Climate Histories - 22 January 2014 - Film Silent Snow–The Invisible Poisoning of the World
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Film: Jan van der Berg & Pipaluk Knuden-Ostermann, 2011 Netherlands
Discussants: Rob Doubleday (Centre for Science and Policy, Cambridge) John Ash (Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge) Travelling on ocean currents and carried in snowfall, chemical residue accumulates in the once-pristine Arctic. These pesticides are poisoning both the Inuit people and the animals, causing illness and even threatening the unborn. Pipaluk Knudsen-Ostermann travels from her home in Greenland to communities in Uganda, India and Costa Rica to find local causes of the contamination that makes its way to the Arctic. |
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| Created: | 2014-01-27 09:59 |
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| Collection: | Climate Histories Seminar |
| Publisher: | University of Cambridge |
| Copyright: | Glenn Jobson |
| Language: | eng (English) |
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| Keywords: | CRASSH; Climate Histories; |
| Explicit content: | No |
| Abstract: | Film: Jan van der Berg & Pipaluk Knuden-Ostermann, 2011 Netherlands
Discussants: Rob Doubleday (Centre for Science and Policy, Cambridge) John Ash (Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge) Travelling on ocean currents and carried in snowfall, chemical residue accumulates in the once-pristine Arctic. These pesticides are poisoning both the Inuit people and the animals, causing illness and even threatening the unborn. Pipaluk Knudsen-Ostermann travels from her home in Greenland to communities in Uganda, India and Costa Rica to find local causes of the contamination that makes its way to the Arctic. |
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