Call of Life – Facing the Mass Extinction

Next Friday’s Eco Film will be Call of Life – Facing the Mass Extinction, screening December 30th at 7 p.m.

Genere: Documentary. 2010. English. 70 minutes.

Best Science Communication Film at Reel Earth Festival in New Zealand, Humanitarian Award at Accolade Competition, Award of Excellence at The Accolade Film Awards, John Muir Award at Yosemite Film Festival, Finalist Award/Film at International Wildlife Film Festival, Official Jury Nominee at Reel Earth Festival in New Zealand

All over the world species are becoming extinct at an astonishing rate, from 1000 to 10,000 times faster than normal. The loss of biodiversity has become so severe that scientists are calling it a mass extinction event. Call of Life: Facing the Mass Extinction is the first feature documentary to investigate the growing threat to Earth’s life support systems from this unprecedented loss of biodiversity. Through interviews with leading scientists, psychologists, anthropologists, philosophers, and indigenous and religious leaders, the film explores the causes, the scope, and the potential effects of the mass extinction, but also looks beyond the immediate causes of the crisis to consider how our cultural and economic systems, along with deep-seated psychological and behavioral patterns, have allowed this situation to develop, continue to reinforce it, and even determine our response to it. Call of Life tells the story of a crisis not only in nature, but also in human nature, a crisis more threatening than anything human beings have ever faced before.