The Titanic Parable This is James Camerons closing statement from the last couple minutes of the National Geographic Channels - Titanic: The Final Word With James Cameron If you advance the video to 1:34:00 you can listen to him so eloquently share this sentiment. I know many people will not share his feelings about climate change, including myself, but seriously listen to his parable about the Titanic and the World. I think it is very enlightening, and can help us understand so much about the world we live in. Titanic: The Final Word With James Cameron “Part of the Titanic parable, is of arrogance, of hubris, of the sense that we’re too big to fail. Well where have we heard that one before? There was this big machine, this human system that was pushing forward with so much momentum, that it couldn’t turn, it couldn’t stop in time to avert a disaster. And that’s what we have right now.” “Within that human system onboard that ship, if you want to make it a microcosm for the world. You have different classes, you know you’ve got first class, second class, third class, well in our world right now you’ve got developed nations and undeveloped nations. You’ve got the starving millions who are gonna be the ones most affected by the next iceberg that we hit, which is gonna be climate change. We can see that iceberg ahead of us right now, but we can’t turn, we can’t turn because of the momentum of the system. Political momentum, business momentum, there are too many people making money out of the system the way the system works right now. And those people - ah you know - frankly have their hands on the levers of power and aren’t ready to let them go. Until they do we’re not going to be able to turn to miss that iceberg and we’re going to hit it. When we hit it, the rich are still going to be able to get their access to food, to arable land, to water and so on. It’s gonna be the poor, the steerage, that are gonna be impacted and it was the same with Titanic. And I think that’s why this story will always fascinate people because it’s a perfect little encapsulation of the world and all social spectrum. But until our lives are really put at risk, the moment of truth, we don’t know what we would do. And that’s my final word.” vimeo/87420251
Posted on: Sat, 06 Dec 2014 01:29:56 +0000
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