However, I now believe that the most radical thing that I can do is to break out of the safety zone of left/liberal environmentalism and actively engage with conservatives”), and Tom Crompton’s work on values and frames, both name-checked in Klein’s book, but which look to have had no impact in the editing suite. For example, George Marshall’s great work on how to discuss climate change with those beyond the progressives (“I regard myself to be a radical. But it is my experience that it is in the mid-ground between these polarities that the really interesting stuff lies in the pursuit of climate action. To some degree that is justified, and the conflating of climate change and capitalism inevitably draws people into such polarisation. It felt to me like this film set up a very powerful good vs. Why the grey areas are the most interesting 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.
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