By focusing on veganism to the exclusion of all else, Cowspiracy implies that anyone who eats meat isn’t a ‘proper’ environmentalist. This is deeply offensive and elitist, and it harms the movement we need to build.
Archive | Films
Film Review: Are cows destroying the climate?
How not to change the world. ‘Cowspiracy’ ignores capitalism and rejects Indigenous peoples’ concerns, while denouncing everyone who eats meat.
Naomi Klein’s: Capitalism versus Climate
In ‘This Changes Everything,’ Naomi Klein shows that industry interests are opposed to those of ordinary people, a point climate activists have had trouble communicating and been reluctant to embrace
Voices of the tar sands blockade
Exclusive video footage shot by the Texas blockaders themselves during the course of over six months of sustained resistance.
Wiebo's War: Documentary opens across Canada
David York’s acclaimed feature film explores one man’s controversial battle against gas development (more…)
If a Tree Falls: a Story of the Earth Liberation Front
reviewed by Louis Proyect The Unrepentant Marxist, June 21, 2011 If a Tree Falls: a Story of the Earth Liberation Front is a powerful documentary on what the ruling elite have dubbed eco-terrorists. After you have finished watching it, you will wonder who should be on trial, the mostly young and politically naïve activists who […]
Dirty Business film debunks 'clean coal' myth
Documentary reveals the true cost of US dependence and the murky realities of marketing ‘clean coal’ technology (more…)
Stewart Brand is wrong about DDT. Will he admit it?
by George Monbiot Guardian, November 5, 2010 Last night’s film on Channel 4, What the Green Movement Got Wrong, was loosely based on Stewart Brand’s book, Whole Earth Discipline. In the film, Stewart issued the following challenge: I would like to see an environmental movement that’s comfortable noticing when it’s wrong and announcing when it’s […]
The Age of Stupid
Derek Wall reviews a film that delivers ‘a powerful warning of the stupidity of ignoring climate change’ (more…)
Film: Tipping Points Ahead
Presenting Wake Up, Freak Out – then Get a Grip, a short film about climate change and capitalism, by British animator Leo Murray. (more…)
Great Green Smokescreen
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Climate Change Denial: The Swindle Continues
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