Laura P #12 2010

Today we started watching a movie named "The age of stupid". This movie talks about how the world will be if we do not try to make a change in this world and it also talks about all of the bad things and the natural disasters that have happen in the past and that have affected us. One of the things that got my attention the most was that the company shell discovered this land which was very rich in petroleum so they just took over it and they did not give any money to the people that was living there the only thing that they did for them was a hospital but the company did not even finish because they said that if they take some doctors over there, they tough they where going to get kidnapped but that was just an excuse for them not to finish the hospital and because that land is really poor and they did not have a lot of things before now they have even less because of all of that carbon dioxide that is being released into the atmosphere their environment has been polluted and also because of the factories all of their fishes are dieing. I also saw on the video that because of what people are doing to the environment a lot of natural disasters have happen like for example one of the biggest hurricanes ever has been hurricane Catrina, and it has affected millions of people in a lot of ways like in money, family, and resources. I also saw a lot of things that help save the community and that help save energy like for example I saw this big place where they had some wind meals and they showed the size of one blade it and if he was compared to the blade he looked like a little ant compared to a human hand. Some of the people that where talking on the video think that the government does not do anything to try to stop the air pollution and all of those other bad things for us because of this, the only thing that they are doing is creating more fights over the world because they are not going to have the enough resources and because they are making people feel like of they have to buy more things. The author was telling the viewer his experience that he had while he was discovering the different things that effect the earth. One of the things that the author told us was that he feels that the world is a beautiful place and because of the people not doing anything to keep our resources, we are not going we are going to have them along with us for a long time. Because of some of the people where trying to reduce the air pollution they had a idea to stop using the cars and start using airplanes, this created the cost of the airplanes flights to be really cheap but this came out to be a total disaster because there was too much people trying to take airplanes. Everyone in the video including me think that if we all put our minds together to try to make a change in this world we could really make it happen and they also think that if we do not do anything to try to save the world the future generations are going to be blaming us for not protecting our environment. I really think that this was one of the best documentaries I have ever watched because it really made me feel like if I should do a difference in this world.