The film that we watched was "A Planet For The Taking". The marquee star of this film was David Suzuki who is a greatly known scientist all over the world. In this film he tries to express how technology has given our world many benefits, but there are also downfalls to it as well. In this film present day Canadians are compared to natives to show how we were once able to live peacefully with the land without destroying it. The science and technology in our world is rapidly growing, and people put their faith in the scientists to fix all that is not well. David Suzuki tries to explain that that's not the answer and we need to do our best to help out too.
             The scientific message that this film is trying to portray is that even though science has excelled immensely and reaps many benefits, it also has many downfalls and it may in the end destroy us. Science and technology are rapidly growing fields in our world and a few benefits would be that we now have better living conditions, and have found cures for many diseases. The downfalls to these growing fields are that we are destroying our ecosystems and also endangering many species. In both our past and present generation we have been destroying the environment around us, whether we realize or know it or not. Massive amounts of people drive their cars, dump garbage in landfills instead of recycling and smoke tobacco which all destroy and pollute the land.
             Man has had a huge impact on our planet; some may say good, others will say bad. Man has forever changed our planet to meet the needs of humans. Many have not even taken in consideration for the other species that we currently share our world with. People say that they are proud of the Canada they call home, just to turn around and destroy it for wealth and greed. It is not fair to try to change our world so rapidly that species who cannot adapt become endangered and may eventually die off. Our wor
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