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Apr 22
2010
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Earth Day: 3 Movies to regain consciousness in our planet’s protectionPosted by: yudposselt Tagged in: movies
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April 22, 1970, was the first Earth Day celebration. Today 40 years have passed and this date has become a global phenomenon. Earth Day bring the awareness of world pollution and threads against nature. In 1990 more than 200 million people around the world celebrated the Earth, and today the world is celebrating this problem where nobody else but us are the main cause of this global disaster.
Along with more than many agencies that keep working against this, movie makers are releasing their arts to inspire citizens to take action and to protect our world. That’s why we are bringing you the best movies to watch so far this year and regain consciousness on this matter.
Clima of Change - Trailer
"We are the renters of this world, not its masters," reminds Pooshkar, a precocious 13-year-old member of a youth environmental defense group in India. He and his fellow voraciously energetic students actively rally against the use of plastics. In Africa, a renaissance man teaches citizens to harness solar power to cook food. In Papua New Guinea, villagers practice sustainable logging to save their rainforests. With this movie you will remember that anyone regardless age, race, sex, income, disabilities, mobility, educational attainment, home ownership, employment status, and even location can do a big change on this planet.
Oceans - Trailer
Disneynature, the studio that presented the record—breaking film “Earth,” brings OCEANS to the big screen on Earth Day, 2010. Nearly three—quarters of the Earth’s surface is covered by water and OCEANS boldly chronicles the mysteries that lie beneath. Directors Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud dive deep into the very waters that sustain all of mankind—exploring the harsh reality and the amazing creatures that live within. Narrated by Pierce Brosnan and featuring spectacular never—before—seen imagery captured by the latest underwater technologies, OCEANS offers an unprecedented look beneath the sea in a powerful motion picture that unfolds on April 22, 2010.
The Cove - Trailer
The Cove follows a high-tech dive team on a mission to discover the truth about the international dolphin capture trade as practiced in Taiji, Japan. Utilizing state-of-the-art techniques, including hidden microphones and cameras in fake rocks, the team uncovers how this small seaside village serves as a horrifying microcosm of massive ecological crimes happening worldwide. The Cove exposes not only the tragedy of dolphin slaughtering in Japan, but also the dangerously high levels of mercury in dolphin meat and seafood, the cruelty in capturing dolphins for entertainment, and the depletion of our oceans fisheries by worldwide seafood consumption.
