Monday, March 29, 2010

The 11th Hour

This movie documentary sends out a pretty strong message about the environment, laid out in an easy manner to understand and in a way hard to ignore through the strong images they reveal. The environmental neglect shown has instrumental effects and they are not isolated incidents in the media like they mentioned. Incidents happen all over the world whether they are big or small it eventually adds up to the total of damages.

The documentary started off with something that really caught my attention this was when he said everybody is talking about saving the environment, but the fact is the environment will survive and we will eventually die. That is strong stuff so we ourselves as people are committing suicide we are not looking after our surroundings as well as we should, our planet is our only home they are mention.

Also saying people were separate from nature but we are part of nature in reality, we are nature. Humans act superior than everyone else as it mentions hogging all the resources from everything else, too many of us using too many resources too fast. There are people out there who are stupid! Thinking global warming is a belief it is not! Its evidence as they clearly cover this.

As industrial designers we do not know the future but we know the past, we can learn from it and at least try to make it a better place. Creating a culture where the surroundings are around us and us not damaging it. We have to consider materials that’s vital to redesign. The time is right now we have a choice!

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