Knee Deep Productions Presents

A film by MGT

Global population

October 2011: 7,000,000,000

Global poverty

13 million people die from poverty every year

36,000 a day

50% of the global population live on $2.50 а day or less.

Global pollution. 10,000,000 tons of toxic chemicals released every year

7-8 months is the estimated cost to UK lifespan due to air pollution

Global war

170,000,000 people have died due to war in the 20th century

global military costs in 2010 were estimated at $1,630,000,000,000

HUMANITY OVERDUE

(Announcer) The profit motive which draws Fudsy to accomplish so much

may bring out the evil

as well as the good.

[Phone ringing]

- Hello! - Fudsy old boy, I've got a great idea!

Between us we can control 70% of the country's sales. - Yeah, but...

- Quiet! Let's see what's cooking. - I smell trouble.

- We'll clean up... - Terrific! We'll make millions!

- Mean you! - Quiet!

Okay Sam, it's a deal!

- You'll be sorry.

(Public speaker) We are for the occupations:

the Occupy Oakland, Occupy the Stock Exchange.

We are against the occupations of Palestine, Haiti

and the other myriad of occupations in the world.

[Cheering]

What's the most important part of any structure?

What's the most important part of structure? Look at this church.

The rest of the structure wouldn't be there

if it wasn't built on a solid foundation.

The most important part of any structure is the foundation

and if the foundation of the structure gets up and walks away

the rest will have the choice of either following or crumbling.

We stand in solidarity with the globally oppressed

and we call for an end to the actions of our government and others

in causing this oppression. (Occupy London)

Тахеs are going up! University fees going up!

Let's bring the troops home from the war!

Have peace. Why waste money?

(J. Friend, Occupy London) We've got to become aware of the fact that

we have generated, our forefathers up to us, have generated

a position of instability that needs sorting out.

We've got a massive debt

and instead of pointing the finger at each other

and blaming each other for the state of the world

we can make things happen and we can stop things happening

by the language that we use.

They should see what's happening. There are people

who can't leave their houses because their mobility allowance has been cut.

There are people who cannot afford legal representation.

For me, these are rights of human beings

who live in a democratic society and they're being taken away

to support 1% of the population who live like kings already.

Everything we need is already here.

We've stripped the earth of so much of its material wealth

but we've put it into a way that profits me as an individual

but shits on everything, including me.

As long as I don't look at the destructive attitude

the destructive habits that that money has generated

as long as I don't look at that, if I can keep the blinkers on

and just look at money, then I'm all right.

You can't put a money figure on life

but we do. As a race we do.

If you look at things like gold, diamonds, money, shit

put them on the floor and watch them.

The gold never even tarnishes.

It will always stay gold, bright and shiny.

The diamonds are forever. They won't change form or anything.

The money might corrode a little bit but, thousands of years

and it will still be exactly the same shape as it was.

It won't do anything for you. Now the shit, that will turn into soil.

Seeds and things will blow into it.

They'll germinate and they'll spring up from it

and you'll notice that life will come out of shit

but it won't come out of money and it won't come out of gold

or out of diamonds.

Only one of those things is vital or viable, and that's the shit.

(Announcer) We are builders

builders of new freedoms and more power for a new age.

We stand on the edge of that new age even now

and the pioneering spirit, flowering in the air of freedom

will dream and build new ways to put electric power to work.

Welcome to the Eden Project

(M. Paterson) The Eden Project is a unique destination.

To different audiences, it is different things

but first and foremost it's a public attraction.

It's a botanic garden with the largest single collection

of ethnobotany that are plants for human use, some 5000 species

through 3 different climate zones

and that's part of the unique display and message of Eden.

We have a temperate bio, the outside temperate landscape.

We live in a temperate climate here in the United Kingdom.

There are also two very impressive geodesic domes, biomes as we call them

housing plants from two different climate regions of the world:

warm temperate climate regions and tropical

and, to a certain extent, subtropical regions of the world.

We are... It's a phrase that we've heard time and again, but no less true:

we are living in very interesting, admittedly, also exciting times.

31st of October [2011], apparently, was the first time

that this planet had 7 billion human beings living on it at any one moment

and if we're going to be able to, not only allow the existing 7 billion

including ourselves to have a happy, enjoyable life

with the resources that we need for that

and allow that for the existing 7 billion

plus the expected population increase by 2050

that may take us up to as many as 10 billion people on this planet

then practices and principles of sustainability

have to be, not just maintained, but augmented.

One of the perhaps more important elements for us is harvestable rain water.

The core building, our educational resource center

both covered biomes, have very large surface areas

and we use them for rainwater-harvesting/rainwater-catchment.

Some of that rainwater is stored, cleaned

and we then use it site-wide for various purposes.

A project that we hope will be starting to come online early next year

is indeed a geothermal project. Geothermal is not a new technology.

Indeed in some parts of the world, it doesn't involve drilling at all.

It involves walking to the place and there's hot water bubbling to the surface

and Iceland is a classic example for that.

We are at the extremes, end of the line, so to speak

of energy transfer, energy production in this country.

If this country through wave energy, wind power, now geothermal

can become both a leader and also an exemplar of what is possible to generate,

that would be very favorable and very exciting.

Water, precious liquid treasure. Water, running out.

The message has to be at, I think, all three standard levels:

at local, national and international

and recognizing that we don't all have to pursue goals individually

often sharing resources, sharing ideas

is not just exciting and helpful but very pleasant.

Lower taxes? Higher taxes? Record employment? Unemployment? Peace?

War? Highest wages? Lower pay? States rights? Centralization of government?

- Whoa, stop!

I've tried. I've listened to everybody, on TV and radio

I've read the papers and magazines.

I've tried but I'm still confused.

Who's right? What's right?

What should I believe? What are the facts? How can I tell?

The whole goal of an economy, of a society that runs very well

is to completely minimize this kind of inefficiency.

There's a way to go around this poverty

this presupposition that poor people

should somehow be served less by society than the rich.

Tens of thousands of kids are dying every year because they can't get clean water.

Regular people here (in Britain) that are being put out of work every day

families that are hungry and children that are being abused physically

emotionally and just through neglect, and clinging on

and holding some illusion over that life's OK

so, it's pretty chaotic at the moment.

(B. Mcleish, The Zeitgeist Movement) The Zeitgeist Movement is a global

decentralized, volunteer organization

that tries to spead sustainable values;

tries to educate people about what it means to live in a society

that's actually sustainable, that literally can go on.

At the moment we've got what people are starting to refer to

as a multi-dimensional collapse.

We're running out of lot of different resources at the same time.

Slowly we're running out of clean water, our air is getting more polluted.

Slowly we're coming to the end of the hydrocarbon era.

All of that is a product of the fact that we are, at the moment

unable to solve the problem unless it makes money

and there is no money to be made in being sustainable.

(W. Dixon, The Zeitgeist Movement) If you just look for a moment at what the word economy means

it's about economizing.

It's about doing things sensibly. It's about how we manage our resources

At the moment we have this middle man which is money

and that's the go-between that we use to manage our resources.

A Resource-Based Economy is about getting rid of that

that corrupt 'money-middle-man' and going directly to the resources

and managing those intelligently but sustainably as well.

To understand what you have, where you have it, and then to build a society

that has open-access, free life goods

in the sense of the best health care possible, the best kind of housing

which means that the housing is free

that you can live anywhere, and free, integrated transport.

A human being is a human being and it needs to be looked after

in the best possible way or you're going to create a very sick individual.

People always say "Well, in a system where everything's free

and where it's all homogenized

and everything looks the same apparently

people would just be lazy. People wouldn't do anything.

It's actually the other way round, because the more you do a job you hate

the more you're not interested in doing anything else when you get home.

You just want to withdraw into yourself and do nothing, go to sleep

and hate the fact that you've spent most of your day

of which you have limited number

in something that you have no emotional investment in

that you're only doing for the money. That's the only reason you do it.

It's just a form of social control. We still live in the days of empire.

Hard and fast, stand by that. They just don't do that with a sword anymore.

They do it with money.

Either way you're being forced to work in jobs that are belittling

meaningless and, in lot of cases, very dangerous for us

environmentally and socially.

At the moment we are in the process of trying to communicate this

to as many people as possible because to enact this kind of change

requires everyone to understand what's happening in this society.

Most just vote for it and hope it'll get better and, of course, it doesn't.

We already have the technology in place to do all this stuff.

We understand how things work. They can't be put into place

because they're being competed against by the society.

So, you have to fight to free that to produce almost money-less projects

where you just damn well build it. You showcase and demonstrate this

so people can come to see a museum of the future

or multiple museums of the future, city systems like The Venus Project

like stuff that Buckminster Fuller talks about

that's been spoken about by great many theorists.

That's one of them, but there's many other things as well.

The biggest move of all is really going to be global revolution.

It's going to be a combined opting-out of the current system.

The world does change and it will keep changing.

It's just which way you want that change to go is the question.

We must become the change we want to see in the world. (Gandhi)

Well, you said something about "Why worry now?"

I'm worrying all right.

The continuing wastes of life and vitality present a serious problem.

Sometimes a relatively small improvement can mean the difference

between success and failure.

Fires of frustration and discord are burning in every city.