Future conditional /
Investigates the link between environmental change and the future health of the planet, a future conditional on how we cope with the spread of toxic pollution. In the Arctic, animals and humans are suddenly plagued with rising levels of hazardous chemicals: DDT, PCBs, dioxins, and mercury. Along the...
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| Format: | Video DVD |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Closed-captioned. |
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[Washington, D.C.] :
Screenscope,
[2005]
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| Summary: | Investigates the link between environmental change and the future health of the planet, a future conditional on how we cope with the spread of toxic pollution. In the Arctic, animals and humans are suddenly plagued with rising levels of hazardous chemicals: DDT, PCBs, dioxins, and mercury. Along the U.S.-Mexico border, tariff-free factories have been poisoning the soil and air for more than a decade, and local communities in Tijuana struggle with contaminated water while their backyards have become toxic playgrounds for children. In Uzbekistan, the world's fourth largest inland body of water, the Aral Sea, has become the site of what the United Nations calls man's greatest ecological disaster. In the United States, a Latin neighborhood in San Diego celebrates an environmental victory, while only 150 miles away, the people of Palm Springs may be living in the path of a toxic storm of dust. |
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| Item Description: | Letterbox format. Videorecording. |
| Physical Description: | 1 videodisc (55 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Format: | DVD; Hi-fi stereo. |
| Production Credits: | Edited by Ralph Quattrucci ; cinematographers, Dennis Boni, Erich Roland ; music, Christopher Mangum. |