So now it is TWO YEARS since...

[apache_blanca]

Originally Posted by taylorcraftbc65

... Has the movie CHANGED that much? I don't think so, what it HAS done though, is brought more folks to the realization of how badly unbridled greed can blind people, and institutions to it's dark underbelly. ...

^^^^I meant this sort of change: the consciousness, the awareness, the seeing sort of change. Not that Avatar changed me - but it made me See things more clearly, in some way it "put me more in touch with myself" so to speak. It's like having a 40 KW lightbulb in the garage, and Avatar comes and puts a 100 kW bulb - everything is what it was, nothing is added or removed, but one sees it now so much better - everything, the cobwebs, the dust, some bats & bugs maybe ("oh sh**) - but also one can see a bicycle one forgot existed because it was always half-dark in the garage, or maybe one shall even discover a treasure chest. Or something.

Originally Posted by Alan

...For many of us it was a shock to the system, but we have all taken that feeling and evolved to open up to how things could...should be. ...I also hope that we can all truely make a difference in our own little way to leaving our home in a better state than how it was handed to us by those before. It is a challenge we can not brush aside...

I'd say not only "make a difference in our own little way" but "within our possibilities, responsibilities, and arm's reach" - & here we can think of many things. Some people can do little changes in everyday life like in OOH video - but some (from 9 countries) "reached their arms out" to create it, like you. It's a whole new level. "My arm" reached to make the subtitles & start sending the link around to "all God" like they say here in Spain - & people get interested. Niri Te will battle for the cause worth fighting for as much & as long as possible - & then do something else "within an arm's reach". Some NGO's arms are even longer. Or, imagine a politician sees Avatar, gets a shock to the system, "starts seeing" & introduces a green-minded law, like reducing CO2 emissions or something. I know it sounds like wishful thinking ("you can say I'm a dreamer" ), but, really, one can do as much as one can do - & this "can do" vary from person to person(s). "Instead of cursing the darkness, let's each light a lamp".