As usual I was surfing around the net and listening to music for free on YouTube.com in a separate tab, cause I refuse to pay corporate media fat cat's bonuses and I noticed a headlined in the whats new section. Now it's not something I've taken notice of before but it did catch my eye.

Celebrate World Environment Day with Luc Besson's film premier.

Cool I thought to myself, a movie about the environment by a kick ass director. For those of you that don't know Luc Besson, he directed The Fifth Element starring Bruce Willis (yes he's wearing his white action vest). Also a lesser know title called Project B13 set in France's future ghettos.

Due to a slow connection speed coupled with the high quality video the movie would not buffer in my browser. Lucky for me my niece had downloaded Real player and a handy little box offering the option to download. Sweet, Left the computer downloading and went out to see some friends.

What I came back to was a wonderfully narrated story detailing the journey of Earth from it's birth, through adolescence and to the world we live in today. Stunning cinematography shot throughout the world from modern cities to Bedouin caravan's in the desert, the producers reached to all corners of the planet for it's locations.

The main premise of the movie is how us humans have affected within such a short a short space of time, our environment, biodiversity and the climate. It pushes an urgent message that change is happening and it will continue to do so with unknown result on a possibly unprecedented scale.

I've personally seen some of these locations on my travels and I can tell you it's heart wrenching, not only to see the current damage we're doing but the legacy we're leaving for out children. Global climate change is a local problem that will happen in the future by our actions of today, and that's why it's all to easy for people to dismiss it in the here and now.

I urge anyone reading this to watch this movie, I urge all that watch the movie to tell others to watch the movie. And lastly I urge you to THINK!!!!

Home can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/homeproject

and the official movie site is http://www.home-2009.com/us/index.html

Enjoy the movie.




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