The age of stupid - selfish and ignorance

Hello!  I am Koo the reporter of KMLA-university and I will write my opinions about one short movie, 'The age of stupid.' The age of stupid is a documentary about environment, especially global warming. The movie consists of six parts, which include different situations about global warming. Each part is connected by one sub character. He, the sub character, is one of the few people who exists in the Apocalypse. He turns on an electronic equipment and it starts to show environmental problem.

                            

Glacier is melting now!

 Documentary starts with Fernand-Pareau, an 82-year-old man working as a guide on the Mont-black-glacier in France. He guides one family and explains serious problems about the ice receding massively. Glacier-mountain has been melted by warm atmosphere so they have to climb the glacier with ladders. The problem is not only melting itself but also the speed of melting. It is increasing sharply. Also, Pareau is shown to take an action against expanding road in his area by riding his bicycle.

 Second part is combined with a poor Nigerian woman, Layefa-Malemi's ambition and the exploitation of Shell Nigerian. She struggles with poverty even though her country is wealthy due to oil. She tells her dream studying medicine to take care of poor and sick people and influence of Shell on Nigeria's health and the environment.

Third part is the story of Jehangir-Wadia, a businessman in India who manages his low-fare airline. He named the company 'Go Air.' He wants to make his company available for every people, so that both the rich and the poor can afford air travel.

Disagree sustainable energy?

 Fourth part is about arguing between building wind turbines and destroying them. Piers and Lisa Guy, a British couple are main characters in this part. Piers is a wind-farm developer and talks about his efforts to bring sustainable energy to an English village. However, the project is blocked by people who think they should prevent global warming but cannot practice what they do because wind turbines destroy view. So, his family tries to reduce their carbon footprint and thinks again about the effects of air travel.

Hurricane katrina....

 Fifth part is the story of Al-Duvernay, a resident of New Orleans. He stays behind in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. All of his possessions have been washed away by the flood, and he says what he feels, but he does not regret his long career in the oil industry. He thinks the oil is being wasted, with using the phrase "the age of stupid", contradictory, he believes his company is environmentally friendly.

 The last part of this documentary has two characters, Jamila and Adnan, two Iraqi children who run away from their family to Jordan during the Iraq-War. They tell the story of their father's death. Retaining a lot of oil resources, the U.S army killed Iraqi citizens and soldiers including their father. The American government persisted that Iraq was the country which directed the 9.11 terror, so they rationalized themselves attacking Iraq. However, Alan-Greenspan claims that Iraq War was motivated to control oil.

 The society is getting more complex, people has been developing various equipments such as cars, air conditioner, refrigerator and so on. The most impressive thoughts, I felt after I watched documentary, is about selfishness and ignorance. I recognized selfishness of both society and individual. Many people use too much electric equipment which requires fossil fuel to operate, which causes the Earth to get warm. Even though people know that the Earth will be in danger, they do not take any actions. Even we are developing other machines too. Isn't it selfish? Also Fernand-Pareau guides people and said the glacier is melting... So what? He does not do anything. He rides a bicycle to prevent land from being road. However, that land is his. If the land is others', would he disagree to the idea of building road? Maybe not. Malemi wants to be a doctor in Nigeria, and being a doctor is not only for helping poor people but also for fame. Fame can be one part of selfishness. Fourth part includes majorities' selfness since they argue wind turbines destroy view. Which is more important environment or view? Al's possessions were washed away by hurricane so he must have felt depressed but he had to talk to interviewers not about his depression but the feeling about how dangerous the natural disasters are. 

Can you recognize difference?

 In the third part, I wonder why people support low-fare airline company. Low fare does not mean good quality. If it is, how much pollute will they emit? Plus, there should be many experiments of developing airline. Most people may think that company is good for human because it is cheap and safe. This saying is very ignorant. I ultimately do not want any advertisement of company to deceive people and we recognize our selfness.