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“BEAUTIFULLY-FILMED…AS MUCH AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDY AND GEOGRAPHY LESSON AS A CLIMATE-CHANGE DOCUMENTARY, THIS IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.” 
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"AN EXCELLENT INTRODUCTION TO THE SUBJECT OF GLACIOLOGY AND ICE-CORING....AUDIENCES FOR THE FILM INCLUDE AGE GROUPS FROM ELEMENTARY TO UNIVERSITY LEVELS FOR COURSES DEALING WITH ISSUES RELATED TO CLIMATE CHANGE."

 Geologist John Splettstoesser, Chair, Board of Governors, American Polar Society and editor, The Polar Times

“GLACIAL BALANCE WAKES US UP TO THE DANGER BY HEARING DIRECTLY FROM THE ONES SUFFERING THE CONSEQUENCES OF SOCIETY’S INACTION.”
James Hansen, Fmr. Head, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Adjunct Professor, Columbia University Earth Institute

“FEW THINGS ARE CHANGING AS FAST ON OUR HOME PLANET AS THE CRYOSPHERE. AND NOWHERE FASTER OR WITH MORE GRIEVOUS EFFECT THAN ALONG THE ANDES, AS THIS PIERCING FILM MAKES CLEAR!”
Bill McKibben, environmental activist and best-selling author, "Oil and Honey"  

“GLACIAL BALANCE NOT ONLY ADMIRABLY PRESENTS MODERN GLACIAL SCIENCE BUT ALSO BALANCES THE SCIENCE WITH THE SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES OF RAPIDLY MELTING GLACIERS IN THE ANDES.”
Cindy L. Parker MD, MPH, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University


FILM INFORMATION
Genre: Documentary
Director: Ethan Steinman
Production Year: 2014
Rating: NR
DVDCAT#: PRDVD2493    
Runtime: 95 min.
Language Tracks: English
Subtitles: English, Spanish
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Subject Areas: Documentary, Environment, Travel, Cultural Studies, Latin American Studies

Synopsis: Water and its sources have historically been the key factor in the establishment of cities, of civilizations. But we are at a critical point in the environment and mankind’s existence. Farmers are having to adapt to increasingly more difficult weather patterns, populations are relocating in a search of potable water, and the infrastructure of large cities is becoming overwhelmed by this population influx.

GLACIAL BALANCE takes us to Colombia, Argentina, Chile, Bolivia and Ecuador, getting to know those who are the first to be affected by the melting glacial reserve. Scientists give viewers a perspective on what is happening in the natural world and the chain reaction these disappearing glaciers are having worldwide on coffee, potato, and quinoa farmers, fruit and wine exporters, and even miners of sacred glacial ice blocks near the Equator - all while offering viewers a chance to visit some of Earth’s most distant, inaccessible, and spectacularly beautiful landscapes.

Entertaining and reflective, GLACIAL BALANCE brings these images and stories of climate change, drought, famine, and migration to the forefront of public consciousness, and redirects the climate change discussion from the "anonymous" cause to the achievable changes every one of us can make to improve our planet.    

Featuring interviews with 56 environmentalists, climatologists, activists, and educators, including:
  • Former Vice President Al Gore, "An Inconvenient Truth"
  • Dr. Lonnie G. Thompson, Paleoclimatologist with 30+ years experience, Professor, Ohio State University School of Earth Sciences. Named one of Time Magazine’s “Heroes of the Environment.”
  • Mark Carey, Author, "In the Shadow of Melting Glaciers." Assistant Professor of History, University of Oregon
  • Maxime Litt, Glaciologist at IRD - La Paz, Bolivia
  • Dr. Keith Mountain, Assistant Professor of GeoSciences, University of Louisville
  • Dr. Paolo Gabrielli, Byrd Polar Research Center, The Ohio State University
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