End:Civ

So Frank Lopez, from Submedia TV, (I may do a Get to Know Me about him at some point) has made a movie called End:Civ (here's the website, which is worth going to even if only for the cool poster.) The movie is about the destructive "nature" of civilization, and the necessity of and prospects for resisting it. It's based around the first few premises of Derrick Jensen's book Endgame, which I just finished reading, by the way, and was fantaaastic. I'll write a review about it at some point, I wouldn't be at all surprised.

The target audience for the film is pretty clearly people who are already fairly committed to the environment and activism, at least in theory. It doesn't bother making arguments like "it is important to have a living environment" or defending assertions like "mining is bad for the environment" etc. which it takes as given. This makes it more effective to those who would be bored by a more step-by-step defense of arguments which we all know, but I can also see how that might make it unconvincing for people who would need an argument like that.

Still, it's quite watchable for anyone, and though the editing and such occasionally becomes a bit too frantic, overall I think it's a very entertaining look at really important topics. So since he's made it available free online for May Day, sit back and watch! (There's even something about Star Wars in there, so hold on for that)