The 11th Hour

I attended the free film screening of The 11th Hour yesterday night, courtesy of Justlife in conjunction with the Earth Day Celebration. The film produced and narrated by Leonardo Dicaprio describes impacts of humanity on the Earth's Ecosystem and how can we change to survive rather than to save the environment. Contradict with the common believe that human has to save the environment and the Earth, the film potraits that Earth will recover and purify its natural beauty after millions of year, but not the human. Human has no time to rectify our own wrong doings and the longer we wait and do nothing, survivor of human being is at stake. More than 50 experts interviewed agreed that every individual can do something apart from the big corporates especially the oil and gas companies as well as the Government. It is not a matter of action is too small bring change and impact others, but rather have you done enough within your capacity, control and influence. From last year's Oscar winning Film of The Inconvenience Truth to this year's The 11th Hour, we witnessed that celebrities and film industry are joining hand to promote environmental awareness. I believe that by getting a public figure, this mode of publicity will have far reaching effect and perhaps Malaysian's artists can have similar feet. Zainal Abidin's song titled Hijau has been long over due.