Incapacity to experience guilt

This section argues and shows how people working for big companies, do not experience any guilt or moral obligation for the damage are creating. This is shown by animation, video montage, archival footage, animal’s habitat is destroyed, flora and fauna is dying, deformed animals are shown and slow music is played on the background for the audience to feel the emotion. People are born deformed, and “industry has known about this”, and government has not done anything towards fixing it. Our talking head, Samuel Epstein, a professor of environmental medicine, stated that chemicals that are released in the atmosphere, those that deform people and destroy habitats and organism are killing individuals and animals. A person disinfecting the streets is shown through video montage, while voice over makes us aware that companies industry is aware of this, and it’s also largely responsible for this “overwhelming epidemic kind of cancer.” There is a chance that one in every 3 women gets cancer in one life time. This is presented by video montage with the voice of Samuel over. Monsanto is one of the biggest “killer” out of all corporations. Their argument is that “there is no evidence of side effects, we don’t use antibiotics”, the talking head tells us. Evidence also shows that they “had lied through their teeth.” While stating this, images of children eating cereal milk are shown through video montage.

This idea is presented by the film makers in two ways. First the talking head and the voice over is giving the audience information that is not available for everyone. At the beginning, slow music is played on the background along with pictured of deformed animals and people. The causes of the corporation’s damages are shown through dramatic pictures and effective music. When the talking head starts talking each problem individually, normal pictures are shown, showing that the bad is there, but we don’t see it, no one realizes it, but the results affect all of us.

First country to run out of water.

Dilapidated tankers traveling mountain roads and across deserts to bring Yemenis water, which only the rich can afford, others must replay in rain fall, charity or crime to stave of thirst.


Yemen is the first country in the world to run out of water. This provides as test of the conflict and a mass movement of population towards better places with natural resources.

The government and experts agreed that Yemen's capital Sanaa has enough supplies but the city's population keeps on increasing and people will be forced to leave other areas because of water shortage.

In Yemen, the battle lines are tribal wars have traditionally followed the lines of the desert valleys that become rivers when rare rains fall. Amid, one of the world's highest rates of population growth, 3.46% last year, the water storage there was critical and is driving civil unrest.

Hanna a 18 year old mother from Lahej, said that in “in a good week we'll have water supply all week, but then the following week there will be water only for a day or two." She and her husband factory workers, pay £9 for a week's water supply. With an income on £60 per month, the family spends half of it on water.

"A lot of people, who can’t afford it, have to rely on their neighbors to help" Hanna said. Anisa, a 40 year old citizen said that when the water goes, it's a sign of trouble in the community.

Water available in Yemen is around 100-200 cubic meters per person each year, which is far below the international water poverty line of 1000 cubic meters.

Groundwater is used faster than it can be used. In Sanna water ground basin used to be 20 meters below, not it is 200 meters deep and even with rainwater tanks on the roofs of most houses.

In Taix, in the south, pat water is available once every 45 days. In Malhan in the mountains, the north district, women and children climb 1.500 m mountains to collect water from a spring, often in the small hours to avoid long queues.

Honsy Khordagui, director of the Water Governance Programme in Arab states at the United Nations Development Programme, says that if people will not find a solution people will encroach on big citied forming slums, rise in crime, venereal disease, violence, even commitment.

Yemen citizen’s line on scarce water supplies for thousands of years but the problem was always solved by the widespread production of the local drug of choice, qat, which consumes up to 40 % of water. About 70% of Yemeni men chew the leaves each day. Qat trees are often the only spots of green in the dry landscape.

The Deputy Planning Minister, Hisham Sharaf, admitted there is a water shortage which reflects in fighting between the people. If so much water will continue to be send on qat, Sanaa has about 10-15 years.

The Government is considering a desalination plant for seawater, but that is an expensive solution that might come too late. Other solution is to cut down the agriculture industry, importing more food.

Corporation

The sections talks about how people working and leading the big companies don’t care about the damages they are doing, the pollution their factory is creating. Individuals with high posts they care about the money the have in their pocket, not of being nice or care for others.

There is never enough, once they got the taste of money, there is never enough. Companies are not doing anything for sustainability, and that makes them feel bad but no one actually care enough to change something that might take off money from their accounts. Some day there will be laws against pollution and for sustainability of the company, then most of the people, the rich people will end up in jails. Some leaders did not even visit their own factories they are getting the money from. Not been there ones.

These people find opportunities. Wars are created to make money and opportunities to double the amount of money are coming in the posse.

Ethos: credibility
Ethos is used in this section because people who are watching this are manipulated. This documentary is made to make people straight believe what expects are saying and what the voice over said. Its made to inform people to give them the information they want the audience to know about them. How each company had to look like they care about the environment but actually they don’t care about anything but how much money they are getting.

Pathos: emotion
Pathos is used in the section with the pictures of the war, when people are burning and everything they had is burning under their eyes. People running down the streets. Its also used when the talking head, the expect says that he feels bad about the damage its company is creating and he feels bad but he cant do anything, and at some point there will be law abut it and most of the leaders who are leading the world right now will end up in jail.

Logos: logic
It is logic that people don’t care, are cold and aggressive. As long as money come out from what they are doing, nothing else matters. They will not be nice over taking money from their pockets. They don’t care and don’t want to see the conditions under which people are working, don’t want to see the poor conditions they are living. That’s why they are leading the world because their cold and will do anything for money!

Best Antidote to Poverty!

The antidote for poverty is education. Economy can grown in the long term by a mass of education. This is what its called " the most important escalator out of poverty" and that is education. The teacher quality is what matter is education and dedication to it.

One of the best books in recent years by two Harvard economists, claims that the obstacle of education and getting out of poverty isn't teachers, but the problems at home, uninvolved parents and broken down communities. There broader problems are very difficult to solve. The answer to those is to improve education.

Teachers have been extraordinarily effective in some of very troubled regions. The variance from class to class in elementary school is greater than the variance from school to school.

There is another problem, most affective teachers from America reserve for upper middle white class kinds and are less effective for troubled kinds who already have disadvantages. A solution to that would be a combination of higher compensation to draw teacher to more challenging schools.

This is part of a civil rights issue. Black members of Congress are not helpful on school reform, are not involved in it, but there are some black politicians who have been pushed for evidence based school reform, including Cory Booker and Barack Obama.

Moral Obligations

Should individuals within a company bound for moral obligations?

This is a come and go question. It depends, if the person we are talking about is doing the lower job, the labor let’s say in a factory, the person is doing the manufacturing stuff, then no. for those people I don’t think there are any other choices, most likely they are working for more than one person, the salary is very low and there is no other job they can get, or nothing that would pay better. For these people, there are no moral obligations, other than, what they are going to feed their family the next day.

If the person has a higher post, is going the paper work, yes it could be. Wither he/she will get another job where there are no bounds, or try to change something, but then again, that person may not even know the damages are made by the company he/she is working for. No, that middle employee shouldn’t feed any moral obligations if there is no other choice, or it could feel bad about it, but he/she takes the pressure in order to live a poorer life.

If the subject here has a much higher post, and is part of the leadership of the company, then definitely yes! That person can make a change, it may not be easy and it might take off from his/hers pocket, but that wouldn’t be a problem. The company’s defects or trashes are harming the whole world and affects everyone else around it especially those who make it happen, who make the company go, then that person shouldn’t sleep at night until it finds a solution either to diminish or clear out the problem.

World poverty and awareness of overseas aid

Now it is not the time to cut British aid to the world’s poorest countries. Mortished views the promises made my Britain as no more than a “meaningless number.”

There are two arguments, Britain should break its word poorest during a year, time when the World Bank estimates that 50 billion or more people will fall into extreme poverty, and the public money shouldn’t be used to inform people in schools about the lives of the poor in deprived countries.

Britain disagrees, the increase of aid have played a significant role in the helping of millions of children into schools, medical centers for sick and had an important role in strengthening the local communities also Brittan helped communities to stand on their own feet.

Making teenagers in UK school aware of poverty, it’s nothing political, but a well rounded education.

Hundred British charities worked to make sure that people in the developing world are not trapped in needless poverty. The approach of helping is something to celebrate not to denigrate and rightly enjoy the widespread support from millions of citizens across the society.

Half Kenyan president disappointed

The half Kenyan President, Obama, think his father’s country can do so much better. Kenya is ruled by the Obama’s Administration that reflects the White House’s frustration with the African government. The U.S.A president expects so much more from his father’s home country.

Unlike other African nations, Kenya is one that hasn’t felt under poverty and corruption. Kenya is Washington’s top partner in the region and has been the West’s mainstay in East Africa for a long time.

After the 2007 elections, threatened Kenya to split it along the ethnic lines. But the US brokered a power-sharing deal but since then, repeatedly warned that it wants faster reform.

Mr. Obama thinks that Kenya is the one country in Africa that should do much better than it does. He decided not to visit his father’s home land in his first job trip to Africa. This was supposed to show his disappointment on the Kenyan government. Last Wednesday Kenya was excluded Kenya from the meetings with Mr. Obama. Hillary Clinton made it clear that the US government is expecting some action from Kenya.

Proposal (ethos, pathos, logos)

Ethos: credibility


• 23% of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere at this moment

• Ice bergs are melting

• The global temperature will increase in the next few years more than it did up until now.

• The atmosphere is running out of oxygen,

• Yellowstone burned for 3 months in 1988

• 25000 firefighters tried to stop the fire

• Greenland’s ice cap has accelerated six times the average flow of the Colorado river

Pathos: emotion

• People will die in slow painful rhythm

• Diseases chances will increase with the flooding and weather conditions

• Human activities are destroying what generations had to work for

• People had lost their homes, lives and everything they had build their whole life

• We have worked so hard to build up the world and how we are working so hard to destroy it

• We need a break

• Think about actions, all we do is enjoy destroy and not care

Logo: logic

• Rise of temperature causes ice to melt and sea level to rise

• If temperature rises, wildfire chances increase

• Weather conditions will change drastically

• Agriculture will be affected and people will starve

• Poverty will increase

• Plants cannot keep up with the pollution created by human actions.

• If no carbon dioxide will be emitted into the atmosphere for a year, the plants will be able to collect all the pollution from the air.

• In that time we will have time to think about our actions and also find other solutions that we, humans will put in practice