CMA Awards pop star Justin Timberlake, a new friend and fan, joined him to perform.

Chris Stapleton: It was electric. kinda lightning in a bottle kinda moments, that was one of 'em, for sure. Maybe the biggest one for us, you know?

Chris Stapleton: Most people that were watching that show had never heard of me at that point. And then sales of that record went up, you know, a bazillion percent. And it was just nutty after that.

Stapleton won four CMA awards that night and two Grammys a few months later, something he never dreamed of when he came to Nashville to write music.

Chris Stapleton: One time, a long time ago, just for almost a gag, me and a buddy came down and I said, "Well, I'm just gonna play on the-- the corner and see what I can do."

Sharyn Alfonsi: You did?

Chris Stapleton: I did. So I played on the corner. And-- and I made, like, I don't know, $40 bucks in an hour. And at that point, that was the most money I'd ever made in an hour, and I was like maybe I should just come here and play on the street.

More than a decade later, just blocks from that corner this was the crowd that came to hear him. Chris Stapleton has grown into one of the biggest stars in country music, but he remains one of the most reluctant.

Sharyn Alfonsi: It must be hard for you to hide out right now. Y-- you're a very distinct looking fellow.

Chris Stapleton: I am a very distinct looking fellow. I can hide out. I can walk around a lotta places, if I'm not wearing...

Sharyn Alfonsi: The hat.

Chris Stapleton: The hat and, you know, all blacked out. But-- and also, I'm kinda scary looking. So it also gives people just enough pause sometimes to go, "I-- I don't know if I should walk up to him right now."

He may look like a Hells Angel, but his songs reveal Chris Stapleton's true character. Under the hat, it's all heart.
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Story Corp is a foundation which collected stories from the public for many years. They considered that everyone's story is the treasure of the history. Due to the socal media, America's political divide had been seriously. They held an activity called "One small step". In this activity, thep would match  two people have different political tendency but have something in common, such as they would cook dinner for their children. According to the psychology,  two people who are enemies and you put them face-to-face under very, very specific conditions and they have a conversation and a kind of visceral, emotional experience with each other, that hate can melt away. The foundation hope that through this way can help to build a more peaceful society.

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This past Thursday marked the first anniversary of the attack on the U.S. Capitol, when an angry mob tried and failed to stop Congress from certifying the 2020 presidential election. The insurrection's only success was to further polarize a country already divided. Tonight we'll introduce you to someone attempting to bridge that divide. Dave Isay has created a program called "One Small Step" to get Americans from across the political spectrum to stop demonizing one another and start communicating -- face to face, one conversation at a time. "One Small Step" grew out of "StoryCorps'-- the oral history project Dave Isay founded 18 years ago. It has taped more than half a million Americans telling their stories - to become the largest single collection of human voices ever recorded, with one aim at its core.

Dave Isay: What if we just give the entire country the chance to be listened to and have a chance to talk about, you know, who they are?

Norah O'Donnell: Do you think part of the problem we're having in America is that people are so angry because they don't feel like anybody's listening to them?

Dave Isay: Yeah. I think people feel-- people feel misunderstood and judged and heard. You know, nobody has ever, in the-- in the history of humanity no-- nobody's ever changed their mind because-- by being called an idiot or a moron or a snowflake.

But, you know, many minds have been changed by being listened to, by conversation, being told that they're loved.

Norah O'Donnell: Something that we would all consider maybe so simple is so powerful.

Dave Isay: Yeah, being told that, all of our stories matter equally and infinitely, is-- you know, is-- is something everyone needs to hear.

Dave Isay seems to always be listening, always taking notes, even during our interview.

He told us journalism should be a public service and now hopes that "One Small Step" can help end what he calls the "culture of contempt" that is tearing apart the country.

Dave Isay: The situation is so bad that, you know, if-- if the culture of contempt wins-- things are just not gonna end well for the United States.

Norah O'Donnell: What's fueling the culture of contempt?

Dave Isay: It's media. It's social media. I mean, there's a multi-multi-multi-billion dollar hate industrial complex, where people-- you know, can make money by making us hate and fear each other. It's a little bit of a David and Goliath fight here.

Long before he started StoryCorps and "One Small Step," Dave Isay fought to tell stories of the forgotten by making radio documentaries in flophouses, coal mines, and public housing projects.

He first appeared on 60 Minutes nearly 25 years ago, in a story with Lesley Stahl about two teenagers from Chicago who made their own documentary with his help. The pair won a Peabody Award, one of the highest honors in broadcasting.

In 2003, he got the idea for StoryCorps.

Dave Isay: Everybody, my family, everybody thought it was absolutely insane. You know, we (LAUGHTER) started-- we started with a booth in Grand Central Terminal. And it's a very simple idea. You come to the booth with your grandmother, with anyone who you wanna honor by listening to them. So people think of it as, "If I had 40 minutes left to live, what would I say to this person who means so much to me?"

To attract people, he reached out to the people's library, specifically the director of the Library of Congress' American Folklife Center.

Dave Isay: And I said, "I'm gonna try and record the whole country. Will you accept the material?" And she said those magical three letters, "Yes." (LAUGH) And that was it. And here we are.

The StoryCorps archive is in good company at what is the largest library in the world. Other treasures here include a rare Gutenberg Bible, as well as a draft of the Declaration of Independence handwritten by Thomas Jefferson and a preliminary draft of President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.

Dr. Carla Hayden serves as the librarian of Congress. Until recently it was a lifetime appointment, so only 14 people have held the job since 1802.

Norah O'Donnell: How does having StoryCorps here fit into your vision for the Library of Congress?

Dr. Carla Hayden: StoryCorps is an important part of adding history and context and the individuals who make history. Not just the ones that we see on the news, but the people who are part of the fabric of our American life. The everyday people, what did they feel, what do they believe?

To try to find out, StoryCorps rolled out a mobile booth in 2005 to travel the country. They also launched partnerships and story collection programs in multiple American cities.

When the pandemic hit, they created a new way for people to submit stories online.

Every Friday, for the last 16 years, National Public Radio sends one story into the homes, headphones, and cars of 6 million people.

We were recently at NPR's Washington studio to hear "Morning Edition" host Steve Inskeep introduce the story of Miguel Encinias, a decorated fighter pilot who passed away in 2016 at the age of 92.

Steve Inskeep: He served as a U.S. military pilot in World War II and Korea and Vietnam... Two of his children, Isabel and Juan Pablo Encinias, came to StoryCorps to remember him.

Isabel Encinias: When I was little, I remember him flying in-- in his fighter jet and us waiting for him on the tarmac and thinking, 'Oh my God, what a hero my father is.'

Juan-Pablo Encinias: As he got older, he was diagnosed with dementia. But even at the end, when he cognitively wasn't all there, he would hear a plane and just look up and stare at it in the sky. And you could tell that he just wanted to be up in that plane with every ounce of his being.

Isabel Encinias: Maybe he's listening to us somewhere up there. [laughs]

Juan-Pablo Encinias: I hope so.

Dave Isay: Sometimes-- in an interview you can almost see sparks flying out of someone's mouth. There's-- there's just this kind of magnificence and grace to the story. And those are the ones where you just-- it-- it almost demands to be shared with a larger audience.

In 2010, StoryCorps began to animate conversations to be viewed by new audiences online, like one recorded in Mississippi between Albert Sykes and his 9-year-old son Aidan.

Aidan Sykes: Are you proud of me?

Albert Sykes: Of course. You my man. I-- I just love everything about you, period.

Aidan Sykes: The thing I love about you, you never give up on me. That's one of the things I will always remember about my dad.

Norah O'Donnell: Have you thought about selling Kleenexes? (LAUGH) You could make a lot of money.

Dave Isay: We've always wanted to get Kleenex as a sponsor, but they've never agreed. (LAUGH)

Only a tiny fraction of StoryCorps' hundreds of thousands of stories ever make it onto the radio. They're selected by StoryCorps' facilitators, who make up the actual corps of StoryCorps.

Facilitators are trained in both the art and the technical aspects of story collection.

Jason Reynolds serves on StoryCorps' board of directors. He's also one of the most popular and celebrated young adult authors in the country. Sixteen years ago, fresh out of college, he was a facilitator who conducted close to 300 storycorps sessions over 18 months.

Jason Reynolds: I felt like I was privy to something special, something sacred, you know, and something that would last forever. You know, and no one would know that I'm in the room, right? But I was in the room for some of the most beautiful tales I've ever heard.

Norah O'Donnell: So it sounds like what you heard in the booth is very different than what people may hear on the radio?

Jason Reynolds: Absolutely. Sometimes you can almost hear the anxiety of it all. And other times you can hear-- the gentle tenderness of human beings.

Dave Isay: I think StoryCorps and the facilitators, they get to see, you know, who we really are as Americans. And it's not what you see on 24-hour news.

Around the time of the 2016 presidential election, Dave Isay says he got the idea for a new kind of StoryCorps that could perhaps help unite a country becoming increasingly divided. He decided to call it "One Small Step."

Norah O'Donnell: What's the difference between regular StoryCorps and One Small Step?

Dave Isay: So every regular StoryCorps interview are people who know and love each other. And every One Small Step interview are strangers. And in the case of One Small Step, it's people who are across the political divide.

Dave Isay: So we match strangers who disagree politically to put them face-to-face for 50 minutes. It's not to talk about politics, it's just to talk about your lives.

Facilitators begin by asking the participants to read one another's biography out loud, as in this recent session in Richmond, Virginia. The project tries to match people who may be from different political parties but have something else in common.
Brenda Brown-Grooms: "Hi. I grew up as an Army brat and-- and evangelical Christian surrounded by a very powerful ideology of conservatism, patriotism, and religion." Nicole Unice: "I am a Baptist pastor and performance artist, a native Charlottesvillian, graduate of the University of Virginia, and Union Theological Seminary in New York City."
Participants are encouraged to focus on what they share.
Brenda Brown-Grooms: We're pastors, and we're-- we-- we're helping people to find their path and find their voice. Nicole Unice: Oh, Brenda, I love what you just said about helping people find their path, because I feel such a connection there.
The format is derived from a psychological concept developed in the 1950s called contact theory.

Dave Isay: Which says that when you have-- two people who are enemies and you put them face-to-face under very, very specific conditions-- and they have a conversation and a kind of visceral, emotional experience with each other, that hate-- can melt away. And people can see each other in a new way.
Nicole Unice: I'm here because I thought, "I want to be a part of a better world for our children and our grandchildren." Brenda Brown-Grooms: Yeah. Yeah. I can't save the whole world, but I can do my part where I am. And, dagnabbit, I'm going to. (LAUGH)
One Small Step just crossed the not so small milestone of completing 1,000 sessions and there are over 6,000 people on the waiting list.

Dave Isay: So I'm just going to give you a quick rundown on what's been going on with One Small Step since we last spoke.

Once a month, Dave Isay meets with what he calls One Small Step's braintrust. It includes social psychology professors from Yale and Columbia, former political advisers from both the right and the left and pollsters who've found data to support the idea that there is an "exhausted majority" in America.

Dave Isay: They're tired, they're scared, they're sick of the division, and they wanna figure out a way out. And we've gotta figure out-- we've gotta give them a way out.

Dave Isay makes it a point to venture outside of StoryCorps' home turf on NPR to increase the project's reach.
Tucker Carlson to Dave Isay: I have no idea what your politics are, which is one of the reasons I like you so much, because I don't think you are primarily political, you are really interested in bringing people together.
Norah O'Donnell: You actively seek out media outlets that appeal to conservatives-

Dave Isay: Yes--

Norah O'Donnell: like Tucker Carlson, Glenn Beck.

Dave Isay: Yeah, you know, I think what makes One Small Step special is that all of us believe in every cell of our body that there is a flame of good in you, whether you're liberal or whether you're conservative. And our job is to fan that flame until it becomes a roaring fire.

Jason Reynolds: I take my hat off to Dave. I think-- I think once more he's proving that, like, he-- he-- he's willing to walk the walk.

Norah O'Donnell: When you heard about the One Small Step Initiative, what did you think?

Jason Reynolds: It is very, very difficult for us to hate one another when I'm looking you in the face, and we're talking about what we like to s-- cook our children for dinner. And we talking about how difficult it is to get our babies into college. It isn't an easy fix, it isn't some kind of hocus pocus wh-- or, you know, kumbaya, or it's all fine. It isn't any of that, He knows that. But somebody got to do something,

Dave Isay: Our dream with One Small Step is that we convince the country that it's our patriotic duty to see the humanity in people with whom we disagree.

Norah O'Donnell: It's gonna take a lotta stories to bring this country together.

Dave Isay: We're banking on-- a bit of a miracle here. You just don't give up.
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