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Envivronmental News Network:

In this way, the 11th Hour isn't a film that allows the audience to slip into a Never Never Land type fantasy. When it's over, you don't know if the main characters live happily ever after. Because unlike most films, this movie is about you. And your neighbor. And the rest of your fellow human beings. And that future is unwritten. It's about how we behave, how we choose. The Earth is our home. We have not been treating it very well, and therefore we have not been protecting ourselves.

Plenty Magazine:

Hour’s fearless social commentary and solution-oriented tone are what make it even more compelling than An Inconvenient Truth. It administers a healthy dose of Katrina, of course, and hits all the biggies (global warming, soil erosion, deforestation, wetland protection, overfishing, Big Oil, health issues, etc.), but it doesn’t stop at “What’s wrong with the earth?” It also asks what’s wrong with us—our relationship with nature and with ourselves—and it pulls no punches. We’re greedy, we’re lost, we’re an infection(just look at our lit-up cities from outer space and see how much we look like bacteria), we’re pursuing happiness in all the wrong ways and writing our own death sentence in the process. But for every “down with people” sentiment expressed in the film, an innovative solution and a note of hope is offered up as well. As author Paul Hawken reminds us, “The great thing about this age is that we get to re-imagine every single thing that we do.” If this is in fact the 11th hour, then it is also “a great time to be alive," because this generation is going to change the world.