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Earth 2100

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This isn't a 'fun' movie to watch, but I decided to watch it again after having seen it on television, this time because on vacation I had seen an empty, dried-up pit where a lake used to be. Nothing grows without water. That got my attention.

Other weather changes here and there, huge ice storms and blizzards where they don't typically happen, make me believe we may be dealing with some sort of global 'change' if not global warming. I have no intentions of getting into the debate about the politics or other beliefs about global warming, but I think it would be very wise for us to consider what we can do to protect and maintain what we've been given. I'm not a scientist and know little or nothing about these things, but I do know that there are a few things I can do, and if we all do a few little things, we may have fewer disasters in the near future. There are some good ideas sprinkled throughout the drama.

This presentation gives me a great deal to think about. I would recommend that anyone watching it decide beforehand not to be overwhelmed with all of the disasters portrayed. The end of the DVD is probably more hopeful than I am that we can make changes that will make a difference. It certainly won't hurt to try.

EARTH 2100 is perhaps one of the scariest films I have ever seen. Not because it is filled with blood and guts or monsters, but because it could be the future we make for ourselves. At this time, oil is spewing into the Gulf of Mexico that is the environmental nightmare of all of us, and climate change deniers seem to be gaining ground in the media and within the public at large. This film which depicts what our world will become based on scientific models and reasonable assumptions based on current conditions is a one of shortages, violence, and catastrophe on a monumental, global scale. It does, however, offer us hope.

The crux of the film, and all the political decisions that follow, is based on a summit that is suppose to occur in 2015, but is perhaps more like the one in Copenhagen in 2010. If consensus is reached on common, global goals, we get one future, but if not, we get a horror far beyond our imaginings. The ultimate decisions that global decision makers make will affect us all, and this film shows just how badly those decision makers are.

It is the kind of film you need to see with friends and family and then discuss at great length, because how we influence those who make decisions can affect which future we get. It is a call to action on issues that will affect not only our own lives, but that of our children and grandchildren. It is mostly animated, but the scientific and political discussions that are inserted by real researchers and policy makers brings home just how realistic the projections of the animation are. It is well worth the time to watch, then discuss, and finally act to create a better world. We must prevent this kind of future, and strive for the kind the end of the film offers as an alternative.

I've watched a number of environmental programs, but this is my favorite. It's a scary, but very realistic vision of what the future will be like as we face converging issues like water shortages, climate change and peak oil. If anything, I find it's timeline a little optimistic -- I think things will get worse quicker than they predict. But it's a very grounded and moving fictional account of what life could be like as we face depleted resources. I bought a copy to keep on hand. If you haven't seen it yet do yourself a favor and at least rent a copy.

This is really good because it give a very real depiction of what could be a our future.. Seen in the eyes of a little girl from (June, 2009 - 2100)

excellent narrative of what may come. In fact, the way things are in the world today the life of Lucy is probably how our children will grow up. Some of us have been saying this for far to long and it seems the corporations who buy the politicians will drive us over the cliff soon enough. Good luck young people, I'll be dead before the water stops.

This is a truly great film. Shown on ABC this summer, it now coming on DVD. What makes this work is the combination of a fictional screenplay with interviews of experts around the world. Unlike similar "disaster" films this has a direct connection to science. The Day after Tomorrow was a great film but had at best a very dubious connection to science. Nobody has ever really done a video like this before. The one major problem with the film is the very last part which paints a rather unrealistically optimistic view of what can be done to prevent the film's future from becoming a real future. I have list of books on my profile about professional studies of the future. You might want to watch this while reading Lester Brown's Plan B 3.0. There are real solutions to build a viable solution. This film will hopefully motivate people to move in positive direction. I would also recommend National Geographic's National Geographic: Six Degrees Could Change the World.

To much left wing garbage for me, watched about 15 minutes of it couldn't take anymore, pulled it out and threw it away

No reason to buy this in Blu-ray. Picture quality is the worst of anything I have ever seen on Blu-ray. Not even up to standard DVD. Didn't get to see the whole thing on ABC. Story is interesting, but transfer is garbage.

ABC news done again! We can feel it by now. I watch via DVR and it is beauiful show and the artist work is so cool!

I was promised apocalyptic wars, dammit, and not a word on them! But all half-joking aside, there is not even anything on massive political changes, just enviormental hysteria and hyperbole again. As if there isnt enough of that already - do they think that more and more scare films are going to change anybody's minds!?! The visuals are beautifully colored, but sometimes they're a little lazy in the animation. Sound is quite good, music is alright (some boring pieces, some good). The main problem is the cast is same usual enviormental or other collapse "experts" the media flock to. You more or less know them already, because you've no doubt heard or read them lecturing you before on your evil unsustainable consumption and how things MUST CHANGE NOW!

Its almost impossible to take apart the constant contradictions that are espoused, and if one tried, you'd more or less be hitting the pause button every few seconds, and then going back constantly when you find something more than a few seconds from its inconsistency. On one hand, promoting things like ethanol (because its petroleum free lol), and then harping about food prices, and eventually famine. I mean really?

I did find it a especially rich that they alternated scenes between basically Lucy (the narrator who guides us through her future) bitterly cursing us for not listening to the "experts" and then alternating to said "experts" coming on to spout doom again and again. The "experts" are nearly always wrong, as countless generations before us have found out, especially when forecasting the future. Maybe the real question you should ask yourself is why do we still do this?

Im tired of reviewing this pile of crap, so I suppose Ill just mention a final funny (because, lets face it, if you're gonna waste your time watching this, at least try to find a few yuks) - I've gone over it twice now in one nonstop sitting, and more in pieces, I have yet to find ONE historian, or ONE political scientist, or ONE cultural forecaster, or ONE material scientist, or ONE physicist, or ONE technological scientist ANYWHERE in the movie. And of course thats without the producers even thinking of bringing on sci-fi writers/media, which was perhaps a little rich of them considering they did a poorly animated fiction. I think this lack of people best in a position to actually ATTEMPT a possible forecast of the future shows through well.

Put it this way (oh dear, see Im rambling again). Pit sci-fi writers on one category, with climatologist doom mongerers on the other side. Lets say, set a date of 1950. Count how many technolgical ideas, political trends, and sociological concepts have come true from sci-fi ideas? Now count if the climate/resource doom-mongers have been right even ONCE?