Home: Earth From Above Creator's Documentary To Air Friday (VIDEO)

Source: Huffington Post

"Home," a documentary by Yann Arthus-Bertrand, renowned photographer of "Earth From Above" fame, will air this Friday on the National Geographic Channel at 9 p.m. It is also being shown at discounted rates in some theaters, for free in open-air screenings, on YouTube and 80 TV channels, and sold, sometimes at a discount, on DVDs around the world.

Check out the trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8IozVfph7I

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/03/home-earth-from-above-cre_n_210719.html

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This Friday is World Environment Day and the big event will be the global premiere of the environmental film Home. Narrated by Glenn Close and directed by Yann Arthus-Bertrand, the photographer and author of Earth From Above, the film can be seen in movie theaters, on DVD, and for free on television and the Internet.

The documentary about environmental issues, which was filmed in 50 countries and shot entirely from the sky in high definition, is a commentary on the major environmental and social issues challenging our world and calls for a new awareness that protecting the earth is indispensable. The premise: In 200,000 years on Earth, humanity has upset the balance of the planet, established by nearly four billion years of evolution. The price to pay is high as humankind has barely 10 years to reverse the trend, become aware of the full extent of the Earth’s riches and change its patterns of consumption.

Arthus-Bertrand’s collaborators on the project were producer/director Luc Besson and Francois-Henri Pinault, the chief executive of the French luxury group PPR, which is the majority shareholder of PUMA and the world exclusive partner for the film.

“Creating awareness of our environment’s emergency state is crucial and the first step for an improved handling of our natural resources,” Jochen Zeitz, chairman and CEO of PUMA, said in a statement. “In line with our PUMAVision concept, PUMA has implemented numerous environmental initiatives through various programs that aim at reducing our ‘paw print’ — the effects that PUMA’s operations and actions have on the environment. The Home film inspires us to work towards making a positive contribution to our planet.”

http://www.greenrightnow.com/kabc/2009/06/02/home-marks-world-environment-day/

It really was beautiful. They told how fast we've tripled and quadrupled and how it was because of factory farms and our use of oil, they told how fast the extinctions are happening, they told how many people are living in poverty and how the first-worlders' consumption of meat is wasting so much energy and forest. The movie didn't show any footage of mountaintop removal or talk about how much trash is in the ocean, but they did cover like 100 other things people are ignoring.
I wish everyone would take a look at reality :banghead:

I won't be critical of it though because it is incredibly uplifting and just amazing. The message is right.

...equate soy argiculture with cattle ranching in the rainforests. Cattle ranching, *grass fed cattle* is the largest destroyer of rainforest, soy is a very very small part of it. It should have come down on Europe for its grass fed beef diet as much as the US for its grain->bovine infrastructure.

Many wealthy states actually have negative population growth. This would be the case for those poorer countries if we could benefit them.

I thought it was apt how it pointed out the military budgets of the world vs aid.

was amazing :wow: It's just amazing how important war is to humans.. and we think we're so evolved.

and put it on my Netflix queue.

It has quite an optimistic ending. It's not one of those "we're doomed" movies. (Sorry if that's a slight spoiler, but it doesn't give away the best parts.)