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Global Warning Box Set - Three award-winning films about our planet in peril.

Mongrel Media is proud to present a box set of three hard-hitting, award-winning documentaries about today’s most pressing environmental issues.

The packaging is made from 100% post-consumer recycled material, and is printed using vegetable-based inks.

 

Edward Burtynsky is internationally acclaimed for his large-scale photographs of nature transformed by industry. Manufactured Landscapes - a stunning documentary by award winning director Jennifer Baichwal – follows Burtynsky to China, as he captures the effects of the country’s massive industrial revolution. This remarkable film leads us to meditate on human endeavour and its impact on the planet

2006, Canada, 90 min.

In A Crude Awakening, our civilization’s addition to oil puts it on a collision course with disaster. Compelling, intelligent, and highly disturbing, the film visits with the world’s top experts and comes to a startling but logical conclusion – our industrial society, built on cheap and readily available oil, must be completely re-imagined and overhauled.  The world’s oil supplies are peaking and the crisis of global shortage looms; we are running out of oil, and we don’t have a plan.

2006, Switzerland, 85 min.

The Refugees of the Blue Planet unveils the way widespread destruction from more frequently-occurring natural disasters has caused the number of environmental refugees (25 million) to outnumber – for the first time in history – those fleeing from war or political persecution (23 million).

2006, France/Canada, 54 min.