If you want to believe this video that’s your right. But do NOT please into the schools without at least an opposing viewpoint.

Suffice it to say, idiots like Annie Leonard only have JOBS spreading lies and misinformation, because they are funded by foundations and donors who got very very rich selling tons and TONS of STUFF. (Well, that’s not entirely true, I noticed many of her “business” partners are funded by taxpayers — using government (the tanks in her film) to forcibly steal money from hard working people who made their money by making, transporting, designing, marketing, and otherwise working in a worldwide economy that only exists because people want stuff to make their lives better and easier.

Stephen Colbert touched on the idiocy that Annie represents. It is absolutely true that when people buy less stuff, the world experiences recession, depression, unemployment, hunger starvation and suffering. Annie conveniently evaded the question.

People only have jobs, and people are only able to put food on the table because they provide goods and services that other people want.

Hundreds of millions of people around the world have been lifted out of abject poverty because of “big, bad, evil” CONSUMERISM! And the less we consume, the less people will be employed, the less people will eat, the less people will have homes, medicine, clothing, and life’s essentials.

Moreover, it is only the big, bad RICH nations of the world, that have enough wealth to AFFORD to support bleeding heart misinformed activists like Annie to worry about the environment. And it is only RICH countries that can afford environmentally friendly policy and practices.

It is CONSUMERISM, CAPITALISM and WEALTH that make environmentalism possible in the first place. The third world is too busy trying to EAT to worry about how they are treating their air and water.

It is CONSEMERISM, CAPITALISM and WEALTH that are responsible for the techonologies to grow more food on less land, to clean the air, to clean the water, to invent cleaner technologies. The air, water and earth are CLEANER than they were 100 years ago, not dirtier, and we are getting cleaner all the time.

NONE of which we could even afford to do if it weren’t for consumerism.

And lastly, Annie’s FEAR-mongering about the environment is nothing but shameful lies, misleading and misinformation. She says that we only have 4% of our ORIGINAL forests, but doesn’t mention that those original forests are protected or that the total amount of forest we have now is MORE than we had 100 years ago. Someone should inform Annie that Trees are a RENEWABLE resource. We can plant as many as we want! And her claim that we are using up all the water? Atrocious lies! As is the idea that we are running out of resources. More lies. Not only are we producing more, and finding more, but CONSUMERISM gives us the wealth necessary to invent new ways of doing things.

It is also CONSUMERISM, CAPITALISM and WEALTH that lowers the birth rate around the world. Rich countries like those in the west, have low birth rates, the world population growth comes from poorer countries where people have big families to take care of them in their old age.

If we followed the radical, and ignorant advice of people like Annie, hundreds of millions of people around the world would be thrust back into poverty, hunger and suffering, and the air, earth and water would get DIRTIER, not cleaner. But if we keep buying and using STUFF, more people will be lifted out of poverty, more people will be able to AFFORD to worry about the environment, and more will be able to AFFORD the technology and innovation that will continue to feed, and clean the world and generally make it a better place.

“Progressives” not only hate capitalism, they apparently also hate science,and progress itself.

But one thing is sure, Annie Leonards movie and books are nothing more than outright propaganda and lies!

Regarding the tax money spent on war, I think she’s referring to this kind of more comprehensive analysis of the government budget:

http://www.warresisters.org/pages/piechart.htm

So much for the misinformation there.

Any other problems with the video?