The cheery title is more bittersweet than optimistic in this globe-trotting survey of climate change players and hazards, narrated and directed by eco-activist documentarian Josh Fox (Gasland). No sooner does Fox celebrate a citizen victory in rolling back energy-company devastation in his native New Jersey than he begins to notice the fallout of rising temperatures and sea levels, and continued reliance on fossil fuels. That fallout includes: Hurricane Sandy battering the Eastern Seaboard; military-backed oil companies despoiling South American rainforests; Australia's sellout of Polynesian island peoples for coal; and a Beijing so monstrously polluted and overbuilt that it's “off the charts”—all of which drive the filmmaker to despair (he seeks solace in watching online cat videos). Fox gets flickers of hope, however, from individual “climate warriors” and grassroots activists, like Chinese artist Wu Di or African tribal leader Joe Mwitumwa, whose communities refuse to surrender to industry. Still, when the year 2017 is cited here as a last chance to turn things around, beachfront dancing and protest-folk-rapping do not instill a large degree of confidence. Also featuring interviewees Van Jones and author Bill McKibben, this environmental report from a concerned citizen is recommended. Aud: C, P. (C. Cassady)
How to Let Go of the World and Love All the Things Climate Can't Change
(2016) 127 min. DVD: $390. Bullfrog Films. PPR. SDH captioned. ISBN: 1-941545-74-2. Volume 32, Issue 5
How to Let Go of the World and Love All the Things Climate Can't Change
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