Dear friends,
I hope you’re OK. Today I want to share with you a hopeful and positive documentary now available on Amazon Prime.
There is a lot out there about what we’re doing to damage the environment and even about how that’s causing pandemics to happen more frequently. But there are also many people around the world who are working on innovative ways to lessen that impact. Today’s pick, released in 2019, curates the most viable ones.
I wish you a healthy and safe week.
Tomorrow
On Amazon Prime U.S. and Tubi (for free). In English.
When filmmaker and actress Mélanie Laurent (Breathe, Inglorious Basterds) was pregnant with her son, she learned about a study that predicted that climate change would cause human civilization to crumble by 2050. Like many soon-to-be parents, she worried about what it means to bring a child to a world where that’s a scientific forecast.
Instead of despairing, she chose to make this movie about solutions. She traveled the world with an activist friend documenting how human ingenuity is getting in the way of the situation worsening. The documentary goes to 10 countries to investigate solutions on five levels: agriculture (food), energy, economy, education, and democracy.
Alternatives you might like
How to Change the World on Netflix is about the formation of Greenpeace in Vancouver, Canada; and how it grew from an anti-whaling protest to a global movement.
The World Before Your Feet is a similarity positive documentary about a man who walks every street in New York and talks to people in the way. It takes six years!
Talk soon,
Bilal