Flow: For Love of Water
es un documental de 2008 dirigido por Irena Salina, producido por Steven Starr y coproducido por Gill Holland y Yvette Tomlinson. Cuenta con la participación de los activistas Maude Barlow y Peter Gleick, y de los científicos Ashok Gadgil, Rajendra Singh y Vandana Shiva. Fue ganador del premio Grand Jury Award en el Festival de Cine Internacional de Mumbai.
En Flow: For Love of Water se muestra el negocio de la privatización de la infraestructura del agua, cuyo objetivo principal es el beneficio económico en lugar de la disponibilidad de agua limpia para la gente y en la naturaleza. En el documental se exponen corporaciones como Nestlé, The Coca-Cola Company, Suez y el Fondo Monetario Internacional (FMI). Sinopsis de Wikipedia
Home
Home
Tras los 200.000 años de existencia del planeta Tierra, el ser humano
ha conseguido romper el equilibrio de casi 4.000 millones de años de
evolución del planeta. Ahora el precio que hay que pagar es
considerable, pero sin tiempo para ser pesimistas, se debe concienciar a
la humanidad de que quedan apenas 10 años de riquezas que explotar a no
ser que cambiemos nuestro modo de consumo.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand, nos muestra en
esta cinta sus preocupaciones a través de las distintas imágenes de 50
países vistos desde el cielo. De este modo quiere colocar con esta
película, una piedra en el edificio que tenemos que reconstruir, todos
juntos.
Blue Gold: World Water Wars
Wars of the future will be fought over water, not oil, as this liquid source of all life enters the global marketplace and political arena. Past civilizations have collapsed from poor water management. Can the human race survive?
The age of stupid
El
mundo está devastado en el 2055 debido a una crisis del clima que no
pudo detenerse en el momento oportuno. En algún momento tuvimos la
oportunidad de hacer algo, pero no se hizo. Un archivista es quien se
hace esa pregunta cuando ya, por desgracia, es demasiado tarde.
La era de la estupidez es dirigida por Franny Armstrong (directora de McLibel) y por John Battsek (productor de One Day in September).
Trata sobre el calentamiento global antropogénico a través de un drama
con elementos documentales y algunos dibujos humorísticos, como hizo
Michael Moore en Bowling for Columbine. El actor Pete
Postlethwaite hace el papel de un anciano que habita el mundo arruinado
del año 2055. Observa los reportajes del daño causado por nuestras
acciones y se plantea la pregunta: ¿por qué no haber hecho nada para evitarlo?.
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This documentary explores the startling phenomenon of ocean acidification, which may soon challenge marine life on a scale not seen for tens of millions of years.
The film was made to raise awareness about the largely unknown problem of ocean acidification, which poses a fundamental challenge to life in the seas and the health of the entire planet.
Like global warming,
ocean acidification stems from the increase of carbon dioxide in the
earth’s atmosphere since the start of the Industrial Revolution.Leading scientific experts on the problem, many of whom appear in the film, believe that it’s possible to cut back on global warming pollution, improve the overall health and durability of our oceans, and prevent serious harm to our world, but only if action is taken quickly and decisively.
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What if we could live in a clean world? A world in which energy would be 100% renewable, water no longer polluted, transportation truly green and production methods clean and regenerative?
There will be such a world. In this documentary VPRO Backlight explores the unprecedented possibilities of a new industrial revolution: Cleantech.
Signs of a new future are visible everywhere, from China to the US and from Europe to Thailand. Green mobility powered by sustainable energy, clean drinking water for all thanks to nanotechnology, dyeing textiles using recycled CO2.
All of this is possible and is happening successfully now! Working together with Cleantech founder Nick Parker, this film shows what our world will be like in the decades to come. VPRO Backlight travels the world in search of a clean future.
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All things are connected
While our ethical traditions know how to deal with homicide and even genocide these traditions collapse entirely when confronted with ecocide and biocide.
Today we live in an ethically confusing and contradictory world, a world in which sentiment and brutality exist side by side.
At the same time as modern thinkers seek to extend the circle of moral consideration to other animals, humanity inflicts more suffering on more creatures than at any time in history.
Is this really what we want to do to creation… to drive it to extinction? But extinction is irreversible. Species that go extinct are lost forever.
This is not Jurassic Park – we can’t bring them back! Over the last century we’ve participated in something of a binge of unbelievable prosperity.
We may have had some intuition that it was a binge and the earth couldn’t support it but aside from the easy things, biodegradable detergent or slightly smaller cars, we haven’t done very much. We haven’t turned our lives around
In order to show both sides of a controversial issue here is a response
to last week’s global warming denier documentary. This documentary
examines the fossil fuel corporations involvement in the debate. The science
buying of these corporations is comparable to Philip Morris spending
money to deny the danger of cigarettes. This documentary truly exposes
the corporations
Global warming: potential costs?
A 2006 British report estimated that the projected costs of global warming to be as costly as both world wars and the Great Depression added together. Yet, with such consequences, some scientists still insist that climate change, if it is happening at all, could be a good thing.
The Denial Machine investigates the roots of the campaign to
negate the science and the threat of global warming. It tracks the
activities of a group of scientists, some of whom previously consulted
for Big Tobacco, and who are now receiving donations from major coal and
oil companies.
Una Verdad Incómoda (An Inconvenient Truth) es un documental
estadounidense presentado por el ex Vicepresidente de los Estados Unidos
durante el mandato de Bill Clinton, Al Gore, sobre los efectos del
calentamiento global generado por la actividad humana sobre el planeta
Tierra. El documental fue publicado en DVD por Paramount Home
Entertainment el 21 de noviembre de 2006 en Estados Unidos.
Por la autoría de este documental, Al Gore obtuvo el Premio Nobel de la
Paz en octubre de 2007, premio que comparte con el Grupo
Intergubernamental de Expertos sobre el Cambio Climático (IPCC,
por sus siglas en inglés) de Naciones Unidas. Al Gore ya había ganado en
2007 el Premio Príncipe de Asturias de Cooperación Internacional, así
como el Oscar en 2006 a Mejor Documental y Mejor Canción Original para I Need to Wake Up.
Freedom Fuels, takes an in-depth look at renewable fuel sources, such as bio-diesel, ethanol and vegetable oil.
It explores the interaction of the petroleum industry and alternative fuels over the last 150 years, and examines the global impact that bio-fuels can have on our future.
Most of the new film is a series of interviews with farmers and biofuels innovators, economic and energy security experts, engaged government policymakers, and the occasional false prophets of inertia (Searchinger and Pimental).
It treats its audience to an unblemished look at where we are and why public support now is so important to the well-being of future generations… ending the addiction will take time, but during the Q&A session after the screening it was clear that a dread, helpless feeling was being lifted from the audience.
There are alternatives and action we can take today to secure a sustainable future for our children. We shouldn’t elect policymakers that limit our consumer votes at the pump.
Gashole What caused America to go from being a leading exporter of oil to the world’s largest importer? What are the economic and sociological forces that have contributed to that change and impede its solution?
Gashole is an eye-opening documentary about the history of oil prices and sheds light on a secret that the big oil companies don’t want you to know – that there are viable and affordable alternatives to petroleum fuel! It also provides a detailed examination of our continued dependence on foreign oil and examines various potential solutions – starting with claims of buried technology that dramatically improves gas mileage, to navigating bureaucratic governmental roadblocks, to evaluating different alternative fuels that are technologically available now, to questioning the American Consumers’ reluctance to embrace alternatives.
Narrated by Peter Gallagher, hear from a wide range of opinions from representatives of the US Department of Energy Representatives, Congressional leaders both Democrat and Republican, Alternative Fuel Producers, Alternative Fuel Consumers (including actor Joshua Jackson), Professors of Economics and Psychology and more. Anyone who buys gas should see this film!
Into Eternity
Every day, the world over, large amounts of high-level radioactive waste created by nuclear power plants is placed in interim storages, which are vulnerable to natural disasters, man-made disasters, and to societal changes.
In Finland the world’s first permanent
repository is being hewn out of solid rock – a huge system of
underground tunnels – that must last 100,000 years as this is how long
the waste remains hazardous.
Once the waste has
been deposited and the repository is full, the facility is to be sealed
off and never opened again. Or so we hope, but can we ensure that?
And
how is it possible to warn our descendants of the deadly waste we left
behind? How do we prevent them from thinking they have found the
pyramids of our time, mystical burial grounds, hidden treasures? Which
languages and signs will they understand? And if they understand, will
they respect our instructions?
While gigantic
monster machines dig deeper and deeper into the dark, experts above
ground strive to find solutions to this crucially important radioactive
waste issue to secure mankind and all species on planet Earth now and in
the near and very distant future.
Captivating,
wondrous and extremely frightening, this feature documentary takes
viewers on a journey never seen before into the underworld and into the
future.
Hashi
Omar Hassan was sentenced to 26 years in prison for killing Ilaria
Alpi, an Italian journalist, in Mogadishu in 1994. His lawyer claims
Hassan was convicted to stop further investigations into the motives
behind Alpi’s killing. Ilaria Alpi was reporting on arms trafficking and
the illegal disposal of toxic waste off the coast of Somalia;
trafficking featuring Somali and Italian businessmen, offshore companies
and secret service agents – trades that continue to this very day, and
which are of serious concern.
Hassan was arrested after having been invited to Italy by the Italian parliament to testify on the abuses inflicted on him by Italian peacekeepers in Somalia. Not even in Mogadishu at the time of the assassination, Douglas Duale, Hassan’s lawyer, claims he is a scapegoat – part of a scheme to cover up unmentionable truths that Alpi’s investigative work in Somalia had unveiled. He also holds papers proving that Hassan was tricked into travelling to Italy to testify against the Italian military, all the time paving the way for his own arrest.
There is hope for the
re-opening of Alpi’s case after a witness heard by the latest Italian
parliamentary commission of inquiry into the case claimed Hassan was
innocent. Giorgio and Luciana Alpi have been fighting for years to
uncover the truth about their daughter’s death. They want to know who
the people behind the murder are, and they want the investigations into
the case to continue. (Excerpt from english.aljazeera.net)
Hassan was arrested after having been invited to Italy by the Italian parliament to testify on the abuses inflicted on him by Italian peacekeepers in Somalia. Not even in Mogadishu at the time of the assassination, Douglas Duale, Hassan’s lawyer, claims he is a scapegoat – part of a scheme to cover up unmentionable truths that Alpi’s investigative work in Somalia had unveiled. He also holds papers proving that Hassan was tricked into travelling to Italy to testify against the Italian military, all the time paving the way for his own arrest.
There is hope for the
re-opening of Alpi’s case after a witness heard by the latest Italian
parliamentary commission of inquiry into the case claimed Hassan was
innocent. Giorgio and Luciana Alpi have been fighting for years to
uncover the truth about their daughter’s death. They want to know who
the people behind the murder are, and they want the investigations into
the case to continue. (Excerpt from english.aljazeera.net)
Addicted to Plastic: The Rise and Demise of a Modern Miracle
directed by Ian Connacher is a documentary feature length film look at
the world’s most ubiquitous and versatile material ever invented. From
Styrofoam cups to artificial organs, Addicted to Plastic examines
the world’s most influential invention of the last 100 years. The
unfortunate fact is that no organism can biodegrade plastic, so this
means that every piece of plastic that was ever made (except for a small
amount that has been incinerated) still exists.
Filmmaker Ian Connacher follows the trail of plastic out into the ocean, into the Delhi dumps, to watch an avian autopsy in Holland, to plastic factories and recycling facilities, and to visit innovative individuals around the world who recycle plastics into useful second-life objects, all in the name of finding out more about plastic. Addicted to Plastic contains a wide variety of interviews with plastic activists and experts, scientists around the world, the American Chemical Council, recycling plant managers and business people that are recycling plastics for profit.
Perhaps one of the most interesting parts of the film is the trip to the Eastern Garbage Patch (North Pacific Gyro) located in the Pacific Ocean, a 1000 miles from the USA mainland. There is so much myth and heresy written about the ocean’s Garbage Patches that it was enlightening to see some actual footage. The film contains one of the best explanations on the ocean’s garbage patches and how they are created. Connacher debunks the misconception that the Garbage Patch is a ‘floating landfill’, rather he explains that ‘it is a chunk here, a piece here…’
The United Nations claims
there are 46,000 pieces of plastic in every square mile of ocean. A
whopping 80% of plastics in the ocean originate from land. Captain
Charles Moore, world expert on the garbage patches and founder of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation,
explains that in some parts of the ocean, the ratio of plastic to
plankton in the water is 10:1. A Dutch scientist finds that 90% of the
birds he dissects have the human equivalent of a lunch bag full of
plastic in their stomachs.
Addicted to Plastic also includes a good historical overview of plastics rise in popularity, current plastic consumption, an overview of the global problems with plastic recycling and some possible solutions on how to deal with the never ending tide of plastics.
Unfortunately, there is clearly inadequate plastic recycling infrastructure in most countries around the world. One problem is the sheer amount of different plastics on various items (lids and spouts made from different materials than the bottles), and a lack of infrastructure to deal with the quantity of plastics being consumed around the world.
Aside from individual business people and the odd company around the world who are taking responsibility for plastic consumption by creating clever recycling businesses (such as turning plastics into railway ties, plastic flower pots, jackets or handbags), little responsibility is taken for global plastic consumption, the vast majority of plastic ends up in the world’s oceans and landfills.
A great, well-made film for all ages, that should help people think twice about their plastic habit.
Filmmaker Ian Connacher follows the trail of plastic out into the ocean, into the Delhi dumps, to watch an avian autopsy in Holland, to plastic factories and recycling facilities, and to visit innovative individuals around the world who recycle plastics into useful second-life objects, all in the name of finding out more about plastic. Addicted to Plastic contains a wide variety of interviews with plastic activists and experts, scientists around the world, the American Chemical Council, recycling plant managers and business people that are recycling plastics for profit.
Perhaps one of the most interesting parts of the film is the trip to the Eastern Garbage Patch (North Pacific Gyro) located in the Pacific Ocean, a 1000 miles from the USA mainland. There is so much myth and heresy written about the ocean’s Garbage Patches that it was enlightening to see some actual footage. The film contains one of the best explanations on the ocean’s garbage patches and how they are created. Connacher debunks the misconception that the Garbage Patch is a ‘floating landfill’, rather he explains that ‘it is a chunk here, a piece here…’
Addicted to Plastic also includes a good historical overview of plastics rise in popularity, current plastic consumption, an overview of the global problems with plastic recycling and some possible solutions on how to deal with the never ending tide of plastics.
Unfortunately, there is clearly inadequate plastic recycling infrastructure in most countries around the world. One problem is the sheer amount of different plastics on various items (lids and spouts made from different materials than the bottles), and a lack of infrastructure to deal with the quantity of plastics being consumed around the world.
Aside from individual business people and the odd company around the world who are taking responsibility for plastic consumption by creating clever recycling businesses (such as turning plastics into railway ties, plastic flower pots, jackets or handbags), little responsibility is taken for global plastic consumption, the vast majority of plastic ends up in the world’s oceans and landfills.
A great, well-made film for all ages, that should help people think twice about their plastic habit.
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The Cove
Documental que muestra la matanza de delfines en
Taiji, Japon. El director Louie Psihoyos, lo presentó en el último
Festival de Sundance como su primer trabajo y se llevó las mayores
ovaciones. Ha ganado trece premios en once festivales de cine
The Plastic Cow
This documentary film looks at the impact of our almost complete dependence on plastic bags, which we use and discard carelessly every day, often to dispose our garbage and kitchen waste.Not only are these bags a huge environmental threat, they end-up in the stomachs of cows, who, either because they’ve been discarded because they’re not milking at the time or because the dairy owner is unwilling to look after them, have to fend for themselves and forage for food, which, like other scavengers, they find in community garbage dumps.
Owing to their complex digestive systems, these bags, which they consume whole for the food they contain, get trapped inside their stomachs forever and, eventually, lead to painful death.
The film is also a comment on the religious hypocrisy of the cult of the holy cow.
Sometimes, it becomes necessary to speak in simple words for people
to listen and understand what we’re talking about. This is exactly what
this documentary is trying to do. It uses simple animation and tells us a
very straight forward story: our human centered societies are demanding
an infinite growth on a finite planet with finite resources. A dead end
story.
We are consuming petrol and coal as our primary sources of energy.
These fossil fuel deposits need 5,000,000 years to form and we have used
more than half of the deposits we have found so far in about 80 years.
Instead of decreasing our fossil fuel demand we are increasing it, we
are becoming more and more petrol-dependent with devastating
consequences for our environment and soon ourselves. We need to invest
on renewable resources of energy, we need to consume less, we need to
stop being so greedy.
I like the comparison of humans with bacteria. I like using this
example when I describe the human race, we are destroying everything
(with ignorance or not) up to the point that we will destroy ourselves.
Quien matò al coche eléctrico
Documental que denuncia básicamente las razones por las que los coches eléctricos han sido borrados del mapa desde el prometedor comienzo que los EV tuvieran en los años 90.
Una película destapa la cara más oscura de la industria. “¿Quién mató al coche eléctrico?” Hollywood investiga qué pasó con el EV-1. A lo Agatha Christie, llega a sentar en el banquillo a George Bush, a las petroleras, a los defensores de los híbridos, incluso a la mismísima General Motors.
Lo tenía todo: prestaciones récord, bajo coste y contaminación cero. Era el coche del futuro, pero pronto quedó en el olvido. El EV-1 fue creado en los años 90 por General Motors.
California acababa de crear una ambiciosa legislación anticontaminante y este vehículo eléctrico se presentaba como la solución a todos los problemas. Tenía dos plazas, alcanzaba los 200 km/h y se recargaba en casa por tan sólo tres dólares. Salió al mercado en 1996 y se distribuyeron más de 1.000 unidades, la mayoría por el sistema de leasing. Sin embargo, seis años más tarde, “la flota había desaparecido”, apunta Chris Paine, el creador de “Who killed the electric car?”.
Así arranca esta nueva película documental, con un “asesinato” en toda regla. “La verdad detrás del abandono del coche eléctrico se parece al desenlace espectacular del ‘Asesinato en el Orient Express’ de Agatha Cristie: varios sospechosos, que cada uno, a su turno, va empuñando su cuchillo”, asegura Paine.
El primer “acusado” es –cómo no- el mismísimo George W.Bush y toda la administración republicana. Indagan en sus lazos –incluso familiares- con las petroleras y en cómo presionó para que se anulara la denominaba “directiva de emisión cero”.
Las petroleras tampoco se salvan y, con ellas, los defensores de otras energías “pseudolimpias”, como los coches híbridos o de hidrógenos. No te pierdas la página oficial de la película (“Who killed the electric car? ”), donde se compara cada uno de estos vehículos con el EV-1.
Incluso General Motors, creadora del EV-1, se sienta en el banquillo: está acusada de hacer un doble juego. Han entrevistado a antiguos portavoces e ingenieros de la compañía y se llega a la conclusión que dejaron morir a su hijo pródigo: “Sin motor, no necesitaba aceite, no tenía filtros ni bujías”, era toda una pérdida para la industria de los coches y sus diferentes filiales, aseguran.
Además, nada más firmar la “sentencia de muerte” del EV-1, GM empezaba a montar los todo poderosos Hummer.
La historia de las cosas
El documental de 20 minutos presenta una visión crítica de la sociedad consumista. Expone las conexiones entre un gran número de problemas sociales y del ambiente, y nos convoca a todos a crear un mundo más sostenible y justo.[3] El documental se dividide en 7 capítulos: Introduction (Introducción), Extraction (Extracción), Production (Producción), Distribution (Distribución), Consumption (Consumo), Disposal (Residuos) , y Another Way (Otro camino).
El documental describe la economía de materiales, un sistema compuesto por extracción, producción, distribución, consumo, y residuos. Este sistema se extiende con personas, el gobierno, y la corporación.
The Story of Broke
The United States isn’t broke; we’re the richest country on the
planet and a country in which the richest among us are doing
exceptionally well. But the truth is, our economy is broken,
producing more pollution, greenhouse gasses and garbage than any other
country. In these and so many other ways, it just isn’t working. But
rather than invest in something better, we continue to keep this
‘dinosaur economy’ on life support with hundreds of billions of dollars
of our tax money. The Story of Broke calls for a shift in government spending toward investments in clean, green
solutions—renewable energy, safer chemicals and materials, zero waste
and more—that can deliver jobs AND a healthier environment. It’s time to
rebuild the American Dream; but this time, let’s build it better.
The Story of Cap and Trade
The Story of Cap & Trade is a fast-paced, fact-filled look at the
leading climate solution being discussed at Copenhagen and on Capitol
Hill. Host Annie Leonard introduces the energy traders and Wall Street
financiers at the heart of this scheme and reveals the "devils in the
details" in current cap and trade proposals: free permits to big
polluters, fake offsets and distraction from whats really required to
tackle the climate crisis.
From YES MAGAZINE:
If you’re like me, an increasing amount of your worries these days
focus on the rising levels of CO2 in the atmosphere and the resulting
potential for devastating climate chaos.
Years ago, when I first heard about climate change, I figured someone
else would work all that out while I kept plodding away with my work on
consumption, pollution and waste. Well, guess what? They didn’t work it
out; in fact, the climate situation is far worse today than even recent
scientific predictions. And guess what else? It turns out that climate
and consumption are actually the same issue.
You see, most of the greenhouse gases countries emit come from our
materials economy: the way we make, use, transport, and throw away all the stuff in our lives.
As Boston College professor (and one of my favorite authors) Juliet
Schor said, “Global consumerism devours resources like there’s no
tomorrow. And unless we address how much we consume, we won’t succeed in
averting disastrous climate change.”
A majority of scientists now say we need to significantly reduce carbon levels
in the atmosphere if we want the planet to resemble something close to
what it is like today, supporting the kind of life that it does today.
To do this, we simply have to use less Stuff—especially oil and coal. We
have to rethink, redesign, and rebuild a lot of things. We have to
figure out different modes of transportation, growing food, building buildings,
and having fun that don’t require endless new Stuff. It’s very possible
to make these changes, but they won’t happen on their own. We need to
get started.
Unfortunately, most of the world’s leaders and big businesses are
instead promoting policy approaches that don’t bring us anywhere near
the level of change that climate scientists say is needed—let’s call
these “false solutions.” And there’s another problem with these policy
approaches: the details are so technical and policy wonkish that it’s
often hard to figure out what they are even talking about.
I wondered if it would be possible to explain the leading false
solution, Cap and Trade, in a clear compelling way so that more of us
are inspired to join the conversation. Working with Climate Justice
Now!, the Durban Group for Climate Justice and Free Range Studios, we
produced our new short film, The Story of Cap & Trade, to do just that
THE STORY OF BOTTLED WATER
The Story of Bottled Water, released on March 22, 2010 (World Water Day)
employs the Story of Stuff style to tell the story of manufactured
demand—how you get Americans to buy more than half a billion bottles of
water every week when it already flows from the tap. Over five minutes,
the film explores the bottled water industrys attacks on tap water and
its use of seductive, environmental-themed advertising to cover up the
mountains of plastic waste it produces.
THE STORY OF COSMETICS
The Story of Cosmetics, released on July 21st, 2010, examines the
pervasive use of toxic chemicals in our everyday personal care products,
from lipstick to baby shampoo. Produced with Free Range Studios and
hosted by Annie Leonard, the seven-minute film by The Story of Stuff
Project reveals the implications for consumer and worker health and the
environment, and outlines ways we can move the industry away from
hazardous chemicals and towards safer alternatives.
The story of Citizens United v. FEC
This is the best short history of the growth of corporate power I've
ever read, heard or seen. It's also a primer on exactly why the Supreme
Court's closely divided Citizens United decision is incompatible with basic notions of democratic governance.
Created by the good folks at The Story of Stuff project, founded by
Annie Leonard to creatively amplify public discourse on environmental,
social and economic concerns, The Story of Citizens United v FEC
explores the crisis in American democracy sparked by the Court decision
that gave corporations the right to spend unlimited funds to influence
elections.
As The Nation editorialized last January,
"The Citizens United campaign finance decision by Chief Justice John
Roberts and a Supreme Court majority of conservative judicial activists
is a dramatic assault on American democracy, overturning more than a
century of precedent in order to give corporations the ultimate
authority over elections and governing. This decision tips the balance
against active citizenship and the rule of law by making it possible for
the nation's most powerful economic interests to manipulate not just
individual politicians and electoral contests but political discourse
itself. "
And the results of the 2010 election bore out progressive fears as
corporate-front groups flooded the electoral zone with massive
contributions to reactionary Tea Party candidates. In fact, as Leonard's
film makes clear, the kind of independent groups that corporations are
now allowed to support spent $300 million to influence the 2010 midterm
elections, more than every midterm election since 1990 combined.
The problem is that the US Supreme Court has interpreted the
Constitution to extend the First Amendment rights of real people to
corporations. Congress does not have the power to overturn a court
decision based on the Constitution but there are a host of legislative
remedies nonetheless available.
The ultimate solution is the Free Speech for People Amendment to the US Constitution.
Corporations are not people, they do not vote, and they should not be
able to influence election outcomes. But it's (rightfully) difficult to
amend the Constitution so short of that, legislative reforms like full
disclosure of corporate electioneering activities, public financing of
elections and a shareholder protection act could all help mitigate the
damage done.
El texto proviene de Wikipedia.
The Story of Electronics
The Story of Electronics employs the Story of Stuff style to explore the
high-tech revolution's collateral damage—25 million tons of e-waste and
counting, poisoned workers and a public left holding the bill. Host
Annie Leonard takes viewers from the mines and factories where our
gadgets begin to the horrific backyard recycling shops in China where
many end up. The film concludes with a call for a green 'race to the
top' where designers compete to make long-lasting, toxic-free products
that are fully and easily recyclable.
