This planet is over 4 billion years-old and humans are only 200 thousand years-old.  Yet in the race for survival that, in the end, turned to greed, humans have wreaked the greatest amount of havoc to the balance of Planet Earth, with most of it being waged in the last 50 years  ... just in the wink of an eye in Earth time. The movie, HOME, takes its audience on an astounding aeirial view of Earth with an accompanying audio history describing a virus that is running amuck.  The virus they are speaking of is humanity and it is spreading like cancer.  My sister just showed me an excerpt she copied that was posted where she works out.  I think it is appropriate here, too.  "The greatest tragedy of life is not poverty, or hunger, or even death.	(click here to watch full-length movie)
The great tragedy is that we could, but we don't; we should, but we won't.  Within us all exists the capacity for uniqueness, for accomplishment, and for freedom from unwanted obligations.  Beginning at this very moment, you need never be the same again -- except by choice.  But again, the great tragedy speaks loudly.  We could, but we don't; we should, but we won't." We all feel it; we are living in an atmosphere like no other time in history.  Carbon Dioxide is the highest it's ever been.  Scientists tell us that we have a decade to change the way we live to avert the catastrophic and horrendous consequences of our planet's runaway climate.  The stakes are high for Earth and all its inhabitants. HOME is almost an "eulogy" to the planet and its beauty and delicate harmony.  We are taken on a magic carpet ride over the landscapes of 54 countries.  Yann Arthus-Bertrand takes us on a unique journey all around the planet to awaken us before it's too late.  But the film HOME is more than a documentary, it is a mesmerizing history of a relatively short life form that is destroying everything in its path.  We are in perilous times when Earth's most evolved creature, humans, are the very virus that is bringing on its own destruction and that of the Earth. The aerial cinematography by photographer Yann Arthus-Betrand is stunning, often turning the most dismally wasted landscapes into abstractions of color and form.  It is almost disturbing to see that there is beauty to be found even in environmental devastation, but only if you film it from far enough away. By the film's end, it proclaims that "it's too late to be a pessimist."  We've depleted the soil, chopped down tropical forests for palm oil plantations, triggered the Sixth Great Extinction of animals and plants in the Earth's history, hoarded wealth, built crowded megacities, left most of the swelling human population of six billion plus in poverty and environmental degradation, and tipped the climate's delicate balance toward runaway global warming.  When you're on the bottom, we can only be like the trees, and look up to the sun where there is light. French luxury conglomerate, PPR, which owns Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent, Alexander McQueen, Balenciaga, Bottega Veneta, Boucheron, Sergio Rossi, Stella McCartney and other luxury brands, has financially backed the production and distribution of this eye-opening film about our earth and the damaging effects of global warming. On June 5, World Environmental Day, the film debuted in 127 countries.  It was directed by French photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand (Earth from Above) and produced by award-winning director Luc Besson (Taken, Subway, The Big Blue, Nikita, The Fifth Element), with the support of Francois-Henri Pinault, CEO of PPR.  The goal of the film is to raise awareness of our collective responsibility towards the planet - ouir HOME.  Profits will be donated to Goodplanet.org  - a non-profit organization working to raise awareness of the disasterous state of our planet and the need for human intervention and responsibility.  It was shot in high definition in 54 countries and 120 locations over 217 days.  HOME is narrated in English by Glenn Close and in Spanish by Salma Hayek. PPR's support of HOME has enabled this film to be free of distribution rights and it will be shown on TV, in open-air theaters, on the Internet in partnership with YouTube and Google, in theaters worldwide at a reduced rate and on DVD.  In the United States, it was broadcasted on June 5 on the National Geographic Channel and shown at Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art.  In New York City, it was shown at Central Park in Cedar Hill.  You can also catch it on YouTube.  It sells for $19.98 on DVD and fifteen percent of the studio's profits will go to Conservation International. In the above film, HOME, they refer to "climate refugees."  The articles referenced below by Peter Russell have valuable information on impending climate changes and carbon emissions. Runaway Climate Change The Most Dangerous Aspect of Global Warming by Peter Russell  http://www.peterrussell.com/Earth/RunawayCC.php See:  Carbon Sequestration | BioChar And Also: Fly or Drive? | Free Energy?-No Thanks! It is time, indeed, to come together to make a big difference, and so many are aware of this in their hearts, all over the world. I liked the optimism at the end of the movie. Let's radically change our consumerism! Here's a quote from the movie: "The engine of life is linkage, evrything is linked. Nothing is self-sufficient. Water and air are inseparable, united in life and FOR our life on Earth. Sharing is everything!" In our hearts we have the power to create change! Debbie @ The Feminine Whisperers   www.TheFeminineWhisperers.net www.SerReal.ning.net/group/greencommunities