Stop Global War-MING
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Can a group of young people change the world? Perhaps only they can see the simple truths. With so little time left, and all in the same boat, it is very fair for them to ask: Why are we all fighting each other? We could use natural means to start converting excess CO2 into an everlasting, renewable source of the things we are running out of. Surely this would be a wiser use of the trillions of dollars and vast efforts we waste on war, every precious year?
Submitted by Greg Peachey with FREdome-YEA, UK
September 20th, 2009 at 5:32 pm
Straight thinking + good feeling + right action = solution
September 20th, 2009 at 7:30 pm
simple and best.
September 20th, 2009 at 9:18 pm
simple, clear, brilliant and effective
September 20th, 2009 at 9:58 pm
bello, mi piace
September 21st, 2009 at 5:04 am
Very simple and clear but a bit ideal…Might not work exactly in the international political stage….So, when we put the variable called international politics..I think it messes up the entire dream of (y)ours… But sure this video has a strong message!!!!
September 21st, 2009 at 11:07 am
lets hope copenhagen understands this plain and simple message without the political words
September 21st, 2009 at 11:11 am
If Climate Change is as dire and urgent as scientists predict, humanity will have to find the will to do something decisive. I believe that this message is a seed that needs to be sown…
And thank you!
September 21st, 2009 at 12:33 pm
This solution turns CO2 into a resource instead of seeing it as a threat.Desertification is an increasing problem for our planet as we fight for water and irrigation schemes dry out. The solution may seem grand but all the components of it are available to use now. It needs a proper hearing on the international stage so investment flows into it. Please vote positively for this!
September 21st, 2009 at 1:05 pm
Great, blessings and divine guidance to you at all times! Gregg, i am inspired by your work. Keep going and acting from your wonderful heart, i love it :-)))
September 21st, 2009 at 1:12 pm
really clear and effective, but I agree with Karthick, somebody could easely say “this is just an ‘utopia’”.
September 21st, 2009 at 1:14 pm
Precise, concise and true.
These kids seem to understand more than a lot of grownups do.
This gives new hope for the future.
Thumps up kids.
September 21st, 2009 at 3:19 pm
Simple & Understandable video! Great job!
September 21st, 2009 at 3:36 pm
Simple, clear and very strong!
September 21st, 2009 at 3:54 pm
S T O P g l o b a l war-MING!
September 21st, 2009 at 4:12 pm
Well done! the efforts and aspirations of everyone will make our dreams come through!
September 21st, 2009 at 9:53 pm
Just open your mind to the possibilities that exist for us! To those who say “utopian” - what solution exists that can be posited in one minute? Great video - well done !
September 21st, 2009 at 11:47 pm
That is so clever!!!Well done - that is some slick presentation.
September 22nd, 2009 at 1:02 am
Greg,
Well done with your work!The message needs to be heard on a huge scale,then people from all over the world can do can get petitions together to take to the state or member of parliment..More voices = more counts = someone will have to listen!Are people really that ignorant or don’t want to know?The statistics are out and proven that its IS a global problem,we need to be more self effecient is my belief.The restoration of the land management has to be integral to try repair the ecosystem “we need numbers” Blessings
September 22nd, 2009 at 10:21 am
A logical and clear approach to a global problem. A collective responsibility for our current global situation is required. This approach is good for business as it creates tangible outputs. Appealing to the commercial businesses leaders primarily is likely to be more effective than a political approach.
We all know action needs to be taken to combat climate change, this movie conveys a compeling combination of action,improvement and a return on this investment. Taking responsiblity can be both economic and environmental payback, now who is prepared to lead the recovery?
September 22nd, 2009 at 11:13 am
peace for everyone
que ce soit pour tous ,de toute religion ,de toute race …….
September 22nd, 2009 at 1:51 pm
Hello, I am Neo-Marx ,I have re-born for Send Poverty to Hell.Because the world becoming capitalist (naked shamless system aganist poor and workers through the present world) prevent it any way.Raise your hand aganist poverty.
September 22nd, 2009 at 9:27 pm
Great message. Please listen to it and do your bit.. yes YOU! Nice music too by the way
September 22nd, 2009 at 10:16 pm
Hello Imldu,
You are right to be extremely concerned. Deserts are expanding. Seasonal rains are failing. Snow-fed rivers are drying up. Soils are becoming depleted.
Without decisive action such as this, whole populations will become unsustainable, and it will be the poorer countries who suffer the most.
We also need a change of heart - true peace, not just absence of war. A world-wide team effort might help build local and international community spirit.
We must at least try…
September 23rd, 2009 at 12:10 am
Good video but you need to be careful this kid apears to be regurgitating what his parents or other adults have been telling him or wrote down for him. It starts to look like a bit of a programed robot situation instead of a from his own mouth presentation…this could make people who are not so how can i say ‘green-ish’ turn off from it a little. Kind of adult in a boys body scarey type thing anyway nice thought though (deserts of green), as the others say though the reality is not so easy - deserts are harsh places…
September 23rd, 2009 at 10:21 am
Hi Blix - please don’t underestimate the young - this particular chap does a massive amount on his own initiative. He is hugely talented and motivated. For example, visit his school site http://www.townsend.herts.sch.uk/, scroll down to “BBC School News Report” and watch “World Problems Solved by Toby” - now bear in mind that this was HIS project - he made it happen, and it was his own content.
Young people start out with creativity, enthusiasm and idealism, which all too often our world wears down into cynicism. Let’s not encourage that process!
September 23rd, 2009 at 11:46 am
The deserts and wastelands of our world, being some three quarters of the total land area, are manmade when origionally they were forests. Destroyed by greed, foolishness and ignorance - especially by the meat eaters.
All this can be recovered to provide continuous foods and resources for all of us, including the one billion starving and the two billion serviously deprived, which makes about half our total human population.
Once understood the recovery is really quite simple by working with the natural processes, functions and cycles of our God-given planet. Highly qualified ecologists have shown the way for over thirty years by being out there actually doing it. People like Dr Richard St Barbe Baker OBE (awarded by Prince Charles),
James Sholto Douglas who introduced forest farming and perfected hydroponics (soil-less cultivation) to the west from his practical exerience working in India, Africa and the Middle East. Also Wendy Campbell Purdy with forestation in the Algerian desert. They, along with James Grant Climatologist, told us how to induce rainfall onto deserts by planting belts of trees which can be interspaced with forest farming (agro forestry). While Green Deserts and Global Eco have developed methods of using the mineral elements from the seas and oceans to provide unlimited quantities of rich organic fertilisers. Basically very simple to grow superb organic foods and progressively recover wasteland from the coasts. Once understood all manner of other methods become apparent.
Consequently, our world would no longer need fight and kill each other for foods, fuels and resources, as in the past; destroying civilisations in the process. By these means we could develop a spiritual harmony for the whole of humankind and live in peace and prosperity ‘for ever’.
September 23rd, 2009 at 10:17 pm
Yes Harry its an interesting and potentialy useful idea. Unfortunatly as the video talked about …re routing the war budgets…I am thinking this will never happen. In fact I can only see more wars in the future with the way things are going - most people will probably not act till it is directly affecting them and by then global warming will be too far along cuasing war! And feeding, fueling,resourcing everyone doesnt stop war - most people agree that religion - race - and money are the biggest war starters :S. Sad but true. I guess all we can do is keep trying! And greg thanks for the extra stuff - christians eh - the mind programing feel is making sense now! I was just playing devils advocate to be helpful. Yes he looks like a bright boy and the video is good all the same…keep up the good work!
September 24th, 2009 at 7:02 am
Hi Blix - Yes, with your world-view, and I can understand perfectly where you’re comimg from, we ARE all doomed. So I prefer to be an advocate for changing that.
September 24th, 2009 at 8:01 am
I was reading about the ideas mentioned in this video.. Along those lines i found this interesting development…http://www.hindu.com/2009/09/24/stories/2009092455370900.htm - Corporate Farming… A very close watch is required to ensure food security of the participating nations….
September 24th, 2009 at 8:55 am
Thank you, Karthick. Yes - utilising unproductive deserts, underground brackish water, protecting participating nations food security are all essential parts of the picture.
Also, if you visit http://www.environmentalparliament.org, and on that page search for “defence” you will see a very interesting approach to utilising defence budgets constructively, by declaring Climate Change as a threat to national security.
Let’s all work together in order to conserve what you have captured in an exemplary manner in your video.
Well done, and thank you again!
September 24th, 2009 at 10:21 am
Thanks Greg. I think, We should work more closely than just participating in online forum discussions. If you are interested, please let me know your email id to me. (hariharan.karthick@gmail.com). I would be very happy to discuss ideas and take suggestions from you on this front.
Thanks
Karthick
September 24th, 2009 at 10:34 am
Hi Karthick. Great! Just sent you an email… All the very best, Greg
September 24th, 2009 at 4:26 pm
Great. Well done to those young CLIMATE CHANGE HEROES! Keep up the good work!
September 24th, 2009 at 4:34 pm
Stop Global War-MING!
Kinda makes sense eh?
September 24th, 2009 at 6:28 pm
Brilliant!!!! Good luck!
September 25th, 2009 at 3:40 am
Important work …. Bravo!
September 25th, 2009 at 7:53 am
It really is that simple - if all the self-interested “world statesmen” get out of the way and start helping not delaying. Well done !
September 25th, 2009 at 11:01 am
Brilliant message! Well said!
September 25th, 2009 at 1:20 pm
Direct and to the point on a very serious and urgent issue.
Stop the deforstation now!
September 25th, 2009 at 3:07 pm
Simple but very true. Out of the mouth of babes…I hope Copenhagen gets the message and acts on it! This needs to be heard all over the world, so everyone should please help spread the world to families and friends. We all have a divine assignment to ‘tend and to keep’ the earth.
September 26th, 2009 at 4:13 am
We, with all our youngness, must make the people to listen. This must change from now on. The world can’t wait anymore for us, now or never!
September 26th, 2009 at 7:28 am
Thank you to everyone who’s voting for us. I think our young team has really opened up a big opportunity to change the world for the better. Yesterday Toby, main presenter of the film, was called into the studio of BBC Three Counties Radio for an interview on the Breakfast Show. Well done to FREdome-YEA!
September 27th, 2009 at 11:06 am
It SUCKS dear…..i really cant understand that flow chart
September 27th, 2009 at 12:05 pm
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September 27th, 2009 at 3:42 pm
Great message
September 27th, 2009 at 5:52 pm
Nice, clear message and excellent presentation. Well done all.
September 27th, 2009 at 6:13 pm
Brilliant. We can all lear something by this and be inspired into taking action.
September 27th, 2009 at 6:37 pm
Well done Toby. This is such a good video and global warming is such an important issue!
September 27th, 2009 at 10:01 pm
Great! Good luck…
September 27th, 2009 at 10:02 pm
Leave to the kids to tell the real story
September 28th, 2009 at 2:14 am
We have the technology; solar and wind to power the irrigation pumps and desalinization processes. We just need the political will. Maybe these young citizens should present their idea to two former politicians that have a lot of clout and access to funds, Bill Clinton and Tony Blair. We should not pass-it off as being too simple to work. The fact is the simplicity is what makes the eco-business model achievable.
September 28th, 2009 at 6:23 am
Outstanding video everyone can walk away feeling there is something i can do to contribute to our one & only planet..
Lets educate everyone..
Plant a tree in your backyard & come back and tell everyone when you have planted one or donate one to local school,family or organization reccommend friends & family to do so.
Be committed to progress in the struggle
for enviromental justice for all!
September 28th, 2009 at 4:05 pm
Excellent!
September 28th, 2009 at 4:28 pm
Hmmm we already have enough food and resources for everyone and have done for years! In fact we make more food per human now than 40 years ago even with the population rise. So its not really a problem of amount!
Humans do crazy things and its about money most of the time - like did you know that apparently there is enough gold and diamonds mined already to bring the prices down in a major way but to make more money the companies buy up or hoard/hide enough from the market place to keep the prices high!!
September 28th, 2009 at 4:31 pm
Brilliant - the simpler messages often make more impact.
Now, I wonder what Gordon Brown, Barrack Obama, et al, and a 100 top company’s chief executives and chairmen and Boards of Directors would find in this message that they did not understand and see need to take action on?
September 28th, 2009 at 4:38 pm
Sock it to ‘em at Copenhagen
September 28th, 2009 at 6:56 pm
Hi Rob (a few comments back),
You raise some very good points about food and resources. As you say, it’s not just about (a) quantity, but also about (b) distribution, and please may I add to the list (c) quality.
(a) Quantity: Perhaps with fair distribution there might be enough for the world now, but the projected trends – with desertification, failure of seasonal rains, soil depletion, etc – are sharply downwards, and quite severely so, if scientific predictions are remotely close.
(b) Distribution – If we start to reclaim deserts, particularly using simple, replicable technology, then the food can be grown in the poorest areas of the world by their local communities.
(c) Quality – Foods grown with algal fertiliser will be highly nutritious because they contain the trace minerals which have been stripped from our soils, as we tend to pipe seawage into the sea and only replace the growth elements (NPK) which we refine chemically. Western food grows big, but is devoid of nutrition - or even toxic, as plants substitute elements (eg heavy metals) for the ones that they really need. Marine algae were the first life-form. Living in the sea they contain every soluble minteral from the earth, and they are at the start of the food chain, so they contain every element required for life.
So this approach can be a stepping stone not only to feeding the world’s poor, but also to nourishing them superbly.
September 28th, 2009 at 9:56 pm
…sorry, typo: “seawage” should have been “sewage”
September 28th, 2009 at 10:20 pm
A) moving down sharply you say but I only see more food and more supermarkets everywere! Prices going down - not up! And why was nothing done in the past 100 years anyway! But maybe in the future who knows.
B) a great deal of food comes from very poor comunities already - they get almost none of it! And if they end up having lots of good food this would probably cause other countries to want it = war! Least war has one god thing about it: less population (joking of course)!
C)Dont know enough about this subject so I will agree for now :D.
D) I am thinking maybe we should move this to a forum - we are kind of taking over this page :S!
September 28th, 2009 at 11:10 pm
Hi Blix
These are all very big topics.
Yes - happy to continue a more detailed discussion with you - but, as you say, let’s not take up the whole page!
Please suggest a forum…
September 29th, 2009 at 9:55 am
fantastic work of art great argument easy to understand 5 stars
September 29th, 2009 at 2:25 pm
excellent…well structured, easy to understand
September 29th, 2009 at 2:29 pm
Already the ancient knew: The children often teach us adult. We have to listen them!
It’s a wonderful video with a clear task for us.
September 29th, 2009 at 4:28 pm
Not just another video, but a call to action. We do have a purpose in life and it’s not about how many credit cards we carry. Life is about living things and living things need to be cared for and nutured.
We all need to do our part with a feeling heart.
September 29th, 2009 at 4:56 pm
clear, concise..and must be seen and heard!
September 29th, 2009 at 6:21 pm
Out of the mouths of children. If only our leaders showed as much common sense.
September 29th, 2009 at 9:46 pm
Wat to go, the kids are being taught properly and care about what really matters.
Get this on TV, it is succinct and too the point
September 30th, 2009 at 7:54 am
Hi Alan. The Team would find that SO encouraging! Any ideas on how we might achieve that? Generally, these things require a personal connection…
September 30th, 2009 at 9:51 am
The children could be acting based on divine inspiration. We should all lend our support to make the world a better and safer place.
September 30th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
Climate change has been going on since pre-history. It’s been much warmer than it is now and the human race is still around. Aren’t scientists predicting a few years of global cooling because of where we are in the solar cycle neatly counterbalancing global warming for the next decade? Doesn’t this just give governments a whole ten years to impose stealth taxes when nothing bad is actually happening?
September 30th, 2009 at 7:17 pm
Lovely - simple and clear. Let’s hope the abundantly simple people who are wrecking this planet will take note.
October 1st, 2009 at 1:23 am
You’re quite right, John, there are some things we don’t know, but there are also some that we definitely do. For example, the amount of carbon in the air is up nearly 40% since we started burning fossil fuels during the industrial revolution. Oil, coal and uranium are in limited supply. Deserts are expanding, so food is becoming scarcer.
So, regardless of one’s position on climate change, it does make sense to reclaim deserts to convert this excess carbon dioxide back into resources. And if the activity of re-creating those resources displaces some of the inhumanity of war, that in itself is a benefit.
October 1st, 2009 at 10:15 am
If climate change is for real then governments will sort the problem out through taxation and control. As individuals we have no influence and impact.
October 1st, 2009 at 2:29 pm
We need to act at all levels – individual, local and global – and the approach featured in the kids’ film can be applied across all these.
At an individual level, youth reps, who originally recognised the potential in this idea to salvage their futures, are now utilising CO2 by growing vegetables fed with sea nutrients in their school greenhouse, in a manner that can be scaled up. To add to the individual and local message they have enlisted the support of community volunteers. (See http://fredome.wordpress.com/2009/09/28/greenhouse-project-shows-promise/).
At a local level, in populated areas, we can use CO2 by biodigesting (composting without air) organic waste (food, greenery and slurry) to produce bio-gas (energy/electricity) and nutrient rich fertiliser increasing crop yields by 60%. Converting problems into solutions.
At a global level (but local for them) in arid areas, where there is initially no organic waste, we can use coastal sea weed, marine algae or salt water crops to produce the first growing-medium for agroforestry.
WeCan have created a unique channel here for people at grass-roots to speak to world leaders and share ideas. It would be a tragedy to waste this platform, focusing on problems alone. We need to communicate proven solutions that can be adopted on a macro & micro scale.
World leaders are currently negotiating for Copenhagen. Their current reticence in cutting carbon emissions is the impact it will have on their constituents local economy; food and water supply together with energy supply. If they were to agree to cut carbon emissions to a level science suggests now we would all end up fighting in the streets for food, water and energy! Creating conflict and war! Our solution looks at the problem from the opposite end seeing CO2 as a resource.
Let’s make the most of this opportunity to deliver a call to action at a level at which global leaders alone can act. We need nations to shift their focus from reduction of CO2 to harnessing CO2! From conflict towards decisive, practical resolution.
October 1st, 2009 at 2:58 pm
Perhapse we could ask the mafia to chip in a few quid as well - they are probably just as likely as rerouting all the money spent on war!
And gregs right - we need to act on all levels or no one will do anything till we are all in big trouble!
October 1st, 2009 at 8:04 pm
Co2 is only part of the problem. Water shortage is another growing problem and plants must have water. The longer we delay the worse the situation is going to get.
October 1st, 2009 at 8:07 pm
A well made brief video presentation
October 2nd, 2009 at 3:21 am
Let’s do it!
October 2nd, 2009 at 6:24 am
This is very well done. You know, a simple plan is the very best way to “get your foot in the door!” All else can be worked out as time goes on. I’m giving you Five Stars for Peaceful Intentions and Creative Thinking. Thank you for sharing. –Christie
October 2nd, 2009 at 8:44 am
Well done lads, you seem to care more than most adults. Some of the other comments seem to be saying that this is too simplistic, but you have to start somewhere. Don’t be put off by the adverse comments.
October 2nd, 2009 at 9:50 am
CO2 and WATER – how true!
By the way, the original research team whose work the kids picked up on actually used trees to induce rainfall on a desert island (Rodrigues) and storms downwind in the bay.
Also regarding water, there are all sorts of possibilities working from the coast. OTECs (Ocean Thermal Energy Converters) would be used to bring up nutrient-rich waters in which to grow algae or salt water crops. They use the surface-to-deep temperature differences to generate megawatts of electricity and megatons of fresh water per day.
Then there are straight-forward solar desalinators – with 1 kW of sunlight falling on each sq metre of desert, boiling and purifying water is clearly on the cards . . .
. . . and so on. Our planet has everything we need, if only we could get round to harnessing it.
October 2nd, 2009 at 12:37 pm
Such simple ideas and enthusiasm. Good luck
October 2nd, 2009 at 1:17 pm
Google are thinking of setting up there servers in a desert using solor panals only - the internet servers of the world use 1 percent of all energy we use now!
Also in regards to john - is this a video made by kids or adults anyway! It looks like the idea was formulated by adults on web sites that I can see and the editing - music was adults too etc…anyway? I got the impression is was just using the kids to tugg on the heart strings (looks like its working too)!
October 2nd, 2009 at 2:55 pm
THis is not just about climate change. Remember that GROWTH for the sake of it is a spiral that will use up resources both ’so called renewable’ and non-renewable. As our global population grows, demands on the food supply along with climate change could have a huge impact. Millions may die unnecessarily. We live in the age of the mega-stupid, because playing with out atmosphere as if it is toy is not a bright idea. Upsetting its balance may not cause much to happen now, but eventually it will have an impact. Now imagine if a galactic origin superwave, supernovae or huge solar flare occurs. These might be enough to exacerbate our destruction and drive us into extinction. And even if we are not responsible for climate change, surely its worthwhile doing something positive just in case - a precaution against potential impacts!
October 2nd, 2009 at 4:03 pm
Hi Rob, this is youngsters and adults working in partnership - eg see http://www.townsend.herts.sch.uk/, scroll down to “BBC School News Report” and watch “World Problems Solved by Toby” - that was Toby’s own initiative.
Other examples, without giving surnames, are Sam who has been regularly writing to Gordon Brown and tried to run a concert in the local park to get the word out, but got nobbled by health & safety hurdles. Jaz, Sophie & Paige who had the idea of putting on a big hip-hop/drama show to spread awareness & hope among their peers. Nicole has obtained the funding from the Youth Opportunity Fund. And so on…
Of course, the original research that they picked up on was done by field experts, and adults support them on technical issues & some leg work, but the youth contingent drives their own thread of activities.
It is a good partnership!
October 2nd, 2009 at 5:18 pm
Well done! Perfectly clear, so what’s stopping you? Or me? As soon as you read this comment, pass on the video link to three other people. You know who are the right ones, so just do it now. Thanks again to Toby and his mates.
October 2nd, 2009 at 5:28 pm
hi im chris im 14 and i spotted the idea at our first comunity workshop.
me and sam are working together to try and run a rock concert to spread awearness for this cause.
btw it was tobys dad that did the music in the video!!
good isnt it
October 2nd, 2009 at 10:35 pm
Fantastic Video and fantastic points
October 2nd, 2009 at 11:33 pm
Sounds good to me!
October 3rd, 2009 at 7:06 am
nice!
October 3rd, 2009 at 11:04 am
The world has been brought to its present sorry state by adults’ greed, violence, ignorance, apathy and lack of imagination. The future belongs to young people like Toby and we should listen carefully to what they have to say. If children had been running things we wouldn’t be in the mess we are now.
October 3rd, 2009 at 6:20 pm
I’m all for it. Keep up the good work (I’ll continue to do my bit as well).
October 3rd, 2009 at 7:05 pm
sup im taylor and i have helped out with the concerts in london to spread awarness
war is a waste of money and recorses which should be spent on enviromentl causes
it is an awsome idea
October 3rd, 2009 at 7:44 pm
Hello, I’m Toby, i’m the boy in the video above, i got together with Sophie, Christian, Faith, Lydia, and Christiana, from various places around Hertfordshire, this wasn’t my first video which has involved FREdome and has had the subject of solving the worlds current problems. See here: http://www.townsend.herts.sch.uk/bbcgeog.htm
Click on “media file” below “World Problems Solved by Toby”
I was introduced to the idea of FREdome via a family friend, the video took about a week to put together and i, amongst others had a ton of fun making it. i Believe the the suggestion that diverting money that is clearly being wasted on over-reacting to petty disputes, would be better spent on putting our solution to use, is an idea not without its merits.
I hope that YOU will rate us favorably and leave a positive review. please help us achieve our goal of ending the worlds difficulties because THAT is what we all want to happen
Yours sincerely
Toby
October 3rd, 2009 at 9:57 pm
Good luck .
Only these brave young who can change the world.
N Bhashyam
October 4th, 2009 at 1:41 am
Everyone has to help! Politics included!
October 4th, 2009 at 1:32 pm
Nice to see your comment Toby. You guys have done an awesome job.
Say, I would like to give you a hypothetical equation to solve. (subject to your interest)
1) Say if you and your friends were Obama, Brown, Sarkozy etc… How will you go about (steps involved) doing the diverting of funds from war to Climate change related hassles? (Just an exercise to stimulate your intellect…). Because i think all the world leaders surely know that money is better spent on good things than war. But the devil is in the details…
2) Good that you spoke of direct causes of climate changein your video? But there is also one another dimension which i would like to highlight.
Give a google search “BBC + Dumping in Africa” and from the results you will find, that Illegal dumps of toxic waste from west and europe are dumped in Africa which poses a HUGE threat to the respective ecosystem. since you are having a very good fan base to voice your opinion, it is my request that you and your friends try to highlight about illegal dumping in your other videos or TV Programs.
Hope you accept my comments and consider working on them…
Thanks
Karthick
October 4th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
The solutions are usually simple. It’s the politicians who muck them up!
October 4th, 2009 at 11:15 pm
Yes I think its a good idea and should be tried out and I heard it is already in action in some areas. One problem talked about was that you can only utilize the parts of desert near water - i.e. the sea and trying to do this on a masive scale is very very hard. Alot of people think that it would be much better to put efforts into keeping the rainforests and growing things in more temperate climates. Due to the fact that:
1) you dont have a hope in hell of getting the war budgets money! And so money will be low.
2) It would be way way cheaper and less polutive. i.e. you dont need to transport billions of tons of water, earth, trees etc. just to start it all off!
3)The deserts are very harsh and can destroy whole aereas of work before it even gets off the ground!
4) like I said before only certain areas can be reclaimed.
5)deserts actually reflect 40 percent of the sunlight hitting it so they help a little to cool the planet.
You need other ways to get the money I think buying a plot of land like they do with rainforests would be a good start or somthing like that.
So its a definatly part of the solution but its a bit pie in the sky! So obviously keep it going but dont think of it as some golden bullet!
October 5th, 2009 at 11:43 am
This inspired me to write this blog http://www.i-change.biz/blog/?p=2760
October 5th, 2009 at 1:10 pm
Hi Blix - You didn’t send me a link to a forum as you suggested earlier.
On Point 1) our team are not defeatists. Big, positive changes have taken place in the world before, and can again. It is morally compelling that the world should take a break from, or at least scale back its fighting in order to reduce the suffering of the poor and improve the future of the young. It would consider it a dereliction of our duty to withhold that message on grounds of pessimism. Plus, did you manage to have a look at the link I posted earlier – ie the mechanism proposed by the Environmental Parliament for diverting defence resources – in summary, declaring climate change and consequent resource depletion among the threats to the security of world nations, and therefore tasking our defence contractors and the military to undertake relevant projects?
Your points 2-4 contain number of technical assumptions with no reference to their origin. As you suggested earlier, we do need a more detailed discussion…
…and we do need to conserve what we already have, we do need to waste less, and we do need to re-use resources (see my earlier point on the local model – biodigesting organic waste to produce bio-gas & fertiliser, etc.) – but because of the backlog in the pipeline, we also need to do something decisive to help reverse the damage to our environment and natural resources – so, as I also said earlier, let’s use this opportunity to deliver to world leaders, new ideas from grass-roots for action at global level.
October 5th, 2009 at 4:25 pm
I have been involved in this cause for a while now doing various jobs, most importantly design work for promotion of the various different events being held by FREdome
The video shows a clear, simple answer to the worlds climate problems, and think that everyone should do what they can to promote this cause
October 5th, 2009 at 5:46 pm
Hi Jonny - may I take this opportunity to thank you publicly for all your design work, which, as you know, I think is brilliant!
(By the way, Jonny is under-18, and does the artwork for the under-18 events.)
And thank you RDC for your blog!
October 5th, 2009 at 10:29 pm
Congratulations my good friend Ivor Kellock and team, for the awesome initiative! I voted and I am spreading the news!
October 6th, 2009 at 7:37 am
Excellent video, excellent message, excellent that a child is the protagonist of the video due it is for Youth Encouraging Adults. Just in my opinion, the video would be better in a little bit more formal way for it to make adults reflex about this.
October 6th, 2009 at 7:07 pm
Children are our future so it’s great that they have such a clear and uncomplicated vision. Well done - it gives us hope.
October 7th, 2009 at 12:16 am
Hi,
I’m still in school and help organise the under 18 events for FREdome. I took part in creating this video and I hope that the world leaders at Copenhagen will see this and listen for the sake of all our futures!
October 7th, 2009 at 7:56 am
Out of thr mouths of babes…….
Great video, great aims and worth voting for.
Roger
October 7th, 2009 at 10:42 pm
Very good stuff done by kids. It’s amazing how they are involved.
October 8th, 2009 at 3:29 am
Listen to new generations… they know whats going on.. is the earth for them that we are destroying and this has to STOP!!
October 8th, 2009 at 10:41 am
It says it all,when are we going to take note?
October 8th, 2009 at 4:14 pm
My name is Sam i’m 14, in Fredome, i’ve helped organising concets other events. I have written many letters to Gordon Brown himself about the cause and requesting help from the English goverment.
I do like the idea of the video as it shows a great but a simple understanding on how we need to find a new energy source for or dying world. The figures are quite scary on how much fossil fuels we have left.
Youth team leader
October 10th, 2009 at 10:59 am
A very well thought out commentary from Tobias
October 10th, 2009 at 5:13 pm
heyyy
im sixteen and i think this is a great idea
and its definatelyy an issue more people should take noticee of!!
October 11th, 2009 at 10:34 am
agree
it’s simple and empowering
October 11th, 2009 at 12:08 pm
Superb, simple, and reaches the heart of the matter
October 11th, 2009 at 7:26 pm
It is very inspiring to see young people raise up… and demand for a better world… Rise & Shine. SOULsMiLes! I am in and I pledge my support, please keep me posted…Well done!
Thank you Greg for helping these amazing young people.
October 11th, 2009 at 11:37 pm
Good One Greg
Nice and clear !
Well done
Jeff
October 12th, 2009 at 12:30 am
i doubt if the world leaders will listen this, since they have to follow their pattern of political interests which have submission to something big named “capitalism”, however basically i support anything attempts, especially something real to stop global war-ming
October 12th, 2009 at 1:14 am
i doubt if the world leaders will listen this, since they have to follow their pattern of political interests which have submission to something big named “capitalism”, however basically i support any attempts, especially something real to stop global war-ming
October 12th, 2009 at 4:56 pm
Excellent!
October 12th, 2009 at 7:30 pm
Hi Sapta - thank you for your support. You’re right, our challenge - and it is a challenge - is to change hearts and minds at all levels. As Severn Suzuki said to the UN, government officals are also “mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers, aunts and uncles, and… somebody’s child”
October 12th, 2009 at 7:56 pm
Great little video and great idea!
Of course, it doesn’t need to be motivated by the idea that it reduces global warming - it’s great for the environment and for people anyway. The globe actually seems to be cooling just now (probably for the next 30 years - see BBC report: `Whatever happened to Global Warming?’… the warmest year recorded globally was 1998, and for the last 11 years no increase in global temperatures has been observed … report by the BBC climate correspondent, Paul Hudson quotes a climatologist as saying there could be 30 years of cooling due to the falling temperatures of the oceans) but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t do things like irrigating deserts!
October 12th, 2009 at 10:03 pm
Yes well said, we should get a million strong young kids protesting in front of the Westminter or 10 downing street, what you thing? With Parents, I hope that will wake the leaders up.
October 13th, 2009 at 3:58 pm
An excellent video. Wishing the group sucess.
October 14th, 2009 at 12:32 am
Superb work.
Power to the (young) people!
Good luck!
October 14th, 2009 at 7:46 am
what an idea ! I pull out all the stops for this program me.
October 14th, 2009 at 2:34 pm
This is wonderful! Teamwork, educational, great visual impact, very important message. Congratulations! Take it far.
October 14th, 2009 at 3:01 pm
hillo me a adam this is very good conect my email adama -901@live.fr
October 14th, 2009 at 3:52 pm
Precisely in order.
October 15th, 2009 at 9:11 am
How important it is that those who will inherit our mess have a say in how it should be resolved.
October 15th, 2009 at 1:48 pm
Chris - I don’t get it? If the world is cooling, then why is this story on the BBC website today
Arctic to be ‘ice-free in summer’
By David Shukman Science and environment correspondent, BBC News
Its real when all people can think about in their greed are the opportunities to exploit the Arctic passage.
Why don’t they look at climate change models provided by likes of Bill McGuire UCL Hazard Research Centre and think about trying to divert resources into finding strategies to deal with the huge risks that we face?
October 16th, 2009 at 11:59 am
Hi Barry - that’s a very valid point!
October 16th, 2009 at 12:15 pm
Hi Suzanne,
I just looked up that reference:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8307272.stm
Clicking through the years on the map there, it appears that 2007 was a particularly low point for the area of ice. There is perhaps a slight recovery in 2008/9, so maybe we are in for a brief respite?
So long as that doesn’t lull us into a false sense of security. But the overall implications are quite scary.
In parallel with this, of course, we have world resource depletion to contend with. It will be good if we can tackle both with a single solution…
October 16th, 2009 at 2:10 pm
Suzanne have a look at this video……….. says it all for me!
Global warming has become part of vocabulary whereas the real phrase is climate change - some parts warm up - some cool - and these areas will change as time goes by. The planet is a dynamic place!
The net effect is global warming if we project to 100 years hence.
http://www.ted.com/talks/james_balog_time_lapse_proof_of_extreme_ice_loss.html
Photographer James Balog shares new image sequences from the Extreme Ice Survey, a network of time-lapse cameras recording glaciers receding at an alarming rate, some of the most vivid evidence yet of climate change.
Hope this helps
John
October 17th, 2009 at 10:14 am
thaks everyone for supporting our group its realy aprreciated
October 17th, 2009 at 4:56 pm
My vote goes to you
October 18th, 2009 at 2:55 am
Incredibly true lesson. Let’s do it together - make our world a peaceful place to live in harmony.
Dear Ivor THANKS for sharing.
Asgar Ali Khatau
October 19th, 2009 at 5:50 pm
Hi guys…cazz here, entered ‘pave the way’ just wanted to say a big well done to you all and for all your work here on this page after the initial upload…I think the winds of change may certainly be on the way at long, long last :)…well done to all, of you!!
October 19th, 2009 at 8:24 pm
The alternative is destruction of earth including those inhabiting it
October 20th, 2009 at 1:23 am
Lovely videos in this competition (some of them) expressing problems, needs,and wishes but none of them tell how to take the carbon out of the air and make into world resources like foods, fuel, ferilisers and materials.
Except this one!
A constant natural recycling process,known about for twenty years but ignored by our leaders and mainstream culture.
Let’s not vote for dreams but vote for real change now that we have a voice.
October 20th, 2009 at 9:15 am
yes stop GLOBAL WARMING…..
October 20th, 2009 at 3:43 pm
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October 20th, 2009 at 7:16 pm
Well done! Good effort.
October 21st, 2009 at 8:00 am
btw we are not in this for the prize we’ve got the solution to the worlds problems and we want the whole world to hear for all of our sakes.
October 21st, 2009 at 1:19 pm
Very nice! Russia has a bit of land that could be used too, when it gets warmer! If we could put more trees etc up there it could really help due to all the methane that could be released up there :O!
October 21st, 2009 at 6:10 pm
Simple yet profound wisdom. You kids can teach us a lot. Thank you and may God bless you and your work.
October 21st, 2009 at 8:06 pm
Good effort for one so young. If I were judging it on this basis, I would give it 5 stars. But I’m not. I’m separaring art from its creator, and as a film it lacks desperately in so many ways; in a nutshell, it’s simply not filmic and this is a film competition. Good effort to bother doing it though. 2 stars from me.
October 21st, 2009 at 8:57 pm
Great video!!!! I love what you are doing. But lets get real! That is a very simple solution. Great ideas like that have been around for a very long time. The global elite’s do not want it! The global elite want to de-populate the earth. The United Nations have said it themselves, the plan is to cut population by 80% - 90%. Until this happens nothing as smart and simple will happen!
October 21st, 2009 at 9:48 pm
Over the last 10 years, we’ve been producing more CO2 than ever, especially with China becoming affluent, yet the world has been cooling. It’s easy enough for adults to make children believe there is a connection between CO2 and Earth’s temperature but maybe not a good idea to use children to try to convince adults of it. Adults might consider facts and science. Then your whole project might go off the tracks. Then who would pay for Al Gore’s mansion, jet, jet fuel, SUVs and limousines?
October 21st, 2009 at 10:02 pm
Interesting perspective. How important is filmic art compared to our children’s future and the survival of humanity?
October 21st, 2009 at 10:54 pm
Yes I would have to agree not the best filmic wise and the idea is not new I have been seeing desert reclamation projects in action for years now. And as for getting all the money spent on war well you got more chance of wining the lotto every week for a year! But good atempt by the kids, might have been nicer if it was totally done by the kids 100 percent. With a whole group doing this you seem to have massive support so its bound to do well anyway!
October 22nd, 2009 at 9:31 am
Dear Mr justanotheremailaddress@another.com, art is for people, it is a matter of opinion and you are entitled to yours. My opinion is that this is a perfectly valid and well-motivated piece of grass-roots art, and the balance of opinion on this page is positive. Eg see http://www.1minutetosavetheworld.com/2009/09/stop-global-war-ming/#comment-417
Other comments in this flurry:
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Re cynicism and pessimism, please see: http://www.1minutetosavetheworld.com/2009/09/stop-global-war-ming/#comment-358
Re realism – if you have ever worked in defence, you will know that an annual work programme of tasks is defined in order to counteract a list of identified threats, so that if climate change and resource depletion (particularly the latter) were to be recognised and declared as threats, war resources would be systematically diverted. http://www.1minutetosavetheworld.com/2009/09/stop-global-war-ming/#comment-365
If you don’t see excess CO2 as a threat, I hope you can appreciate its conversion into dwindling world resources as an opportunity. Desert reclamation using biodigested algae/biomass has never been conducted on the proposed, realistic scale.
We are a very small group, so if our support is massive, that is very encouraging! The vast majority of comments on this board are from people that I do not know of, but am grateful to.
I’m sorry if you have a problem with children and adults working together.
October 22nd, 2009 at 11:28 am
Great work , its we the youths who need to rise against this else there would be no tommorow
Keep this up …
I am the administrator of a similar club - known as AIM4 , visit us at : http://www.aim4.co.cc to know about global warming & how we ( some common people ) are working to overcome it
October 22nd, 2009 at 3:08 pm
There is much debate about whether climate change is happening or not. Climate HAS changed continually for 4.1 billion years, since the inception of our planet. Are humans responsible in recent times? Probably but we can’t be certain. Is the increase in CO2 in the atmosphere due to humans? Probably but we can’t be certain.
Did you know that due to the tender process and how The Ministry of Defence are funded in the UK that they running at over £50bn over budget……. and they still can’t provide the correct kit for our soldiers in theatres of war.
The children here therefore are making a simple point that money and resources can be redistributed into more useful outcomes for the benefit of many generations to come not just for now.
Watch these……
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/james_balog_time_lapse_proof_of_extreme_ice_loss.htmlhttp://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/john_doerr_sees_salvation_and_profit_in_greentech.html
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/stephen_petranek_counts_down_to_armageddon.html
October 22nd, 2009 at 7:26 pm
Hi Shubham - Great to hear from you - power to youth!
I followed your link to AIM4. I like your explanation of the problems, a way forward and your own video, which I will forward to my friends.
You keep up the good work too!
Take care, Greg
October 23rd, 2009 at 6:33 am
I’m always thinking about my children’s children’s childrens…way to go kids…all the best for you…May God bless you all and guides and protect you always.
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:28 am
i don’t know what it is,but i like your words man,it’s awesome. and btw,cool website.
October 23rd, 2009 at 1:12 pm
Brillant
Simply pictured to show the answers are in fact simple too, congratulations on such a great film!!
October 23rd, 2009 at 1:27 pm
More than 50% of Global War-ming is due to livestock industry.
http://food.change.org/blog/view/livestock_responsible_for_51_of_emissions_says_worldwatch_institute
Yes, we need more plants…. keep the rain forests… BUT the most elegantly simple and simple elegant way to curbing Global War-ming is to Go Vegan!
October 24th, 2009 at 2:15 am
I love this video. It has a great message that not many adults understand. Wonderful job! Great idea, and keep up the good work. You have some of the most amazing attitudes towards this planet that I have ever seen.
October 24th, 2009 at 8:08 am
Our young are the future. It is therefore our duty to take care of them and educate them on the importance of Grand Mother Earth and Mother Nature.
This video again shows we as adults took that responsibility by having the young generation speak of the up-coming danger, if we do not act now.
Oh Ye! All it takes for now are simple small steps but we must walk them together as a whole!
Heyapi!
To ride on horseback
Wakan Tanka nici un.
October 24th, 2009 at 8:23 am
Hmmm - I wonder - would it be easier to get the world to biodigest (compost without air) its food, crop, animal & green waste into renewable fertiliser & energy, or to convert everyone to Veganism?
Good question…
October 24th, 2009 at 9:42 am
Hill Mother Earth :)))
October 24th, 2009 at 9:58 am
Hmmmm ! if human beings practise love, honesty, clearty, respect, justice among them,………..they no longer have even a dispute a fortiori the war.
October 24th, 2009 at 10:40 am
Yeh - it’s prob not a case of either/or, but and+and.
It’s urgent enough for each of us to do all we can in our own ways, asap - eg drive less, recycle, compost, switch off TVs, use low-energy bulbs, turn off taps, plant trees, ditch the plastic bags, eat less meat, and so on.
But to my mind, the global action proposed in this video is the one that will make civilisation sustainable.
October 24th, 2009 at 11:08 am
Hi Joe - good answer! People who do any of these things are to be admired. It’s a combination of solutions that we need :=)
October 24th, 2009 at 4:36 pm
greatttttttttttttttt
October 24th, 2009 at 4:38 pm
u are doin excellent job guys!!!
October 24th, 2009 at 4:39 pm
u are doin excellent job guys!!!
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October 24th, 2009 at 8:12 pm
Gran video, muy bueno por su contenido y mensajes, todo mi apoyo para la causa y movimiento; todo esto es de gran importancia para todos en la era de la globalización.
Felicitaciones por el video, movimiento e iniciativa a la cual cual adhiero, cuente conmigo para salvar al mundo!!!. Gracias.
Great video, very good for their content and messages, my support for the cause and movement, all this is of great importance to all in the era of globalization.
Congratulations on the video, movement and initiative, which concur that, count on me to save the world!. Thank you.
Diego Padilla Zelada.
Chile.
October 24th, 2009 at 10:03 pm
Great vid and damn interesting posts, too. I say it’s a testament to the power of the kid’s video that it is inspiring so much discussion. Bravo!
I concur with the general proposition, more food, less weapons = good thing in my book.
I live and work in an ecovillage that has created a massive abundance of flora and fauna in what was essentially sand and concrete, a disused air force base on a beach. So I can say it’s definitely possible! You can see the results on our FB page:
http://www.facebook.com/findhornfoundation
Check out the photo album entitled ‘Then and Now’:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=98440&id=34931576241
Many blessings to the film makers. Good luck for Copenhagen!
October 27th, 2009 at 12:49 pm
Brilliantly done…simple and effective…You definitely have my support. Let me know if I or my org can help in anyway.
Suresh ‘Siv’ Sivarajah
October 28th, 2009 at 9:01 pm
According to basic science, plants use CO2 to create O2 and carbon mass. Since life on earth started and we began to breathe all the O2 provided by plants, we have been planting landscapes with grass and trees and fertilizing crops with nutrients and the CO2 from our other human activities as well.
So THANKS everyone for doing what you are ALREADY doing!!
Question: So, with all the claimed excess of CO2 that we already have - that causes plants to grow more lush - that then creates more rainfall (as suggested in this film?), why is that we’re not seeing less deserts..already - and how did we cause them..in the first place..??
Maybe the film leaves something out..?
October 28th, 2009 at 10:58 pm
the world now has become so little and yet so big….thus it needs small pushes to generate a big and gargantuan shove to open all eyes and make a last and final act - WE SAVE MOTHER EARTH! NO ELSE WILL….
October 29th, 2009 at 11:13 am
Hi !
Great work.
October 29th, 2009 at 11:50 am
Hi GeorgeB,
Sorry, only just picked up your question: http://www.1minutetosavetheworld.com/2009/09/stop-global-war-ming/#comment-1306
Thank you for watching the film and following the logic through. You’re right – they had a lot to get across, and they did a great job to cover so much in a few seconds, giving a solid overview.
You also did a good job of describing our nature-intended symbiotic relationship with plants – we give them CO2 and nutrients, and they combine these with sunlight and water and give them back to us as energy-charged carbohydrate-based resources. There is also a very strong relationship between trees and rain. Hardwood trees stimulate rain.
The vast Sahara and Australian Bush, for example, were once fully forested. What went wrong is that we cut down trees for wood, to grow crops and to graze our cattle. The rains stopped and we left swathes of desert behind us. The original charitable team (“Green Deserts”), whose research Chris picked up on, witnessed the clearing of trees by authorities, and subsequent failure of rains. They planted trees and induced rainfall, and even brought the first rainfall in living memory to existing desert areas.
Green Deserts and its successors conducted 30 years of related research. Key figures have included numerous global field experts, such as Richard St Barbe Baker OBE and Dr Sydney Moutia, who used trees to induce rainfall in desert areas of Abu Dhabi and Rodrigues; James Sholto-Douglas, led the refertilisation of the Limpopo Valley in Botswana, and so on…
By integrating existing and cutting-edge technology and processes, they designed a process to restore that rainfall, working inwards from desert coastlines. It involves using wave pumps or possibly even outlets tapped from constructed OTECs (eg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x59MptHscxY), to pump nutrient-rich ocean water into shallow coastal ponds, where marine algae/salt-tolerant crops can be grown. The resulting biomass is then composted in the absence of air (Anaerobic Digestion) to produce nutrient-rich fertilisers, and biogas which can be burnt for further energy and additional CO2 + water vapour to stimulate optimum growth of belts of fast-growing trees - initially sheltered under inflatable domes or in poly-tunnels.
Once established, the trees will begin to induce rain: The land always heats/cools faster than the sea, so during the day, hot dry air expands and blows out over the sea. After sunset, cool, moist air rushes back inland. Rising cool moisture droplets from the trees act as nuclei to cause the water vapour to condense and fall as rain. The effect can be extended many times by further belts of trees inland. The original team even managed to induce storms using trees in this way. Between the tree belts we can start to grow copious, nutritious, biodegradable, sustainable food / energy / medicine / material crops – more than sufficient for the world’s needs, expanding the world economy in a way that corrects the climate and restores the planet, rather than plundering/poisoning it. (See also Biorefinery - http://www.nrel.gov/biomass/biorefinery.html). This an attractive alternative to stifling an old-style world economy with draconian enforced cuts in carbon emissions, and persuading people to live laborious, austere existences.
Some might say that the initial investment is high, but this would be a much better application of funds than the trillions of dollars wasted annually on conflict. With even a fraction of that budget, it must be recognised as viable.
This is definitely an approach that global leaders need to at least start to consider at Copenhagen, for the sake of today’s young and all generations to come.
I guess that even in this space I haven’t managed to do the subject justice, but I hope that this fills in some of the gaps. Please watch the film again with all this in mind, and it should make perfect sense. If you want further info, I can email it to you…
Thank you for taking this so seriously, and thank you to the young team for engaging your interest.
All the best, Greg
October 29th, 2009 at 12:45 pm
“very simple but important, STOP GLOBAL WARMING !!!”
October 29th, 2009 at 1:10 pm
I like the idea, not the use of child so much, though he was very articulate. Sustaining population growth by reclaiming once agriculture land for food purposes… don’t believe it’s agreeable with the need to cut CO2 emissions immediately, long term perhaps? Tree felling in vast areas without doubt has affected salinity levels in soils, and it seems that an engineered solution must be implemented on a massive scale, and in theory it is true. A much better use of funds than conflict true to fact. It’s aim is a little to focused on one aspect of a greater problem, or perhaps consequence of trends.
October 29th, 2009 at 2:24 pm
To avoid this disaster, I think you just have to work sincerely. Rather than sit down and write messages for this action to be prepared for events we should do something, thank you.
October 29th, 2009 at 8:24 pm
stop gw
October 29th, 2009 at 8:36 pm
awesome we need to get more people active in trying to help the word
October 30th, 2009 at 5:18 am
CONGRATULATIONS
ALL THE SUPPORT FROM COLOMBIA TO SAVE OUR PLANET
October 30th, 2009 at 5:26 am
CONGRATULATIONS
ALL THE SUPPORT FROM COLOMBIA TO SAVE OUR PLANET…
October 30th, 2009 at 4:20 pm
Greg I know this is one of the things we probably should be doing. But as you said, you need sea to get the moisture from and most of the desert is too far inland is it not?
October 30th, 2009 at 11:25 pm
especially something real to stop global war-ming
October 31st, 2009 at 8:32 am
really very simple but have a very important message
October 31st, 2009 at 8:32 am
really very simple but have a very important message
October 31st, 2009 at 11:32 am
We all know the message, but this is a film competition. This fails to hit the point, you are not using the creative aspects of the medium, how can I understand if I speak Mandrin? This is predictable and bland like many on here.
October 31st, 2009 at 3:10 pm
I really want to see something different, rather than the same old format, and technique. We all know the message, it is the delivery that is important here, and in this case it just does not deliver. Much of the same.
October 31st, 2009 at 3:18 pm
This is a film competition and this is not a film. maybe Mum and Dad should have spent a little more time thinking about this.
October 31st, 2009 at 4:16 pm
That’s it in a nutshell. Well done, may it sink in to the complicated minds of politicians and leaders everywhere, as well as all the rest of us.
October 31st, 2009 at 5:33 pm
If you are interested in saving our planet and would like to attend a free event in London on 14 November 2009 - please go here - http://bit.ly/qKsOE.
Entitled The case for an International Court for the Environment it is to be held at the London of School of Economics and has a very weighty list of speakers and attendees.
Thanks Ivor
October 31st, 2009 at 8:22 pm
Children can speak up just because they have way to go in life and tyey are worroy what is it going to happen in their future. Our adults world in general are so ignorant in that meaning.
November 2nd, 2009 at 11:28 am
Hi Dominic,
Sorry – been out at a conference this weekend – just seen your question http://www.1minutetosavetheworld.com/2009/09/stop-global-war-ming/#comment-1538
Induction of rainfall by belts of trees can be repeated and extended to desert far inland. To be effective hardwood tree belts need to be around 4 miles wide and 100 yards deep. The distance between belts (available for agroforestry) depends upon local air humidity and prevailing wind speed.
The relevant data originates from field experts such as:
- James Grant – climatologist. Used hard wood / soft wood trees to induce, or inhibit, rainfall.
- Dr Richard St Barbe Baker OBE (Awarded by Prince Charles) – founder of Men of the Trees (now International Tree Foundation) extensive author, responsible for planting more trees worldwide than anyone.
- James Sholto-Douglas – Plant ecologist. Worked on overseas projects for ODA, UN, etc. horticulture and forestry. Author of several books and specialist on hydroponics also on ecology and others, co-author Forest Farming (agro-forestry) Trustee of Green Deserts. Applied the method of rain induction in the Sudan. Led the refertilisation of the Limpopo Valley, Botswana
They indicated that, for example, if the process were started in Mauritania, it could could be repeated across an 8.2 sqare-kilometre area all the way to Cairo.
By the way, congrats on your film – it does a superb job of stressing the reality and urgency.
All the best, Greg
PS: Jules – I think that these young people, and all contestants, should be congratulated on taking the initiative and on the standard of their work.
November 2nd, 2009 at 3:33 pm
Thanks! Sounds interesting I love that idea of bio fule produced from algae as well maybe it can link up with this project some how. Anyway I need to read more I am new to this area!
Yes mines more of a general message spured on by the scarey ammount of people that dont believe in humans effecting global warming and even more people that dont do enough about it! I had an idea it might be a few but when you really look hard it might even be the majority!
Anyway it looks like your in the next round now congrats! Plus good luck with this work.
November 3rd, 2009 at 12:10 pm
U have my vote for 6th star.
November 3rd, 2009 at 5:08 pm
Once again we have kids who know what’s needed. Why can’t politicians take the lead? They also know the steps that need to be taken yet they dance around the subject year after year. It’s doubtful that I’ll be alive when the full impact of global warming is felt but that doesn’t stop me from wanting the utmost necessary efforts to be taken to halt the current climb and then maybe try to reverse it.
November 3rd, 2009 at 5:51 pm
Great video!!!!!!
November 3rd, 2009 at 8:19 pm
Precise, concise and true.
These kids seem to understand more than a lot of grownups do.
November 3rd, 2009 at 9:29 pm
Muy bueno el video.
Saludos desde Montevideo República Oriental del Uruguay.-
November 4th, 2009 at 12:07 pm
Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings ……. Psalm 8: 1-2
November 4th, 2009 at 3:53 pm
Simple, relevant and brilliant idea. A lot needs to change if we want a livable planet in the future. This can help that happen.
November 4th, 2009 at 3:53 pm
Simple, relevant and brilliant idea.
A lot needs to change if we want a livable planet in the future. This can help that happen.
November 4th, 2009 at 8:01 pm
Awesome delivery! Absolutely Brilliant! We can start by making environment-minded choices every day, each and every one of us.
Another thing that we can do as North Americans, is to share the plenty that we have. We have more than enough food to help out the other countries of the world that are starving. Global warming has seriously effected everyone, so the time is now. Our heart and minds have to be open to change, and willing hands to make it happen!
November 5th, 2009 at 4:24 am
Politicians are the ones who are causing us this anxiety in the first place.
If we make it to Copenhagen and do change some minds,
it will not be enough on its own.
But where the video will score is in persuading the
ordinary people of the world to unite for the sake
of their future generations.
November 5th, 2009 at 6:29 am
Very creative. Not sure what’s the next step after posting a comment!
November 5th, 2009 at 10:00 am
Thank you!
Congratulations again to all competitors and voters!
Our team’s purpose in entering this competition has purely been to introduce a call to new, global action to REVERSE the damage to our planet, quickly.
We sincerely believe that this simply MUST be voiced and introduced into the mix…
November 5th, 2009 at 6:55 pm
Very well done.
It’s unfortunate that most of the adults in the industrial world are not as sharp as these kids.
November 5th, 2009 at 7:45 pm
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November 5th, 2009 at 9:26 pm
тупая американская идея! Лажа лишена смысла. Как бы сказал Артемий Лебедев - “Унылое Гавно”
November 5th, 2009 at 11:14 pm
This message and solution is simple and to the point - good luck the best one !
November 6th, 2009 at 11:02 am
A clear, effective and above all, WORKABLE message.
Good luck with Copenhagen!
Ian
November 6th, 2009 at 4:11 pm
Congratulations You have my vote.
Good luck with Copenhagen!
November 7th, 2009 at 12:08 pm
hi hades i translated your russian comment online:
тупая американская идея! Лажа лишена смысла. Как бы сказал Артемий Лебедев - “Унылое Гавно”
this is what it came out as:
Stupid American idea! Лажа it is deprived sense. Has as though told Артемий Лебедев - “ Sad Гавно ”
this is a british led idea not american…
November 7th, 2009 at 12:49 pm
Its my pleasure to be a part of this and proud to help one who is in need.
- Sai
November 7th, 2009 at 5:52 pm
Brilliant, simple, straightforward - perhaps we should get rid of politicians and world leaders and let these kids run things - they seem to have the answer ……
November 7th, 2009 at 8:08 pm
Hi Everybody
Congrats to everyone who took the initiative to enter a film into this competition, and thank you to everyone who invested the time to watch and vote.
I hope that the world takes on board all of these films and implements a combination of all the known approaches they recommend.
But, as we added in our film, if we can’t change our lifestyles or systems sufficiently or in time, then we need to compensate for them by removing the resulting threats and recreating resources we are using up – ideally converting the former back into the latter. That is the essence of the approach we have recommended and we believe that it simply HAS to be included in the mix.
The threats include conflict, waste, excess carbon dioxide and expanding deserts. If we can invest in building a system that uses natural processes to recreate world resources continuously out of all these, then the future for our children and grandchildren suddenly starts to look very different…
So long as we can grasp this and summon the will, then we probably just have time…
Let’s hope! Greg
November 7th, 2009 at 10:56 pm
Well done an effective message which I hope will reach the right people, in plenty of time.
November 8th, 2009 at 12:22 am
stop global warming.
November 8th, 2009 at 7:57 am
Bangladesh fully supports u in this noble cause.
November 11th, 2009 at 12:18 am
Well done knew this one would get through…
November 13th, 2009 at 8:36 pm
Hi – I’m Jasmine. I’m probably the first young person to become involved in FREdome-YEA. The sort of things I’ve done include building up an-online youth following, organising under-18 clubbing nights to support the cause, ticket sales, lots of public speaking, done surveys, run a stall, helped test the ideas website, presented on video, done leafleting, posters in shops… At the moment I’m putting together a youth talent event called “Show the World!” to spread the message to other young people. I really hope our short film wins. It would be great if the world could take a break from war and fix the planet for our generation and all those to follow.
November 13th, 2009 at 8:52 pm
Received from Dr. Tara Cullis, Mother of Severn Cullis-Suzuki, and President of the David Suzuki Foundation
Congratulations on winning the public vote!
Good luck on the short list…
I am Severn’s mother and until now wasn’t aware of your group, the UK youth team, which does good work and are supporters of Severn’s. I am absolutely thrilled to know that a generation later her efforts at Rio in 1992 are bearing fruit. I know how honest and powerful young people are. No hidden agendas.
I loved your video. Simple, catchy, to the point. I understand we have a link to it on our David Suzuki Foundation website for people to vote. Hope it wins the competition!
Please let the children know we are thrilled to know they are doing their best to solve the greatest problems of our world. May they be heard at Copenhagen and after. Thank them so much from me and please encourage them to keep on trying — no matter what!
And of course my thanks to you too for your support of these young people. And for getting Severn’s video out. It is still a powerful tool.
Best wishes,
Tara.
Dr. Tara Cullis
President
David Suzuki Foundation
November 13th, 2009 at 8:58 pm
Dictated by Severn Cullis-Suzuki over the phone and emailed to us on 13 November 2009:
“I can’t tell you how much it means to me that so many years after the Earth Summit in Rio you young people have taken up the call and are fighting for your future. The voice of youth is even MORE important today as we go to Copenhagen.
The Climate Change battle is an example of intergenerational injustice, as it is the young and future generations who have not created the problem but who will feel the full effects of the consequences of Climate Change. I hope your message gets through to those in power. I’m so proud you are fighting for the future: until our leaders change their ways it is, unfortunately, up to you. Remember that luckily, you are not alone.” — Severn Cullis-Suzuki
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Here is Severn Cullis-Suzuki addressing the UN at age 12: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQmz6Rbpnu0
November 14th, 2009 at 12:58 pm
Dear Greg & FREdome-YEA, UK
Congratulations for now having officially won the public vote for what you have been and are doing.
It is very important that the world will know what has been accomplished by the young people strongly believing in their work to resolve climate change and resource depletion, salvaging the future for them.
I hope the independent panel of judges will understand how important it is that this film will reach the public.
In brotherhood and love, yoko
November 16th, 2009 at 1:16 pm
The comment made by Anne Main, MP for St Albans was: “It’s fantastic to see young people getting involved in important environmental issues. Everyone should be thinking about how we can save our planet and this young group is an inspiration to us all.”
November 22nd, 2009 at 2:24 am
In a competition, there are always finalists and those who don’t get through. The problem we had was that there were so many fantastic videos to choose from that there was inevitably going to be great films that didn’t make it, especially as we had to meet a criteria for each category.
However, we’ve decided to rectify this a little and reward 5 more great videos. These have been added to the shortlist and will also guaranteed receive a subscription to Shooting People. They will be on our homepage soon.
The five videos are:
Tank head, Nature finds a way, Paving the planet, Earth clock, Restore the earth
WHAT WAFFLE FROM THE JUDGES THESE FILMS SHOULD BE REMOVED!
THIS COMPETITION HAS BEEN CORRUPTED!
November 24th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
My congratulations to the FREdome-YEA! youth team for winning both the Public Vote and the Youth Film category!
All that remains now is the question posed at the very beginning of their summary “Can a group of young people change the world?”
I only hope that their film is not viewed as a cute kiddie film – it makes a very serious point indeed. Of all the winning films, it is the one that goes beyond raising awareness, beyond slowing down the problems, to resolving them – not just climate change, but also resource depletion – turning the threats of war, waste, excess CO2 and deserts into the solutions.
So, well done! I really, really hope that, as a group of young people, you CAN change the world…
November 24th, 2009 at 1:30 pm
…after all, it is you who will inherit it
December 11th, 2009 at 4:37 pm
Of course the youth can change the world, or at least shape change!
December 22nd, 2009 at 6:41 pm
Brilliant and to the point!
However… Any plan needs to be analyzed for weaknesses and threats as well as strength and opportunities.
And there are plenty of threats from those in powerful positions who think “business as usual” is the best course action.
See the DVD, “Who Killed The Electric Car?” for example.
January 6th, 2010 at 7:18 pm
Great vid- well done. It really IS as simple as they say it is. Now let’s all get together and spread the word, get things going! We can start by forwarding this vid. Is there a facebook group? I don’t know, I’m off to find out, and if there isn’t one, I’ll start one.