Sunday, August 3, 2008

The 11th hour - a movie on global warming. Our biosphere is sick. Let's nurse it to health together.

In the the movie, the 11th hour, it said "Our biosphere is sick and we have a planet that is behaving like an infected organism." What a amazing way to describe it.  This movie was filled with metaphors by experts which are eye-opening and paint a vivid picture with their words of what our earth is going through.  We need to restore the health of our planet.  It is "The greatest challenge of our time".  By not doing anything about it or not doing enough, "we are ultimately committing suicide."  And for people to say that global warming is a hoax is very very saddening and infuriating to me.  Other interesting points from the movie:

Nature does for free for us (turn carbon dioxide into oxygen, produce numerous materials to name 2 of millions of things) what would take us 35 trillion dollars to reproduce.

The way we are producing, it is as it we are manufacturing and producing trash.  The amount produced is the same amount of trash put back into the earth.  

We know more brand names, production company names, advertisement names than the names of the local animals and plants surrounding us.  We have become ignorant.

We numb our senses from morning to night.  We have forgotten the beauty of the smells, the sights, the sounds, the feels of the world and are constantly full of our day and what has to get done right now or else.  

Put a picture in your mind of what global warming means to you.  If each person puts his or her picture together, a global mosaic would be painted of the the catastrophic nature of continuing on the path that the world is going.

The movie is informative and is passing knowledge on to us, but now we need to do something about it?  What are you doing?