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our society, and we're now paying the price. Thankfully for audiences, "11th Hour" is not without hope. The filmmakers save the most exhilarating portion for last when they ask what's being done about the problems. Experts extol existing technologies and projects as attainable solutions. Progressive designs such as a carbon-neutral city and self-sustaining buildings already offer ideas for a new direction. By mimicking nature's own blueprints, it is possible to create a system of living that heals rather than depletes the Earth.
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The asks why these things are happening and apportions blame in varying degrees to governmental indifference tied to its allegiance to a corporate economy that is addicted to growth at any cost and perhaps, most insinuating of all, to the culture of consumerism. Disposable has trumped sustainable in
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Global warming is not only the number 1 environmental challenge we face today, but one of the most important issues facing all of humanity ... We all have to do our part to raise awareness about global warming and the problems we as a people face in promoting a sustainable environmental future for
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Experts interviewed underlined that everyone must become involved to reverse the destruction and climate change. The role of humans in the destruction of the environment is explained from the viewpoint of several different professional fields including environmental scientists, oceanographers,
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based on 94 reviews, with an average rating of 6.5/10. The site's critics consensus reads, "Well-researched and swimming in scientific data, this global warming documentary offers some practical and wide-ranging solutions to our climate crisis." It has an average score of 63% on
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economic historians, and medical specialists. The many experts called upon in this documentary demonstrate a consensus concerning human-caused climate change, and the many other impacts of industrialization such as
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The film proposes potential solutions to these problems by calling for restorative action by the reshaping and rethinking of global human activity through technology,
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was awarded the Earthwatch Environmental Film Award at National Geographic in Washington, DC.
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The film received generally favorable reviews from critics, with a 67% "Fresh" rating on
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based on 30 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
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With contributions from over 50 politicians, scientists, and
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Leonardo DiCaprio
Pietro Scalia
Jean-Pascal Beintus
Eric Avery
Appian Way
Warner Independent Pictures
documentary film
natural environment
Leonardo DiCaprio
Warner Independent Pictures
Cannes Film Festival
Fourth Assessment Report
United Nations
IPCC
Al Gore
An Inconvenient Truth
film
documentary
global warming
environmental
Mikhail Gorbachev
Stephen Hawking
Nobel Prize
Wangari Maathai
Paul Hawken
deforestation
mass species extinction
social responsibility
conservation

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