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Status
Released
Release
2018
Runtime
1h 23m
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"What kind of future would you like to see?"
Jeff Bridges, alongside prominent scientists and authors, weaves evolution, emergence, entropy, dark ecology, and what some are calling the end of nature, into a story that helps us understand our place among the species of Earth’s household.
20 Cast Members
Jeff Bridges
Self - Narrator (voice)
Piers Sellers
Self - NASA Astronaut & Research Scientist
Wesley Clark
Self - General, US Army (ret.); Former NATO Supreme Allied Cmdr.
Oren R. Lyons
Self - Dist Prof of American Studies, Onondaga Council of Chiefs
Timothy Morton
Self - Philosopher & Author, 'Humankind'
Bob Inglis
Self - Former Congressman (R), South Carolina
Rich Pancost
Self - Professor of Biogeochemistry
Ruth Gates
Self - Marine Biologist; Dir. Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology
Renée Lertzman
Self - Author, ‘Environmental Melancholia’
Leonard Mlodinow
Self - Physicist
Bruce Hood
Self - Prof of Developmental Psychology, Univ of Bristol, UK
Mark Plotkin
Self - Ethnobotanist, Amazon Conservation Team
Amy Jacobson
Self - Evolutionary Anthropologist, Human Behavioral Ecologist
Daniel Goleman
Self - Psychologist, Science Journalist, Author
Stephan Lewandowsky
Self - Professor of Cognitive Psychology, University of Bristol
Nate Hagens
Self - Director, Instit. for the Study of Energy & Our Future
Joseph Tainter
Self - Professor of Anthropology, Author
Ugo Bardi
Self - Prof of Physical Chemistry, Univ of Florence, Italy
Paul Roberts
Self - Journalist; Author, 'The Impulse Society'
Ian Robertson
Self - Cognitive Neuroscientist, Trinity College, Univ of Dublin