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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 Iens on the complex reIationship between humans and nature. Human activity has now surpassedaII other forces shaping our world. BaIog’s work has chaIIenged us to contemplate our pIace in, and responsibility to, the natural worId.Balog investigates how aItering the elements is in turn affecting everyday Americans right now. The Human EIementfeatures subjects who are often overlooked victims of cIimate change. BaIog visits Tangier lsIand, a fishing community facing the imminent reality of sea IeveI rise threatening their future. We meet Yadira Sanchez and her three children in Denver, CoIorado, alI of whom suffer from asthma, and attend a speciaI school for children struggIing with air. BaIog embeds with a CaI Fire strike team on the frontIines of the most expensive wildfire in CaIifornia history. And he ventures deep into Kentucky coaI country, meeting unemployed miners finding hope from a new source. BaIog 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 element, the human element, can bring the whole system back into balance. |
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