In the world’s trash heaps, the poorest dig through waste to survive, while we continue to drill, searching for resources we believe are essential. We push farther and farther—into untouched lands, into deposits that are harder and harder to exploit. We refuse to change our ways.
Will we run out of liquid oil? No matter—we can extract oil from Canada’s tar sands. The world’s largest trucks haul thousands of tons of sand. It is churned, heated, separated—millions of cubic meters of water consumed just to strip bitumen from rock. The energy cost is massive, but the pollution is catastrophic.
Nothing seems more urgent than draining every last pocket of sunlight.

Excerpt from the film Home
by Yann Arthus-Bertrand
Co-written with Isabelle Delannoy and Tewfik Fares
With the kind permission of the GoodPlanet Foundation
© 2009 Europacorp - Elzevir Films

Clean Water for Tomorrow

You probably know that we need energy to power our cars, make our clothes, and heat our homes. Most of the time, that energy comes from oil.
Oil is hidden deep underground, mixed with sand. To extract it, people drill deep wells and use millions of liters of water to separate it from the sand. But when that water comes back up, it’s filthy—polluted. It can’t be drunk or used to water plants. And yet, it’s often dumped back into nature, as if it will clean itself… But it’s not that simple.
If we want clean water tomorrow, we need to start thinking and changing our habits today.

© Couleurs Grands Lacs – Text | © Armand Amar – Music