{"id":747,"date":"2012-12-09T18:32:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-09T23:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2012\/12\/09\/hot-docs-terra-blight\/"},"modified":"2012-12-09T18:32:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-09T23:32:00","slug":"hot-docs-terra-blight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2012\/12\/09\/hot-docs-terra-blight\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot Docs: Terra Blight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<i>Hot Docs highlights interesting new documentaries we&#8217;ve recently added to our collection.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><b>Terra Blight <\/b><\/i>(DVD   10630) shines a light on the hazardous environmental impact made by discarded personal electronics. <i>Terra Blight<\/i> challenges the myth that computers are making the world &#8220;greener.&#8221; In fact, our constant consumption of new tech may be filling our planet with toxic wastelands. Events like the computer game convention QuakeCon are shown in a dour perspective given the negative environmental impact its attendees will have once they eventually dispose their computers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.terrablight.com\/index.html\">Official description from the film&#8217;s website<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Terra Blight<\/i> traces the life cycle of computers from creation to disposal and juxtaposes the disparate worlds that have computers as their center. From a 13-year-old Ghanaian who smashes obsolete monitors to salvage copper to a 3,000-person video game party in Texas, <i>Terra Blight<\/i> examines the unseen realities of one of the most ubiquitous toxic wastes on our planet.<\/p>\n<p>By the film\u2019s end, the audience will never look at their computer the same way again.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot Docs highlights interesting new documentaries we&#8217;ve recently added to our collection. Terra Blight (DVD 10630) shines a light on the hazardous environmental impact made by discarded personal electronics. Terra Blight challenges the myth that computers are making the world &#8220;greener.&#8221; In fact, our constant consumption of new tech may be filling our planet with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[107,174],"class_list":["post-747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-documentary","tag-hot-docs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}