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  • Leonardo DiCaprio Leonardo DiCaprio as
    Narrator
  • Kenny Ausubel as
    Himself
  • Janine Benyus as
    Herself
  • Sylvia Earle Ph.D. as
    Herself
  • Gloria Flora as
    Herself
  • Michel Gelobter as
    Himself
  • Mikhail Gorbachev as
    Himself
  • Thom Hartmann as
    Himself
  • Paul Hawken as
    Himself
  • Stephen Hawking as
    Himself
  • Wangari Maathai as
    Herself
  • William McDonough as
    Himself
  • Bill McKibben as
    Himself
  • Wallace J. Nichols as
    Himself
  • David Orr as
    Himself
  • David Suzuki as
    Himself
  • Greg Watson as
    Himself
  • Andrew Weil as
    Himself
  • James Woolsey as
    Himself
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With the contributions of over fifty of the world's most prominent thinkers and activists, including reformer Mikhail Gorbachev, physicist Stephen Hawking, and Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai, 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, and alleged to be largely, if not exclusively, caused by human activity. Of these crises is the film's premise is that future of not just the planet, but that the survival of humanity is in jeopardy.

The film also offers hope and potential solutions to these problems by calling for restorative action by the reshaping and rethinking of global human activity through technology and 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.

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