Dr. Elke Weber, Columbia University, said, “We must change our habits. A blind spot is something we don’t pay attention to because it doesn’t threaten us immediately.”
Most of us know that blind spot while driving our cars in our outside rear view mirror that didn’t catch the car coming up on us and we either hit it as we pulled out to pass or barely escaped an accident by jerking the car back into our lane. That ‘blindspot’ faces us with accelerating speed in the 21st century.
Dr. Wolf, author of Decade of Triumph 1990s, said, “There’s no one driving the train. We don’t even know where the tracks end.”
Dr. Albert Bartlett said, “My trust in the government that it will fix things was misplaced. We need a national dialogue on what our future can be and come down with some policy statements.”
As to energy, no amount of conservation will help us escape our energy crisis. Dr. Joseph Tainter said, “Energy efficiency will not get us past our energy crisis. Jevans Paradox means that when you increase efficiency, you drive more use.”
Richard Heinberg, author of The Party’s Over, said, “Population is the worst problem we have in the world today. As it grows, it wipes out everything we do. The earth is finite.”
Dr. Korton said, “We continue as a dominator hierarchy by violence, extreme violence.”
This profound film propels viewers into the future of what we face as a civilization. It mesmerizes and I found myself unable to stop watching it. I played it a second time and I will watch it again a third time.
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