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A Fierce Green Fire is a big-picture exploration of the environmental movement, grassroots and global activism spanning five decades from conservation to cli...
“A Fierce Green Fire: The Battle for a Living Planet” est le premier film à mettre au grand écran le développement des 50 dernières années du mouvement écologiste. Le réalisateur et scénariste Mark Kitchell s’est inspiré du livre du même nom de Philip Shabecoff et a appris de consultants comme E. O. Wilson et Tom Lovejoy.
- The Conservation Movement
- Pollution and Cleanup
- Greenpeace
- Global Resources
- Climate Change
Act 1, narrated by Robert Redford, focuses on the conservation movement of the 1960s, the Sierra Club and its Executive Director David Brower’s battle to halt dams in the Grand Canyon.
Act 2,narrated by Ashley Judd, looks at pollution in the 1970s, spotlighting the fight led by film interviewee Lois Gibbs and other Love Canal (Niagara, N.Y.) residents to save their children from toxic waste.
Act 3, narrated by Van Jones, features alternative ecology strands like Greenpeace and its famous campaigns to save whales and baby harp seals, including interviews with co-founders Paul Watson and Rex Weyler.
Act 4,narrated by Isabelle Allende, charts the rise of global resource crises in the 1980s with the struggle to save the Amazon rainforest, led by Chico Mendes and his fellow Brazilian rubber tappers, as its centerpiece.
Act 5,narrated by Meryl Streep, tackles climate change and the 25-year effort to address this ongoing, global problem, featuring author/activist Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org, a movement dedicated to solving the climate crisis. The film’s title is derived from pioneering ecologist Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac(1949), which describes his ...
The film unfolds in five acts, each with a central story and character: 1 David Brower and the Sierra Club’s battle to halt dams in the Grand Canyon; 2 Lois Gibbs and Love Canal residents’ struggle against 20,000 tons of toxic chemicals; 3 Paul Watson and Greenpeace’s campaigns to save whales and baby harp seals
Paul Watson, thrown out of Greenpeace for tossing a sealer’s club in the water, is reborn as Sea Shepherd and takes on whalers. Radicals and mainstream come together for a moratorium on whaling, one of environmentalism’s greatest victories, yet a battle that must be fought again and again.
“A Fierce Green Fire: The Battle for a Living Planet” is the first big-picture exploration of the environmental movement – grassroots and global activism spanning fifty years from conservation to climate change.
A Fierce Green Fire: The Battle for a Living Planet. A Fierce Green Fire explores environmental activism David Brower and the Sierra Club's battle to halt dams; Lois Gibbs and Love Canal residents' struggle against toxic chemicals; Paul Watson and Greenpeace's campaigns to save whales; Chico Mendes and the fight to save the Amazon rainforest ...
