Did any members see "The 11th hour" on Channel 4 on Sunday May 25th? What a great watch! Billed as "another Inconvenient Truth", it was actually very different. First DiCaprio only fronted the film in small bursts and left lots of space for a wide variety of voices to tell their stories. It wasn't just ecologists and "the usual suspects" but an eclectic range of voices, including Mikhail Gorbachev who is a convert to the green cause, and also a former Director of the CIA, James Woolsey.
Second, it centred less on the facts and figures of global warming and concentrated more on the central premise that mankind has got its thinking and values all wrong when it come to looking at nature and creation. It's a pity there weren't more religious/spiritual voices. But it was a refreshing watch and "brave" for a TV station to have a go at the advertising industry's role in the manic consumption mess we find ourselves in. Perhaps Ch4 has , at least in part, made up for broadcasting "The Great Global Warming Swindle."???
You can see a trailer on YOUTUBE:
