This important documentary was filmed in the quickly disappearing Indonesian rainforest and is not narrated, however, its message is clear and eyeopening. The home of the Orangutan and many other wildlife species in Indonesia is being decimated at an alarming rate by multiple industries catering to consumer products.
The film features the widespread practice of ‘slash and burn’ to clear the lush rainforest to make way for extensive palm oil plantations. Palm oil is used in food, magazines, cosmetics, and, increasingly, biofuel. The practice has also seen Indonesia move into third place behind the US and China with regard to carbon emissions due to the uncovering of peat soil which has lain, undisturbed, below the tropical rainforest for centuries.
GREEN is currently in the film festival circuit, and can be seen in its entirety at http://bit.ly/1FRcf4.
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