'Home' is the title of an incredible documentary that tries to make ourselves understand how it came to the catastrophic situation regarding our planet. (the picture can be watches online for free: http://www.youtube.com/user/homeproject).
5 times Academy-Award nominee, Glenn Close , narrates the 90 minute-long picture that illustrates the worst of our fears: the decay of our planet. Several times throughout the picture, it is underlined that in the past 5 decades, human kind has changed the face of our planet more than it has in it's 200.000 years of existence. In the past 50 years has the Planet been depleted of some of it's most precious minerals and soil treasures - including the most precious of them all: WATER.
One of the reasons I loved the documentary so much, is that it names a lot of names; it doesn't only name the reasons why our planet is suffering, but it also tells the viewer who is responsible for it. Tokyo and Lagos, (2 of the most developing cities worldwide) and India, Bangladesh and USA are named to be the greatest consumers of our resources - the cost to sustain the lives of the hundreds of millions of people are so incredible huge, that in only a few decades we will have depleted all the available resources.
Another reason I truly recommend this documentary is, that it gave us an example of what could and eventually will happen of the human race. Apparently, there existed a highly educated and developed civilization on the Easter Islands. Although they were struck by famine, riots and natural catastrophes, it always survived because of the human mind. However, the people depleted the island of all of its resources until they starved to death.
The documentary states several times that we became dependent of oil, petroleum and the several other forms of the 'black gold'. We are reminded that although we have already run out of oil in some of the corners of our planet, we still drill, dig and try to find more and more. Impressive images of Arabia and Africa are shown to let us know that we also ran out of under-earthed water supplies. Water is used for almost everything in our daily routine, from washing our cars and watering the tropical paradise of the desert located Las Vegas to cultivating grain for the life stock we depend upon.
The human greed, its quickly development and the impossibility to sustain life as it is nowadays (without destructing its own planet) damages permanently the balance of nature. "We are living in exceptional times. Scientists tell us that we have 10 years to change the way we live, avert the depletion of natural resources and the catastrophic evolution of the Earth's climate." (quote from the Homeproject Youtube channel - the link is above).
I recommend the documentary to everybody who still believes that living the American dram of heaving a big house and 2 cars is still the way to go.
5 times Academy-Award nominee, Glenn Close , narrates the 90 minute-long picture that illustrates the worst of our fears: the decay of our planet. Several times throughout the picture, it is underlined that in the past 5 decades, human kind has changed the face of our planet more than it has in it's 200.000 years of existence. In the past 50 years has the Planet been depleted of some of it's most precious minerals and soil treasures - including the most precious of them all: WATER.
One of the reasons I loved the documentary so much, is that it names a lot of names; it doesn't only name the reasons why our planet is suffering, but it also tells the viewer who is responsible for it. Tokyo and Lagos, (2 of the most developing cities worldwide) and India, Bangladesh and USA are named to be the greatest consumers of our resources - the cost to sustain the lives of the hundreds of millions of people are so incredible huge, that in only a few decades we will have depleted all the available resources.
Another reason I truly recommend this documentary is, that it gave us an example of what could and eventually will happen of the human race. Apparently, there existed a highly educated and developed civilization on the Easter Islands. Although they were struck by famine, riots and natural catastrophes, it always survived because of the human mind. However, the people depleted the island of all of its resources until they starved to death.
The documentary states several times that we became dependent of oil, petroleum and the several other forms of the 'black gold'. We are reminded that although we have already run out of oil in some of the corners of our planet, we still drill, dig and try to find more and more. Impressive images of Arabia and Africa are shown to let us know that we also ran out of under-earthed water supplies. Water is used for almost everything in our daily routine, from washing our cars and watering the tropical paradise of the desert located Las Vegas to cultivating grain for the life stock we depend upon.
The human greed, its quickly development and the impossibility to sustain life as it is nowadays (without destructing its own planet) damages permanently the balance of nature. "We are living in exceptional times. Scientists tell us that we have 10 years to change the way we live, avert the depletion of natural resources and the catastrophic evolution of the Earth's climate." (quote from the Homeproject Youtube channel - the link is above).
I recommend the documentary to everybody who still believes that living the American dram of heaving a big house and 2 cars is still the way to go.