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Synopsis: Scientists predict we may lose half the species on the planet by the end of the century. They believe we have entered the sixth major extinction event in Earth's history. Number five took out the dinosaurs. This era is called the Anthropocene, or 'Age of Man', because the evidence shows that humanity has sparked this catastrophic loss. We are the only ones who can stop it as well. The Oceanic Preservation Society, the group behind the Academy Award® winning film THE COVE, is back for "Racing Extinction". Along with some new innovators, OPS will bring a voice to the thousands of species on the very edge of life. An unlikely team of activists is out to expose the two worlds endangering species across the globe. The first threat to the wild comes from the international trade of wildlife. Bogus markets are being created at the expense of creatures who have survived on this planet for millions of years. The other threat is all around us, hiding in plain sight. There's a hidden world that th
Director(s): Louie Psihoyos
Production: Discovery
  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 4 wins & 7 nominations.
 
IMDB:
8.2
Metacritic:
81
Rotten Tomatoes:
80%
Year:
2015
90 min
Website
5,465 Views


Here's the male's song again.

That's the last male of a species,

singing for a female

who will never come.

He is totally alone.

And now his voice is gone.

In the brief lifetime

of this collection,

70 years or so,

many of the species that

were recorded are now extinct.

So the repository

is a living example

of the massive rate

of extinction that's happening.

There's been five major extinctions

in the history of the planet.

There's the Ordovician,

the Devonian,

the Permian...

...there was the triassic-jurassic,

...and then the K-t extinction,

...the one that killed

the dinosaurs.

It's very difficult

to comprehend deep time.

You know, 4.6 billion years

of Earth's history.

But if you take, say,

the history of the Earth

and try to squeeze it into

a 24-hour clock,

where does man fit

on that clock?

A few seconds before midnight.

That's it.

We're the new kid on the block.

What we're seeing now...

...is called the anthropocene,

the new epoch.

Anthropocene means

the time of humans.

It's when the impact of humans

is leaving itself as a mark

in the fossil record

of the future.

65 million years ago,

there was an asteroid

that struck

and caused the dinosaurs

to go extinct.

When it comes to

the sixth extinction event,

we have no problem

identifying the cause.

Humanity has become the asteroid.

We're on that tipping point now,

where it's either...

too late or just the beginning

of a movement.

So, there's two pieces

of whale and one piece of horse.

At the Hump restaurant,

we knew that they were

selling whale meat.

But there's also something

bigger going on.

We heard that

the Obama administration

was in closed-doors negotiations

with the Japanese

to go do commercial whaling again.

And I thought,

"Well, if we could prove

"that endangered whales

are being served right here,

"on the shores of America,

"we would stop

that conversation."

Stop the murder!

Stop the death!

Hump restaurant is to blame!

The animal-rights community

took it up,

but the restaurant

didn't close down.

There's this one guy

I'd never heard of before,

his name is Ady Gil.

He took some gear and put it out

in front of the Hump restaurant,

as people are going in.

So, what are you doing?

I'm protesting.

Yesterday, there were like

200 people here, protesting,

and l thought, you know,

somebody needs to keep

the pressure on.

If you look at the Academy

Awards and the Golden Globes,

those are his screens,

and that's all his projections.

And, so, he parks this Ferrari

right next to the van,

and the owner comes out

and tells Ady, he says,

"How long

are you gonna be doing this?"

And he thought that

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Submitted on August 05, 2018

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