"The consumer society - it's hyperindividualism - and hyperindividualism is a form of disempowerment, and they know it. So you get to express your personal identity, while you are being stripped of collective power. And the elites are not going to go without a fight. Look at what happened at Standing Rock under Obama. 700 arrests. Attack dogs unleashed on the crowd. The crowd all non-violent, water-protectors, sprayed, hosed down in subfreezing temperatures with water laced with pepper spray. Constant infiltration and surveillance. They'll play dirty. But it's the last fight we have, and it's one, that if we lose, then we're not just talking about the collapse of the American empire, the extinguishing of American democracy, which let me tell you does not exist at this moment, but we're really talking about the eradication of the human race. It's that much of an existential threat. In theological terms, these corporate forces are forces of death.
We have to rise up with that kind of radicalism because it's our only hope." - Chris Hedges
Battlestar Climatica features Chris Hedges, David Holmgren (Permaculture), Prof. Will Steffen (Climate Science), Prof. Paul Ehrlich (Biology), Randy Hayes (Environmental Science).
Directed by Peter C Downey, "Battlestar Climatica" is a clip from the forthcoming film "Ecosophia," a documentary about ecological wisdom, permaculture, and thermodynamic-sustainable living.
Also features Vandana Shiva (food security), Morag Gamble, Helena Norberg-Hodge (economics), Gillian Triggs and many others.
The Extinction Rebellion is addressing the emergency of ecocide, resource depletion and climate change catastrophe with simple, practical, inexpensive solutions of de-growing the economy and living within nature's limits while increasing happiness and fulfillment. From surviving to thriving.
To support the production of Ecosophia please consider renting or buying our previous activist documentary, Spiritually Incorrect only available on Films For Action.