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[email protected] February 2012 Highlights Future Earth Monday 13 February at 20:00 Future Earth is a striking and authoritative insight into what global warming really means for the future of the world, and the pioneering developments which might well alter its course. This refreshingly honest, optimistic and powerful film explores the vision of our planet’s future as global temperatures © BBC continue to rise – at their current rate increasing by one and two degrees over the next 40 years and three degrees before the end of the century. Based on the work of leading scientists who predict that the impact of a three degree rise in temperature on our planet will be catastrophic. Across the planet life as we know it could be lost forever as climate change accelerates out of our control. But this doesn’t need to be the case, we can take control, and climate change is not yet irreversible. However, if we are to prevent even more widespread damage to ecosystems and human societies, the global temperature rise must be stabilised, and eventually reversed. Future Earth presents ingenious technology and science that is currently being advanced, devised and tested around the world. Science can offer us solutions to a sustainable future – the big question is can we embrace and implement them on a large enough scale? The time to act is now.