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Avant lundi matin, ce petit bijou de film avait été vu par des millions de personnes:

Mais plus important encore,

more than 7,000 schools, churches and others have ordered a DVD version, and hundreds of teachers have written Ms. Leonard to say they have assigned students to view it on the Web.

Depuis lundi matin, alors que le NY Times le faisait connaître sur sa première page, je suis surpris que les serveurs d'Annie Leonard tiennent le coup.

The video was created by Annie Leonard, a former Greenpeace employee and an independent lecturer who paints a picture of how American habits result in forests being felled, mountaintops being destroyed, water being polluted and people and animals being poisoned. Ms. Leonard, who describes herself as an “unapologetic activist,” is also critical of corporations and the federal government, which she says spends too much on the military.

Ms. Leonard put the video on the Internet in December 2007. Word quickly spread among teachers, who recommended it to one another as a brief, provocative way of drawing students into a dialogue about how buying a cellphone or jeans could contribute to environmental devastation.

Je l'ai visionné ce matin, avant d'aller au boulot. Il m'a habité toute la journée. Je voudrais le faire connaître, au minimum, à tous les profs d'anglais du Québec.

La version Youtube est moins bonne sur tous les plans--audio et video. Pour l'apprécier jusque dans les effets sonores de la craie sur le tableau, il vaut mieux aller sur le site d'origine. Pour un 21:16 minutes de génie didactique.