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“The 11th Hour” - How We Can Save Our Planet

Posted by Jyle & Jeanne

August 13, 2007 |

 

The 11th Hour

“The 11th Hour” is a film I would recommend going to see as a family. It promises to be pumped full of information from the worlds leading environmental scientists on how each and everyone of us can live a sustainable life free of pollution.

Leonardo DiCaprio’s “The 11th Hour” is a feature length documentary concerning the environmental crises caused by human actions and their impact on the planet. “The 11th Hour” documents the cumulative impact of these actions upon the planet’s life systems and calls for restorative action through a reshaping of human activity. With the help of over fifty of the world’s most prominent thinkers and activists, including reformer Mikhail Gorbachev, physicist Stephen Hawking, and Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai, “The 11thHour” documents the grave problems facing the planet’s life systems. Global warming, deforestation, mass species extinction, and depletion of the oceans’ habitats are all addressed, and their causes rooted in human activity. The combination of these crises call into question the very future not of the planet, but of humanity.

However, the most powerful element of “The 11th Hour” is not a portrait of a planet in crisis, but the offering of hope and solutions. Scientists and environmental advocates such as David Orr and Gloria Flora (note: these names can be interchanged for any of the experts) paint a portrait for a radically new and exciting future in which humanity seeks not to dominate the earth’s life systems, but to mimic them and coexist. “The 11th Hour” calls for a future now within our grasp that is both sustainable and healthier.

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The 11th Hour

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5 Comments so far

  1. Tarun K Juyal on August 14, 2007 3:05 am

    I am a regular reader of your article. And I am very impress with your blog upon Global Warming. Now I am also write a blog upon effects and causes of Global Warming. This blog is collection of news & reviews like the study found that global warming since 1985 has been caused neither by an increase in solar radiation nor by a decrease in the flux of galactic cosmic rays. Some researchers had also suggested that the latter might influence global warming because the rays trigger cloud formation.

  2. Winnie on August 14, 2007 10:49 am

    I like that this film purports to give us things we can actually do. I do not like watching a documentary (on any topic) that leaves me troubled/disgusted/horrified, but I am left saying, “Okay, but what do I DO about it?” Hopefully a lot of people will see this and put the ideas into action.

  3. Jyle & Jeanne on August 20, 2007 2:30 pm

    Thanks Tarun! I’ll check out your site.

  4. Jyle & Jeanne on August 20, 2007 2:32 pm

    I’d have to agree with you Winnie. Watching depressing films leave you feeling helpless. Hopefully some positive energy that the film promises will help alter peoples perceptions about our environment and what we can do.

  5. kd griffin on August 21, 2007 2:50 am

    I haven’t seen the film but I’ve been really impressed with him and the appearances I’ve seen. LIke Winnie said it’s things a normal person can do. I appreciate that. He seems to get it.

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