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Racing Extinction: Trailer
The Cove director Louie Psihoyos returns to Sundance in 2015 with a new call to action.
Racing Extinction is a more wide-ranging documentary than its predecessor, cataloging several interrelated problems facing life on Earth.
Psihoyos begins by using hidden cameras and espionage tactics to expose the illegal sale of whale meat at a US sushi restaurant, and investigate Chinese exporters of products derived from protected animals.
Animal conservation is only one of several core tenets in the film, if perhaps the most effective. How can one not be swayed by footage of the last individual of a species? This film shows us a few, and they are heartbreaking.
As a title, “Racing Extinction” refers not only to disappearing animal species, but to all life. There have been five extinction events in the Earth’s history, the most recent having destroyed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. Fear of a sixth, spurred by our own actions, is what drives this film.
Racing Extinction promotes figures that will be familiar to those who have already nurtured an interest in conservation. Animal species are vanishing at a rate about one thousand times that of the pre-human “background extinction rate” of one species per million per year. The plankton population in the world’s oceans — a prime oxygen producer — has been reduced by 40%.
The documentary argues that our heavy reliance on meat as a primary foodstuff encourages the dedication of huge amounts of land to livestock production, which creates even more carbon dioxide and methane than the world’s transportation industries, and which is linked not only to climate change, but to the increased acidification of the oceans, which can decimate animal populations. Psihoyos makes a compelling argument for this chain of events, and his intentions are in fact two-fold: to educate, and to convince us to take action, however small.
Faced with such a proliferation of problems how can an individual respond? The film explores some concepts that could be possible solutions to the problems outlined within. Some are simple — change your diet, to reduce reliance on livestock; get involved in local politics — while others will take much more dedicated effort.
Watch out for this film coming to your cinemas soon, which will hopefully awaken the awareness in people that we are indeed racing ourselves towards the 6th extinction.
For more information on this documentary, please visit: http://racingextinction.com/
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