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National Geographic: Human Footprint
from Nat'l Geographic
starring Elizabeth Vargas
directed by Clive Maltby

Features:

• Closed-captioned
• Color
• DVD-Video
• Widescreen

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• First Fascinating...Then Boring....Then Irritating
  This film tracks the life of a boy and girl from childhood through old age.
  At various stages of life their consumption of various resources is examined in great detail.
  The early displays of actual counts of what they use are at first fascinating and impressive. Gee...I thought... someone went to lot of effort to assemble and set up over 43,000 soft drink cans.
  Then as the statistical bombardment continues, one begins to wonder are these numbers really correct. Each stat is accompanied with... more info

• Amazing Video
  The "Human Footprint" was first aired on the National Geographic Channel earlier this year. It is a graphic portrayal of the quantities of stuff that an average American consumes over the course of a lifetime.
  The criticism of our lifestyle is implicit. No one says what all this is doing to the planet, but it quickly becomes obvious that enormous quantities of stuff must be manufactured, consumed, and discarded in order to support the high standard of living that we enjoy. You only have to look at the... more info

• visually impressive, lacking in substantial content
  I teach high school science and 100 level science classes at the local university. I showed the dvd for both groups with a worksheet I made up for them (anyone in education knows that you must give the students something to work on relating to the movie they're watching, or else they won't pay attention). It was visually impressive to see the amounts of "stuff" we go through in a lifetime, and it's a good movie because students have no idea what these amounts really are; they cannot fathom how immense... more info

• OUTSTANDING!!!
  My entire loved this documentary! It even held my 5 yr olds full attention. We loved the creative ways that the information was put across, and it really opened our eyes as to exactly how much we as individuals affect the earth. We learned a lot and we plan on changing a lot of things as well!

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