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Music by Stéphane Lopez Original language(s) English
French Initial release 25 November 2015 (Norway) | 7.7/10 IMDb Country of origin France Producer(s) Via Découvertes First episode date 2 March 2014 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Written by Denis Delestrac
Sandrine Feydel Directed by Denis Delestrac
Sandrine Feydel Directors Denis Delestrac, Sandrine Feydel Cast Cécile Magnet, Olivier Pages, Laurent Jacquet, Bertrand Dussy, Framboise Gommendy Awards Prix Italia – Special Prize Expo 2015: Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life Screenplay Denis Delestrac, Sandrine Feydel Similar Sand Wars, Pax Americana and the, Gambling on Extinction, The Missing Picture, Clara's off to die | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Banking Nature is a documentary that looks at the growing movement to monetize the natural world and to turn endangered species and threatened areas into instruments of profit.
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That the climate is changing drastically and plant and animal species are dying out at a steady rate is an ominous reality. But one man’s global ecological disaster is another man’s economic opportunity. In recent years, nature conservation has become a flourishing business sector where huge sums of money change hands and endangered organisms are transformed into financial products. In the investigative documentary Banking Nature, Sandrine Feydel and Denis Delestrac delve into the wondrous world of green banking. Investors buy up the habitats of endangered species and then sell them in the form of shares. The pros and cons of these remarkable developments are examined through a riveting montage of breathtaking images of nature, reflective voice-overs and interviews with bankers, economists, activists and policymakers. According to renowned economist Pavan Sukhdev, nature can best be protected by sticking a price tag on it. Nonetheless, critical thinkers like Pablo Solon see this subjecting of nature to free market forces as a "license to kill" it. After all, such quantification of an endangered status makes it financially attractive to create ecological shortages. The term "green economy" may have an idealistic ring to it, but this too could just as easily collapse like a house of cards.
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