Review of The 11th Hour (2007) by Selka K — 16 May 2008

This movie has the same goal as An Inconvenient Truth, to open our eyes to the environmental crisis we are dealing with. Even more than in Al Gore's movie the connection between the destruction of our globe and the increase of common diseases such as diabetes, asthma and cancer is explained. This explanation should really open our eyes because those diseases are affecting many of us (including myself). That these diseases can be reduced in connection with saving the earth from the global warming is something that isn't really clear to many. I didn't really think about it either before I saw the movie. This movie contains a lot of interviews with scientists such as Stephen Hawking and comes to the conclusion that there is a need of mentality change before the earth can be saved. A mentality change means that we have to see nature no longer as our property but as a living creature, which has rights. It sounds logic to me because nature LIVES, nature is not dead so it can never be a property. But that is the heart of the problem. People exploit nature and since the industrial revolution nobody ever asked questions.

As far as I understand the situation is hopeless since I cannot see the mentality of six billion people change withing ten years or so. Certainly not that of political leaders and capitalist leaders of big petrol and car industries, among others.

I wonder if the pretty face of Leo DiCaprio really helps?

Yes I am negative, we are doomed. See this movie anyway and make your own decision.