Unstoppable force meets immovable object in “To the End.” Rachel Lears’ documentary inspires in its portrait of youthful activists organizing to push impactful climate-change policies into American…
’ documentary inspires in its portrait of youthful activists organizing to push impactful climate-change policies into American political reality — and exasperates in the resistance with which that urgent quest is greeted on both sides of the entrenched-power aisle. Covering several years of fast-moving events, this Sundance premiere is too exclusively U.S.-focused to be particularly viable for offshore programmers, but its topicality should stir sales interest on home turf.
The highlighted figures are Varshini Prakash, co-founder of youth climate activist coalition Sunrise Movement; Alexandra Rojas, executive director of progressive political action committee Justice Democrats; and Rhiana Gunn-Wright, Climate Policy Director at liberal think tank The Roosevelt Institute. They’re all women of color under 35 who see the political “establishment” not just as corrupted by corporate and other lobbyist moneys, but fundamentally deaf to the concerns of their generation.
Once he’s ensconced in the White House, the “Build Back Better” plan seems a worthy alternative to the “Green Deal,” couching climate policies in a warm blanket of infrastructure improvement and job creation. Or at least it does until bipartisan “compromise” guts much of its key content.
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