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| Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret (2014) |
Three documentaries that may relate to our Whole Earth Vision:
How to Change the World, dir. Jerry Rothwell (2015). Narrates the origins of Greenpeace.
http://howtochangetheworldmovie.com/
The Corporation, by Joel Bakan (2003). Canadian documentary, examines the modern-day corporations—psychopathological organizations with no other goal than profit.
http://thecorporation.com/
Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret, by Kip Andersen and Keegan Kuhn (2014). Film made by crowdfunding. Explores environmental and sustainability issues, and the impact of animal agriculture. Critical against environmental organizations such as Greenpeace, Sierra Club, Rainforest Action Network, etc.
http://www.cowspiracy.com/
Some thoughts after watching these films:
-The true mission of Greenpeace founders is very inspiring.
-The 1960s could serve us as a model, but we can only see this period historically.
-Big environmental organizations function today as corporate institutions and may have lost original principles in favor to the politics of cynicism—political power, capitalist funding, and so on.
-Possible thesis—a draft history of the eternal return to vegetarian culture in three recent stages:
- 1960s: commitment; spirituality; whole Earth; respect for animal existence; influence of eastern philosophy, zen Buddhism, Hinduism, etc.; importance of collective; decisions made by choice.
- 1990s: consumer culture; late capitalism; no whole Earth; centered in the self; material individual health, pose; individualism; decisions made by trend/pose.
- 2010s: environmentalism; back to whole Earth; sustainability; lack of resources, individual awareness -vs- environmental corporate and political cynicism; collective by technological alienation; decisions made by need.
A science article from Nature Communications (www.nature.com)
Exploring the biophysical option space for feeding the world without deforestation
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