The First Millimeter is a great documentary especially when paired with Dirt!. It has a few problems with its composition, there are a lot of visual glitches, ineffective cuts and cuts which are too quick (especially during some interviews). It seems like there are always sub-titles in the sections from Africa, whither the speaker was dubbed or not, yet there are few sub-titles from anywhere else.
There is still some invaluable information in there.
"Everyone Should See" The First Millimeter, especially decision makers. We are currently making our national parks and wild-life reserves less and less wild because we have forgotten two parts to their ecosystem: large herd animals and predators. It's hard to get predators because they need absolutely huge tracks of land, but perhaps something can be done which will improve our land quality more than what we are doing now. And in this age of too much carbon in the atmosphere (and too little in the soil) we must figure this out.
My major contention with the film is how much credit it gives to human beings. Casting us as the manages, that we have been "endowed" with this capability and if we are to make anything better, we must be better managers.
We must copy the management of the gods: grassroots. We make rather shitty managers, see what has happened to the earth under our rule. When the world was "animal maintained" it was in much better shape. Still, there is wisdom in framing it this way because the homo sapiens is unlikely to relinquish his control, even if he is spiraling toward disaster.
Seeing as these two movies, Dirt! and The First Millimeter, came out recently and almost concurrently, I am tempted to have hope that these ideas will spread. If more of our ranchers and agriculturalists see this movie, we could begin to rewild the world.
There is still some invaluable information in there.
"Everyone Should See" The First Millimeter, especially decision makers. We are currently making our national parks and wild-life reserves less and less wild because we have forgotten two parts to their ecosystem: large herd animals and predators. It's hard to get predators because they need absolutely huge tracks of land, but perhaps something can be done which will improve our land quality more than what we are doing now. And in this age of too much carbon in the atmosphere (and too little in the soil) we must figure this out.
My major contention with the film is how much credit it gives to human beings. Casting us as the manages, that we have been "endowed" with this capability and if we are to make anything better, we must be better managers.
We must copy the management of the gods: grassroots. We make rather shitty managers, see what has happened to the earth under our rule. When the world was "animal maintained" it was in much better shape. Still, there is wisdom in framing it this way because the homo sapiens is unlikely to relinquish his control, even if he is spiraling toward disaster.
Seeing as these two movies, Dirt! and The First Millimeter, came out recently and almost concurrently, I am tempted to have hope that these ideas will spread. If more of our ranchers and agriculturalists see this movie, we could begin to rewild the world.
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