Saturday, July 03, 2010

Climate Refugees -- Film Review
Bottom Line: Environmental doc takes disaster-scenario predictions a bit too far.
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Nash deploys an impressive lineup of expert talking heads, including politicians (John Kerry, Nancy Pelosi and even Newt Gingrich), scientists, aid workers and activists.
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The footage he gathers, however, is often surprisingly mundane, since the crew never seems to experience any catastrophic climate events.  ...Despite the film's chorus of expert opinion, in the end the reality of climate-induced refugee migration still seems regrettably abstract.

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