National Film Board of Canada

David Suzuki has visited New Zealand in the past to enlighten and inspire us into re-thinking our relationship with our natural world. Much of this documentary includes filming of Suzuki's lecture before a live audience which he believes will be his last major event. The film is interspersed with events and places that are significant to Suzuki's life and these connect him to us through his own deep understanding his feelings and emotions around these situations. This ability for a scientist to be able to tell his story is this way is unique and adds a special human dimension to this film. The documentary never strays from the urgency for some solutions to be found to this enormous problem we have created though altering the physical, chemical and biological nature of our planet . We have indeed become a "force of nature".… (plus d'informations)

48min.16s In 1983, fifteen Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, landowners went to court to stop the spraying of herbicides by the local subsidiary of a Swedish multinational on forests adjacent to their properties. They found that the testimony of scientists and the support of public opinion, both here and abroad, were not enough to win their case. The film shows their ordeal and the landmark Sydney trial. Concerns raised included potential conflict-of-interest situations where a government must protect citizens' health while supporting certain kinds of industry; the relative value of the political and judicial processes in mediating social problems; and the need for a public forum for debating environmental issues. The film contains outstanding footage from chemical-industry films of the 1950s and recent material about Vietnam veterans affected by Agent Orange.… (plus d'informations)