As we write from London, we confess that as filmmakers it doesn't get much better than this: the Sundance Institute announcement that HRH The Prince of Wales will introduce the World Theatrical Premiere of our film Harmony: A New Way of Looking at Our World, inspired by HRH The Prince of Wales, at the first-ever Sundance London film and music festival on the 28th of April at London's 02.
And that Robert Redford will introduce The Prince of Wales.
There's also a great connection, between these two men. Both have put themselves on the line for causes they believe in. Both are champions of the environment. And both have sought to bring people together and make connections between how we see the world and how we live our lives. From making films to building cities, from defending the environment to giving voice to perspectives that are often groundbreaking, ideas that sometimes push us out of our comfort zone -- but too often don't get a chance to be heard. Both have sounded the alarm about the damage we are doing to our planet, while at the same time pointing us toward practical and real-world solutions.
In his press conference to open the Festival, Robert Redford talked about why he wanted to screen the movie at the festival:
"HRH The Prince of Wales and I share a dedication to preserving the environment and to identifying innovative and yet realistic ways to do so. This important film showcases his diligence, passion and achievement, which include his efforts to amplify the work of social innovators on the front lines of change the world over. In this wonderful journey he shows us what can be an inspired future... Working together seemed like a natural fit."
When we began production on Harmony, people would understandably ask us about 'The Prince.' But as he insisted all along, Harmony: A New Way of Looking at Our World has never been about 'The Prince,' but really about 'The Principles.'
See the film trailer at: www.theharmonymovie.com
It's difficult to adequately describe what it has been like the having the opportunity to work with HRH The Prince of Wales. But this experience has allowed us to tell stories about all kinds of people The Prince has been connected with for the better part of three decades -- from business leaders and environmental activists to farmers, doctors, artists, architects, builders, indigenous people and government officials. They are challenging conventional wisdom, creating new sustainable technologies and forging a deeper and more spiritual relationship with the natural world.
The title of the film Harmony: A New Way of Looking at Our World (which is also the title of The Prince of Wales's companion book) may sound like an idyllic view of how the world could be. It's not. As filmmakers, we hope we captured the urgent, hopeful practicality of HRH's worldview -- that sees the connections in all aspects of our lives.
Making Harmony shifted our world-view, and we hope viewers will experience some of that when they watch the movie. After the Sundance Festival premiere, we look forward to screening the film in theaters, on television and at film festivals around the globe. And to put the project to use for those who are already forging new paths and looking for ways to live in Harmony with our planet and each other.
In so many ways the commitment of Robert Redford and Prince Charles offers us as harmonious a way to send this film out into the world as we ever could have imagined.
This will be the first of a series of blogs and posts around the film and the issues it raises in collaboration with The Huffington Post. Please go to our website: www.theharmonymovie.com and write to us and stay in touch.
So ..... getting back to the movie. If found it packed with information on events which are going on in the world - both problems and a hint at solutions or potential solutions. Certainly it suggested a fresh way of finding solutions which could effect permanent and positive change. It asked us to adopt a fresh attitude to the way we view the world around us, the day to day decisions we all make and illustrated some fresh ways of thinking we might usefully adopt. It does indeed offer a fresh take on how we can strengthen and develop our world while avoiding some of the errors of our past.
The issues it raises are vital to us all. I'm not sure we can afford to ignore the suggestions this movie offers. I recommend you get hold of the DVD so you can see it for yourself. http://TheHarmonyMovie.com/home.php
The so-called Third-World countries shown in your movie trailer, with slums of poor people, is a result of the Wall Street/City of London looting of labor and natural resources to seek "rent".
Now that the global empire of financial derivatives (scam) and credit-default swaps rent-seeking model collapsed in 2007-8, there's no way to control countries through debt without feudalism.
The Anglo-American Western powers have benefited from feudalism in Latin America and Africa since WWII, and now that defunct system has come home to roost demanding domestic serfdom.
Latin America and Africa were promised that once Europe was rebuilt and the US developed into a superpower, the third-world would finally develop with the same resources and technologies.
The West was to use their superior-technology to expand mankind's capabilities into space, greening other planets and creating futuristic cities, instead, settled for new cell-phone features.
You forget that human beings cannot be convinced by someone else to commit suicide, and no amount of propaganda or fear-mongering is going to stop mankind's development and progress.
Windmills and solar panels aren't enough, for if that was possible the West would've use it 100%.
Population reduction is not only horrifying and anti-human, but, we actually need as many people as possible to live so they can contribute knowledge and help construct the future to expand forever.
Can you purchase oxygen, the atmosphere, a stable, moderated climate, the natural sequestration of the heat trapping gases at a shopping mall, city, parking lot or paycheck? What provides mankind, free gratis with the nitrogen cycle, hydrological storage and flux, the creation and renewal of a life giving soil?
Can a road, freeway or job provide decomposition, pollination, seed dispersal, the purification of the air and water, 75% of all new medicines; 99% of all pest control and the control and checking of human disease pathogens that kill mankind?
Human population reduction is vital to the existence of mankind and the life giving of the Earth because mankind is devouring ecosystems and their biodiversity, the creation of every reason mankind breathes and exists, the eco-nomy of all life, utterly priceless. Human development and progress are destroying the Earth's ability to provide man's only, "life-supporting services", generated by natural and wild ecosystems and their plant and animal biodiversity.
And I support government providing initial funding and investment for your move to that island as the rest of civilization will continue to grow and learn how to mimic nature.
Human beings have the unique ability of creativity to increase our standard of living to reproduce resources and energy that normally would require nature to do.
That's called "physical progress" and it allows our species to increase its numbers even beyond planet earth.
The reason why we can one day "green" other planets and construct there magnificent cities is because we can first imagine it and then create it in time.
No amount of carbon was ever "added" or "injected" to planet earth from outside because the very ecology you mention balances the system with oxygen producing plants.
The aftermath of a volcano is a perfect example with new plants and creatures always appearing.
Once your kind of thinkers cancel themselves out on that island it won't matter to you or to the rest of mankind who will progress forever-n-ever-n-ever-n-ever-n-ever.
A monetary system based on "greed" is not only outdated but in the 21st Century we know that an economic system based upon development works.
Feudalism, whether it's "environmentalism" or "monetarism" was used in the Roman times and it's the same old nonsense being proposed today.
It isn't the environment and never has been; it's the ecology of our Earth. Some scientists maintain that land-use or the destruction to ecosystems is more dangerous than climate change, and the death of ecosystems and climate change are related and interconnected.
And here we have a celeb who killed an ecosystem giving tips on the environment? Ecological illiteracy is killing the Earth. Ecosystems are the eco-nomy of all life, and their economic value is priceless, all the reasons man has food, oxygen, fresh water and life.
Uranium mining for uranium which is used to power dangerous nuclear energy plants?
Uranium mining that leaves mill tailings which pollute with radioactive radon for ages?
Uranium mining which causes a large increase in cancers in uranium miners?
Past uranium miners from American Indians to Namibians have suffered cancer epidemics from uranum mining.
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