In today’s fast-paced, environmentally challenged and industrially driven world, being unconcerned about our future and the future of our children is like jumping with one's eyes closed. With only five years left until the 2015 deadline to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, we have come to the crossroads that will change our future. One question that need answer at the UN Summit on 20-22 September 2010: Can we really end the most pressing problems that the world is facing today?
Nobelity is a feature documentary that has inspired me to be active part of the challenge to end poverty. It's a film that wakes you up and ultimately shakes you up to the realities of this world. The film that make you looks at the world's most pressing problems through the eyes of Nobel laureates, including Desmond Tutu, Sir Joseph Rotblat, Ahmed Zewail and Wangari Maathai... Listening to these minds sharing their insight upon the problems facing everyone upon every bit of this planet and how to solve them is essentially just incredibly hopeful, positive and inspiring.
Many people in developing world don't have the opportunity to watch great documentaries. For myself, I had a chance to be Gifted one copy of Nobelity DVD inside my TEDbag in one of a TED conference that I have attended. The filmmaker is also a fellow TEDster by the name of Turk Pipkin who is actually working for more peaceful and sustainable world - one piece at the time.
Pipkin says of his personal journey:
“Again and again I learned that the world’s problems are much larger than I’d thought, but I was also learning that there is much reason for hope. The answers are there, but we have to seek them out and act on them in a much more proactive fashion.”
The challenge to end poverty is HUGE and there is nothing magical about change. If someone whant to change the world, it take getting up your bottom and carrying enought to take the first step to contribute to change an issue you care about. It's not a magical vision for the future, it's been the future you want to see. That was quoted from the documentary.
The Nobelity is now an education and charity project working towards a better future of all our children. Bridging the real world to innovative thinking against pressing global problems like global warming, the energy challenge, global health, economic disparity and development, cultural understanding, nuclear proliferation and general question of war and peace.
The Project has also produced "One Peace at a Time" a second documentary which focuses on solutions to the problems chronicled in the Nobelity.
A very inspiring video! I will look for it online! Thank you so much!
Hallo! Yes, you are right, many people in developing world don’t have the opportunity to watch great documentaries. But there are some exceptions. There are festivals of human rights documentary films in a countries like Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Armenia or Georgia, and it is really not difficult to organize one by yourself. There is even manual for all who would like to organize such a event. It is not difficult even me I organized with my friends screenings in small villages in Georgia. After the screenings there were discussions about human rights topic and it was very positive.
For inspiration check for example http://www.oneworld.cz
I wouldn’t call achieving MDG’s as “the crossroads that will change our future”. It is just a step.
It is HALVING the proportion of people living on less than $1 per day or REDUCING by two-thirds the under-five mortality rate.
WHAT ABOUT THE REST OF THE CHILDREN OR THE HUNGRY?
MDG’S ARE NOTHING BUT JUST A STEP TOWARDS A BETTER TOMORROW.