Reflection B - The 11th Hour

"The biosphere is sick, we have a planet that is behaving like an infected organism."

After watching The 11th Hour I am relieved to have found that I am not the only one who finds it strange to line up for hours, outside a store, waiting to purchase a seemingly discounted object, so that eventually I could throw it away and go through the process again, again, again...
This documentary has moved me. I am very interested in the re-designing of manufacturing processes to mimic the procedures and chemical processes of nature. It gives me hope that one day we may be able to live together with nature and re-invent life as we see it now.

Eye openers;

1. 50-55 000 species a year are going extinct because of the human race.
2. The Orb Spider produces a web 5 times stronger than steel.
3. "We are psychologically numb... We cannot see the beauty." James Hillman

Global warming is treated, by some, as a belief, not an actual happening in time. I believe this is because we are living in the change hence we cannot see the change. Whereas it is very easy to see the mistakes of the past. We are oblivious to the coming disaster just as the people before us were oblivious to the black plague and other epidemics that could have been avoided with better 'design of infrastructure of humanity'. We are blinded by the economy. The economy is just a system. It's not a belief, god, religion however we treat it that way. We are blinded by a threat that isn't real. If people reduce their spending, waste and consumerism, the world is not going to end. Major corporations will end.
I feel that the solution to this is that corporations, should begin to promote and employ sustainable practices. The people at the top who rule the world, supposedly, or in other words the CEO's, need to make changes. You need to see beyond the short term profit. I believe the larger the carbon footprint a corporation has, the sustainability strategy should be planned for the number of years it would take to restore the damage. Furthermore bring the business down to a threshold where the amount of damage made is not beyond one year of repair.

"The environment is going to survive. We're the ones who may not survive, well we may survive in a world we might not particularly want to live in."

It seems that changes will not be at the rate they need to be until we are at a crisis point where the effects of global warming affect our day to day activities. There have been legislation's and campaigns, actions have been taken, however they are not enough of have been discontinued due to political and societal factors.