
Norway, United States,
2008
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85 min.
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Dir. Barbara Ettinger
A guy named Sven read an article in The New Yorker that changed his life. The article was Elizabeth Kolbert’s “The Darkening Sea,” which took the popular understanding of global warming (bad stuff going into the air) a step further—as Kolbert points out, eventually “whatever is in the air falls into the ocean.” Now oceans are acidifying and shellfish and other creatures are dissolving, including one bouncy, gorgeous little wisp of an animal you’ve never heard of that baby salmon feed on. The impact to the food chain, to the coral reefs, to the future of life itself make the scientists Sven interviews stare into the middle distance in terror.