Today I had the privilege of having the creator of END:CIV, Franklin Lopez, come in and talk to us about the film. He explained how it was sparked by attending a talk about peak oil. It was there that he first heard Derrick Jensen speak. Franklin bought Derrick's books and this movie is a summation or introduction to some of the premises that are outlined within them.
It covers the death of the environmental movement, the greenwashing of products that we are sold and the destruction of the environment. It forces us to confront the fact that the environment is our responsibility, that we are the ones who need to do something about this, that we must work together to halt the mindless consumption that the world revolves around.
This film is confronting, but it needs to be. The issues that it covers are not small, are not going to go away and they need something to be done now.
No comments:
Post a Comment