11th Hour: Coming Soon
Below is a reprint of the letter from the directors of the 11th Hour seeking your pledge to see the move:
Friend,
We are very excited that on August 17th "The 11th Hour" will open in New York and Los Angeles, then across the United States in the weeks that follow, and then around the world. We've worked extraordinarily hard with Leo on this project for three years, and we couldn't be more proud of the film.
The message of the movie is a simple one: our actions as a species are destroying the planet's very life systems. We need them to survive. Yet, more importantly, the film's message is one of hope. We can change our environmentally destructive ways, learn to live with nature and move together to a sustainable future.
"The 11th Hour" is a call to action for us to redesign our lives, and that's an extremely exciting challenge.
Obviously, this movie is very important to us, but its message is important to everyone. We want to see that message get out as far and wide as possible. So please come visit "The 11th Hour" to make your pledge to see the film. Just tell us when you'll see the movie, and please bring four or five friends.
We must all begin to act. You can begin by visiting the film's site and using the sample letters to help begin effecting change in your daily lives.
Thank you all, please see the film, but more importantly let's begin acting to create a healthier and sustainable future.
Very Sincerely,
Leila Conners Petersen
Nadia Conners
Directors, "The 11th Hour"
Friend,
We are very excited that on August 17th "The 11th Hour" will open in New York and Los Angeles, then across the United States in the weeks that follow, and then around the world. We've worked extraordinarily hard with Leo on this project for three years, and we couldn't be more proud of the film.
The message of the movie is a simple one: our actions as a species are destroying the planet's very life systems. We need them to survive. Yet, more importantly, the film's message is one of hope. We can change our environmentally destructive ways, learn to live with nature and move together to a sustainable future.
"The 11th Hour" is a call to action for us to redesign our lives, and that's an extremely exciting challenge.
Obviously, this movie is very important to us, but its message is important to everyone. We want to see that message get out as far and wide as possible. So please come visit "The 11th Hour" to make your pledge to see the film. Just tell us when you'll see the movie, and please bring four or five friends.
We must all begin to act. You can begin by visiting the film's site and using the sample letters to help begin effecting change in your daily lives.
Thank you all, please see the film, but more importantly let's begin acting to create a healthier and sustainable future.
Very Sincerely,
Leila Conners Petersen
Nadia Conners
Directors, "The 11th Hour"
Labels: 11th hour, carbon dioxide emissions, documentary, environmental activism, global warming, leonardo dicaprio
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The Hollow Environmentalism of Leonardo DiCaprio
How do you explain this? Movie star Leonardo DiCaprio turns Chicken Little for the environment and makes the big movie to alert us all of pending ecological disaster. Its called the "11th Hour" and will be in theaters this August. At the same time, however, his own industry (Hollywood) is using rain forest wood to make movie sets. Yet, big movie star turned eco-warrior doesn't see that as a problem. He doesn't mention it in his film. Nor does he ever talk about it. So what gives?
I thought it over quite a bit and suddenly remembered this book I read a few years ago. It was called Wild Swans by Jung Chang and it was about the Chinese Cultural Revolution - you know that big thing where Mao Tse -Tung tried to do it his way. Well, during the course of this grand event, the crops began to fail and people were starving by the millions. But whenever Chairman Mao came to town, the starving villagers would gather what few garden items they could find from all the gardens in the area and then put everything in one field next to where Mao was going to pass. They did this to show Mao how well the revolution was going.
The Chinese observers of the day, being the clever people that they were, decided the villagers were not engaged in hypocrisy - but rather something else. They came up with a phrase to describe this phenomenon. It is "Zi Qi Qi Ren" which means, "self deception while deceiving others."
Now think about it. Doesn't that sound right when you think about DiCaprio and his movie? I mean, I don't doubt the sincerity of his calling. But what else would explain him jumping in bed with Warner Brothers as his distributor? Forget about Warner Brothers as a huge consumer of rain forest wood. This is a company that would never consider helping the environment by showing DiCaprio's film on the Internet instead of the movie theater that you have to drive to in your pollution machine. These "concerned" movie marketers wouldn't think about going digital in theaters either. Instead they produce hundreds (if not thousands) of chemical intensive film prints that then need to be moved around by big fat UPS planes and trucks - all so you can learn the perils of human impact on the environment! How about free tickets to anyone who shows up at the theater on a bicycle or in an electric car? No way Jose. Flying DiCaprio to the Cannes Film Festival on a carbon belching jetliner to promote our important message was already more than we could afford.
Nope. DiCaprio and company are not hypocrites, but when it comes to really getting down to the nitty gritty of treading lightly on this earth, "Self Deception while deceiving others" seems to be the only explanation.
For a quick look at some real environmentalists storming a ship filled with rain-forest wood headed for Hollywood, check out this video on Youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Rb1GKvpp5w
Bill Day
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