Watch this movie and share your reaction. Are you scared? Indifferent? Angry? Baffled? This documentary doesn't intend to crush hope, not by any means. But we humans have infected our planet with a severe cancer. We are the agents, the source of the disease. Yet, we, too, can act as physicians. We can heal ourselves. But why don't we? Why are we as a species so irrational? Why are we so myopic (short-sighted)? It's not from ignorance, except perhaps to the extent that we can rightfully label our ignorance as self-deception. The question is no longer what is happening, or what will happen (within broad parameters), but what are we going to do about it? Action, meaningful action, requires political action at every level, from the local to the planetary. So far, we've done a poor job of it. We think that we as a species are immortal, that our way of life can't collapse.
Me? I'm baffled and angry. Baffled that we're so irrational, both actively (lying to ourselves & others) and passively in the sense that we're letting our ourselves be governed by demons of our own making. And I'm angry at those who perpetuate the lies, the ignorance, and the irrationality.
Can someone based on sound evidence and arguments point me in another direction? If so, please do. I'd like to think more highly of my species.
