From 2011:
Opening today at the Film Forum in New York, the documentary “Into
Eternity” examines the political and philosophical ramifications of
nuclear waste, now amounting to over 250,000 tons worldwide. Danish
Director Michael Madsen was inspired to make the film after learning
about the Onkalo project in Finland, an underground repository that is
intended to last for over 100,000 years—twenty times longer than the
pyramids.
While Madsen makes no secret about his opposition to nuclear power, the
movie is not exactly agitprop. Mostly it is “night thoughts” about the
follies of civilization, at least a civilization that revolves around
commodity production.
Furthermore, the technicians involved with Onkalo are hardly the Doctor
Strangelove types. They come across as thoughtful and ethical even as
they are conflicted. When Madsen asks a particularly challenging
question, they frequently are at a loss for words and confess that they
don’t have the answer.
It is difficult to conceptualize what it means to have nuclear waste
under the earth in Finland 100,000 years from now. Try to imagine what
the globe will look like 1000 years from now, let alone 100 times that
length. One of the major problems foreseen by the development team
working on Onkalo is the problem of communication. Will the languages of
the future be the same as today? This is not an outlandish question if
you consider what problems the general reader of English would have
understanding Chaucer, who wrote only about 600 years ago.
full: https://louisproyect.org/2011/02/02/into-eternity/
VOD for $5: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/intoeternity
Free VOD (w. slightly annoying Spanish subtitles):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayLxB9fV2y4
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