The man has eaten the earth

[Grelinette]

This is the title of a movie that will be released.
I saw it last night followed by a debate with the director. Pfffouu ... it's not won.

Watch the trailer:

and we talk about it afterwards.

[GuyGadebois]

What man are you talking about? Pygmies? Native Americans? Aborigines? Inuit? Bushmen?

[Grelinette]

What man are you talking about? Pygmies? Native Americans? Aborigines? Inuit? Bushmen?

In fact, in the film a passage answers your question: rich societies have gone to "eat" the few riches of these marginal civilizations, leaving them the waste.

[Christophe]

Is there not a big misspelling in the title?

the earth is the soil, the humus ...
Earth is our planet ...

According to the teaser, the subject is interested in mining ... so the earth can go ...

But when I read "our earth" ... it makes you think more of the planet ...

For the rest we can suspect what the documentary will say ... bastards of capitalists!

[Grelinette]

Is there not a big misspelling in the title?

the earth is the soil, the humus ...
Earth is our planet ...

According to the teaser, the subject is interested in mining ... so the earth can go ...

But when I read "our earth" ... it makes you think more of the planet ...

For the rest we can suspect what the documentary will say ... bastards of capitalists!

He says it and proves it by a big work of documentary research of more than 3 years.

Admittedly, we can not believe the figures and the analysis made from old reports from the beginning of the previous century, but the reasoning of the film is, and in fact, show that initially things were almost bearable and that 2 centuries later we consider the end of humanity by giving precise figures and reasoned explanations, is quite believable.
Moreover, this documentary has already won several prizes and awards.

To return to "the earth", at the beginning the film explains that there was wood, which has shown its limits, then coal, then oil, then nuclear, etc., and that the choice of these successive raw materials responds mainly to financial imperatives decided by industrial, political and financial lobbies (and not to the imperatives of efficiency and social development), which lobbies have acted on human societies, sometimes with mafia actions, to hold and impose monopoles.

For example the abandonment of the first collective electric transport (tram) abandoned quickly on political decision to give way to the gas car because the oil flowed afloat: the demonstration given in the film is well-argued and very convincing. Some very old pictures are edifying.

At the same time, we also learned that scientists were already beginning more than a century ago to develop natural and (almost) non-polluting (eg solar) sources of energy that were less lucrative and immediate for powerful lobbies. .

[Janic]

rich societies have gone to "eat" the few riches of these marginal civilizations, leaving them the waste.

they were lucky to have recovered their garbage, otherwise they would not be left at all.

[Grelinette]

rich societies have gone to "eat" the few riches of these marginal civilizations, leaving them the waste.

they were lucky to have recovered their garbage, otherwise they would not be left at all.

It is true that we forget the chance of these poor people to be able to explore in this wealth of thrown objects, as diverse as many. Especially children from elsewhere: they must have a great culture of what man is capable of doing!

In addition, we keep saying that "waste will be the raw material of tomorrow".
They will still not complain that they leave them this raw material full of future! ...

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[Christophe]

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For example the abandonment of the first collective electric transport (tram) abandoned quickly on political decision to give way to the gas car because the oil flowed afloat: the demonstration given in the film is well-argued and very convincing. Some very old pictures are edifying.

At the same time, we also learned that scientists were already beginning more than a century ago to develop natural and (almost) non-polluting (eg solar) sources of energy that were less lucrative and immediate for powerful lobbies. .

The worry is not so much the lobbies as our reasoning system of value creation in most of our human societies!

We are taught to always think in maximizing profits for individuals and not for the welfare of society ... and it's not just the ugly lobbies that do that ... it's most of us ...

Few people would accept a job X times less paid but much more ethical! But it is true that I seem to have more and more ... it's not too early ...

And lobbies are powerful only thanks to their customers ...

[Ahmed]

Christophe, you write:

And lobbies are powerful only thanks to their customers ...

Already, their customers are the industrial and not the simple ones, then I do not see what the users of the trams could do through their individual preferences (as consumers, if you prefer) ...

[Christophe]

Oh? Already, it's not just the industrial lobbies ...

And the customers of the industrialists in fine ... who is it?

There is no product that at the end of the chain of value creation is not consumed by the person ... I think but you will certainly find some exceptions.

People have more power than they think ...