Director Robert Stone interviews 9 of the key thought leaders behind the emergence of the late 20th century United States branch of the modern Environmental Movement, showing how a sequence of events initially, primarily using new laws passed in the 1970s, reversed the upward trend in industrial pollution. But now the movement has plateaued and is not keeping pace with global population growth and consumption growth, once again causing grave concern that industrial civilization could lead to dangerous undermining of the ecosystem during the next 30 years. Some of these thinkers now advocate advanced design for comfortable lower-impact living, others advocate transformation of lifestyles away from materialism and towards bio-regionalism.
A thoughtful film.
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