It seems apt that Alicia Vikander is the one to tell us about the spectre of doom that hangs over the Earth. We all remember the actress from Ex Machina, where she played a gynoid as seductive as she was chilling. It turned out that her calm tone of voice and dignified accent are perfect for announcing the imminent end that man has brought upon himself. The creators of the documentary "Anthropocene: The Human Epoch" therefore follow the blow: it is the actress who leads the narrative of the film, calmly enumerating successive dramatic statistics that make up the grim diagnosis of the globe.

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We also encourage you to watch the film. Spanning numerous countries, it reveals in stunning images how our mania for conquest defines our relationship to the Earth.

ANTHROPOCENE: THE HUMAN EPOCH, dir. Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier, Edward Burtynsky

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