Out of Balance
Tom Jackson
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Plot Summary
Out of Balance is an exposé of the largest, most powerful company in the world. Recent Nobel Prize co-recipient Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth was a call to arms concerning the consequences of impending global warming. Out of Balance goes one step further: While acknowledging the need for drastic change, director Tom Jackson clearly points the finger at ExxonMobil for using its immense power to block efforts to wean us from our addiction to oil. In its quest for even greater power and wealth, ExxonMobil, rather than help define and defeat the problem of global warming, has used the media to misinform the public, blatantly ignoring the health of our planet and its inhabitants. A group of scientists, business executives and environmentalists are determined to battle and overcome this greedy Goliath (including commentary from RK Pachauri, Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change or IPCC, a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore). Out of Balance lends hope by giving solutions which will not only save the ecosystem, but ensure future generations have a livable planet.
Customer Reviews
Excellent expose of ExxonMobil's impact on the climate debate and environmental destruction
This film focuses primarily on ExxonMobil's funding of "junk science," i.e. the small handful of "scientists" and public policy think tanks that provide the core of climate change skeptics. As the film makes clear, Exxon's goal was not to win the debate over climate change, but rather keep it as a debate with no end--and in doing so keep people thinking that since there is still a scientific debate going on, no real action could or should be taken to confront climate change. Additionally it looks at the the dark history of the company from it's days as a monoply oil-syndicate, to the Exxon-Valdez oil spill in which they have tied up the courts for almost two decades, keeping 3,000 fishermen without due compensation and trying to convince the public that Prince Edward Sound has regained it's environmental health. An excellent case study of a multinational corporation using it's overwhelming resources to protect and promote their own profits at the expense of the public good.
Yeah it's our money
Yeah and then countries like Kenya will just take the money and feed their up and coming engineering students and our lazy fat brainwashed kids won't have as many people to exploit...
Slow, boring, public info
This is horrible.... Basic Internet search facts
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