Marlboro Films . BURNED . wood chips are still wood chips

This version of Marlboro Films' "BURNED" explores the biomass pellet industry in the Southeastern United States and the connection between the EU and the United Kingdom, while also covering the condensed histories of US biomass wood chip incinerators (NH) and waste incinerators (MI).
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A brief foray into the still untouched nature of the South further rounds out the report in all its facets!
Many thanks for the excellent broadcast material, especially to Marlboro Films/marlboroproductions.com and affiliated Playtone Studios, here in an extraterrestrial voiceover. We ask for your understanding—but wood chips are still wood chips and swamps are still swamps—with or without an Oscar!
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via marlboroproductions.com:
"BURNED: Are Trees the New Coal?"
Building on the accepted science that climate change is real and caused by human activity, BURNED takes an unwavering look at the latest false solution to our vast energy appetite: the burning of trees to create electricity.

The issue- and character-driven documentary tells the story of how woody biomass has become the latest alternative-energy savior for the power-generation industry and of the people and parties who are both promoting and fighting its adoption and use.

Using cinema-verité style footage and interviews with experts, activists, and citizens from the US, EU, and UK, the film explores biomass energy and its impact on our changing climate. It interweaves the dynamics of forest ecology, power-industry practices, the escalating energy-policy disputes, and the actions of activists and citizens who are working to protect their own health, their communities, the forest, and the planet's unraveling climate.

Woven together, the various stories present an intimate and visceral account of what is at this moment in time a critical, yet somewhat unknown, national and international controversy.
(Coming Soon!)?
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also/or/especially because of this website and several activists who contacted us via email via "Substack":
https://burnedthemovie.com/streaming-and-screening/
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for EU self-flagellation, click here:
https://www.wwf.de/themen-projekte/waelder/wald-und-politik/fuer-den-waldschutz
As of: November 29, 2024
The rampant international agriculture that feeds the EU markets on a large scale is destroying forests and other valuable ecosystems around the world. Policymakers must create strong legal bases that drastically reduce the impact of consumption in the European Union on the world's forests.
-Europe: Vice World Champion of Deforestation-
The European Union cannot be proud of its second place: 16 percent of global tropical forest timber use and nature destruction are attributable to the EU – only China is ahead of the EU in this ranking.

The main drivers of forest destruction are agriculture and forestry: Forests in South America and Southeast Asia are being destroyed on a large scale and other ecosystems are being converted to grow soybeans for animal feed or to produce palm oil, timber, cocoa, and coffee. And timber use leads to the loss of important carbon- and biodiversity-rich forests by converting natural forests into impoverished timber plantations.

The EU's trade policy and the hunger for meat and wood are contributing significantly to this deforestation machine: What we consume drives forest destruction elsewhere – we call it imported deforestation and nature destruction.

In Europe, Germany leads the list of forest destroyers – our "imported deforestation" is far ahead of Italy and Spain. Between 2005 and 2017, an average of 43,700 hectares of forest were destroyed annually for German imports....
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