'11th Hour' film screening encourages change
By: Courtney Hime and Matt Welch
Issue date: 10/5/07 Section: News
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The film shifted gears, though, to focus on possible solutions to the problem, including the development of carbon neutral cities, ways to convert trash into reusable materials and the implementation of carbon taxes or pollution taxes to curb environmentally destructive activities.
Senior Jackie Betsch took the film's message of action and applied it locally.
"It made me think a lot about how we need to continue to look at sustainable building and local food on this campus," Betsch said.
Questions asked after the movie included an inquiry about how environmentalism and capitalism could work together.
"You can sustain development, you can't sustain growth. It means rethinking, what it is, what are goals are," Watson said.
Junior Darein Burton, an economics major, addressed the difficult transition period for today's economy. He said he envisions a future economy where the both the blue- and white-collar workforce will be environmentally and globally focused.
"Industry is not going to go away, but it will simply move to a different sector of the economy," Burton said. "But a lot of people are caught in the [mind-set of] 'Our jobs are going to go away.'"
Reception of the film at DePauw was positive, but Nichols said critics were not always as optimistic.
"Not a single review of this film has attacked the science, the information and the mission of the film," Nichols said.
He said that, instead, critics are saying those in the film are hypocrites, attacking many for lifestyles that have a negative environmental impact.
"[The charge of hypocrisy] is an issue when it is used as a bomb to distract the conversation," Nichols said. "Right now we're all hypocrites in one way or another, and we're able to do better in lots of ways. The point is we all need to be better."
Senior Jackie Betsch took the film's message of action and applied it locally.
"It made me think a lot about how we need to continue to look at sustainable building and local food on this campus," Betsch said.
Questions asked after the movie included an inquiry about how environmentalism and capitalism could work together.
"You can sustain development, you can't sustain growth. It means rethinking, what it is, what are goals are," Watson said.
Junior Darein Burton, an economics major, addressed the difficult transition period for today's economy. He said he envisions a future economy where the both the blue- and white-collar workforce will be environmentally and globally focused.
"Industry is not going to go away, but it will simply move to a different sector of the economy," Burton said. "But a lot of people are caught in the [mind-set of] 'Our jobs are going to go away.'"
Reception of the film at DePauw was positive, but Nichols said critics were not always as optimistic.
"Not a single review of this film has attacked the science, the information and the mission of the film," Nichols said.
He said that, instead, critics are saying those in the film are hypocrites, attacking many for lifestyles that have a negative environmental impact.
"[The charge of hypocrisy] is an issue when it is used as a bomb to distract the conversation," Nichols said. "Right now we're all hypocrites in one way or another, and we're able to do better in lots of ways. The point is we all need to be better."
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