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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 is the first big-picture exploration of the environmental movement – grassroots and global activism spanning fifty years from conservation to climate change. From halting dams in the Grand Canyon to battling 20,000 tons of toxic waste at Love Canal; from Greenpeace saving the whales to Chico Mendes and the rubbertappers saving the Amazon ...
- 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 ...
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It's the battle for a living planet. Rentals include 30 days to start watching this video and 48 hours to finish once started. 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 ...
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.
Mar 1, 2013 · A Fierce Green Fire. Directed by Mark Kitchell. Documentary. 1h 41m. By Neil Genzlinger. Feb. 28, 2013. Environmentalism has always been a spunky movement: people chaining themselves to trees ...
A Fierce Green Fire is a big-picture exploration of the environmental movement, grassroots and global activism spanning five decades from conservation to climate change. The title comes from pioneering conservationist Aldo Leopold - who saw a fierce green fire in the eyes of a wolf he'd just shot, and awakened to an ecological perspective. The film unfolds in five acts, each with a central ...