It was an interesting and touching movie. But on the other hand it feels like propaganda, all those numbers she mentions and so on. But I think this is a good way to make people react and may think about what they either buying stuff or how the recycle or not recycle trash they are about to throw away. Do I really need this new stuff or not, just because it is the latest updates or what so ever.
The problem is that it is easy to say I will change my routines and be a better person for the environment, but it is hard to actually do it. You maybe succeed, but as Annie said “this becoming a culture to buy things. The companies figuring how to sell so much as possible and make the profit as big as possible with updates or changing the design”. It is hard to change that culture, don’t think people actually care about the environment even if they say they do. And the company will not produce less, the companies want to make as big profit as possible. Well, they could invest in better system which gives less pollution and follow the rules of fair trade and so on. Better technologies will make the possibilities better in the future. I don’t know if it was in the 50’s they said that the resources will run out in 50 years, but today with better technologies than in the 50’s we noticed, that is not the case… But the development must go faster, especially in the third world countries and big industry countries as USA and China.
You make a very interesting point in that it is hard to actually change one's behaviour. Seen as the environmental issue is not something that affects us in this very second, but rather damaging in the long run, it is difficult to actually take in. It also raises the issue of what the consequences of our illtreating of the planet actually are. It is understandable that people tend to be sceptical to the horror stories about what will happen since it is all speculations at the moment, and maybe that is also the reason why some find it difficult to be motivated to act.
SvaraRaderaI think it's interesting that you saw behind all the numbers and facts the women in the movie fed us with. The facts that scared me, you saw as propaganda against all people that consume for fun and not by need. You took the edge off the main message in the movie while I got upset over how humans are thinking nowadays, and what in our lives that is valuable.
SvaraRaderaThank you for your perspective on the movie, you got me think more on the problem with a consumer society . The use and throw away mentality started with propaganda and it will hopefully end with the same by movies and other things that affects people.