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Is lab-grown meat the future of food?

By Ian Angus on July 18, 2020 in Films, Food and Farming, Greenhouse Gas

Documentary on ‘clean meat’ fails to question the technology’s rationale and blindly accepts dubious claims made by its promoters

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Al Gore’s Convenient Infomercial for Green Capitalism

By Ian Angus on August 2, 2017 in Capitalism, Films

Al Gore, the perfect spokesperson for the liberal approach to climate change, simply cannot see that neoliberal logic prevents our current institutions from addressing the crisis.

Food and Farming

Cowspiracy: stampeding in the wrong direction

By Ian Angus on February 13, 2016 in Climate Justice, Featured, Films, Food and Farming

By focusing on veganism to the exclusion of all else, Cowspiracy implies that anyone who eats meat isn’t a ‘proper’ environmentalist. This is deeply offensive and elitist, and it harms the movement we need to build.

Food and Farming

Film Review: Are cows destroying the climate?

By Ian Angus on December 12, 2015 in Featured, Films, Food and Farming

How not to change the world. ‘Cowspiracy’ ignores capitalism and rejects Indigenous peoples’ concerns, while denouncing everyone who eats meat.

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Naomi Klein’s: Capitalism versus Climate

By Ian Angus on November 10, 2015 in Books & Reports, Capitalism, Climate Justice, Films, Movement Building, Protests & Revolts

In ‘This Changes Everything,’ Naomi Klein shows that industry interests are opposed to those of ordinary people, a point climate activists have had trouble communicating and been reluctant to embrace

Voices of the tar sands blockade

By Ian Angus on February 25, 2013 in Featured, Films, Protests & Revolts, Tar Sands, Video, audio

Exclusive video footage shot by the Texas blockaders themselves during the course of over six months of sustained resistance.

Wiebo's War: Documentary opens across Canada

By Ian Angus on October 13, 2011 in Canada & Quebec, Films, Oil, Oil Industry, Protests & Revolts, Video, audio

David York’s acclaimed feature film explores one man’s controversial battle against gas development (more…)

If a Tree Falls: a Story of the Earth Liberation Front

By Ian Angus on June 29, 2011 in Films, Video, audio

reviewed by Louis Proyect The Unrepentant Marxist, June 21, 2011 If a Tree Falls: a Story of the Earth Liberation Front is a powerful documentary on what the ruling elite have dubbed eco-terrorists. After you have finished watching it, you will wonder who should be on trial, the mostly young and politically naïve activists who […]

Dirty Business film debunks 'clean coal' myth

By Ian Angus on January 10, 2011 in Coal, Films

Documentary reveals the true cost of US dependence and the murky realities of marketing ‘clean coal’ technology (more…)

Stewart Brand is wrong about DDT. Will he admit it?

By Ian Angus on November 7, 2010 in Films

by George Monbiot Guardian, November 5, 2010 Last night’s film on Channel 4, What the Green Movement Got Wrong, was loosely based on Stewart Brand’s book, Whole Earth Discipline. In the film, Stewart issued the following challenge: I would like to see an environmental movement that’s comfortable noticing when it’s wrong and announcing when it’s […]