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September 04, 2007

Dicaprio's new movie based on thom hartmann book

Ancient_sunlightA new eco-doc, The 11th Hour (it opened Friday at the Egyptian Theatre) was created, produced, and narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio.

It's based on The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late by Air America's thoughtful and eloquent host, Thom Hartmann (KPTK m-f, 9a-12p).

Hartmann appears in the movie.

"You really got me, as a reader, to take a step back and try to understand how this all came about and where oil is extracted from," DiCaprio told Hartmann recently on his show.

The 11th Hour is a series of eco-disasters shown as the inevitabilty of such done-deal practices as the cutting of old-growth forests, overfishing the oceans, polluting the lakes and rivers, and the shortsighted but stubborn world appetite for fossil fuels.

Signs of these worst case scenarios, as the movie and Hartmann so vividly describe are already showing up in the up-tic in tornadoes and hurricanes, drought and flooding, acid rain, loss of in air quality and an increase in asthma.

Hartmann's "ancient sunlight," is the fossil fuels we so frantically pull out of the earth, burn up,  and excrete all over ourselves and everyone else.

DiCaprio on Hartmann: "The light that fell on the fields was the most that humanity could use in a certain amount of time -- and when we actually started taking this ancient sunlight out of the ground was when our population exploded on this mass level... and has led us to the situation that we’re in today."

So thank you for your book, truly. It made me want to take a different perspective on this documentary as far as mankind’s relationship to the planet, and the resources that we use."

Posted by on September 04, 2007 at 12:05 AM in Talk radio, Thom Hartmann |

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My Man Dori

Trees are the best resiurce we humans have...100% renewable.

Cut' em down!

Posted by: My Man Dori | September 04, 2007 at 08:28 AM

sparky

sounds good...and because Leonard is involved, it will get more viewing than An Inconvenient Truth.

Of course, the same people will deny there is anything to this.

Posted by: sparky | September 04, 2007 at 08:29 AM

jim anchower

Dori makes the best fertilizer, cut him down!

Posted by: jim anchower | September 04, 2007 at 10:40 AM

Super Duper

Did you get free tickets to a showing for this ad/post?

Posted by: Super Duper | September 06, 2007 at 06:11 PM

mark

Listening to Thom today makes me happy he is not my neighbor.

Posted by: mark | December 04, 2007 at 10:27 AM

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