Leonardo DiCaprio's "The 11th Hour" is a documentary concerning the environmental crises caused by human actions and calls for restorative action through a reshaping of human activity.
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My action is simple. I`m a teacher and a writer and this, our potential finest hour, is what is on my mind as I do it all.
We all have a role to play in this, and I think it is time that we all realize that how ever big or small, it all matters. This is the main thing to know. The main thing I took from the 11th hour... our history has made us who we are, and placed us here at this moment in tiime. Now, it`s time to value that... honor that place, and step up. `Politic` from Coldplay that ends the film... Everyone must find a place... open up your eyes... open up your eyes...
My eyes are open, and I'm teaching and writing to not turn away...
I have decided to give myself challenges to push myself to become more aware, environmentally creative, and see what I really am capable of doing. I encourage any of you to join me in these challenges if you so desire. If you do please let me know and update me on your progress. I know it is already a couple of days into June so I am cheating a little, but here it goes..... for the rest of the month of June I am going to try and only buy things for my husband and my (Plus our little man, our dog Moe) immediate needs. This means I will only be buying things like food, medicine, and things of these nature. As I do this I am going to take mental inventory of the things that I am wanting to buy that are not necessary and see if I can boot them out of my shopping list for good. I will check in about once a week and discuss any struggles I am having or confess to any money spent to something that was not related to a necessary need.
Although I must confess already, my goodness it's only been 2 minutes into the challenge and I am already confessing! I do have a train ride on Thursday into a province of China that I have not been to before, so I am afraid that I will be spending money there. I wish myself better luck as this progresses!
Very interesting film, but has totally missed the point. It is quite obvious the items you mention on the above list will do little. Am I the only person that believes cutting the world population by half in thirty years is going to be the only way. We are struggling now to feed ourselves, and whilst we might in the future be able to travel to the supermarket in cars that give off half the CO2, if there are twice as many of us, its no different than our cars now. The only difference will be, is that food will be twice as expensive. The problem is, there is no way of reducing population so it looks a bleak future
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