Earth Day Special: "Fierce Green Fire" Documentary Explores Environmental Movement’s Global Rise | Democracy Now!

Earth Day Special: "Fierce Green Fire" Documentary Explores Environmental Movement’s Global Rise | Democracy Now!

 

 In an Earth Day special, we look at the history of the global
environmental movement as told in the sweeping new documentary, "A
Fierce Green Fire: The Battle for a Living Planet." We air extended
highlights from the film — from New York housewives who take on a major
chemical company that polluted their community of Love Canal to
Greenpeace’s campaigns to save whales, to the fight by Chico Mendes and
Brazilian rubber tappers to save the Amazon rainforest. We also speak to
the film’s Oscar-nominated director, Mark Kitchell. "We were really
looking to tell stories of the movement. We thought it would be a more
engaging and impassioned approach to what are very difficult subjects.
Usually environmental films, no matter how good they are, are an
eco-bummer," Kitchell says. "These people succeed against enormous odds.
And that should give us some kind of hope." "A Fierce Green Fire" airs
tonight on PBS American Masters.