Harrison Ford, a member of the E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation’s Board of Advisors, is one of the featured correspondents for Years of Living Dangerously, a groundbreaking SHOWTIME® documentary event series exploring the human impacts of climate change on Americans and others around the world. The series combines the blockbuster storytelling styles of Hollywood’s top movie makers, including James Cameron and Jerry Weintraub, with the investigative skills of 60 Minutes veterans Joel Bach and David Gelber and a team of leading national news journalists and scientists. The first episode of this series is now available for free streaming online.
Each Years correspondent—including top Hollywood stars recognized for their commitment to spotlighting and acting on the biggest issues of our time—delves into a different impact of climate change. From the damage wrought by Hurricane Sandy in the tri-state area to political upheaval caused by droughts in the Middle East to the dangerous level of carbon emissions resulting from deforestation, the series takes the viewer on a journey to understand the current and intensifying effects of climate change through vivid stories of heartbreak, hope and heroism.
In the episode “Last Stand,” Years correspondent Harrison Ford travels to Indonesia to investigate how the world’s appetite for palm oil – an ingredient in everything from candy bars to laundry detergent – has led to massive deforestation and turned that country into one of the world’s largest emitters of greenhouse gases.
