An article just posted on Salon.com describes a series of video clips that are quite interesting. They attempt to personify nature and draw attention to the harm humans are doing. Do YOU think they are effective?.....
Nature sounds a lot like Kevin Spacey, and it wants us to know it will be just fine without us
Harrison Ford, Julia Roberts and other A-listers remind us that humans need nature -- not the other way around
If the rainforest could talk, it’d apparently sound a lot like a sarcastic Kevin Spacey (less Frank Underwood, more Lester Burnham, unfortunately). And the trees are extremely dismissive of humans’ misguided belief that we can survive without them.
The two-minute film is one of six released Monday by Conservation International as part of its new “Nature is Speaking” campaign, which aims to reframe the conversation around climate change and related environmental issues. Forget about saving the planet, it argues. We need to start saving ourselves.
The films’ tagline — “Nature doesn’t need people. People need nature” — gets right down to the existential heart of the matter. “They’re trying to get away from it being ‘us vs. them,’ of being confrontational and combative,” Lee Clow, the co-creator of the series and the ad man best known for Apple’s “Think Different” campaign, explained to Businessweek of CI’s aim. “This is kind of a selfish strategy that we created.”...
Here are some of the clips I grabbed from YouTube below. What do you think?
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