“If I said, ‘This is a terrible thing that we are doing to the planet,’ than people will either agree or disagree. By not saying what people should see, that may allow them to see their world a little differently… It’s not a simple ‘right or wrong’ – it needs a whole new way of thinking.” – Edward Burtynsky (the whole movie)
And truly, to understand the effect that human development is having on the planet, it does require a new way of thinking, a new way of looking at the world. In the film Manufactured Landscapes, Edward Burtynsky and filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal offer such a view of the planet, and how it has been impacted by humans unlike anything that you have ever seen before.
