Yes, we need to become more efficient in our use of resources, yes we need to stop generating electricity with fossil fuels. There are a number of things we can and should do to improve things. That said, this is just silly. The idea that modern society is somehow MORE wasteful is ridiculous. I see you are burning candles in your house. You think candles are more efficient light generators than electricity? I see you are avoiding cars. I think that's great, it'd be wonderful if people walked more. Why are you avoiding trains though? They're by far the most efficient method of long distance travel. Long distance travel is absolutely VITAL to the economy. A strong economy is absolutely vital to solving these environmental issues. People seem to be living in this ridiculous fantasy that going back to a 1500s era lifestyle is going to help things. This just isn't true. Traditional farming, traditional building techniques, traditional manufacturing, using wood for heat, reliance on animals etc waste far, far more resources and produce far more pollution and environmental degradation. The only thing that can reduce human footprints while still maintaining our high standards of living is technology. It is our advanced, industrial economy that produced solar panels, large buildings that can house thousands of people in a few square miles, communicate long distances without anyone traversing the space between, farms that can feed several times as many people per acre and a wealth of other things that are of a huge benefit to ecological stability. Additionally, you all really need to stop worrying about using paper and plastic. Did you know forests in the U.S. have grown significantly since the industrial revolution? This is because modern paper production uses trees grown SPECIFICALLY for paper production. They don't cut down virgin forests. Trees are a crop, logging companies plant more trees than they cut down. They're actually reforesting the country. The old tries are protected by law. What wastes resources is RECYCLING paper. Recycling requires far more resources than just making new paper, including those nasty chemicals you hate, not to mention a lot more electricity, which is currently mostly coal based. Trees are a renewable resource, and paper is highly biodegradable. Putting paper in a landfill is really no different than a tree falling in a forest and slowly rotting away. Nature's recycling system is FAR more efficient than ours, let it do its job.Plastic is equally silly. The stuff is produced from ridiculously abundant raw materials, is highly inert, and properly disposed of, stays exactly where it's put. People need to learn more about what landfills are actually like. Tens of thousands of years worth of plastic trash easily fits in a landfill a few miles across. They're HIGHLY regulated, locked into geologically stable ground, isolated from the water supply. We build parks on top of them, generally. Don't worry about plastic.What you SHOULD make sure to recycle is metal, as it's quite valuable and in this case, it actually IS easier to recycle than to mine more of it, and some of it, like aluminum, is actually pretty rare.

I'm little fed up with the whole environmental movement - Al Gore and Prius. However, this movie, by itself, looks quite entertaining.