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The Endangered Earth: The Politics of Acid Rain

This program analyzes the acid rain controversy. Scientists agree on the effects of acid rain on the ecosystem, but lawmakers disagree forcefully on what action, if any, government should take to alleviate the problem. Hosted by Michael Learned, this award-winning documentary examines the politics and economics of this critical contemporary issue. (58 minutes)



 
        

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DVD $179.95


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Acid Rain
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An explanation of the history of acid rain and the dangers posed by industrial carbon and sulfur emanations that interact with airborne moisture to produce acid rain, the program provides chemical definitions, illustrates geological and meteorologica...(more details)
 
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Preserving the Rain Forest

Humans came out of the African forest, and continue to live in equilibrium with the tropical forest in Africa, Brazil, and elsewhere-hunting, fishing, collecting plants. Trouble only begins when humans begin to cultivate plants in the forest, cutting...(more details)
 
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Clean Water

We use water for drinking, cooking, washing, and cooling, and never consider that every day, in hundreds of ways, each of us is contributing to water pollution. Compared to industrial pollution, the individual's contribution is small, but collectivel...(more details)
 
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Seas Under Siege

Sometimes washing up on beaches in the form of used syringes, other times hidden in the belly of a fish, toxic contamination-the inescapable consequence of toxic wastes flowing or being dumped into the ocean-is a form of pollution found off all coast...(more details)
 
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The Ocean Sink

Governments at all levels are slow to protect their own environments, wanting proof of damage before acting. The dancing cats of Minimata are the emblem of this syndrome-their nervous systems destroyed by mercury-laced fish. Industrial waste containi...(more details)
 
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