*[Enwl-eng] [can-eecca] Фильм "Колыма. Как спасти мир" Александра Федорова на английском языке

Mon Nov 23 18:24:47 MSK 2020

Коллеги, добрый день!

В октябре на канале Bad Planet вышел фильм Александра Федорова о вечной 
мерзлоте, о том, как она стремительно тает в Якутии на Колыме и как меняется 
жизнь местных сообществ, что делают для этого местные ученые Никита и Сергей 
Зимовы. Мы, наконец-то, перевели фильм на английский язык.
Пожалуйста, делитесь им с англоговорящими коллегами. Английские субтитры 
включаются на канале.

Ниже перевод нашего блога о фильме на английский.

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On October 20, Bad Planet aired a documentary about the impact of climate 
change on people's lives. The film was shot by Alexander Fedorov with 
support of Greenpeace Russia.

If you can support our release and can share the blog and documentary on 
your resources please contact us. Here you can find some pictures of 
Alexander from the expedition.

Please find below the translation of our blog:

Alexander went on a journey across the Russian Arctic to the Kolyma river, 
where he met local people and witnessed what it means to live somewhere 
where you can experience changing climate in your everyday life.

"The main hero of the documentary is permafrost. About 60% of Russia's 
territory is located in the permafrost zone, and now it is melting at an 
incredible rate. In much of the country, temperatures continue to rise in 
fall and spring and the duration of snow cover is reduced.

In the documentary "Kolyma. How to save the world" Alexander tells about 
this through the stories of the indigenous communities living in tundra - 
nomadic reindeer herders who see how the tundra is overgrown with bushes, 
becoming unrecognizable and unsuitable for reindeer herding, through the 
stories of fishing villages where fish has decreased and its behavior has 
become unpredictable.

This documentary is the first film in the serie of documentaries about 
Climate Crisis planned by Alexander.

At the end of the first film "How to Save the World", we learn about the 
initiative of Sergei and Nikita Zimovs, who conceived to revive the 
ecosystem of mammoth steppes at the North-Eastern Scientific Station near 
the village of Chersky in the Kolyma and thus fight climate change by 
keeping carbon dioxide in the ground. Descending into deep glaciers 
(underground caves - refrigerators), traveling with the author of the film 
along rugged roads and observing houses broken by melted permafrost, we see 
that climate change is real. And we need to do something about it" - 
explains Elena Sakirko, energy & climate campaigner.

Alexander told us about the filming and why it is so important to talk about 
climate change:

I wanted to document the effects of climate change and the melting of 
permafrost in the warmest place on the Earth. Therefore, I drove along the 
Kolyma River to talk with local residents and find out how their lives have 
changed over the past 40 years. And most important, how the nature around 
them has changed. And I made amazing discoveries.

During the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) conference, 
climate scientists  predicted that if the average annual anomaly on Earth 
exceeds one and a half degrees, then irreversible climate changes will begin 
in the world: severe droughts, floods and sudden temperature fluctuations. 
But it turns out that in the Arctic the average annual temperature has 
already exceeded these values, and the anomaly there is not one and a half 
degrees, but three. But the most dangerous, as it turned out, is the 
temperature of the soil, which has warmed up by eight degrees in recent 
years. So much so that the permafrost began to melt.

I began filming at the North-Eastern Scientific Station, run by father and 
son Sergey and Nikita Zimov. They measure emissions of carbon dioxide and 
methane (greenhouse gases) from soil and swamps all year round. And they 
learned that when the permafrost began to melt, all organics like animal 
bones and grass roots that were in Siberia during the Pleistocene epoch 
started to go to the surface. And with it all the carbon dioxide that has 
been accumulated and frozen in the soil for tens of thousands of years. 
Moreover, the volume of this organic in frozen soils turned out to be 
comparable to the volume of the entire above-ground biomass of the planet.

And if the soil begins to melt, carbon dioxide will go out in a chain 
reaction, and its emissions from the permafrost will not be stopped. And 
it's scary.

To document this, we went to Duvanny Yar, where you can see ice veins, idomu 
(a mixture of ice and organic matter in the soil) and bones of ancient 
animals. Then we talked with the mammoth bone gatherers.

For the second part of the trip, I boarded a cargo barge - the only way to 
travel in the summer on Kolyma - and went to the communities of reindeer 
herders, fishermen and indigenous people of the Arctic and Eastern Siberia.

The reindeer herders of the Tevr community at the mouth of the Kolyma said 
that due to the thawing of the soil, it is now impossible to keep a large 
herd, and there is not enough money to live on. For fishermen from the 
village of Pokhodsk over 40 years, the take has dropped by almost 10 times. 
And due to the fact that the surface waters of the Kolyma warmed up by three 
degrees, the fish either stays at the bottom, or does not enter the Kolyma 
at all.

But the most terrible are the cataclysms. Because over the past ten years, 
cities and villages in Kolyma have been regularly flooded, and the river is 
constantly changing its course. And, according to the head of the Yukaghir 
community Slava Shadrin, a year without a flood becomes an unusual year. On 
the other hand, this year, at the beginning of summer, there was an abnormal 
heat in Yakutia, and one of the largest fires in the history of the region 
began.

In my documentaries, I want to know what we can do to save nature. And at 
the end of this trip, I returned to the North-East Station to tell about one 
unusual project of Nikita and Sergey Zimovy. They believed that if the 
ecosystem that existed there in the Pleistocene before the arrival of man 
was returned to the tundra, then permafrost melting and global warming could 
be slowed down.

Nikita and Sergey, in fact, are conducting an ecosystem experiment, 
replacing mosses and lichens, which warm the soil in winter, create swamps 
and almost do not capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere with grass, 
which, due to the developed root system, on the contrary, absorbs a lot of 
water and pumps carbon dioxide back into soil. But for the grasses to start 
growing in the tundra, they need an ecosystem of herbivores and predators, 
as was the case in the Pleistocene. They called their project Pleistocene 
Park and year after year they will reintroduce wild and domestic animals to 
the tundra and adapt them in the hope that someday this lifeless swamp will 
become a thriving savannah.

The project is already about 20 years old. And in a small area of the park, 
Sergey and Nikita managed to reduce the soil temperature and stop the 
permafrost thawing. However, they understand that this is a project of an 
unprecedented scale. Moreover, they believe that since man once intervened 
in ecosystems and destroyed them, now is the time to intervene again, but 
this time to restore their original appearance in order to save our species.

I traveled a lot and saw how the life of other cultures is changing, how 
untouched places are becoming less and less, and how we are starting to pay 
attention to this and think more about the environment. And I want to be 
part of this movement.

At the end of the movie when the titres go we offer people to find out more 
about climate work in Russia and to support our green recovery plan for 
Russia. Greenpeace Russia has developed proposals to help us preserve the 
Earth's climate. These are systemic changes in approaches to energy 
production, waste management, forestry and transport policies.

As I mentioned above this documentary is just the first film in a serie 
planned by Alexander Fedorov and if you would like to work together over 
some next series please contact us.

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С уважением, / Kind regards,
Елена Сакирко / Elena Sakirko

Руководитель энергетического отдела российского отделения Гринпис
Energy program head Greenpeace Russia
+7 (903) 739-49-60

+7 (495) 988-74-60 ext. 425

e-mail: elena.sakirko at greenpeace.org

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Tatiana Shauro

Еженедельный Дайджест Новостей об изменении климата

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Climate Action Network Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia
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От: Elena Sakirko <elena.sakirko at greenpeace.org>
Date: чт, 19 нояб. 2020 г. в 12:39
Subject: [can-eecca] Фильм "Колыма. Как спасти мир" Александра Федорова на 
английском языке

From: Татьяна Шауро
Sent: Monday, November 23, 2020 4:29 PM
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