Trading on Thin Air (2010) User Reviews

Trading on Thin Air is a documentary that sets out to explain fractional reserve banking and its connection to carbon trading.

[squalicum · 10/10 · 16 March 2013]

Trading on Thin Air is a thoughtful documentary about carbon credit trading. It does an excellent job explaining banking and carbon trading without entering into the debate of whether or not man kind is causing climate change. There is no doubt that our climate is changing, the only question about climate change is what we can do about it. With around 7 billion people on the planet we need to find solutions for the natural stress we are putting on the planet, not just solutions for carbon. Trading on Thin Air explores the downside to involving the financial markets in finding the solution to climate change; carbon has become a money making commodity.

Mockumentary?

[ddunn-2 · 4/10 · 11 January 2013]

While I am far from convinced of the long-term effectiveness of carbon trading to reduce CO2 emissions worldwide, we are at a point in time where all ideas need to be on the table. I take climate change very seriously and am much more concerned about that issue impacting my son, than I am concerned about terrorism, for example. This film goes to great lengths to ridicule carbon trading, without discussing the complexity of changing the direction of this planet, given the considerable forces that are dead set on maintaining the status quo. Mocking ideas is not a difficult thing to do. Offering solutions that can actually be implemented is another matter entirely.

Refreshing

[documentary778 · 10/10 · 16 February 2013]

The documentary quite refreshingly calls out to the sad fact that instead of the creation of laws saying "you can't do it" i.e.: belch pollutants into the atmosphere, we have become a society that essentially pays corporations to not do something. It is ludicrous... and as the documentary points out, if countries were serious about curtailing carbon emissions they would tax it. The idea that you can put a bumper sticker on your hummer that says you paid a "sin" tax so you can continue driving the gas guzzler is to the point. If one really looks more deeply at the issues raised here- about how money by the financial sharks on Wall Street and also the mechanisms for trading carbon on ICE- the Intercontinental Exchange one can understand why the trading of Carbon Futures will have no positive effect on the emissions. I am all for adjusting your behavior (all 7 billion of us) or taxing!!!!

I truly believe this documentary is damaging current efforts

[sergiodelsar · 2/10 · 9 January 2015]

This documentary is only providing reviews from the governments that are currently taking the biggest efforts against climate change. There is nonsense that you provide one-side photo without showing how emissions have been reduced by these governments. Moreover, higher nonsense is not showing the lack of initiatives in other countries despite its high implication in global emissions. We really need to take action against climate change; of course we shall start from changing personal habits (e.g. not eating meat). But I will happily provide my money to the firms that are taking these actions (not offsetting emissions) and I hope my government will give me the tools to do it in fair manner.

I truly believe this documentary is damaging current efforts.