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The film documents how environmental disasters have played a major role in shaping ecological awareness worldwide, by showing ten significant disasters, whose impact is still strong to this day.
-1952: London Smog
-1959: Mercury poisoning of Minamata bay in Japan
-1962: Silent Spring: the massive pollution of the American countryside
-1978: Amoco-Cadiz oil slick: over 230,000 tons of crude oil leak and pollute the coastline of Brittany, France.
-1984: Explosion of a pesticide factory in Bhopal, India.
-1986: Explosion of a reactor at Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine
-1988: Massive deforestation of the Amazon rainforest
-2005: Hurricane Katrina and the global impact of climate change
For each of them, archival footage will remind the facts and show how they were reported in the media. Key witnesses will tell us what they saw and how they reacted at the time of the events.
-Dr Rajendra Pachauri, Nobel Prize winner in 2007 with Al Gore.
-Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union at the time of the Chernobyl disaster.
-Lester Brown. Founder of the Worldwatch and the Earth Policy Institutes.
-Sir David Attenborough. The award-winning wildlife documentary-maker for the BBC.
-Nicolas Stern. British economist, former senior vice-president of the World Bank (2000-2003).

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