Just Us Humans Doing What We Do Best (polished)

In this blog I will be discussing the documentary The Eleventh Hour, which brings together over fifty of some of our worlds greatest thinkers and scientists to discuss the damage the human race is causing to our planet. It covers issues such as deforestation, killing of sea life and pollution of water, mass extinction of species and of course global warming cause by greenhouse gasses. It also questions if it is too late to go save ourselves from the horrid mess we have made, and gives us a couple of potential solutions. The documentary also explains that as a system, the earth is reacting in the same way an ill organism would. Humans expel too much CO2 into the environment and simultaneously kill too many trees to rejuvenate the CO2 released by factories, burning oil, fossil fuels, etc. We have also whipped out complete species by overfishing and excreting waste into the ocean creating oceanic dead zones. One of the speakers in the documentary named James Woolsey, a former Director of Central Intelligence explains, “ Humans have not figured out how to change their ways ". In other words, the human race needs to change a lot of things about the way we effect the environment, because our fate is in our hands. This quote helped me see a connection our class discussion about Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations because if the world could see what happens behind the curtains of the meat factories they would definitely demand change, just as they would if they saw the damage we really cause to our environment.