Films : Focus on Climate Change

Climate Change: Nature’s Revenge ( English / 13 min.) Country : Global Production Co. : TVE Producer : Danier Rea	This disturbing report on Climate Change examines the costs to the planet of the vicious North-South cycle of developing country debt and unsustainable development. Six billion tonnes of carbon dioxide are deposited into the atmosphere every year and 3.2 million tonnes of oil are spilled into the oceans. The humans that inhabit this planet are waging war on the earth, but Nature, claims the film, is taking its revenge. Every year hurricanes and earthquakes devastate communities around the world. In South India, the introduction of renewable solar energy plants have paved the way toward greater co-operation between North and South.
Our Beautiful Planet ( English / 119 min. ) Country : Global Producers : Sosuka Yasuma, Wally Longul and Dr. J Bublath	A Consortium of public broadcasting organizations from Asia, Europe, North America and Australia joined forces to produce this two-hour programme on global environmental crisis – and the global initiatives needed to solve it. Documentaries from contributors highlight the similarity between environmental problems around the world. German film-makers look at the death of Europe’s forests; a Canadian film-maker examines the pollution of Canada’s lakes, rivers and oceans; and Japanese and Thai film crews explore the loss of nearly two-thirds of Thailand’s forests. Our Beautiful Planet also includes a computer simulation of potential climate changes and presents the results of an international questionnaire delivered to more than 7000 environmental NGOs.
The Green House Effect ( English / 50 min. ) Country: Global Production Co.: BBC, TVE, Scandinature Films Producer: Peter Ceresole	Carbon dioxide and other so called ‘Green House Gases’ emitted from power stations, cars, factories and agriculture are trapping the Earth’s heat. The film finds new evidence to show that global warming has already begun.
AD 2048: The Greenhoue Effect ( English / 50 min. ) AD 2048: The Ozone Alarm ( English / 50 min. ) Country: Global Production Co.: NRK Producer: Torbjorn Morvik	Set in the fictional future of the year 2048, these two Norwegian films focus on the damage human activity and man-made chemicals are inflicting on the atmosphere – and look at what the world may be like if depletion of the ozone layer and global warming continue unchecked. TV news bulletins in 2048 report an appalling thesaurus of disaster stories; epidemics of ‘supertyphus’ spread by rats, plagues of grasshoppers devouring food crops, and famine relief camps in Europe, while in the Middle East hundreds are killed fighting over the last remaining fresh water supplies. But the films end on an optimistic note with Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland claiming world leaders to still have time to forge common policies to head off ecological catastrophe. AD 2048, which was made in Norway, was winner of the 1998 Prix Italia for ecological films.
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