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kozz

Posts: 1766
Joined: Feb. 26 2009
From: Eindhoven NL

HOME - nice documentary footage

Perhaps you've already seen it, but I thought I would share it anyway:

You might turn the dramatic voiceover off and just enjoy the wonderfull footage.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Aug. 24 2009 5:05:54

r0bbie

Posts: 160
Joined: Feb. 11 2007
From: Holland

RE: HOME - nice documentary footage (in reply to kozz)

I did not see it before but why turn off the voice over? I do not belive every thing she tells us but it is good to hear and see what we humans do to the earth.

Actually it makes me sad to hear and see this and it makes me want to stop the logging of wood and drilling for oil and so on. I think of my children who inherit a world that has been stripped down of all resources and the question is if there is enough left to survive?

The imaging is great but also what they have to say about how we humans threat the earth. This is something I can talk about for hours, you know, maybe it is not our fault , maybe the sun is hotter than ever/normal (it is) and Mars is also getting hotter (humans can not cause that, so it has to be the sun that is getting hotter) so the oceans release the co2 they cannot hold when the water gets warmer, causing the co2 levels to rise MUCH more than humans can.... and so on....

anyway, good video and verry informative!
Rob.

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Pimientito

Posts: 2481
Joined: Jul. 30 2007
From: Marbella

RE: HOME - nice documentary footage (in reply to r0bbie)

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maybe it is not our fault , maybe the sun is hotter than ever/norma

There are many arguments for and against Global warming. I tend to agree that the single biggest factor in the temperature of the earth is the temperature of the sun. The earth has had cold and warm periods before. The south of England was warm to enough to grow grapes in Roman England and cold enough to hold street markets on the Frozen Thames 15 centuries later. We do know that the sun is in a warmer cycle this last 40 years. What we don’t know is how great our impact is on the current warmer period that we have now and unfortunately this can lead to line of argument that in fact we are having an insignificant impact on our environment.

Even if we were to ignore the subject of global warming, we cannot ignore the greater problem to humanity. Today there are 6.5 billion of us. That’s four times as many as 100 years ago. We are using our resources faster than nature can replace them. The European forests have gone, the Atlantic cod banks have gone, our fish stocks are dwindling, our rainforests are disappearing, its estimated a species of plant or animal becomes extinct every 20 minutes, in less than 100 years we have used over half the fossil fuel that will ever be available in the future to humanity…and we complain when gas goes up a few cents! We are overlooking the bigger issue of what happens when our ecosystems totally break down and our energy runs out.

I thought the film was beautifully made and serious food for thought. Even if you don’t agree with global warming it’s hard to ignore that we are having a devastating impact on our planet.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Aug. 26 2009 9:40:37

Ron.M

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Joined: Jul. 7 2003
From: Scotland

RE: HOME - nice documentary footage (in reply to Pimientito)

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We are using our resources faster than nature can replace them. The European forests have gone, the Atlantic cod banks have gone, our fish stocks are dwindling,

Bad news indeed, Pim,

I guess when it's all gone then we're just gonna all have to go down to Tesco's and get ready-meals instead.

Sorry, just joking Pim.

Hey, I bought a can of cat food for our cat. For the last 5 years or so she hated it and would only eat stuff like sardines or scraps of beef and pork or chicken.

Suddenly she's got a taste for it again in her old age after I bought a few "kitty-morsels" type stuff on spec going for a bogof price in the local supermarket and she scoffed it up.

So my wife bought a couple of cans of cheap cat food today.

Tuna and Cod variety.

On one of them was splashed the slogan "Made With REAL Fish!!"

My brain boggled as I tried to think what the alternative to real fish is??

Plastic fish?

(Fish-on-a bicycle, self-delivered to your door?

)

Maybe in 20 years time the Luthiers can advertise "Made with REAL wood!!)

Ah God!!!

Ron

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Aug. 26 2009 11:53:30

marrow3

Posts: 166
Joined: Mar. 1 2009

RE: HOME - nice documentary footage (in reply to r0bbie)

Hi,

the point about the sun "solar forcing", i saw a while ago some strong arguments against global warming. There's not much point in me asserting one way or another - just adding noise. But I understand the science is now clear cut on solar forcing - that it isn't causing present warming.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn11462-climate-change-a-guide-for-the-perplexed.html

regards,
Richard

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Aug. 26 2009 16:04:16