PBS American Experience - Earth Days (2009 DVDRip XviD-NODLABS)

PBS American Experience - Earth Days (2009.DVDRip.XviD-NODLABS)



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Summary
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The inspiring story of the modern environmental movement.

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Film Description
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It is now all the rage, but can you remember when everyone in America was not “Going Green”? AMERICAN EXPERIENCE’s Earth Days looks back to the dawn and development of the modern environmental movement through the extraordinary stories of the era’s pioneers — among them Former Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall, biologist/Population Bomb author Paul Ehrlich, Whole Earth Catalog founder Stewart Brand, Apollo Nine astronaut Rusty Schweickart, and renewable energy pioneer Hunter Lovins.

Widespread concern about the environment in America was on the rise in the early 1950s after a small group of scientists began to document the impact of our technology on the Earth’s ecosystem. Within a decade it seemed to many Americans as if the post-war dream of a better world brought about through science, technology and economic growth — the American dream — was turning into an unfathomable nightmare. The post-war economic boom had fueled industrial expansion, and the Interstate Highway program had encouraged mass migration to the suburbs, but emissions from new vehicles and production factories clogged the skies, and cities around the country experienced “smog episodes.”

In 1962, Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring called attention to the dwindling bird population in her town, placing blame on American chemical manufacturers. A nationwide debate ensued between Carson’s followers and the chemical companies until President John F. Kennedy stepped in and called for further scientific research. When the evidence largely supported Carson’s claims, encouraged activists continued to raise public awareness about the environmental impact of industrial expansion. As a new conservation movement sprang forth, groups small and large fought for causes such as preserving Florida’s Everglades and protesting dam construction in the Grand Canyon.

In December 1969, Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson hired 25-year-old Denis Hayes to organize a national teach-in about the environment. Just four months later, on April 22, over 20 million Americans across the country participated in celebrations and demonstrations — the largest in American history — demanding political action to protect the environment. Their grassroots call to action led to groundbreaking national legislation and created a new consciousness about the fragility of the earth’s resources. The collective strength of the public’s outcry gave Washington a mandate for environmental action. In the years that followed, Congress was flooded with environmental legislation. Between 1972 and 1974, Congress passed the Clean Water Act, Marine Mammal Protection Act, Coastal Zone Management Act, Endangered Species Act, Energy Supply and Environmental Coordination Act, Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act, and the Safe Drinking Water Act.

The 1970s became known as 'the environmental decade’, and new federal legislation made great strides in cleaning up our skies, lands, lakes, and oceans. As President Richard M. Nixon declared, “The great question of the ’70s is: shall we surrender to our surroundings or shall we make our peace with nature and begin to make reparations for the damage we have done to our air, to our land, and to our water.”

Directed by acclaimed documentarian Robert Stone (Oswald’s Ghost, Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst) Earth Days is both a poetic meditation on man’s complex relationship with nature and an engaging history of the revolutionary achievements — and missed opportunities — of groundbreaking eco-activism.

more info: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/earthdays/

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Technical Specs
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Earth.Days.2009.LiMiTED.DOCU.DVDRip.XviD-NODLABS

File size.......: 700Mb + 698 Mb
Duration .......: 01:42:26
Release date ...: April 2010
Source .........: DVD NTSC Retail
Genre ..........: Documentary

Video Format ...: XviD
Video Bitrate ..: 996kbps
Resolution .....: 624x352
Frame Rate .....: 29.970fps

Language .......: English
Subs ...........: English (cc)
Audio ..........: AC3 5.1 448kbps

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Clearly not large enough...




Is it just me or is someone getting a little too "excited" by the washer and dryer? Are you thinking what I'm thinking? Threesome, baby!


Where heavy metal monstrosities, also known as post WW-II American cars, go to die.







F*cking hippies doing what f*cking hippies do best: doing hippie stuff naked


The famous photograph of Earth from space, i.e, the "pale blue dot" image, that supposedly "changed everything" and changed how we view the planet...


Richard M. Nixon: America's most progressive President? Shockingly, far more progressive than the centre-right, neoliberal corporatist Democrat and imperial manager, Super Black Jesus Obama.


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A short catalogue of human civilizations that existed and flourished once upon a time and much like our current global civilization, were full of hubris ("End of History") and short-term thinking, never imagining they would collapse and would be laid over with dust, sand and rock, leaving nothing but useless temples, pyramids, statues and monuments










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Oh, that silly Jimmy Carter with his silly, hippy, liberal solar power visions.. what was he thinking?? This is America! Go back to Russia, you Marxist, socialist Jimmy Carter!


Jimmy Carter's infamous "malaise" speech. It turns out he was right after all.. oops! But what the hell does being right have to do with winning elections in America, anyway??


The beginning of the end: Morning in America.. and American-sponsored terrorism, death-squads, barbarism and scorched-earth policies in Central America





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Resources and links to related material
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1) TVO Big Ideas, May 22, 2010: Vaclav Smil on the future of the planet

2) CBC Massey Lectures 2004 - Ronald Wright: A Short History Of Progress