3/15/2023 0 Comments Methane drawdown global ice driver![]() A company called Climeworks has opened a small commercial plant in Switzerland and Iceland for Direct Air Capture (DAC), a method of carbon capture and storage from the air. We have heard of worldwide death of corals, but here we see an oyster farmer (Bren Smith) planting kelp, a fast-growing marine algae, which he explains would ‘absorb five times as much carbon as a terrestrial plant’ and also be used as fertilizer and animal feed (if the seaweed is fed to cattle, methane emissions reduce by 90%). ![]() Some of the solutions exhibited in Ice on Fire were all part of Project Drawdown (launched in 2014 by social entrepreneur & environmentalist Paul Hawken), an optimistic list of solutions to reverse and halt global warming.Ĭonners and her team do a good job in balancing between the complex science at the core of each significant ‘drawdown’ solutions and the positive impact it’s gonna have in sequestering carbon from our atmosphere. Director Conners sets the stage for scientists working for ‘the greater good’ to concisely explain their plans to combat the villains of this story: Greenhouse gasses, particularly carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4). However, Ice on Fire goes beyond gloom-and-doom attitude and slick PowerPoint presentations to take a brief look at some of the powerful ideas that are already in progress to achieve the goal of reversing climate change. The documentary, similar to the long-line of didactic eco-docs, starts with a sobering message: climate change is escalating and we are close to reaching various tipping points from which recovery looks impossible.Īs usual, this despair-filled message is visualized through devastating drone shots of melting polar ice caps, cross cut with talking-head interviews, and peppered with empirical data that in a sane world should actually drive our government policies. ![]() With Ice on Fire, Conners has once again collaborated with the Hollywood star, utilizing his attachment to attract attention to the arduous work of a confident group of scientists. Leila Conners’ Ice on Fire (2019) is both a wake-up call and a call to action documentary that (once again) poses the pivotal question to those overlooking the threats of environmental catastrophe: “Can we reverse climate change, or is it too late?” Twelve years before, Leila Conners made the climate change documentary ‘The 11th Hour’, which was produced and narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio.
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