Maybe you constantly feel deeply committed to sustainability, conservation, and promoting eco-friendly practices. Also you may feel passionate about addressing environmental issues, organize local initiatives, tree plantings, clean-up events, or workshops to educate and engage others in the same topic.
The weekend is coming, so if you feel like setting in your couch with snacks, your favorite drink and your pet sitting next to you, these documentaries might be of your interest.
Broken (2019). In a series of four chapters, this Netflix docuseries proposes something very ambitious and transcendent: to alert consumers about the dangers and damages generated by some types of products and industries in the world. Each episode deals with one industry and shows interviews with manufacturers, distributors, and others involved in the process. It also highlights several criminal cases brought against these people.
Chasing coral (2017). This documentary addresses the will and wisdom of a publicist, a self-proclaimed coral nerd, cutting-edge camera designers, and famous marine biologists as they invent the first time-lapse camera to record coral bleaching. Unfortunately, it is a complicated task, and the team fights tirelessly against technical problems and even the force of nature to achieve their precious goal: documenting the unquestionable and tragic transformation that happens beneath the waves.
Planet of the humans (2019). The film questions capitalism’s “growth addiction” as well as corporate pursuits of profitable opportunities offered through greenwashing, and exposes the “renewable energy scam” as a disturbing co-optation of environmentalism by interests driven by fossil fuels. This line of questioning is refreshing and very welcome at a time when the private sector and its government supporters are proposing faith in green growth as the primary solution to addressing environmental issues. The film’s messages are extremely important, given that it has been scientifically proven that there is no evidence that environmental degradation can be reversed through economic growth.
Now (2020). This film shows how young activists from around the globe such as Vic Barrett, Luisa Neubauer or Felix Finkbeiner, author of the project Plant for the Planet, and Greta Thunberg with Fridays for Future are currently challenging the status quo and pushing for social and political change. NOW is focusing on these young protagonists and the question what it feels like to be an activist and what is at stake for them. Experienced activists as well as experts for different and relevant topics will provide background information and forecasts for future developments.
Kiss the ground (202o). The documentary uncovers the science behind regenerative agriculture, but also details the reasons for the drastic degradation that soil has experienced in the last century, especially due to industrial agriculture and the widespread use of pesticides. This has caused the loss of soil fertility, mainly due to the decrease in the microbiological presence, minerals and organic matter.
Cowspiracy (2014). The last film of our list explores the impact of livestock farming and shows how the consumption of meat by the majority of the population and the livestock destined for a place produces enormous amounts of methane and nitrous oxide, gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect and are more dangerous than the carbon dioxide.
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