FILM: Stewart: Revolution: A profoundly disturbing wake-up
Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2013 4:24 pmFILM: Stewart: Revolution: A profoundly disturbing wake-up call
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QUOTE: "Historians and anthropologists frequently muse about what exactly killed off earlier civilizations – the Maya in Central America, the inhabitants of Easter Island, or those who lived 12,000 years ago at Turkey’s Göbekli Tepe. As Revolution makes painfully clear, they will not have to wonder about the death of our own."
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MICHAEL POSNER
The Globe and Mail Published Friday, Apr. 12 2013, 12:01 AM EDT
Last updated Friday, Apr. 12 2013, 12:01 AM EDT
Directed by Rob Stewart
Written by Rob Stewart
Classification G
Year 2012
Country Canada
Language English
If judged by craftsmanship alone, better feature documentaries than Rob Stewart’s Revolution will doubtless be released this year. I’m not sure, however, there will be many that are more important.
Even if Stewart’s calculus about looming ecological disaster is wrong by 50 per cent or 75 per cent – it derives from sober and credible scientific analysis – this is a profoundly disturbing work. It should be essential viewing, particularly in high schools and universities, whence the next generation of policy makers will one day emerge, hopefully more enlightened than we have been.
Stewart may be remembered for Sharkwater, his 2007 film about the reckless slaughter of the world’s shark populations, in order to satisfy the quaint Chinese appetite for a culinary delicacy, shark fin soup. A huge success, the movie dramatically raised the issue’s global profile and helped catalyze a growing, if incomplete, crackdown on the nefarious practice of finning (killing sharks for the fins alone and dumping the carcasses at sea).
But as the opening segments of Revolution make clear, the precipitous decline of sharks is only one aspect of a larger and far more alarming trend – the increasing acidification of the Earth’s oceans and the perils that it may portend.
In other words, forget about the fish – the survival of the human species itself is in jeopardy.
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QUOTE: "Historians and anthropologists frequently muse about what exactly killed off earlier civilizations – the Maya in Central America, the inhabitants of Easter Island, or those who lived 12,000 years ago at Turkey’s Göbekli Tepe. As Revolution makes painfully clear, they will not have to wonder about the death of our own."
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< http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/fil ... e11063968/ >
MICHAEL POSNER
The Globe and Mail Published Friday, Apr. 12 2013, 12:01 AM EDT
Last updated Friday, Apr. 12 2013, 12:01 AM EDT
Directed by Rob Stewart
Written by Rob Stewart
Classification G
Year 2012
Country Canada
Language English
If judged by craftsmanship alone, better feature documentaries than Rob Stewart’s Revolution will doubtless be released this year. I’m not sure, however, there will be many that are more important.
Even if Stewart’s calculus about looming ecological disaster is wrong by 50 per cent or 75 per cent – it derives from sober and credible scientific analysis – this is a profoundly disturbing work. It should be essential viewing, particularly in high schools and universities, whence the next generation of policy makers will one day emerge, hopefully more enlightened than we have been.
Stewart may be remembered for Sharkwater, his 2007 film about the reckless slaughter of the world’s shark populations, in order to satisfy the quaint Chinese appetite for a culinary delicacy, shark fin soup. A huge success, the movie dramatically raised the issue’s global profile and helped catalyze a growing, if incomplete, crackdown on the nefarious practice of finning (killing sharks for the fins alone and dumping the carcasses at sea).
But as the opening segments of Revolution make clear, the precipitous decline of sharks is only one aspect of a larger and far more alarming trend – the increasing acidification of the Earth’s oceans and the perils that it may portend.
In other words, forget about the fish – the survival of the human species itself is in jeopardy.
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< http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/fil ... e11063968/ >
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