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Sustainability March 15, 2019
As our environment continues to change, our society needs to start looking toward making major changes. But for a lot of people, it’s hard to focus on making changes now for the future. So how do you convince your friends to start changing their habits to help our environment and climate? Sometimes it takes serious visuals of what our future will look like if we don’t start doing anything now.
Here are five documentaries that will change anyone’s view on climate change.
When this documentary came out in 2006, people left movie theaters fearing for the future state of our planet.
Most Millenials were introduced to the idea of climate change when this documentary was shown in middle school and high school classes all over the country.
In this documentary, producer Davis Guggenheim captures former United States Vice President Al Gore’s campaign to warn citizens about our changing climate.
“An Inconvenient Truth” shows Gore’s journey to dedicating his life to fixing climate change, which reminds us why we should care just as much as he does.
With harsh statistics and visuals, Gore’s words convinced American citizens to make more of an effort toward ending global warming.
The same company that was behind “An Inconvenient Truth” was also behind the 2010 Oscar nominated film “Food Inc.” So, it makes sense why “Food Inc.” is such a powerful film that changed the way most people eat.
Filmmaker Robert Kenner examines and exposes how corporations control our nation’s food supply.
Major corporations are at the top of the food chain, which often makes consumer health less important than profit.
Citizens often look for USDA approved foods for safety. However, our government’s regulatory agencies USDA and FDA) are aware of the corruption within the cycle of food distribution.
The film includes interviews with Americans about their dietary habits, commentary from experts such as journalist, author and activist Michael Pollan.
The most jarring part of this documentary are the unsettling footage shot inside large-scale animal processing plants where you see how our food is really being made.
Paying attention to what we eat is just the surface of human sustainability. This honest documentary reveals the truths about our food to inform people of the reality we’re facing.
In this 2002 documentary, narrator Peter Coyote reveals environmental dangers that arise from current commercial fishing practices.
These practices threaten the ocean’s healthy environments worldwide by depleting populations of fish. The film candidly captures the present and future of commercial fishing. It shows the rapidly declining fish harvests of the world with powerful images of nets filled with a vast amount of fish, making us wonder how we can sustain this massive hunt for fish with a limited supply.
“The next century will witness heretofore unthinkable exhaustion of the ocean’s natural ability to satisfy humanity’s demand for food from the seas,” conservationist and writer Dr. Carl Safina said.
However, innovative solutions in this documentary teach us how we can restore marine fisheries. New market initiatives are giving the power to the people.
In other words, these initiatives allow consumers to have a powerful vote in deciding how our oceans are fished.
4. “The Garden”
This 2009 Academy Award nominee documentary tells the story of South Central Farmers, a group of dirt-poor Los Angelenos who took a track of urban ruin and turned it into an Eden.
A local South Central Los Angeles community helped transform a 14-acre community garden as a way to heal from the aftermath of the 1992 L.A. riots. Through this garden, they grew their own food and fed their own families.
However, the flora carefully planted and tended were bulldozed by a careless land owner. This film displays their dignity, determination and fight to preserve their garden.
The documentary also shows how they recovered from loss. Environmental documentaries like “The Garden” show us how we all have a hand in changing how we treat our environment and how humans are slowly damaging our ecosystem.
This 2009 Academy Award nominee documentary tells the story of South Central Farmers, a group of dirt-poor Los Angelenos who took a track of urban ruin and turned it into an Eden.
A local South Central Los Angeles community helped transform a 14-acre community garden as a way to heal from the aftermath of the 1992 L.A. riots. Through this garden, they grew their own food and fed their own families.
However, the flora carefully planted and tended were bulldozed by a careless landowner. This film displays their dignity, determination and fight to preserve their garden.
The documentary also shows how they recovered from loss. Environmental documentaries like “The Garden” show us how we all have a hand in changing how we treat our environment and how humans are slowly damaging our ecosystem.
