School has let out, and I find myself with more time than previously available. In the evenings recently, I have taken to watching bits of Home, twenty or so minutes at a time, for several evenings. The movie is released on the Internet.

Home is a film by Yann Arthus-Bertrand, an amazing director. The movie tells a story that happens not very far from our everyday lives, hence the name Home. But the story isn’t about your house, apartment, or living space: it talks about the Earth, the home every single bit of life and human lives together in.

The Earth is an amazing miracle, but we have changed it more in the last ten years than the previous 200,000 years of human history.
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Even the most quixotic [crazy-minded] scientists ten years ago did not imagine what the Earth would be like today.

Many say that the Earth is made for humans, but personally, I think that it is rather the other way around. Some still deny global warming. While it is true that we thought global cooling would happen fifty years ago, science and technology has improved greatly. Can you deny the signs?

The Earth is a marvelous place, and the movie shows this marvelously, with its vivid pictures of beautiful mountains, waters, and features of our world.

But it also shows the side of the Earth modern society normally turns away on: Ethiopia, one of the poorest countries in the world, resorting to harmful oil-mining and the selling of its prized resources. These are things it must do to ensure its survival, but it is at a heavy price to pay. Although it may help the economy, the people don’t get much of the money. The environment gets destroyed.

Fifty percent of the world’s wealth is in the top two percent wealthiest people in the world.

This movie helped me realize that the world is beautiful. Hopefully, it can do the same for you. I urge you to see the movie in its entire one hour and a half length. It will be the one hour and a half of your life you won’t forget.