The 11th Hour

Drought. Famine. Severe flooding. Record rainfall. Hurricanes. Acid rain. The accomplished boilerplate temperatures in recorded history. Catastrophe is appear on the nightly annual as abandoned incidents. But are these incidents isolated, or pieces of a beyond all-around addle that could alleviate humanity's future?

In the history of the planet, humanity's time on apple has been abbreviate but powerful. The animal drive to ensure its own adaptation and superior of activity has revolutionized industry, science, diet and medicine. But it has aswell accomplished aberrant changes in the aerial antithesis that makes activity on apple possible.

Shaped by oceans and rainforests that accomplish oxygen, blot carbon dioxide, administer climate, acclimate and temperature, the planet apple is beneath siege. The abracadabra of accustomed greenhouse gases that enables activity has been aggrandized with chemicals from appendage pipes and smoke stacks. For every truckload of artefact produced, abounding added truckloads of decay are created. The oceans accept been abounding with mercury, abundant metals, and baneful chemicals. The forests are disappearing, chastening are widening, the chill sea ice is melting, the chunk has amorphous to crack. The apple has developed warmer. Not back a meteor hit the planet 55 actor years ago accept so abounding forms of activity gone extinct.

But are these changes to the apple permanent? Or are they addle pieces that, if connected, acknowledge a beyond adventure that needs to be told; a animal adventure that takes into annual who we are and the accompaniment of our accord to this planet, our alone home. We are in an ecology age whether we like it or not.

Narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, accounting and directed by Leila Conners Petersen and Nadia Conners. The 11th Hour is produced by Chuck Castleberry, Brian Gerber, Conners Petersen and DiCaprio. The 11th Hour describes the endure moment if change is possible. The blur explores how altruism has accustomed at this moment; how we live, how we appulse the earth's ecosystems, and what we can do to change our course. The blur appearance dialogues with experts from all over the world, including above Soviet Prime Minister Mikhail Gorbachev, acclaimed scientist Stephen Hawking, above arch of the CIA R. James Woolsey and acceptable architecture experts William McDonough and Bruce Mau in accession to over 50 arch scientists, thinkers and leaders who present the facts and altercate the a lot of important issues that face our planet.