26 seconds worth of the Earth heating up
2 minutes of We miss you – I won’t say anything otherwise I might spoil it for you
33 minutes but you get the gist from the first few moments and then it’s up to you whether you stay with it – US farmers talking about local produce, chemical food and organic farming (interesting and not necessarily what you might expect)
Now – tell me, which works best for you and why?
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Even with popular programmes like autumnwatch on TV the vast majority of people are so disconnected from Nature.
The three films are interesting and some of them show this . The first one mapping global warming I just cannot get my head around because I cannot understand how it is possible to come up with accurate measurements of changes of temperature which are so small across the earths surface. If for example you examined a weather map of the UK the temperatures would vary widely throughout the country depending on geographical location, topography and time of day. What was the average temperature of the UK yesterday? Ask 100 people this and they will all come up with a completely different answer, so how can we even talk about the average temperature of the earths surface and moreso over the past 100 years.
The second film showing the deer in amongst the city trafffic emphasizes our current problem with over population, over industrialisation and over mechanization. The biggest problem is that the vast majority of our politicians do not even recognize this as being a problem.
In the third film one of the farmers said that he wanted to do organic farming but do it properly and the only way to do this was to start off with virgin land and then cultivate this without the use of chemicals. So what did he do? I am guessing that he must have cut down some virgin forest . This makes a mockery of what organic farming is all about. Other people in this film felt that they were also farming or purchasing food in a manner which was environmentally friendly , but look at this film in depth and they really were not doing very much at all.
As the snow falls down around me and Chris Huhne starts his new job in Serbia as climate change minister, I have no time for No 1. An experiment in the USA using rubber snakes and raccoons showed that a majority of drivers drove towards the objects not away from them! I have several local farmers leave organic this year due to the extra cost of feed and lack of money for their product. Sadly one of these was the farmer here on Geltsdale which will mean less beetles for Black Grouse to eat. Now we now how you spend your spare time but we enjoy the results!!
I despair at the unwillingness to accept climate science that tells an inconvenient truth.
The second video brought a tear to my eye and I think the film makers captured our relationship with the planet as a society remarkably well.
The third video I watched in full because they had some very interesting comments on the whole food industry and showed passionate people in a country we have come to think of generally as a vast corn field with a huge combine harvestor or crop duster when it comes to farming. The film was made in Austin TX which along with a few other small enclaves in the US is, I think it’s fair to say, somewhat unique. I felt the overall message was very clear and I agreed with the majority of what was said.
Brian – I’m glad you enjoyed them. So did I.
Think that means only you and me think climate change is happening and important Mark,funny that you and me against the world,who would have thought that eighteen months ago.
Seriously,I found the first video really amazing and showed what is happening in dramatic but simple way.
All these people laying claims to organic farming and rare breed meat being better tasting etc all have a product to sell and the truth is give them a blindfold on and one taste of rare breed organic and a intensive fed animal well the intensive fed animal taste always wins.
All that is ever needed to prove these things is I stress impartial judge with nothing to gain from result.
I really wanted to enjoy “We miss you” but ended up being completely confused by it (am I that stupid?!)
The deer missed the cop? Eh? You what?
Does nature miss us? Seriously?
So is that the message here…. “Nature misses us”.
I don’t know about “Nature”, I must be missing something here….
Genuinely confused…. by a strange little film.
I agree with Doug that the 2nd film was a strange little film. And confusing too. But I liked the attempt to say something about the relationship between people and nature without trying to frighten or appeal to self interest but trying to stimulate a different set of emotions and feelings. Nature does not miss us. How could it? Why should it? The proposition is absurd, but perhaps the film makers put it forward in order to have us ask whether we miss nature. And if so, what we should do about it.
The 1st film was not new and though it perhaps helped convey the reality of climate change clearly, it did not help us engage with this fact. Its combined use of hard data and fear should result in action but there is plenty of evidence to show this does not happen. Most young people grew up exposed to numerous environmental messages through formal and informal education. Far too many are not concerned about environmental issues but are turning away from a message that is frightening.
Messages about positive ways to engage with the environmental issues are needed. The 3rd film attempted to do this and though the degree to which the organic movement or local food movement can help can be contested, it is at least something positive to talk about.
Mark – thank you for your comments.