This Changes Everything

Oct 2 2015 Not Rated 1h 29m
Documentary

Based on Naomi Klein's book This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate, a look at how people in various communities around the world play a role in the ongoing climate change debate and how they're affecting change in trying to prevent the environmental destruction of our planet.

Plot

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. The film presents seven 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 Naomi 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.

Written by

Naomi Klein

Directed by

Avi Lewis

Production Countries

United States of America, Canada

Production Companies

Klein Lewis Productions, Louverture Films

Languages

English

Awards

2 wins & 4 nominations

Scores
# of Votes
640
Average Rating
6.4 out of 10
Metascore
59
Popularity
NA