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The Carbon Rush
THE CARBON RUSH
The truth behind the carbon market smokescreen
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Duration: 83 minutes
Rating: NR
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Genre: Documentary
Synopsis: Incinerators burning garbage in India. Hundreds of
hydroelectric dams in Panama. Biogas extracted from palm oil in
Honduras. Eucalyptus forests harvested for charcoal in Brazil. What do
these projects have in common? They are all receiving carbon credits for
offsetting pollution created somewhere else. But what impact are these
offsets having? Are they actually reducing emissions? And how are they
affecting the people who live in these countries? THE CARBON RUSH takes
us around the world to meet the men and women on the front lines of
carbon trading. So far their voices have gone unheard in the cacophony
surrounding this multi-billion carbon industry, nicknamed “green gold”
by its beneficiaries. Indigenous rain forest dwellers are losing their
way of life. Waste pickers at landfills can no longer support
themselves. Dozens of Campesinos have been assassinated. THE CARBON RUSH
travels across four continents and shows the connection between these
tragedies and the United Nations’ Clean Development Mechanism. This
groundbreaking documentary feature reveals the true cost of carbon
trading and shows who stands to gain and who stands to lose.
VOD Release Date: August 2014
Bluray/DCP: Both
IMDB Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1930510/
Film Website: http://www.thecarbonrush.net/
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiwgXGDsXPU