The 11th hour

Did you watch the documentary  presented by Leonardo Di Caprio last night? I decided for my dissertation to conduct a research on corporate social responsibility (CSR) towards the environment and I found that show rather interesting and informative. I think it’s really important to create awareness on problems that directly affect our lives. Can you imagine that in the middle of the century it is predicted there will be about 150 million refugees from those areas with the highest temperatures? And can you imagine that the worst case scenario for earth is to become like Mars? A desert with no oxygen to support any kind of creatures. What are we going to do about it? I’m not sure myself whether this situation can be reversed; maybe it’s too late, but things can definitely get better for our planet if radical measures will be taken. Governments and NGOs have already started doing what they think can help this difficult condition in which people put themselves into. What needs to be done is for publics to be aware of what is going on. Any individual action can contribute for the wider good of the environment. For instance the energy we use all the time, or the way we drive, etc. If we are environmentally responsible as a whole, maybe we can save the earth before it’s too late. What one of the experts on this matter said in the documentary was that “people can never get enough of what they don’t actually need”. I mean…let’s think about it…why would we spend so much on what we don’t need and why our consumerism has no limits at all? And why all that when we know how much damage we cause? For our sake we should start caring more about the environment and to be more responsible and conscious on our choices. 

Here’s a video from YouTube with Leonardo Di Caprio taking about the documentary and its scope and quotes from the experts that took part on it.