SnoopyStyle Leonardo DiCaprio narrates a documentary about the human destruction of the global environment. It looks at the entire history of human exploitation of the world's resources, its devastating effects and possible solutions. It concentrates on global warming with a large scattering of every scary environmental fears.There are way too many talking heads. Some faces are recognizable but most of them are unknown environmental scientists or writers. The scope of the movie is so vast that it becomes a laundry list of everything. For environmentalists, this is preaching to the choir. For opponents, this is a slick propaganda throwing everything into the stew presented by Hollywood. For those in between, it doesn't really convince but it summarizes. This is a repeat of 'An Inconvenient Truth' and then piles on everything else. There is just more stuff. I don't see this as anything new or convincing anybody not already convinced. There are so many issues being touched on that I think most independent viewers would throw up their hands and give up long before the end.

A.N. I was glad to see that this documentary covered just about every major environmental problem, including overpopulation, which is often left out of such presentations; it gets treated as somehow unavoidable.This film was themed like a number of Peak Oil documentaries that show the collision between human excess and natural systems, and repeatedly point out that attitudes need to change.Despite the usual hopeful pleas, you get a sinking feeling that not much is going to change because the momentum of economic growthism and consumerism is too strong. I see little reason for optimism when observing the shopaholic drones around me. I can see this triggering standard denial mechanisms among right-wingers who cling to religious dogma and dominion attitudes toward nature, which the film constantly dispels. I'm sure they think DiCaprio is just another Hollywood "elitist" with the luxury of having a good life while "honest working stiffs" just want to be left alone to pilfer nature and bring home a paycheck (the usual tunnel-visioned attitude).I wish some of the talking heads had singled out those types for criticism instead of dwelling on a few rotten politicians and corporate entities. Not all corporations are mindless. There are just certain people throughout history who've never respected nature. Those are the ones who need the biggest attitude adjustment (or maybe an intelligence pill).Still, I liked the overall coverage of issues. I would recommend this as a primer for those who (somehow) aren't aware of what people are doing to their only means of life-support.

James Owen Sheesh, what a mess.If Americans are relying on documentaries like this to convince Joe the Redneck that anthropogenic climate change is real I understand why we all feel there is so much more work left to do. You see, the problem with the film is its complete lack of a narrative, one scientist/politician/activist after another, however respectable, snappily quipping about consumption, pollution, the oil economy, in no particular order does nothing to explain where we came from or where we are headed, or why. So the documentary teaches nothing new, it just juggles around the same themes, incoherently referencing the all correct verbiage to satisfy an green audience but neither inform nor empower it.The visuals do not help, we can't go 5 seconds without seeing an iceberg disintegrate or tree being chopped down. After the first half hour it becomes like some sort weird sort of exercise in CIA-style mental conditioning. Does no good, indeed it destroys a viewer's concentration, rather than enriching or rewarding it. Also, it has to be said, some of visuals are entirely erroneous, for a the moment when told that human behaviour may cause the release of subterranean methane, why are we shown a clip of a sea vent? There are at least a dozen similar misleading visuals here, and as much as I'm into green politics, let's face it, with instances like there is a touch of propaganda to this documentary.Conclusions? Save some energy, turn it off, read some George Monbiot instead.

anthony-burton I honestly believe this film should be compulsory viewing for everyone. It eloquently collects mankind's misdeeds with the use of stunning visuals, frank interviews with scientific, political and economic experts to offer a very sobering thought. It's not the world we're fighting to save, it's our species.Those who advocate doing nothing, and dismiss this as hippie-propaganda (of which there are many) would do well to read Darwin's theory of evolution and learn to understand natural selection. If you don't adapt, you don't survive.I have never understood people's utter disregard for our planet's wellbeing. I have studied science my whole life, always recycled and conserved energy. Because i've understood the earth's resources are finite, and our dependency on oil and gas which this planet has taken millions of years to accumulate and 'process' are going to run out very soon. I felt this film did an excellent job of explaining this in particular.Dispute our effect on the temperature of our planet all you like, but the way we live is going to change massively over the next 100 years. And the way we are going, we'd do well to survive at all at this rate. I hope this film affects people as much as it did me. I hope it makes a difference before it's too late.Mankinds model of endless consumption is fatally flawed, but changing this economic-centric system is possibly the greatest challenge we will ever face as a species.If this film doesn't make people sit up and pay attention, we deserve all we get.