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Our Aims

Warm and Cold, We Share Together—Responsibility and Action

Theme

A Globe-across Civilization Journey of Climate...More>>

About the Journey

We will take expeditions to different countries and regions harassed by global warming...More>>

Background

Earth is currently in a period of warming and scientists predict that the globe will continue to warm...More>>

Note From the Director

Global warming is not a simple climatic issue, it is more like an ecological issue...More>>

Warm and cold, We Share together

Warm and cold, We Share together

Best Wishes:

To Grasp the Correct Direction, Considering the International Background and Influence.

－Zhang Ping, Minister of NDRC

Actively Respond to Climate Change and Promote Sustainable Development.

－Xie Xuren, Minister of Finance

Crew Members

Chief Producers:
Gao Feng, Jiao Xiaoping, Shi Yongyi
Associated Producers:
Zhang Xiaoguang, Zhu Dingzhen, Li Rubin
Producer: Zhao Linlin
Director in Chief: Qi Shaohua... More>>

Co-produced By

Science and Education Programming Centre, China Central Television... More>>

Supported By

National Development and Reform Commission... More>>

International Partners

The National Center for Sustainable Development （NCSD）

Pictures of Destination Countries

Climate change portraits more

Consultants

Warm and Cold We Share Together

This documentary is not the interpretation of climate science or the presentation of the climate crisis. From the angle of human and environment, this documentary presents a climate journey of civilization, on which we may get some inspirations on the future development.

Section 1 - Confusion

The change of relationship between humanbeings and nature, as well as people´s understanding about nature since 18C European Industrial Civilization, including several big events in human industrial civilization history.

Episode One: Sea level, the Atmosphere and the Clock of the End

Today´s earth climate is undergoing intense change, the speed of which exceeds what nowday´s human civilization can endure... More>>

Episode Two: White Cotton Yarn, Black Fossil and the Lord of the World

Since 16th century, new scientific views have sprouted consistently, and people started to get to know the nature again... More>>

Episode Three: Li Hongzhang, Edison and Frankenstein

In the middle of 19th century, the sound of industrial civilization, accompanied with Opium War, entered into China... More>>

Episode Four: Black Gold, Credit Card and Global Warming

During the first half of 20th century, accompanied with economic development, a high-energy-consumption and high-expenditure lifestyle, which was based on fossil energy... More>>

Section 2 - Memory

Agricultural Civilization lasted longest in human civilization history. Before the industrial civilization was born, human was nothing more than a supporting role on the earth. Under most circumstances, people had to be ruled by nature passively. Climate and environment played a key role in human society´s ebb and flow directly or indirectly.

Episode One: Rice, Flood, Migration

Looking back thousands of years of Chinese history,there seems to be a continuous circulation: peace and disasters took place by turns from one dynasty to another... More>>

Episode Tow: Iron tools, Peacock River, Legend of Loulan

Lying in the Taklimakan Desert, Lop Nur, as a hinterland, was once the location of Ancient Loulan. However, the deterioration of climate turned the prosperous cities into ashes... More>>

Episode Three: Prairie, Great Wall, Scourge of God

In this episode,we will focus on the relationship of ecoclimate, resource allocation and political wars.During the late 12th and early 13th centuries, global warming changed everything... More>>

Episode Four: Little Ice Age, Big Famine, Ebb and flow of the Empire

The time we refer to in the episode is the Little Ice Age since Late Ming in climate history. There is an acient Chinese saying that right time,right place and right peole together contribute to success... More>>

Section 3 - Choice

The contradiction between humanbeings and nature came out in the proceeding of industrial civilization, ending up with dire consequence. We need a brand new civilization style, that is ecological civilization, through which we can be in harmony with nature. All of these are based on experiences through the history.

Episode One: The Rhine, the Biosphere and New Energy

Looking back the history of human civilization, we have never faced such a global and unparallelled ecological crisis, but it´s pretty fortunate that humanbeings have started to reflect their behaviour, and got down to make up their faults in different ways... More>>

Episode Two: American Dream, LOHAS and Green City

Developing till today, industrial civilization has already trapped into an inevitable crisis.How to save the planet and how to continue our civilization ... More>>

Episode Three: Game, Sacrifice and Responsibility

From Copenhagen to Mexico, climate negotiation is proceeding difficultly. What contributes to this dilemma is that it´s hard to reach all-win cooperation in countries of various development levels... More>>

Episode Four: Comedy, Tragedy, Warm and Cool Life

This episode only focuses on one thing: Our Corporate Future. What the planet would be like tomorrow? Will human civilization overcome or end in this crisis... More>>