I hope you have time to watch this video.
Wake Up, Freak Out - then Get a Grip from Leo Murray on Vimeo.
Mainly it discusses how positive feedback loops can cause Earth's temperature to reach a tipping point beyond which it may be too late to keep it from rising to levels that would drastically alter Life.
But that's not why I like the video. I like it because of its message that "we simply need to consume less."
- Leo Murray's Script for Wake Up, Freak Out - then Get a Grip.
Also, near the end, you can find images of rampant consumerism. Extremely fat corporate types ride on the bent backs of spindly citizens. Video monitors (presumably showing commercial television programming) are dangled in front like carrots to keep the citizens moving. This is set up by showing a member of Congress with his greedy corporate-pig friend.
It's a great illustration of the modern form of slavery you and I are trapped in. We have been brainwashed to want a large home, two big, gas-guzzling SUVs, all sorts of electronic gadgetry that needs to be replaced every year or two, and new fashions every year. So we're willing to work at jobs whose wages consistently fail to keep pace with the cost of living. We work harder and harder and have less and less to show for it. Meanwhile, the fat pigs of corporate America get richer and richer.
Now we have to bail them out. It's amazing that this video came out before the need for the bailout.
Wake Up, Freak Out - then Get a Grip from Leo Murray on Vimeo.
Mainly it discusses how positive feedback loops can cause Earth's temperature to reach a tipping point beyond which it may be too late to keep it from rising to levels that would drastically alter Life.
But that's not why I like the video. I like it because of its message that "we simply need to consume less."
But [consuming less] is out of the question in a society which is founded on the ever-increasing consumption of materials and energy [my emphasis].
Nobody has all of the answers; but we do know that this is not the only way to live, and given that it is almost certainly going to kill us all, we had better start looking urgently at some of the alternatives. It is now very clear that in order to actually win the fight against climate change, making big changes to the way we each live our own lives is not going to be enough; we’re also going to have to actively confront powerful vested interests who will stop at nothing to prevent the changes we need from taking place [my emphasis]. We have to be more than just consumers.
- Leo Murray's Script for Wake Up, Freak Out - then Get a Grip.
Also, near the end, you can find images of rampant consumerism. Extremely fat corporate types ride on the bent backs of spindly citizens. Video monitors (presumably showing commercial television programming) are dangled in front like carrots to keep the citizens moving. This is set up by showing a member of Congress with his greedy corporate-pig friend.
It's a great illustration of the modern form of slavery you and I are trapped in. We have been brainwashed to want a large home, two big, gas-guzzling SUVs, all sorts of electronic gadgetry that needs to be replaced every year or two, and new fashions every year. So we're willing to work at jobs whose wages consistently fail to keep pace with the cost of living. We work harder and harder and have less and less to show for it. Meanwhile, the fat pigs of corporate America get richer and richer.
Now we have to bail them out. It's amazing that this video came out before the need for the bailout.
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