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Here's a quiz on facts from the film:
What percentage of the population consumes 80% of the world's resources?
a. 5%
b. 10%
c. 20%
What percentage of the population controls 50% of the world's wealth?
a. 10%
b. 5%
c. 2%
Methane is how many times more powerful than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas?
a. 5
b. 10
c. 20
What percentage of all species could be extinct by 2050?
a. 7%
b. 15%
c. 25%
How many people live in hunger and without clean drinking water, causing 5000 deaths per day?
a. 300 million
b. 500 million
c. 1 billion
What percentage of harvested grain is used for livestock and biofuels, rather than food?
a. 10%
b. 25%
c. 50%
What percentage of farm lands are no longer farmable?
a. 10%
b. 25%
c. 40%
Mt. Kilimanjaro has lost what percentage of its glaciers?
a. 30%
b. 55%
c. 80%
What percentage of fishing grounds are depleted or declining?
a. 25%
b. 50%
c. 75%
The Arctic ice cap has lost what percentage of its thickness in the last 40 years, leading experts to believe it will disappear entirely between 2015 and 2030?
a. 10%
b. 25%
c. 40%
The North Pole has lost what percentage of its surface area in the last 30 years?
a. 10%
b. 20%
c. 30%
How many skyscrapers has Shanghai build in the last 20 years?
a. 1,000
b. 2,000
c. 3,000
What country cut its military to devote funding to education, conservation and eco-tourism?
a. Peru
b. Greece
c. Costa Rica
What percentage of the world's consumed energy comes from fossil fuel sources?
a. 30%
b. 55%
c. 80%
Coastal wind farms provide what percentage of Denmark's energy?
a. 5%
b. 10%
c. 20%
Greenland's ice contains 20% of the entire world's fresh water. If it melts, global sea levels could rise up to how many meters?
a. 2
b. 5
c. 7
If every society had the same car-to-human ratio as America, how many cars would be on the planet?
a. 500 million
b. 1 billion
c. 5 billion
The trees in our primary forests provide a habitat for what percentage of all life on earth?
a. 25%
b. 50%
c. 75%
The Amazon rainforest has been reduced by what percentage in less than 40 years?
a. 5%
b. 10%
c. 20%
Although we've been on the planet for 200,000 years, humans have done all of this damage in the last how many years?
a. 200
b. 100
c. 50
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stunning photography and much better voiceover than Inconvenient "Truth".
some mis-statements and exaggerations, as usual, but not too many.
a very moving film that SHOULD be seen by the multitudes to give them a realistic impression of what's happening around the world.
and if there were one bottom line statement i got from all of it... 1.5+ hours, well-invested,.... is that the root cause of many of our planet's ills is that we have overpopulated our planet by more than a few billion people already.
what is probably the best thing we could do is to look at the areas with the highest birth rates and help them lower their birth rates to less-than-replacement for a generation or three.
and they won't agree to do that.
it's going to be a challenging next half-century.
