The Great Warming

Produced for Canadian television as a three-part documentary, this environmental call to action blows past politically oriented debate about global warming to declare in ringing tones that the Earth is in trouble and that to ignore the problem is to invite harsh judgment by future generations. Narrated by Alanis Morissette and Keanu Reeves, it begins with a thumbnail picture of the factors that allowed mankind's race to flourish and spread to every corner of the planet, irrevocably altering — first incrementally, then more rapidly — the very face of the Earth. Various experts estimate that the tipping point came at the end of the 19th century, when the balance of atm...