Why THIS GOOD EARTH was made
By Robert Golden, Resilience.org
This film is about the reality of global warming, impoverished diets and rising hunger, disease and deaths, and also about loving the land and other living things.
By Robert Golden, Resilience.org
This film is about the reality of global warming, impoverished diets and rising hunger, disease and deaths, and also about loving the land and other living things.
By Linda Etchart, Esperanza Project
From the tar sands of Alberta, Canada, to the oil fields of Texas, to the Ecuadorian Amazon, The Condor & the Eagle tells the story of the collective struggle of the Indigenous peoples of North and South America in their fight to preserve their communities and to protect the Earth from climate change.
By Erik Lindberg, Resilience.org
Film is of course the art form of Industrial Civilization and its mass culture, whether as a simple historical fact, a manifestation of technical possibility, or in the various ideologies it is adept at expressing. But it is also the art form of the Anthropocene. I am overstating the case somewhat, but not entirely, when I note that the prevailing message of film is the power of belief and trust.
By Allan Stromfeldt Christensen, From Filmers to Farmers
There is no single extremely viable change we could make in our lives to combat fossil fuel consumption (and thus climate change) than ditching film and television.
By Allan Stromfeldt Christensen, From Filmers to Farmers
Do film and television provide a net befefit, or might they actually be an overall loss when it comes to climate change and other major problems of ours?
By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
Two recent films couldn't be more at odds in their vision of the future. "Mad Max: Fury Road" is a relentless chase scene set in a world burned to desert by climate change and bereft of civilization which has long since vanished in a haze of war and resource shortages. Disney's "Tomorrowland" shows a technotopian future guided by some innate wisdom that insures not only that humans will survive, but that they will thrive while building ever greater monuments to civilized life-