James Cameron to Release Documentary on Climate Change

[Sarah Noel]

Originally Posted by Raiden

I'll be interested to see how he chooses to tackle this. Some people seem to think he's just going to use Hollywood actors to churn out more environmental messages, while the right thing to do would be probably be replace the "stars" with scientists, since the people who have been recording data in ice cores and documenting the loss of glaciers are the real heroes.

While I agree with you on principle I think Hollywood stars are going to be much more effective at getting the message across. I'm not sure how much of the world you've seen, but I know you live in the outskirts of Portland, a known environmentalist stronghold. I live in the middle of Louisiana, we crack the top 5 every year for least educated states. I'm surrounded by uneducated people everyday, it's not their fault they're uneducated, a product of the environment and culture, but they are. Huge numbers of the population have absolutely no concept on what's going on, I can't jump right into carbon emissions if they don't know how greenhouse gases work first, or what carbon is. Even in my university, college students, I have to assert why "the earth getting a bit warmer" can have widespread and varied effects.

Recognizing scientists and giving them screen time would be great, but then that just makes this another run-of-the-mill documentary, something masses aren't keen on seeing. With a James Cameron big budget, and recognizable actors to "lure" people in, I'm hoping it'll get more traction than it would have otherwise.