Sue,
Indoctrinate into what? There’s no political environmental message trying to sell kids on buying carbon credits with their allowances, or plea to get children to support the Kyoto protocol. The movie simply has the “audacity” to suggest we use our freedoms, our liberties, and our lives responsibly for our own sake, because the human race does have a tendency to get wrapped up in our “things” in lieu of focusing on each other. The movie is persuasive, not belligerent.
On top of that, did you *watch* the ending? With human beings re-discovering their passion for real living – and choosing to *voluntarily* improve their state of being – which leads into the credit sequence indicating a second Renaissance amongst humankind? That’s ‘hopeless’ and ‘dreary’?
