Buy It Now: The 11th Hour

Dir. Leila Conners Peterson & Nadia Conners

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By Chesney Davis

Any of this sound familiar? Melting ice caps, an overdependence on fossil fuels and the releasing of too much CO² into our water and atmosphere. We have certainly heard it before, but apparently we need to hear it again because according to directors and sisters Leila and Nadia Conners, not much progress has been made since Al Gore's edifying An Inconvenient Truth was released two years ago. The scientific world, apparently now widely in agreement on the problem after having complied the evidence and analyzed the data, is pleading with politicians to take action. However, as this global warming documentary reveals, though the general public seems ready for the necessary changes, the world's governments are still filled with political cronies and corporate goons delaying such measures. The film is filled with jarring images of polluted waters, oil spills and Katrina-like catastrophes coupled with scientist after scientist staring into the camera can proclaiming doom. A dreary outlook, to be sure, but towards the end of the film, the Conners show solutions are not impossible to acheive. They lay out a blueprint for the reversal of “mankind’s footprint” that would have our leaders work with natural resources instead of depleting them. Although, at times, it may feel like an extended PSA, the film puts many things about the green movement into some much needed perspective. We are not, the film suggests, in a race to save the environment itself, necessarily, but rather to save the human race -- nature being the only constant thing from before we arrived and long after we are gone. Suitably, the most disturbing fact many of the scientists point out is that the human mind, perhaps the only thing that can lead us to salvation -- could just as easily be the ultimate cause of our destruction.

The disc, which naturally comes in low-impact, recycled packaging, includes the “11th Hour Featurette Gallery.”

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