I finally found the time to catch The 11th Hour just now, if only to miss a few portions of it because of (yet another) house errand. I need a bit more education on the the environment and global warming, so I’ll probably rent it later for the missing parts. I know I may be a little late in caring, but better late than never. The things I learned from the docu weren’t exactly things I didn’t already know, but the degree of seriousness was just mindblowing. I actually felt literally sick to my stomach.
One thing that stuck was the fact that it isn’t that we don’t have solutions. We do. We have heaps and heaps of documents in libraries that contain these solutions, and a public that is willing to carry them out. The problem, as one of those interviewed pointed out, is that we don’t have the power to turn them into laws because of the corporate minority who hold a far stronger hold on the formation of the Government’s policies than the average majority. There may be power in numbers, but there’s a lot more power in money, it seems. And so the excessively rich and greedy win again.
Then there’s the problem of consumers who have been conditioned into thinking that spending is the only way we can be happy. Millions are spent on advertisements to get people to think that buying something is the only way to attain happiness. There’s nothing wrong in buying of course, but it’s now become a central way of life. People spend their time working to be able to shop, not to sustain the quality of life. We’ve become completely materialistic. A psychologist equates us all to astronauts floating around in a metallic universe. We’ve been numbed to the point that we forget the most fundamental source that provides us all that we need: Earth.
And that is more scary than global warming itself.
I still have a lot more to learn. This is only the beginning.
Enough said here.
