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‘I’m political and I make choices in my movies that I think are political,’ says Jake Gyllenhaal. Having grown up in a campaigning household, the actor is heavily involved with the American Civil Liberties Union and the Democratic Party, but it was shooting the 2004 eco-thriller The Day After Tomorrow that spurred his interest in environmental issues. After filming, he flew to the Arctic to promote awareness for climate change and became a supporter of both the Future Forests programme and Global Green. ‘Global-warming is an abstract concept to most people; we know it’s happening but we can’t really visualise its effect. Unfortunately, the Inuit people put a human face on global warming. They are literally melting away. They are the canary in the coal mine.’

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