![]() But there’s another one too that sadly this film doesn’t address. Yes, that story is a story we urgently need to confront. It’s a story that reduces nature to a machine that needs to be mastered, analysed, as a set of resources to be plundered and fought over. And, as Clive Hamilton recently noted, there are causes for optimism as well as for pessimism.įor Klein, the problem at the heart of climate change is the story we tell ourselves as a culture, the story, as she puts it, of "Nature as a beast we have to break". There’s no either/or, we need it all, and lots of it. The story of the First Nations of Canada coming together to resist tar sands is particularly moving, their conflating the fight against climate change with "bringing our Nation back to life".Ĭhange on the scale needed to truly avoid catastrophic climate change urgently needs all manner of responses: businesses doing their part, enlightened policy-making, the community-led solutions approach modelled in Transition, and also people standing up for what they believe in, putting their bodies on the line, and speaking truth to power to protect the places they love. We meet those trying to block the expansion of fossil fuel extraction in the US, Canada, India, Greece and other places, as well as those fighting for air quality in China. ‘This Changes Everything’, the recent film starring Naomi Klein and made by her partner Avi Lewis, is ambitious in its scope and its reach. NOTE: Images in this archived article have been removed.
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