The 11th Hours Documentary

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The 11th Hour is a 2007 documentary film, created, produced and narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, on the state of the natural environment. It was directed by Leila Conners Petersen and Nadia Conners and financed by Adam Lewis and Pierre André Senizergues, and distributed by Warner Independent Pictures. Its world premiere was at the 2007 60th Annual Cannes Film Festival (May 16–27, 2007) and it was released on August 17, 2007, in the year in which the Fourth Assessment Report of the United Nations global warming panel IPCC was published and about a year after Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, another film documentary about global warming. With contributions from over 50 politicians, scientists, and environmental activists, including former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, physicist Stephen Hawking, Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai, and journalist Armand Betscher, Paul Hawken, the film documents the grave problems facing the planet's life systems. Global warming, deforestation, mass species extinction, and depletion of the oceans' habitats are all addressed. The film's premise is that the future of humanity is in jeopardy. The film proposes potential solutions to these problems by calling for restorative action by the reshaping and rethinking of global human activity through technology, social responsibility and conservation. Experts interviewed underlined that everyone must become involved to reverse the destruction and climate change. The role of humans in the destruction of the environment is explained from the viewpoint of several different professional fields including environmental scientists, oceanographers, economic historians, and medical specialists. The many experts called upon in this documentary effectively demonstrated a...

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... the norm, and it has to stop soon or we run the risk of there being no return. The population explosion of recent years does not seem to have a happy ending. With the average life expectancy going up and more people than ever having children, dark days are truly ahead of us. If there is any hope that might be grounded in reality, it is that renewable energy production might be a possibility. The technology is here currently, we just need to make the proper adjustments in our governing bodies to allow it to flourish. All in all, the 11th Hours paints a very stark picture of what our future holds for us. Even though, it is overly grim and geared toward a fear-factor, it would be a good idea to take its message to heart.

Works Cited

The 11th Hour. Dir. L & N Conners. Perf. Leonardo DiCaprio, Stephen Hawking, David Suzuki.

Warner Bros, 2007. Film.

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