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The sad thing with movies like these is that they preach to the choir. Most of the people viewing them are already the sort of folks who are probably recycling, lowering their carbon footprints, etc.

It's trying to convince the "Creationist neighbors" and "your best friend the belligerent conspiracy theorist" that's so hard, people who just don't want to change. Maybe a movie like this could be just the repetitive message necessary for people to start listening?

eh, probably not.

If repetitive messages prevent the SUV driving douches' kids from growing up to be SUV driving douches, then fine, I'll bear with it.

It's a losers battle to teach the parents, but the kids can still be taught.

We don't care. Bottom line is, we are all going to be long gone and dead when this hits the fan, so why would we care? Name one generation that give a flying crap about how their behavior would affect anyone 200 years later. This is why the Constitution is open for interpretaion (Bear arms, anyone?) the Bible will continue to have version after version after version and Kevin Federline hasn't been forcibly neutered.

Courtney, I have to disagree, but just barely. Thing is, there ARE people who care about stuff like that, there's just not enough of us to make a difference.
Still, I don't mind putting out the energy to try to convince just one person to join my way of thinking. If I convince one, and you convince one, who knows what might happen? The pessimist in me says, not a damn thing. The optimist in me hopes some change will happen.

I don't know, Courtney, how about the feminist movement or civil rights movements? Sure, things aren't perfect, but I certainly wouldn't change places with my grandmother (and not just because she's really old).

The problem with movements like this is that they take a really long time. I think the environmental movement has a shot, if there's enough time before it all goes tits up.

And, even if there's not time, I think of what MLK said: "Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree."

The Pajiba Way? I suddenly have a hankerin' for a tee-shirt with that stamped on it.

While I'm unlikely to see this film (I've studied Environmental Science and already know the story) I'm more than happy to encourage others to see it.

I see the repetition as a new form of nagging and while those people in their SUVs may not watch it, they will certainly hear about it from others.

I wonder if the cast will return for The 12th and 13th hour.

Once they get to 25 they're going to need to think of a different title.

In all honesty I don't know of anyone who doesn't care about man kind's survival. It's just like with everything else in life I and everyone else like me tend to take a 'what the hell can I do about it' stance once we've already done the minimal that is required. What can we do when we live in a world that is dependent on the same components that are destroying it? From my point of view the only thing I can do except recycle and try to conserve as much energy that I can (try that in 100 degree weather) is play the blame game.

Wow, talk about being snotty. It's so cool that someone can condescend and seemingly predict comments from the common man! You bloggers deserve all the fame and money and critical acclaim and...

oh, right. Never mind.

You may find it hard to believe, but Creationist and environmentalist are not necessarily mutually exclusive, although many of the more vocal anti-evolutionary Creationists out there might have you thinking that.

I will go see this movie. And I will try to get all my friends and family, Creationist or other, to do the same.

Courtney- I think there are plenty of people who care about what shape the world will be in 200 years from now. But that aside we're in much deeper shit than that environmentally. Research indicates that although the changes may seem gradual, it's likely that we'll be living in a very different world in 50 years or less. I think that's something to care about.

I don't see why everyone is so pessimistic about movies like these. Everytime one comes out all you hear is "Yeah, that's fine but it's not going to really change anything". I think this is the big problem with gen x and yers--we're so apathetic about everything that it's almost like we've already accepted our own doom. Sure movies like these are overwhelming and sometimes overly idealistic (write your congressman, buy an electric car, hold hands around the campfire and sing Kumbayah, etc.) but are we so jaded that we can recieve all this information and not want to do anything?

I personally think that the people who really contribute to this problem are those who are politically and morally apathetic. Conservatives may get the most press as the group who "hates the environment" but as many others pointed out it's unlikely that Leonardo DiCaprio is going to change their minds. I think the people who can really make a difference on this issue are the ones who constantly say that they don't want to jump on the environmentalism bandwagon because it's a political issue and they hate politics. Maybe the benefit of these films is that if people see them enough they'll stop seeing global warming as being affiliated with a poltical party.

I wonder how much electricity DiCaprio's mansions use, or how many trees were cut down and animals displaced during their construction. Or how many private jets he's flown in the past 5 years.

Seriously, he can kiss my ass.

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Actually he flies commercial, and drives an electric car. There was an article awhile back about "environmentally friendly" celebs and he was the only one who put his money where his mouth is, the rest enjoy flying private jets etc. He's no Ed Begley, but it'll do.

from what i hear leo flies commercial(first class i'm sure), has solar panels on his homes, and drives a prius. doesnt he also have one of those little eletric cars or a smart car? who knows...but huh since he's shilling for the environment it makes since to at least have some sort of responsilbilty. my house is automated and we are looking into getting wind mill since we plenty of wind on my lovely mountain. of course our incentive is the money we save from doing such things

Doesn't Leonardo DiCaprio have like, a carbon neutral island or something? I think he practices what he preaches a lot more than others.

i can get behind a positive message,it`s the Escalade, Hummer, Armada, Driving douche nozzles that should see this movie.right SLIM??

Video Cliffnotes for the junior high set and just in time for school! Teachers across the U.S. America and South Africa and such are rejoicing now that there is another video they can put in front of the class to teach for them. Kids, get extra credit if you quote Leo in your next social studies paper. Solid review, BTW.

I don't need pretty boy Leonardo "flies on private jets" DiCaprio and his cronies gettin' all up in my grille and telling me how to do my business.

Climate hysteria (warming or cooling, ozone or CO2) may have replaced the Book of Revelations interpretation as the favorite for "the end is near" crowd. Who says we are a secular society, we've just changed religions...

Don't worry kids, the world is bigger than your liberalism, it will surive just fine - and so will the humans just trying to get by after coming down from the trees in the first place.

I can't believe people still think global warming is a hoax. I love going to gatherings and hearing the usual contingent of idiots talk about the "normal cycle of the earth", as if they have any idea what they are talking about and the majority of environmental scientists are simply wrong. It's that kind of arrogance that is killing the planet through willful disregard for anyone but themselves. Fucking jackasses.

I am so tired of people equating Creationists with people who don't believe in science. I believe God created our world and I believe in sceince. There, chew on that for awhile.

I work with activists on a daily basis who pound the pavement in hopes of finding more people who give shit. All is not lost. Not all twenty-somethings (like me and 2/3rds of the people I work with) are apathetic douche bags. The more you tell the kids that they don't care, the more they won't give a fuck. I call it learned apathy. "No one talks to me about this because they think I won't understand/care/do anything about it so screw them. Politics is boring. Nothing ever changes, etc." Give us some credit. We feel the burden that our elders have placed on us. And it sucks but we have to deal with it. There might not be a next generation to deal with it. It's that crucial. I saw this film and even if it doesn't changes 1,000 peoples' lives, it can't hurt right? The information is out there and it is every citizen's right and responsibility to do as much as they possibly can about IT.

www.texasenvironment.org

Intelligent and enjoyable review...

... and a nice break from some of the crap-ajiba is appearing around the site of late.

Come to Newfoundland, we've got things pretty much figured out down this way.

Are humans responsible for climate change on the outer reaches of the solar system, or is it the sun? How will altering human activity halt climate change when the evidence clearly indicates that the sun itself and not SUV's is heating up the entire solar system?

Global warming has finally been explained: the Earth is getting hotter because the Sun is burning more brightly than at any time during the past 1,000 years, according to new research.

The simple fact is that throughout the ages the earth has swung wildly between a warm, wet, stable climate, to a cold, dry and windy one - long before the first fossil fuel was burned.

Fearmongering about an imminent climate doomsday also hogs news coverage and important environmental issues like GM food, mad scientist chimera cloning and the usurpation and abuse of corporations like Monsanto flies under the radar.

We are all going to die people.

Come on, Eli, first you denounce climate doomsday and then you proclaim your own doomsday.

And, yeah, we are all going to die. Duh!

i am so fucken tired of people btiching at me about the fucken earth. I just have one thing to say:

SHUT UP!

I will throw my big gulp cup out the window into the stream where it will kill the fish that I don't care about. While simultaneously I will eat beef, spray aerosol, and drive my gas guzzling SUV down the street. No I will not ride a fucken bike either. I hate vegans. I also want them to stop putting fucking bumper stickers on there car that say "you should be earth friendly." All I want to say if FUCK YOU.

Kate, you sound really unhappy. Try to not take it out on the rest of the world (literally).

Maybe if you rode a bike once in a while you wouldn't be so miserable (endorphins and all that).

Earth's recent history has been a series of ice ages followed by warm interglacial periods. To quote physicist Freeman Dyson:

"Another environmental danger that is even more poorly understood is the possible coming of a new ice-age. A new ice-age would mean the burial of half of North America and half of Europe under massive ice-sheets. We know that there is a natural cycle that has been operating for the last eight hundred thousand years. The length of the cycle is a hundred thousand years. In each hundred-thousand year period, there is an ice-age that lasts about ninety thousand years and a warm interglacial period that lasts about ten thousand years. We are at present in a warm period that began twelve thousand years ago, so the onset of the next ice-age is overdue. If human activities were not disturbing the climate, a new ice-age might already have begun."

During an Ice Age, It is likely that a great number of species would become extinct and that only a fraction of the present population of humans could be supported.

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