It seems that the cynics who belittle mankind always forget, that despite our current flaws, we've also never before in human history made such an effort to conserve and respect our environment, and try to find new eco-friendly ways looking after/living with it. We've only had our current burst of technology for little over a hundred years... give us a chance to get used to it!
The myth of the Noble Savage at one with nature, is exactly that. Early man was as guilty of deforestation and manipulation of his environment as we are. More so even. He just didn't have the ability to do it on our current scale. The difference is, we're actually learning and changing ourselves gradually. Are we a long way from getting it right? Sure. But we're trying.
On Battle for Terra... I actually rather enjoyed it. It's like Avatar's mature adult sibling lol! Better production design (even if they didn't have the budget for especially detailed CG), better characters, better plot, even a more original soundtrack, I think. :-) However, I was really annoyed with the 'Humans destroyed all 3 of their worlds' angle. It would've been much better to say that something like our sun unexpectedly going nova had destroyed our worlds, or a similar disaster. Rather than the usual 'all of mankind are constantly evil warmongering self-destructive idiots'. The warmongering general would've been fine then, as he was only one against the human council who didn't want to proceed that way.
Human's ain't perfect, but I hardly think we could come together enough to colonize and terraform two more worlds, only to blow our species to extinction. It doesn't make sense, and goes just that little bit too far in the 'We're saying mankind are horrible evil destructors' propoganda.
Otherwise, not a bad film though. It was made pretty well, considering its obvious budget limitations.
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