James Cameron’s Final Word On The Lessons Of The Titanic

James Cameron has seen the metaphor in the tragic events of the Titanic, 100 years ago.

His words below are indeed what we should heed as we journey on, to avoid being the Earthship Titanic:

"I've been working on Titanic for nearly twenty years. 

I planned this investigation to be my final word. It's time for me to pass the baton and move on to some new challenges.

But I'll never stop thinking about Titanic ...

For me it's so much more than simply an exercise in forensic archaeology. 

Part of the Titanic parable is of arrogance ... of hubris ... of this sense that we're too big to fail. 

Well, where have we heard that one before? 

There was this big machine, this human system that was pushing forward with so much momentum ... that it could n't turn, it could n't stop in time to avert a disaster. 

And that's what we have right now.

Within that human system on board that ship, if you want to make it a microcosm for the world, you have different classes ... you know you've got 1st Class, 2nd Class, 3rd Class. 

Well, in our world right now you've got developed nations and undeveloped nations.

You've got ... the starving millions who are going to be the ones most effected by the next iceberg that we hit which is going to be climate change. 

We can see that iceberg ahead of us right now, but we can't turn!

We can't turn because of the momentum of the system ... political momentum, business momentum. 

There are too many people making money out the system the way the system works right now!

[the next line is our aside, and not James Cameron's own words:
 
For example, who put these 49 ex NASA employees up to denying climate change?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/13/nasa-climate-change-denier-stunts_n_1424492.html?utm_campaign=041312&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Alert-green&utm_content=FullStory
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And those people, you know, frankly have their hands on the levers of power ... and are not ready to let them go!

Until they do, we're not going to be able to turn to miss that iceberg ... and we're going to hit it!

When we hit it ... the rich are still going to be able to get their access to food, to arable land, to water ... and so on.

It's going to be the poor, it's going to be the steerage ... that are going to be impacted, and it was the same with Titanic.

And I think that's why this story will always fascinate people, because it's a perfect little encapsulation of the world and all social spectra.

But until our lives are really put at risk, the moment of truth ... we don't know what we would do. 

And that's my final word ..."

Our view is that if Al Gore made Green mainstream through his "Inconvenient Truth"  then James Cameron underscores where we could be heading to. Something to think about on Earth Day, April 20.