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posted by cinemapolitica in on Oct 16, 2012 - View profile

Toronto, ON

THE CARBON RUSH with director Amy Miller in Attendance***

Presented by CINEMA POLITICA AT THE BLOOR


6:45pm
- 8:45pm
Tuesday November 6 2012

Venue: Bloor Hot Docs Cinema
Address: 506 Bloor Street West, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1Y5
Cost: Entry By Donation (suggested $2-5)

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Join us Tuesday, November 6 for THE CARBON RUSH, a unique and powerful documentary that reveals the dirty and unjust reality of carbon trading schemes. Director Amy Miller will be in attendance and lead a discussion after the projection.

 

THE CARBON RUSH

 

This commanding doc effectively counters the propaganda around carbon-trading by featuring the voices of those most affected.

Amy Miller / Canada / 2012 / 84 ' / English - Spanish / S.T. English

WHAT: Screening of THE CARBON RUSH
WHEN: Tuesday, November 6, 6:45PM
WHERE: Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, 506 Bloor Street West, Toronto
COST: Suggested donation $2-$10
INFO: cinemapolitica.org/bloor
SOCIAL MEDIA: Facebook event

SYNOPSIS: Incinerators burning garbage in India. Hundreds of hydroelectric dams in Panama. Biogas extracted from palm oil in Honduras. Eucalyptus forests harvested for charcoal in Brazil.

What do these projects have in common? They are all receiving carbon credits for offsetting pollution created somewhere else. But what impact are these offsets having? Are they actually reducing emissions? And how are they affecting the people who live in these countries?

THE CARBON RUSH takes us around the world to meet the men and women on the front lines of carbon trading. So far their voices have gone unheard in the cacophony surrounding this multi-billion carbon industry, nicknamed "green gold" by its beneficiaries. Indigenous rain forest dwellers are losing their way of life. Waste pickers at landfills can no longer support themselves. Dozens of Campesinos have been assassinated.

THE CARBON RUSH travels across four continents and shows the connection between these tragedies and the United Nations' Clean Development Mechanism. This groundbreaking documentary feature reveals the true cost of carbon trading and shows who stands to gain and who stands to lose.

Click this link to view the trailer for the film and read more.

 

Organizer:bloor@cinemapolitica.org

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