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Summary:
- What if your community had to decide whether to leave their homeland forever and there was no help available? This is the reality for the culturally unique Polynesian community of Takuu, a tiny low-lying atoll in the South Western Pacific. As a terrifying tidal flood rips through their already damaged home, the Takuu community experiences the devastating effects of climate change first hand. In this verite-style film, three intrepid characters Teloo, Endar and Satty, allow us into their lives and their culture and show us first hand the human impact of an environmental crisis. Two scientists, oceanographer John Hunter and geomorphologist Scott Smithers, investigate the situation with our characters and consider the impact of climate change on communities without access to resources or support. Intimate observational scenes allow Teloo, Endar and Satty to take us on their personal journeys as they consider whether to move to an uncertain future in Bougainville or to stay on Takuu and fight for a different, but equally uncertain, outcome. This film gives a human face to the direct impacts of climate change in the Pacific, challenging audiences everywhere to consider their own relationship to the earth and the other people on it.
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Language Notes:
- Item content: English
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System Details:
- Digital format: System requirements: Adobe Flash or equivalent.
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General Notes:
- Streaming media.
Restricted to the University of North Texas System.
Originally produced by On the Level Productions in 2010.
Originally produced [U.K.], Journeyman Pictures [distributor], c2010.
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Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 video file (80 min. 27 sec.)) : sound, color
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Audio Characteristics:
- digital
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Digital Characteristics:
- video file; MPEG-4; Flash
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Call Numbers:
- Online Video
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Other Standard Numbers:
- Publisher Number, Kanopy: 1066283
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OCLC Numbers:
- 1087046156
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Other Control Numbers:
- [Unknown Type]: kan1066283