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Carbon Nation

  • 20102010
  • TV-PGTV-PG
  • 1h 26m
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Carbon Nation (2010)
A documentary about climate change solutions and a celebration of the heros at the forefront of the fight.
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An optimistic (and witty) discovery of what people are already doing, what we as a nation could be doing and what the world needs to do to prevent (or at least slow down) the impending clima... Read allAn optimistic (and witty) discovery of what people are already doing, what we as a nation could be doing and what the world needs to do to prevent (or at least slow down) the impending climate crisis.An optimistic (and witty) discovery of what people are already doing, what we as a nation could be doing and what the world needs to do to prevent (or at least slow down) the impending climate crisis.
IMDb RATING
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    • Peter Byck
  • Writers
    • Peter Byck
    • Eric Driscoll
    • Matt Weinhold
  • Stars
    • Rohit T. Aggarwala
    • Jerry M. Allums
    • Lela Allums
    • Peter Byck
  • Writers
    • Peter Byck
    • Eric Driscoll
    • Matt Weinhold
  • Stars
    • Rohit T. Aggarwala
    • Jerry M. Allums
    • Lela Allums
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    • 1User review
    • 9Critic reviews
    • 44Metascore
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    Rohit T. Aggarwala
    • Self - NYC Mayor's Office
    Jerry M. Allums
    • Self - Home Owner, Richmond CA
    Lela Allums
    • Self - Home and Solar Roof Owner, Richmond CA
    Peter Barnes
    • Self - Economist and Senior Fellow, Tomales Institute
    Richard Branson
    Richard Branson
    • Self - CEO, Virgin Group
    George Bravo
    • Self - Driver, KKW Trucking
    Lester Brown
    Lester Brown
    • Self - President, Earth Policy Institute
    Sean Casten
    • Self - President & CEO, Recycled Energy Development LLC
    Ralph Cavanagh
    • Self - Lead Attorney, NRDC
    Jim Chevallier
    • Self - Garrison Commander - Garrison Fort Irwin Army Base
    • (as Col. Jim Chevallier)
    Roger Duncan
    • Self - Deputy General Manager, Austin Energy
    Michael Dunham
    • Self - Director of Energy and Environmental Programs, Jaco Environmental Inc.
    Cliff Etheredge
    • Self - Partner, Peal Wind LLC
    David Etheredge
    • Self - Partner, Peak Wind LLC
    Bob Fox
    • Self - Partner, Cook+Fox Architects
    Greg Franta
    • Self - Senior Vice President…
    Thomas Friedman
    Thomas Friedman
    • Self - Author & NY Times Columnist
    • (as Tom Friedman)
    Eric Gardner
    • Self - Contract Officer Representative, 916th Support Brigade, US Army National Training Center, Fort Irwin
      • Peter Byck
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      • Eric Driscoll
      • Matt Weinhold
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    Intelligent entertaining treatment with a fatal flaw
    I just saw a showing of this documentary at a local college followed by an extensive Q&A with the producer, Peter Byck. The film managed to be informative, conveying both dire consequences of increasing atmospheric CO2 along with what is being done to combat this. The brilliance of the film is it remains upbeat by focusing on individuals who are using techniques both within the ecosystem and the world economy that are effective.

    He starts with a cartoon of Mr. CO2, with two little oxygen ears, that is disarming without being insulting. There are the stock images of glens that had been glaciers not that long ago, with explanations of what is lost beyond scenic views. There is enough earth science, botany and microbiology to be challenging without the need to pull out a notebook.

    Byck, who made this film over the course of four years with only his wife as a co-creator, weaved the many individual interviews together perfectly, including a man who had organized small Texas farmers into a large cooperative wind farm, they had a steady income for the first time, as we all benefited, when the farmer stated that he did it single handedly, we were all in on the joke since his loss of one arm had been evident from the beginning of his interview.

    The flaw, I hope not fatal, was the minimization of the political opposition to what he is suggesting, which will take an expansion of "big government" to implement. His choice of the major human interest subject, Van Jones, a person who was forced out of his Obama White House position, based on his documented left wing radical statements, was a bit of unfortunate self indulgence.

    It will be difficult enough to convert those industrialists who are profiting from the status quo, without further supporting the right wing canard that green is not the new Red, White and Blue, but just the new Red.
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    • Oct 8, 2011

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      • October 22, 2010 (United States)
      • United States
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      • English
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      • Earth School Educational Foundation
      • Lemelson Foundation
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