My niece was telling her grandma and I that she only had a short list of things she wanted for her birthday. When we asked her how many things was just a few, she said, "Oh, ten or fifteen." Both of our eyeballs about rolled out of our heads and onto the floor.

I think my niece could stand to watch this video.

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Some of those parents may be complaining because their children are suicidal. This film really reinforces the idea that there are too many of us, and that's pretty dangerous when one is struggling desperately to show a kid that her life has worth.

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Consumer goods are made from materials of which we have a finite supply.

What is the counter opinion to this? That the earth's resources are magically replenished by gnomes?

Or maybe the opposing opinion is "The environment doesn't matter because Jesus is returning anyway."

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-The third world? That really should be called the developing world with a little description of what the word means.

-Breastfeeding is toxic? I know what she's getting at, but these kids are going to be reproducing in 10 or so years and that was pretty inflamatory and short-sighted.

-The whole computer monitor/shoe thing actually made me think "Gee, maybe people know most of my shoes are more than 3 years old." I think someone who cared about that might be on the way to the mall right now.

-She totally skips over the fact that recycling can be much more efficent. Germany recycles 75% of their home waste.

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What have they gotten out of it? They hassle the teachers to recycle every tiny scrap of paper, but come to school with lunches wrapped in 7 layers of paper and plastic which they drop on the ground "by accident" and never pick up. Their parents sit in the parking lot with their cars idling for 30 minutes waiting to pick them up (despite the prominent NO IDLING signs everywhere). And these are families that have CHOSEN to send their children to a school with an environmental focus.

The video is good, I'm just saying that it will take A LOT MORE to reach the majority of kids.

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Materialists do not like to hear why their endless consumption is harmful to their communities and to the planet. That's somebody else's problem.

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