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White Knight est un film de genre Documentaire

White Knight (2012)

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White Knight is a documentary film directed by Aarti Shrivastava. Its subject is Chewang Norphel, a 78-year-old engineer in Leh who, over the last 15 years, has invented and implemented a technology that is helping provide a solution to an ecological disaster created by climate change.

The land of Ladakh is grappling with an alarming water scarcity situation. In this high altitude desert where the melting of glaciers has been the traditional source of fresh water, a warmer planet is playing havoc with lifestyles and the ecology. With glaciers melting faster and leaving the people quite literally high and dry, fresh water is more precious than oil, especially post the Ladakhi summer. His solution uses common sense and elementary observational science to create artificial glaciers.

This film was created as a tribute to this man, and it honors him as a hero who relentlessly and persistently carries on a lone struggle against an insipid bureaucracy, myopic governance and a planet seemingly striking back as it adjusts to global warming. His crusade is to see his idea implemented on a grand scale in a sparsely populated region – with the sole mission of keeping this patch of earth inhabitable for the great-grandchildren of Ladakh.
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