Planet in Peril (2 DVD set)
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DVD: Region Code 0Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Anamorphic, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 180 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-11-13
Studio: CNN
Movie Reviews of Planet in Peril (2 DVD set)
Movie Review: excellent eye-opener on climate change and loss of species
Summary: 5 Stars
This documentary made by CNN's journalists Anderson Cooper and Dr Sanjay Gupta and Animal Planet's wildlife biologist Jeff Corwin is an excellent eye-opener on climate change and species loss our planet is facing right now.
The first DVD starts addressing the issue of wildlife trade in Thailand. Anderson Cooper follows a Thai police raid in an outdoor market in Bangcoc. They map out a plan to arrest wildlife dealers but when they arrive at the market all the stores are closed probably because someone tipped of the dealers. Then Anderson gives useful information about wildlife trade, how profitable it is and how difficult it is to stop this in a poor country like Thailand. He also gives us stunned information that the two main markets for wildlife is America as pets, and China as food ! Afterwards Dr Sanjay Gupta goes to Beijing to figure out more about China's habit of eating wildlife. Equally stunned is the intensive use of wildlife in China's traditional medicine. Putting altogether in the context of China overpopulation and economic growth we can realize that species loss will not stop.
Then, Jeff Corwin goes to Madagascar to show us the impact of deforestation on species loss. He correctly points out the relationship between deforestation and poverty as, like in Madagascar, the tropical forests in the planet are in poor countries where the forest itself is the only wealth (wildlife and wood) people have. From Madagascar to the Yellowstone National Park in Colorado, Anderson Cooper checks out the effort and success of re-introducting the once vanished gray wolf made by environmentalists in the United States.
In the second DVD, Anderson Cooper goes to the Amazon in Brazil to check out how deforestation is contributing to the greenhouse effect. We can realize how difficult is to protect Amazon given its immensity.
Then the journalists show us the impact of climate change presumably caused by greenhouse gases and the rise in planet's temperatures (some scientists and politicians disagree even in the United States). Jeff goes to the Artic where ice is melting at a staggering speed and polar bear population is lowering. And Anderson goes to Greenland where new islands are cropping up as ice melts. Both point out the aftermath of melting which is the rise of oceans. So, Dr Sanjay goes to a remote island in southern pacific which is thought to be sinking. We can forecast that the poor populations of third world countries will be among the first global warming losers.
Finally Dr Sanjay checks out in China the information that people are getting cancer from poluted water caused by waste products of China's new factories. And Anderson tells us insightful information about people getting cancer in the United States from polluted air. Again the people more exposed to toxins are the poor one who live in neighbourhoods next to highly pollutant factories.
The net effect of all these changes caused by mankind on the Earth is the main message of this excellent documentary made by CNN, i.e., our planet and ourselves are in great danger once nothing to change in the near future.
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