this changes everything naomi klein documentary

“We’re all in a different stage of paralysis with this thing that we know is the biggest issue on earth. “It’s hard for climate to pierce through,” explains Klein. The decision to collaborate so fully was one made at the outset. What sets This Changes Everything apart is that Klein was in the midst of writing the book just as Lewis was filming his adaptation, narrated by Klein. This doesn’t mark the first time Klein has seen her work adapted into a film: her third book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise and Disaster of Capitalism, was made into a documentary co-directed by Michael Winterbottom. In Alberta, Canada, a young indigenous leader in Tar Sands country fights for access to a restricted military base in search of answers about an environmental disaster in progress in India, where booming growth demands electrical power stations, a rural community takes on the energy company in Greece, against the backdrop of the country’s economic crisis, a social movement rises when mining and drilling projects threaten the tourism economy and in Montana, a couple fight a company whose oil line has ruptured, polluting the water that feeds their goat farm.

This changes everything naomi klein documentary