We all know the power of a quality environmental campaign documentary, which can stir us to act, bring to life abstract statistics and facts, or enable us to see clearly the impact of a climate injustice and its effects. Films like An Inconvenient Truth (2006) and the series Our Planet (2019) are of great value in raising awareness, shifting opinion, and informing us in a direct and important way about the climate crisis. Yet there is also another sense in which film can speak to the situation we have created: a sense that can cultivate our emotional resources, encourage changes in representation, ...

 

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