Becoming Cousteau director Liz Garbus said her documentary about ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau shows that he recognized the dangers of climate change decades ago.
Garbus spoke with Deadline’s Matthew Carey at Contenders Documentary.“We saw him start talking about it as early as 1971,” Garbus said. “When he started talking about coral reefs, he started talking about species of fish that were no longer populating areas he was diving in.
And so he just, through firsthand experience, became concerned about the undersea world.”Cousteau attended the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro as one of the only non-heads of state invited to speak.
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