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David Attenborough and scientist Johan Rockström examine Earth's biodiversity collapse and how this crisis can still be averted.
Gambit
In 1976, a nuclear reactor near the Italian town of Seveso explodes, leaking highly poisonous dioxin into the atmosphere.
Top Billed Cast
Jörg Sambeth self
Caroline Sambeth self
Birgit Sambeth Glasner self
Ulrich Sambeth self
Roger Dagon self
Alberto Moro-Visconti self
Italo Pasquon self
Ekkehard Sieker self
Theo Theofanous self
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