Nash suggests that she couldn't make /f You Love This Planet today, that “at the time she didn't know any better." She used
three cameras at different focal lengths and then took audience reactions, but didn't get any establishing shots nor provide a back-
ground for Dr. Caldicott. But she also admits had she done the latter, "the emotional impact would have been diluted and some-
thing would be lost in terms of intensity. "(Latimer Who's 40) | agree fully with her statement, and further suggest that the film
would not have offered the metachoric experience | propose occurs while viewing the film.

This film resonates strongly for me; viewing it again after sixteen years, it still holds my complete attention and clearly reminds me
how little has really changed since it's completion. The arms race is supposedly over and the Nuclear clock pushed back enough,
it has been said, to discontinue our peace marches and protests. As | write this essay NATO scud missiles cruise Kosovo,
Yugoslavia. We are at war, undeclared, just sort of there, Canadians like you and |, killing people in the shadow of the American
forces. Smart bombs that never miss their target, and peoples misery represented as statistics shown nightly on all the News
broadcasts. The First and Second World Wars were fought in the Balkans, it has been suggested that the third global war will also
begin in the Balkans. The front page headlines, in large bold type, in this weeks edition of The Globe and Mail read as follows:
"Chinese Leader warns of global war."(Cernetig 1) Is this the beginning of our feared end or is it just Capitalism trying to turn a
buck, with the idea that war has no casualties but instead is profitable, manageable, and survivable? :

My beliefs are in keeping with Marilyn Waring, who while touring Canada in 1997 delivered the same message that she gave to
the leaders of the G7 nations. "The International financial system which holds the earth and it's people in it's grip is mentally dis-
eased. Economics is not a dismal science. It is

deadly, a system which disregards human life and the security of the planet, and
elevates war, death and pollution." (Hughes 18)

Taking a closer look at Nash's documentary style
in Who's Counting?... which depicts Waring:
speaking at lectures, the viewer is offered addi-
tional professional opinions (Gloria Steinem and
John Kenneth Galbraith) as well as scenes from
numerous locations throughout the world. This
allows the viewer to experience first hand
Waring's travels on her quest to raise awareness
in the communities most affected by the global
economics system. The very system that
excludes them, but includes ecological disasters
such as oil spills, war and the multimillion dollar
industry of arms sales, the slave trade and prosti-
tution as well as the sale of drugs. She speaks
with John Kenneth Galbraith whose previous
advice to, “stop talking and start

writing" (Hughes 19) inspired her to write /f
Women Counted in 1988. Galbraith also com-
ments in Who's Counting?... on the role of women in the economics system. He
states that, “the whole tendency in economics is to take the monetary economy -
and if there isn't money or a price involved, you don't measure it, and that leaves
women's work in the household and a great deal of child care out of

the National Accounts."(Nash, Who's Counting?...) While going over the United
Nations System of National Accounts, Waring discovered that among activities and
occupations recognized by the UN, housework, housewife and homemakers were
not listed, nor were subsistence farmers significant that included millions of women
in developing countries who, with no state help, were keeping their families
alive).(Hughes 19)

In Who's Counting?... Waring suggests that the United Nations System of National
Accounts is a neo-colonial exercise for the whole world. This comment was made
after she mentioned that the U.N.S.N.A. was devised in 1953, shaped out of an
existing British system called the British National Income and how to pay for the
war. Waring goes on to say that “Everything that goes through the marketplace
has a cash generating capacity. The system recognizes no value other than money,
regardless of how that money is made." The preservation of natural resources for
future generations, peace, unpaid work, nurturing or reproduction are all of no
value under the present system. She also states, "this system leaves out the work
of half the population of the planet and the planet itself. This system cannot
respond to values it refuses to recognize. It is the cause of massive poverty, illness,
and the death of millions of women and children and it is encouraging ecological
disaster."(Nash, Who's Counting?...)

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Nash suggests that she couldn't make /f You Love This Planet today, that “at the time she didn't know any better.” She used
three cameras at different focal lengths and then took audience reactions, but didn't get any establishing shots nor provide a back-
ground for Dr. Caldicott. But she also admits had she done the latter,"the emotional impact would have been diluted and some-
thing would be lost in terms of intensity."(Latimer Who's 40) | agree fully with her statement, and further suggest that the film
would not have offered the metachoric experience | propose occurs while viewing the film.

This film resonates strongly for me; viewing it again after sixteen years, it til holds my complete attention and clearly reminds me
how little has really changed since it's completion. The arms race is supposedly over and the Nuclear clock pushed back enough,
it has been said, to discontinue our peace marches and protests. As | write this essay NATO scud missiles cruise Kosovo,
Yugoslavia. We are at war, undeclared, just sort of there, Canadians like you and I, killing people in the shadow of the American
forces. Smart bombs that never miss their target, and peoples misery represented as statistics shown nightly on all the News
broadeasts, The First and Second World Wars were fought in the Balkans, it has been suggested that the third global war will also
begin in the Balkans. The front page headlines, in large bold type, in this weeks edition of The Globe and Mail read as follows
“Chinese Leader warns of global war."(Cernetig 1) Is this the beginning of our feared end or is it just Capitalism trying to turn a
buck, with the idea that war has no casualties but instead is profitable, manageable, and survivable?

My beliefs are in keeping with Marilyn Waring, who while touring Canada in 1997 delivered the same message that she gave to
the leaders of the G7 nations. “The International financial system which holds the earth and it's people in it's grip is mentally dis
eased. Economics is not a dismal science. It is
deadly, a system which disregards human life and the security of the planet, and
elevates war, death and pollution.*(Hughes 18)

Taking a closer look at Nash's documentary style
in Who's Counting?... which depicts Waring.
speaking at lectures, the viewer is offered addi-
tional professional opinions (Gloria Steinem and
John Kenneth Galbraith) as well as scenes from
numerous locations throughout the world. This
allows the viewer to experience first hand
Waring's travels on her quest to raise awareness
in the communities most affected by the global
economics system. The very system that
excludes them, but includes ecological disasters
such as oil spills, war and the multimillion dollar
industry of arms sales, the slave trade and prosti-
tution as well as the sale of drugs. She speaks
with John Kenneth Galbraith whose previous
advice to, “stop talking and start

writing" (Hughes 19) inspired her to write /f
Women Counted in 1988. Galbraith also com-
ments in Who's Counting?... on the role of women in the economics system. He
states that, "the whole tendency in economics is to take the monetary economy
and if there isn't money or a price involved, you don't measure it, and that leaves
women's work in the household and a great deal of child care out of

the National Accounts." (Nash, Who's Counting?...) While going over the United
Nations System of National Accounts, Waring discovered that among activities and
occupations recognized by the UN, housework, housewife and homemakers were
not listed, nor were subsistence farmers significant that included millions of women
in developing countries who, with no state help, were Keeping their families
alive).(Hughes 19)

In Who's Counting?... Waring suggests that the United Nations System of National
‘Accounts is a neo-colonial exercise for the whole world. This comment was made
after she mentioned that the U.N.S.N.A. was devised in 1953, shaped out of an
existing British system called the British National Income and how to pay for the
war. Waring goes on to say that "Everything that goes through the marketplace
has a cash generating capacity. The system recognizes no value other than money,
regardless of how that money is made.” The preservation of natural resources for
future generations, peace, unpaid work, nurturing or reproduction are all of no
value under the present system. She also states, "this system leaves out the work
of half the population of the planet and the planet itself. This system cannot
respond to values it refuses to recognize. It is the cause of massive poverty, illness,
and the death of millions of women and children and it is encouraging ecological
disaster."(Nash, Who's Counting?...)

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