Filmmakers traveled all over the world to make dramatic aerial images of an enormous landfill in Nairobi, Kenya; forests damaged by oil spills in Nigeria; Italy's Carrara marble quarries; a gigantic open pit coal mine in Germany; a concrete sea wall under construction in China and several other
Earthis a documentary film by Edward Burtynsky, Jennifer Baichwal and Nicholas de Pencier that paints a beautiful and terrifying picture of what human beings are doing to the Earth.
The title comes from a word used by some geologists to describe the period of natural history we are all living in right now. It was popularized by Paul Crutzen, a Dutch Nobel Prize-winning atmospheric chemist who has studied climate change. During the 1980s, Burtynsky says, Crutzen realized,"We as a species have for the first time been such a force on the planet that we have moved it from one geological epoch to another.
Burtynsky, however, says he, Baichwal and de Pencier have no intention of preaching or delivering a heavy handed lecture about environmental damage."I don't want to lock the meaning down,'' he says,"I think that simplifies life too much." He says most of the sites he's documented were created to satisfy some legitimate human need, like coal for fuel or phosphorus for fertilizer. He also says,"I'm implicated in all these landscapes.
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