Earth 2100
- TV Movie
- 2009
- 1h 24m
Follows the account of Lucy, who is born into a society where people are desperate for natural resources, while the global temperature and population are highly increasing.Follows the account of Lucy, who is born into a society where people are desperate for natural resources, while the global temperature and population are highly increasing.Follows the account of Lucy, who is born into a society where people are desperate for natural resources, while the global temperature and population are highly increasing.
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- (as Reinhard Buetikofer)
- Self
- (as Dr. Heidi Cullen)
- Self
- (as Dr. Anthony Fauci)
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Host: By 2100, our world could be transformed.
HEIDI CULLEN: [Climatologist, Climate Central] Just, imagine a city that's not polluted, that has a great transportation infrastructure...
MITCHELL JOACHIM: [Architect And Urban Designer] Stackable cars, and they would charge, and be a shared ownership model, and you would just pull out the one that's available that's fully charged. Everything happens inside the city itself. That means our food production, our waste and recycling, our energy.
PETER GLEICK: [President, Pacific Institute] We're going to have joint management of water resources, of energy resources, uh, of disaster management. We're going to be living on a planet where we don't see things at a national level, but we see things at a global level.
VAN JONES: [Founder, Green for All] By the time we get to 2100, the challenge of building a global, green economy where we're sharing technologies and where we're not fighting wars over water and oil... That's going to bring out the best in the human family.
E.O. WILSON: [Biologist & Entomologist, Harvard University] Humanity will be relatively, disease-free. Children will be treated as rare treasures.
PETER DeMENOCAL: [Professor of Environmental Sciences, Columbia University] What most people don't realize is that not only can we change, we must change. And I think that's how you own the future. That's how you take control of your destiny
STUART PIMM: [Professor of Conservation Ecology, Duke University] I have huge faith in humanity.
THOMAS FRIEDMAN: [Foreign Affairs Columnist, The New York Times] And we will be able to create a world that will be a livable planet for our kids and their kids. That is our opportunity. That is our obligation.
ALEX STEFFEN: [Author, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the Twenty-First Century] Kids born today will see us navigate past the first greatest test of humanity, which is: can we actually be smart enough to live on a planet without destroying it?
- SoundtracksRapture (Reprise)
Written and performed by Marbury
Courtesy of BMF Digital
I shouldn't really get so criticizing and I apologize for that. But I believe it might add to the point I'm trying to make. Because after watching this documentary I can't say that there is a single flaw in its technical, cinematographic design that could explain this plummeting ranking. The film has everything a documentary needs: the issue, the vast background, the science, the prognoses, the hypotheses and conclusions that follow. It EVEN has a well-written narrative, thus a plot. It finally has the message and what a message it is. But how is met with? Well you all see the ranking. If it isn't the form that fails it has to be the content. So prejudice drives most of the people who watch it, prejudice towards this seemingly hackneyed topic.
I cannot expect everybody to be as moved as I was after watching Earth 2100. However I beg of you, when you visit here to vote, please consider this one thing - sure you can vote 3 for redundancy or triteness (which aren't even the case in this production, since it's quite a unique attempt at a documentary) or you can actually help the cause by encouraging others to watch this film with your positive, or at least adequate vote. After all, and let us be frank here, all of us 'imdbcomers' know that hardly anything below 7 is worth investing our time in. And it's definitely not the case with Earth 2100.
The bottom line here being - don't dismiss a good piece of movie- making just because the subject annoys you personally. Because there might others who would actually need or could use an inspiration (and motivation), which this documentary may well provide.
8 out of 10, but it's me being objective. Personally, it's a 'tenner' for me - the actual gem among the rock.
- jedi_dave
- Nov 16, 2009
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- Trái Đất Năm 2100
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- Runtime1 hour 24 minutes
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