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BLOGASSAULT on Wednesday, August 22, 2007 12:05:44 PM
Leonardo DiCaprio's new movie The 11th Hour will be released in a few weeks, starring Hurricane Katrina, Midwestern Tornado's, power plant smoke stacks, and a host of extras being terrorized by the weather.
The 11th Hour Action Group has been organized with the help of Mr. DiCaprio to help everybody learn to be greener. The trailer is below.
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Leonardo DiCaprio's "The 11th Hour" is a feature length documentary concerning the environmental crises caused by human actions and their impact on the planet. The 11th Hour documents the cumulative impact of these actions upon the planet's life systems and calls for restorative action through a reshaping of human activity.
The 11th Hour opens in Los Angeles and New York on August 17th, in select markets on August 24th, and nationwide on August 31st.
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Of course we can all do a better job at cleaning up the environment. But how the enviro's have linked natural occurring disasters that have been going on for hundreds of thousands of years to climate change is beyond me.
Let's take Katrina for instance. Katrina was a powerful hurricane that could not have picked a worse place to make land fall. But there are two things that are of consequence here. First, the area around New Orleans that bore the brunt of the storm is nine feet below sea level. That stretch of shore line should not be inhabited by humans anyway. Be the problem of getting people out and moving them is simply not feasible. Secondly, the levee's were completely inadequate to handle a category 5 hurricane. The state of Louisiana new this. The city of New Orleans new this, and they had known for years. But it was never dealt with because they kept waiting for the federal government to fix the problem. But is this due to increased intensity of hurricanes? No. It's poor planning by humans. We do things that make no sense and then complain later when it all goes to hell. People to this day still build homes on the shores of Florida. Why? Statistically, it is only a matter of time before a hurricane comes and lays it all to waste.
What bothers me is the fear monger in the movie clip. It's predicated on science that has not been proven and realistically shouldn't matter in this debate anyway. As long as we building on the shore lines across America and around volcano's like in seattle, horrible things will follow. We as citizens have to be smarter, not only about our infrastructure, but with our waste. But trying to scare everyone with misleading movies and tragic weather scenarios is lacking true intelligence.