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17-Nov-2011 #1

Neil

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The Story Of Stuff - Worth a watch!

Not seen it put so well as this before... Do me a favour and spend 20 mins watching this...

I must admit to being fairly cynical to our current value set and approach to the planet, and feel a cultural change is due! I'm not saying we all need to go and hug trees, but I feel consumerism has gone mad and needs to be reigned in, and our long term out look and plan for the planet and its resources is basically non-existant!

Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. [click for more]
-Carl Sagan