What if confronting the climate crisis is the best chance we’ll ever get to build a better world?
Filmed over 211 shoot days in nine countries and five continents over four years, This Changes Everything is an epic attempt to re-imagine the vast challenge of climate change.Directed by Avi Lewis, and inspired by Naomi Klein’s international non-fiction bestseller This Changes Everything, the film presents seven powerful portraits of communities on the front lines, from Montana’s Powder River Basin to the Alberta Tar Sands, from the coast of South India to Beijing and beyond.
Interwoven with these stories of struggle is Klein’s narration, connecting the carbon in the air with the economic system that put it there. Throughout the film, Klein builds to her most controversial and exciting idea: that we can seize the existential crisis of climate change to transform our failed economic system into something radically better.
Over the course of 90 minutes, viewers will meet…
Crystal, a young
indigenous leader in Tar Sands country, as she fights for access to a
restricted military base in search of answers about an environmental
disaster in progress.
Mike and Alexis, a
Montana goat ranching couple who see their dreams coated in oil from a
broken pipeline. They respond by organizing against fossil fuel
extraction in their beloved Powder River Basin, and forming a new
alliance with the Northern Cheyenne tribe to bring solar power to the
nearby reservation.
Melachrini, a housewife
in Northern Greece where economic crisis is being used to justify mining
and drilling projects that threaten the mountains, seas, and tourism
economy. Against the backdrop of Greece in crisis, a powerful social
movement rises.
Jyothi, a matriarch in
Andhra Pradesh, India who sings sweetly and battles fiercely along with
her fellow villagers, fighting a proposed coal-fired power plant that
will destroy a life-giving wetland. In the course of this struggle, they
help ignite a nationwide movement.
Will this film change everything? Absolutely not. But you could, by answering its call to action.
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