I just watched Avatar again and it's message has so much more meaning since the Gulf of

[Cleita]

Mexico oil accident. The part where Jake Sully's avatar prays to the Navi Goddess Eiywa and tells her that he comes from a planet that has no green anymore because his people had killed their Goddess left me in tears. The oceans are the last living part of this planet that humans haven't completely left their footprint on and now we are doing to them what we have done to all our wilderness places and they are the last bodies left for us to destroy. I can remember when I was a child that there were still vast parts of Africa and South America that weren't reshaped by man to suit the needs and greed of the invading humans. They have mostly disappeared. I'm really feeling more helpless now than I have in a long time.

Before Reagan came to Washington and removed all the solar panels from the roof of the White House, there was a strong environmental movement that looked like it might take hold and change the way we treat our Mother Earth. It's just a distant memory now. I know, we are allowed to think we are making a difference by recycling and little green things we do, but we aren't making a dent in the wholesale destruction of this planet by big business. Apparently, we have lost and they have won.

[MindandSoul]

1. You are right!!!

[Odin2005]

2. That scene left me SOBBING!

I know how you feel! :cry:

We act as if we are apart from nature, but that is a delusion. We are an part of nature and we depend on it for our survival. It is a species-wide form of the Libertarian delusion of self-reliance, blind to how we are intimately connected with others.

[flamingdem]

3. If we could only get the numbers who went to see AVATAR protesting at BP stations

.. but I doubt the message was sufficiently internalized ..

[Lorien]

4. A friend also just watched Avatar and posted on FB "Cameron sure has

a low opinion of future humanity." :spray: :rofl: I sent him this just for starters: http://news.mongabay.com/2009/1222-hance_avatar.html

And yes, I too remember when we all believed that the environmental movement would lead to a greener, cleaner more peaceful future. Like the visions of the future at Disney world, where people lived in small, efficient homes in green environments and rode on swift, silent monorails through rolling forested hills. If the earth had "no green left" it would also have no life at all on it. No oxygen, no soil, nothing but lifeless rock. People tend to forget how dependent we truly are on our planet for survival. The young always say "technology will save us." Oh really? We can't plug a damn hole!!

[Cleita]

6. I've been reading about what is going on in the Amazon.

Our country is propping up those government officials and dictators who are allowing companies to come in and exploit what is perhaps the last paradise left on earth. Our immigration problem stems from our official policy throughout Latin America. Those native peoples will eventually end up in city slums when their homes are taken over and ecological environment destroyed. Their children will end up trying to immigrate elsewhere, legally or illegally for a better life. It's all connected.

[BlueKitteh]

5. Your last paragraph made me

Give way to tears. I believe the most important reltionship any living creature could have is that of a loving mother. This isn't planet earth it's Mother Earth and what,why,when have we ever needed more than she has provided for us and our ancestors?

how could we let them do this