The hungry tide / directed and produced by Tom Zubrycki.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher: [Australia] : Screen Australia, Screen NSW & Jotz Productions, c2011Description: 1 videodisc (DVD) (88 min.) : sound, colour ; 12 cmContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 304.250999681 22
Summary: A personal story about a pacific nation on the frontline of climate change. The central Pacific nation of Kiribati is one of the countries in the world most vulnerable to climate change. Sea level rise and increasing salinity are threatening the lives of 105,000 people spread over 33 atolls in this remote corner of the Pacific. It's the same ocean, which for generations has sustained the country that is now the source of its destruction. The latest prognosis for climate change appears grim. Pledges made by industrialized countries at the Copenhagen and Cancun Climate Change Conferences to cut carbon emissions have fallen far short of their targets. Scientists currently predict temperature increases of between 3 and 6 degrees, and sea level rises of well over a metre, by the turn of the century. Only decisive global action will save Kiribati and its culture from disappearing.
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Audio Visual City Campus City Campus Short Loan DISPLAY NB 304.250999681 HUN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A515413B

Screen Australia, SBS Australia in association with Screen NSW present a Tom Zubrycki film.

A personal story about a pacific nation on the frontline of climate change. The central Pacific nation of Kiribati is one of the countries in the world most vulnerable to climate change. Sea level rise and increasing salinity are threatening the lives of 105,000 people spread over 33 atolls in this remote corner of the Pacific. It's the same ocean, which for generations has sustained the country that is now the source of its destruction. The latest prognosis for climate change appears grim. Pledges made by industrialized countries at the Copenhagen and Cancun Climate Change Conferences to cut carbon emissions have fallen far short of their targets. Scientists currently predict temperature increases of between 3 and 6 degrees, and sea level rises of well over a metre, by the turn of the century. Only decisive global action will save Kiribati and its culture from disappearing.

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