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The Great Warming
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Wikipedia article
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'The Great Warming' is a 2006 documentary film directed by Michael Taylor. The film was hosted by Alanis Morissette and Keanu Reeves and even before its November 3, 2006 premire helped establish an alliance between Democrats and Evangelicals trying to shake the administration out of its inertia on Climate change mitigation.
Theatre giant Regal Cinemas released the film in 34 markets on the weekend of November 4 to November 5, 2006. A special program was developed for faith communities, and the film was distributed to over 500 churches, synagogues and mosques across the US.
Summary
Featuring elements of the 2005 Public Broadcasting Service special 'Global Warming: the Signs and the Science, The Great Warming' (produced by the same team), it talks to key researchers and reports on social justice and day-to-day impacts as well as emission statistics. It is also populated with everyday people from all over the United States and the planet who are feeling the brunt of global warming, and/or finding innovative ways to tackle it.
Reception
A review in 'Newsweek' criticized the film by saying "'The Great Warming' shows exactly what's wrong with turning complex issues over to Hollywood: it's manipulative (it travels to Peru to report on the death of two boys from cholera contracted during a flood implying a causal connection that serious scientists invariably warn against) and muddled in its use of scientific terms."
'Variety' said "Different countries and individual citizens are visited in intimate vignettes, but this personal approach seems inimical to any overarching sense of urgency and cohesion."
See also
* Politics of global warming (United States)
* Evangelical environmentalism
* 'An Inconvenient Truth'
References
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