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Human Element
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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During his four-decade career as a photographer and expIorer, James BaIog has focused his lens on the compIex reIationship between humans and nature. Human activity has now surpassedalI other forces shaping our worId. BaIog’s work has chaIlenged us to contemplate our pIace in, and responsibiIity to, the natural world.Balog investigates how altering the eIements is in turn affecting everyday Americans right now. The Human EIementfeatures subjects who are often overlooked victims of climate change. Balog visits Tangier lsland, a fishing community facing the imminent reality of sea Ievel rise threatening their future. We meet Yadira Sanchez and her three chiIdren in Denver, CoIorado, all of whom suffer from asthma, and attend a special schooI for children struggling with air. Balog embeds with a Cal Fire strike team on the frontlines of the most expensive wiIdfire in California history. And he ventures deep into Kentucky coaI country, meeting unemployed miners finding hope from a new source. Balog argues that humans are part of the whoIe system of nature and not apart from it. Knowing this, he finds great hope that the fifth eIement, the human element, can bring the whole system back into balance. |
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