Amazing short film from Japan about putting your head in the sand.

Wow.  Just... WOW...  this is a short film everyone in the world needs to see.  I took from it, not just an anti-nuclear message, but also an anti-head-in-the-sand message.  And how many problems are we willing to address, these days, that aren't just distractions from even bigger problems?  For instance, we focus on terrorism because curing cancer and AIDS and other more-deadly-than-terrorists health issues is too hard.  Or we focus on the debt ceiling because dealing with the root causes (corporate greed) of our economic mess would cost our leaders a lot of money in campaign contributions.

I could go on, sadly.  Education, science, the environment are all being ignored and in the big picture, those are vastly more important than our economy or wiping out terrorism.

Climate Change Cartoon Explains the Really Really Bad Stuff

Yeah, yeah, I know--it's ANOTHER explanation of global warming/climate change and you've heard it all before, right? Well, no, I don't think you've heard everything this 'toon has to tell you. Basically, up to this point, the message is that CC and GW are just going to effect the weather patterns. Maybe a few people have talked about how it'll make finding water harder, but this goes far beyond--it talks about the tipping point--the point at which everything will get exponentially worse regardless of what we do. The changes that occur may very well be a much faster change than most folks have been predicting. This cartoon also goes into the socio-economic issues that would result from CC and GW. As in: what people will do in order to survive (like kill each other for drinkable water). Finally, this film also goes into the role corporations and government have in causing all of this. The drive for money is what is holding us back, according to the filmmaker and I agree with him.

But enough of my blabbing, check out the cartoon and make up your own mind. Just don't stop watching because you know everything in the beginning--give it a few minutes to get to the new stuff. Trust me!


Wake Up, Freak Out - then Get a Grip from Leo Murray on Vimeo.

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OH forgot to link back to where I found it: http://reflectionof.me/catastrophic-climate-change