BEFORE THE FLOOD: TUVALU
Paul Lindsay, UK/France 2004
Tuesday 21 February 2006 10.30pm-11.30pm
Eye-witness accounts testify how climate change and rising tides are increasing the odds that the small island of Tuvalu will soon be completely submerged under the Pacific.
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Now that global warming is officially acknowledged, the world's eyes are on which county will be the first to sink beneath the waves. A candidate is Tuvalu, an island in the midst of the Pacific and home to 11,000 inhabitants.
For some time now the people of Tuvalu have been aware of their plight - but full knowledge of their fate coincided with a windfall, the sale of the internet domain, handily .tv.
The film is a comedy about climate change - except for the fact that it ends very sadly when yet another rainstorm disrupts the 20th anniversary of Tuvalu's independence.
A clever film that gives some idea of many of the things that the century holds in store for all of us.
