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Pollution and Waste Management (Ages 12-14)

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Pollution and waste management continue to be issues that plague our society. This selection of films provides a basis for understanding the problem. Pour visionner cette sélection en français, cliquez ici. Films in This Playlist Include Crapshoot: The Gamble with Our Wastes Never Lose Sight Uranium Debris

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Pollution and Waste Management (Ages 12-14)

Pollution and waste management continue to be issues that plague our society. This selection of films provides a basis for understanding the problem.

Pour visionner cette sélection en français, cliquez ici.

Films in This Playlist Include
Crapshoot: The Gamble with Our Wastes
Never Lose Sight
Uranium
Debris

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  • Crapshoot: The Gamble with Our Wastes
    Crapshoot: The Gamble with Our Wastes
    Jeff McKay 2003 52 min
    A hazardous mix of waste is flushed into the sewer every day. The billions of litres of water - combined with unknown quantities of chemicals, solvents, heavy metals, human waste and food - where does it all go? And what does it do to us? Filmed in Italy, India, Sweden, the United States and Canada, this bold documentary questions our fundamental attitudes to waste. Does our need to dispose of waste take precedence over public safety? What are the alternatives?
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  • Never Lose Sight
    Never Lose Sight
    Sarah McNair-Landry 2009 21 min
    This short documentary presents the environmental challenges in Nunavut. Beneath the immaculate layer of snow, there are mountains of trash. Iqaluit's 2 dumps are filled beyond capacity and the municipality has no plan to solve the problem. Throughout the film, we discover the problems faced by this isolated region and learn just how serious they are. But above all, we hear a call to action from the residents, who don't want to see the North they love disappear. In French with English subtitles.
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  • Uranium
    Uranium
    Magnus Isacsson 1990 47 min
    This documentary looks at the hazards of uranium mining in Canada. Toxic and radioactive waste pose environmental threats while the traditional economic and spiritual lives of the Indigenous people who occupy this land have been violated. Given our limited knowledge of the associated risks, this film questions the validity of continuing the mining operations.
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  • Debris
    Debris
    John Bolton 2015 14 min
    This short film is a portrait of Tofino, BC intertidal artist Pete Clarkson as he crafts his most ambitious and personal project to date: a memorial to the 2011 Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami. He, like so many of us around the world, was deeply affected by the disaster. Years later, as splintered and mangled timber and other objects started to wash ashore, the disaster hit home again for Clarkson, and the inspiration for his memorial was born. In Clarkson’s caring hands, the remnants from the Tohoku region take on a life of their own as he shapes them into a unique public sculpture. The result is an evocative memorial that is a site of remembrance and contemplation, and an emotional bridge connecting an artist, his community and a people an ocean away.
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