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| We know it's there but because of who? |
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The
Age of Stupid is a documentary directed by Franny Armstrong released in 2009.
The main theme portrayed is global warming and climate change. The movie starts with Peter Postlethwaite who is an archivist, guarding
all of humanity’s achievements. The archivist looks back to 2008 from 2055 trying to find
out the reason why we have forced suicide upon us. 2055, humanity has
already met an end to its survival. The movie begins with a shocking image of
the future showing the harsh environments of Earth and how we have reached
extinction. The scene gives a pivotal sense that we should make change now as the reviewing pasts are the current situation to us!
Armstrong’s main word in the film was ‘stupid’. The film relates consumerism,
war, and climate change to global warming. It is a fact that humanity is developing
at a remarkable speed but as to the development we’re not changing.
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| The Apocalypse |
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main method that Armstrong uses in the film is showing. Rather than telling facts, the film shows stories. The 6 characters in the story reveals the
cause and effect of global warming using the irony of a character. Irony emphasizes each point better as the story goes on. The stories are
based on real-life events and it examines the character closely like a
documentary film. The main irony which is depicted in the film concerns the
character Jeh, an Indian entrepreneur who’s determined to make India’s cheapest
plane company. He believes that climate change and poverty are the most essential
goals that humanity should solve. To achieve this he constructs airplanes. Airplanes consume lots of oil and is
responsible for emitting over 4~8% of green house gases each and every year.
Since the 1850s it has contributed in the temperature increase of 0.03~0.06°C overall. Airplanes are one of the transportation that
produce the most amounts of emissions. And
‘climate protector’ Jeh tries to make airplanes as much as possible to
eradicate poverty.
“Ultimately we all contribute to green house gases, we all
contribute to the crisis that we have today with the planet. So ultimately ensuring our planet is safe and healthy is each one’s job, task whether you do
it in your own way using less tissue paper, buying green cars or not flying.” -Jeh, Entrepreneur of GOJET-
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this, Armstrong portrays the irony of humans. Economically it’s called a
trade-off, the two goals that are contradicting each other. We try to achieve goals
that are perhaps ideal. But to argue that we are concerning for global warming,
perhaps a glance towards the back would help us all.
By
showing the changes in Mont Blanc and the events in Iran and Nigeria we see the
results of our energy consuming lives. But what's done is done! We need the
solutions for the problems that we face today. The film gives an idea that
until 2015 we should have stabilized the emissions. It is apparent that we
should act now, but is it easy? The film shows the hardships in solving
global warming. Humanity has stepped into a stage where aesthetics and money
are the most important aspects of life. Piers Guy, a wind turbine maker who uses renewable resources that
are available, like the wind to stop global warming. However the people of Cornwall are concerned
about the aesthetics while our home Earth is being tortured. We humans are the major setbacks for our problems.
“Local anti
campaigns are one of the key factors stopping about 80% of the proposed wind energy project, have they all been built 10% of our electricity would be non-pollutant." -From "The Age of Stupid"...-
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