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A Fierce Green Fire is the first film to take on environmentalism as a whole, to bring together all the parts and eras, from conservation to climate change. It explores how the issues built into an international cause, the largest movement the world has ever seen and perhaps the most crucial in terms of what’s at stake. It’s not easy being ...
- Synopsis - A Fierce Green Fire: The Battle for a Living Planet
A Fierce Green Fire tells stories of environmental activism...
- Synopsis - A Fierce Green Fire: The Battle for a Living Planet
A Fierce Green Fire is a big-picture exploration of the environmental movement, grassroots and global activism spanning five decades from conservation to cli...
11. Jan. 2013 · Spanning 50 years of grassroots and global activism, this Sundance documentary brings to light the vital stories of the environmental movement where people fought -- and succeeded -- against ...
- 2 Min.
- 40,9K
- First Run Features
A Fierce Green Fire tells stories of environmental activism – people trying to save the planet, their homes, their lives, the future. It chronicles grassroots and global movements building over five decades; connects all the causes to create a big-picture synthesis; explores how we got here and where we’re going. Ours is the time when ...
- 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 ...
A Fierce Green Fire tells stories of environmental activism – people trying to save the planet, their homes, the future. It chronicles grassroots and global movements building over five decades; connects all the causes; explores how we got here and where we’re going.
“A Fierce Green Fire” erzählt die Geschichte der grössten Bewegung des 20. Jahrhunderts, die auch eine der wichtigsten Bewegungen des 21. Jahrhunderts ist. Der Film führt die Hauptströmungen des Umweltschutzes zusammen und verbindet sie miteinander. Er fokussiert auf Aktivismus, auf Menschen, die darum kämpfen, ihre Heimat zu retten ...
