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Last Call at the Oasis
Event Details
Time: May 9, 2012 from 7pm to 8:30pm
Location: Empire Granville 7 Cinemas
Street: 855 Granville Street
City/Town: Vancouver
Website or Map: http://doxafestival.ca/festiv…
Event Neighbourhood and Type: documentary, film, screening
Organized By: DOXA (Dana, Community Engagement Committee, please email me for more details or other film suggestions)
Latest Activity: Apr 30, 2012
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Event Description
“No water, no life,” is the point that Jessica Yu’s new film makes in a global jaunt from Australia to Las Vegas. For a film that is essentially another nail in the coffin of human society, Last Call is a surprisingly upbeat affair. Interspersed with peppy tunes are interviews with some of the world’s foremost water experts, including Robert Glennon (author of Unquenchable) and hydrologist Jay Famiglietti, who eloquently sums up the fate of humanity in two words: “We’re screwed.” You can’t say we didn’t have it coming; from fracking to golf courses, human beings have wasted water with wild abandon. Such wantonness comes with a heavy price tag, as the amount of potable water is vanishing at an astounding rate.
A sobering but somehow upbeat examination of the looming catastrophic global water shortage… a look at the Earth’s most precious, and perhaps most endangered, commodity.
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