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THE 11TH HOUR

Turn Mankind's Darkest Hour Into Its Finest
Produced and Narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio

A DVD Review by Barry Piacenza

Review posted July 1, 2010




Leonardo DiCaprio and Warner Independent Pictures in producing the 11th hour as provided a seminal work related to climate change. It is a must viewing for anyone who wishes to understand the perils that lie before us in the 11th hour of the last second of the last day of the Earth in its present state. This riveting documentary where scientists, global leaders thinkers provide us with a multiple disciplinary view of the outcomes of climate change.

It is must viewing for citizens, policymakers at all levels in business or public and private sectors. It provides us with consequences and solutions to this complex man-made issue. It also makes us aware that time is of the essence and it is running out on us if it already hasn't.

The first-person interviews are interwoven with scientific facts and breathtaking vistas that remind us of just how special our little blue ball in the universe is. It also reminds us how thin our atmosphere is in comparison to other distances in space. The comments from persons such as Mikhail Gorbachev, Stephen Hawking, and other thinkers of the 21st-century provide us insight into the outcomes of human behavior.

The documentary is a call to action in the David Wolper tradition of documentaries.

The intellectual depth of the documentary is very good and includes persons such as Tom Linzet of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, Ray Anderson Interface Inc., David Nicholas, Ocean Preserves, Sylvia Earle and Wade Davis of the National Geographic Society, and religious leaders of all major faiths. It provides a unique and in-depth capacity for understanding the polyglot aspects of climate change.

The tapestry of this documentary provides us with science, art, philosophy, human compassion, a call to action and solutions in one interwoven explanation of climate change and its outcomes; from urban environments to rural crop failures and coastline decimation it illustrates the inequities and dangers of climate change. Simultaneously it provides solutions to some of the more pressing problems that climate change presents.

The DVD, although produced in 2007 and 2008, remains a seminal work in 2010.

I highly urge everyone to view this DVD particularly in light of today's swiftly climate changing world.

Barry