Environmental Justice

“When you’re screaming at the top of your lungs and nobody hears you, what are you supposed to do?”. Tired of the wealthy few destroying the environment for profit, members of the Earth Liberation Front in the Pacific Northwest developed a militant wing to try and get their message heard. Inspired by Edward Abbey’s The Monkey Wrench Gang, these controversial “eco-terrorists” took on new means of trying to defend the world they loved. The film challenges the viewer’s perception of environmental activism and the fight to preserve our land.

Increasing glacial melt is creating unstable, increasingly problematic glacial lakes, especially in the Andes and Himalaya Mountains. In Peru, Guardians are charged with watching these lakes to try to prevent a catastrophic flood.

Using similar methods that eventually were successful in bring lawsuits against Big Tobacco, vulnerable populations are trying to sue the large corporations that have overwhelming contributed to climate change. Surprisingly, just 90 companies are responsible for two-thirds of all the greenhouse gases emitted between 1751 and 2016. More than half those emissions have occurred since 1988. Still, it is an incredibly complex question to figure out the harm and recompense involved in large-scale, complex systems like earth’s climate.

Since 2017, eight United States cities, including New York and San Francisco, six counties, one state and the West Coast’s largest association of fishermen have brought suit against a host of corporations — Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch Shell, BP, Chevron, Peabody Energy, among others — for selling products that caused the world to warm while misleading the public about the damage they knew would result.

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“At a time when it seems that everyone is going green, most people are unaware that the FBI is using anti-terrorism resources to target environmentalists and animal rights activists.”

Will Potter, an award-winning journalist, links corruption, corporate agendas, and the growing trend to label environmental activism as terrorism in post-9/11 America. His message is terrifying: large corporations have successfully lobbied to use anti-terrorism laws against environmentalists because activism harms their profits and can legally be defined as terrorism. This is the story of FBI agents infiltrating vegan potlucks and a story of citizens on watchlists for distributing pamphlets. Potters asks, who has the power in this country and how can ordinary citizens maintain their voice?