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Tarfumes.com - Planet in Peril
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List Price: $19.98
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Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Jeff Corwin, Anderson Cooper, Dr. Sanjay Gupta
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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0883929014040
Format: Closed-captioned
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2008-04-08
Running Time: 174
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2007-10-23
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CNN takes viewers around the world in a comprehensive 3-hour documentary that examines our changing planet. This worldwide investigation shot in high definition looks at four key issues: climate change vanishing habitats disappearing species and human population growth. To tell this story Anderson Cooper Dr. Sanjay Gupta and Animal Planet's Jeff Corwin traveled to some of the most remote and remarkable places on Earth. From exposing illegal wildlife trading undercover in Southeast Asia to seeing first?hand the devastating effects of deforestation in Brazil they have gathered evidence on the unsettling changes taking place all around us.Running Time: 180 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:Â TELEVISION/NEWS UPC:Â 883929014040 Manufacturer No:Â 1000037710
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Summary: I Trust Jeff Corwin,I Love That Guy...
Comment: I Never saw this before now that I'm OFF the Cable Grid & I Miss Animal Planet & few select shows & why pay 75-plus,NOT!
This movie is about more things were not doing enough about,it really didn't surprise me,I hear,read about this sort of stuff all most every day & I do what I can to do my part,now if we can just get these BIG MONEY HUNGRY COMPANY'S to change there way's & use some of there money to Help instead of Hurting the planet I think it would be much easier,but I guess they don't care that there Greed is hurting Everyone across the Globe & where/what are they going to spend it on when Earth is so far Gone,and there biggest worry will be trying to find food/shelter.
Mabey the GAS Corp. can give some of there HUGE Gas "Profits" and Help out,as well as other corp.who have added to the Problem & give back for the solution so our children,grand kids will have a chance to carry on.
Yes after I watched this show I was Mad and still am that very few ppl are willing to stand up and take responsibility for there deeds. We are loosing the rain forest & there are a few Under-paid ppl trying to protect it before we loose the creatures that live there Forever.I honestly think that all creatures have a Purpose for something,whether it's keeping balance of animals in check,spreading seeds,fertilizing,ect.and if we wipe them out things can go down hill in a hurry and allot of plants are used to make all sorts of Medicines from plants in the rain forest inc. drugs used for cancer patients,which reminds me of the Movie "Medicine Man with Sean Connery",if you've not seen it buy/rent it and it was also about the Amazon.
This DVD talks about a few different topics,pollution,rain forest,heath,and even illegal Animal Trading of endangered species & Horrible treatment of them,so if your not worried about Earth,weather changes,ect. but Love Animals,than get it.
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Summary: excellent eye-opener on climate change and loss of species
Comment: This documentary made by CNN's journalists Anderson Cooper and Dr Sanjay Gupta and Animal Planet's wildlife biologist Jeff Corwin is an excellent eye-opener on climate change and species loss our planet is facing right now.
The first DVD starts addressing the issue of wildlife trade in Thailand. Anderson Cooper follows a Thai police raid in an outdoor market in Bangcoc. They map out a plan to arrest wildlife dealers but when they arrive at the market all the stores are closed probably because someone tipped of the dealers. Then Anderson gives useful information about wildlife trade, how profitable it is and how difficult it is to stop this in a poor country like Thailand. He also gives us stunned information that the two main markets for wildlife is America as pets, and China as food ! Afterwards Dr Sanjay Gupta goes to Beijing to figure out more about China's habit of eating wildlife. Equally stunned is the intensive use of wildlife in China's traditional medicine. Putting altogether in the context of China overpopulation and economic growth we can realize that species loss will not stop.
Then, Jeff Corwin goes to Madagascar to show us the impact of deforestation on species loss. He correctly points out the relationship between deforestation and poverty as, like in Madagascar, the tropical forests in the planet are in poor countries where the forest itself is the only wealth (wildlife and wood) people have. From Madagascar to the Yellowstone National Park in Colorado, Anderson Cooper checks out the effort and success of re-introducting the once vanished gray wolf made by environmentalists in the United States.
In the second DVD, Anderson Cooper goes to the Amazon in Brazil to check out how deforestation is contributing to the greenhouse effect. We can realize how difficult is to protect Amazon given its immensity.
Then the journalists show us the impact of climate change presumably caused by greenhouse gases and the rise in planet's temperatures (some scientists and politicians disagree even in the United States). Jeff goes to the Artic where ice is melting at a staggering speed and polar bear population is lowering. And Anderson goes to Greenland where new islands are cropping up as ice melts. Both point out the aftermath of melting which is the rise of oceans. So, Dr Sanjay goes to a remote island in southern pacific which is thought to be sinking. We can forecast that the poor populations of third world countries will be among the first global warming losers.
Finally Dr Sanjay checks out in China the information that people are getting cancer from poluted water caused by waste products of China's new factories. And Anderson tells us insightful information about people getting cancer in the United States from polluted air. Again the people more exposed to toxins are the poor one who live in neighbourhoods next to highly pollutant factories.
The net effect of all these changes caused by mankind on the Earth is the main message of this excellent documentary made by CNN, i.e., our planet and ourselves are in great danger once nothing to change in the near future.
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Summary: really opens ones eyes
Comment: I have seen a lot of films and documentaries on these subjects but nothing can compare on the honesty, compasion of these DVD's. The information the locations gave me as well as my family chills at what we truely are doing to the planet. I recommend this to families,, great for schools, for all ages its never to late to learn and help thats what this DVD does it educates and make you aware so you can help. As it says we truely are a Planet in Peril. You won't be disappointed, I hope that there will be another set to continue to show what we have lost or what we have won in the fight to save the planet.
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Summary: boring first part, better second part
Comment: The first half (DVD 1) is not really interesting. Rather than explaining complex reasons for environmental problems, 3 reporters chase endangered species around the world and try find to find "the bad guys". Fortunately the second half (DVD 2) is better and more interesting.
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Summary: Content Is Amazing....BUT the DVD WON'T START/RUN CORRECTLY!!!
Comment: OK, I gave 5 stars but it was for content ALONE. I returned 1 copy due to the DVD (Disc 1) not wanting to start/run correctly, but the 2nd copy received had the exact same issue so maybe it is just developed that way. What I mean is that it seems to start playing just fine then it stops after the initial intro. and returns to the menu. The only way i could get it to play was to select and play each chapter individually, but there is a issue with that too as the chapter starts over automatically when it completes. Frustrating to say the least. Also, not very well edited with regard to commercial spots. Again, content is truly amazing but CNN really could have done a better with overall product. I might return for a 2nd time...haven't decided. I will say that AMAZON was AMAZING with the return process. I received my replacement before I shipped the defective (or what I thought was defective) unit back. Hope this helps.
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