Friday, October 15, 2010
Little Green Video clip - watch carefully, very subtle remarks
This video completely illustrates the main point which my posts surround: it makes light of a situation whereby other countries that have had more significant oil spills than that of the Gulf, are ignored and unheard of. If you caught the little bits about how a country like Nigeria 'way over there' has more oil spills than the one in the Gulf in one year and how the population of fish are declining everywhere and not just in Louisiana - but maybe if Anderson Cooper from CNN was able to go in a submarine into the seas of other places then the very similar problems of those places might get recognized too. (Might want to watch it again if you didn't understand its point)
This is a very sarcastic video, almost every statement made by the earthling is sarcastic in a bid to draw the attention of the audience to the fact that the BP oil spill isn't more or less significant than other environmental issues in the world but because of it's location, it has the capability to captivate the minds of people and boost ratings on t.v. Consequently it appears more significant and glorified, for lack of a better word, than it really is (compared to other environmental issues - I'm not saying nobody should care about the spill)
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Wow, I did not realize that large oil spills happen every year in distant countries..I guess the video is right about Americans being so ignorant of this. But, as basic as the video is, it makes a strong point. People are skeptics; they typically need to see something to believe it. And things like long-term effects of environmental issues are certainly not always obvious. Therefore, people are hesitant to believe in these things. Sometimes the news does not broadcast the most important stories, but rather the ones that will draw the largest number of viewers. It is unfortunate that more people do not hear about and believe the news stories that affect everyone, both home and abroad such as this one, as I think that more progress would be made in the world if they did.
ReplyDeleteYes, indeed more progress would be made in the world if people were exposed to current or similar affairs affecting foreign countries. Because if people realise that so many people are facing similar crises too then the urge to rectify those crises increase. However, I think through globalisation and the advent of the World Wide Web, we will eventually reach a state whereby information won't be restricted within a certain place or will be known only to a certain group of people. Yet, although the internet is linking people together, the information to which a person is exposed heavily depends on individual preference and if that person actually chooses to look past the 1-dimensional picture the media usually paints.
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