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Review of The 11th Hour
Coming just a year after the Academy Award-winning An Inconvenient Truth, last year's globally aware documentary The 11th Hour played in just a few theatres before quietly making its debut on DVD this week. While it doesn't pack as much of a punch...
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Cast & Crew
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Leonardo DiCaprio as
Narrator - Kenny Ausubel as
Himself - Thom Hartmann as
Himself - Wangari Maathai as
Herself - Sandra Postel as
Herself - Paul Stamets as
Himself - David Orr as
Himself - Stephen Hawking as
Himself - Oren Lyons as
Himself - Andrew C. Revkin as
Himself - Sylvia Earle Ph.D. as
Herself - Paul Hawken as
Himself - Janine Benyus as
Herself - Stuart Pimm as
Himself - Paolo Soleri as
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The 11th Hour' is the last moment when change is possible. The film explores how we've arrived at this moment -- how we live, how we impact the earth's ecosystems, and what we can do to change our course. With contributions from over 50 of the world's most prominent thinkers and activists, including former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, physicist Stephen Hawking, Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai, and journalist Paul Hawken, the film documents the grave problems facing the planet's life systems. Global warming, deforestation, mass species extinction, and depletion of the oceans' habitats are all addressed. The film's premise is that the future of humanity is in jeopardy. The film offers hope and potential solutions to these problems by calling for restorative action by the reshaping and rethinking of global human activity through technology, social responsibility and conservation. Scientists and environmental advocates such as David Orr, David Suzuki, and Gloria Flora paint a portrait for a radically new and different future in which it is not humanity's intent to dominate the planet's life systems, but to mimic and coexist with them.



