Paragraph Practice - A Thought Nugget

Audiences often perceive environmental films as consistently lacking central, strong, and viable solutions to the issues they pose. Audiences tend to experience pessimistic feelings about what they’ve seen as they are unable to latch onto one, specific solution. They want the problem to go away through a trust in something bigger. However, as environmental documentarians already understand, these are dangerous feelings in a capitalistic world because the only current hope for an environmentally-conscious world is an environmentally-conscious populace. The solution rests with consumers. Many come away from the Plastic Planet feeling hopelessness and maybe Boote could have more effectively empowered his audience, but we need to be aware that the solution rests with our choices. Environmental documentaries empower the will and provide the mind knowledge, revealing to audiences that we are the solution. Under the current society, this idea could transform our planet, giving us hope for change without ignorance.