Get Up, Stand Up: What Actions Move the Needle?
Climate One
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How Popular Culture Can Influence Perceptions of Climate Activists
There is a recent film How to Blow Up a Pipeline portraying some people that could be called eco-terris as the heroes. The new film is presenting a very specific type of climate activism which is more severe than anything we're really seeing so far. We have not seen this level, that level of destruction of property yet as a common practice amongst climate activists. It's not to say we won't in the future. As somebody who actually has a screenplay that is currently being considered amongst production companies based on one of my books, I would say we need so much more popular culture to be thinking about and discussing and understanding this world.
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