Climate Change Impact on Communities (Ages 15-17)
These films provide the perfect entry point for teens and older viewers to discover the impact that climate change is having on different communities across the country. Pour visionner cette sélection en français, cliquez ici. Films in This Playlist Include People of the Ice Washed Away Weather Report River Silence Something in the Air
These films provide the perfect entry point for teens and older viewers to discover the impact that climate change is having on different communities across the country.
Pour visionner cette sélection en français, cliquez ici.
Films in This Playlist Include
People of the Ice
Washed Away
Weather Report
River Silence
Something in the Air
Playlist
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People of the IceCarlos Ferrand & Jean Lemire 2003 52 minThis feature documentary explores the threats of global warming to the Arctic environment that has nurtured the Inuit for 4,000 years. The Inuit have lived in harmony on this frozen landscape for generations. Today, global warming threatens their habitat. As the ice disappears, so does the Inuit culture it is intimately connected to. Ever-changing temperatures have even made predicting the Arctic climate difficult. Will this extraordinarily resilient people be able to adjust to such dramatic change?
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Washed AwayPatricio Henríquez & Jean Lemire 2003 52 min
In Patricio Henriquez' documentary, he brings us to two very different island communities, one in Alaska and one in the South Pacific, with something in common: their homes are under threat from climate change. As global warming causes ocean levels to rise, these islands may be entirely submerged.
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Something in the AirSylvie Dauphinais 2001 24 min
A 2001 documentary about the dangers of pesticides used by potato farmers in Prince Edward Island. Filmmaker Sylvie Dauphinais made this documentary to issue a wake-up call about an environmental crisis that put the ill, the elderly and the young at great risk. Includes some subtitles.
