6 Must Watch Environment Documentaries For Earth Day

Most Americans believe that the environment will be worse for future generations and almost a quarter of the population give the United States a failing grade on how we are addressing it.  Part of the problem is the confusion and chaos that is spread by the climate change deniers, including our climate change denier-in-chief. To help spread some much needed narratives and facts about the environment, I’ve put together this list of documentary films that help highlight the crisis on this Earth Day and ask that you will watch them and share them with all of your family and friends.  The only way we will save ourselves from the future that is worse is if we do something now.

I want to offer you this quote compliments of David Leonhardt who sent this out in his newsletter:

Today is Earth Day. To mark it, this morning’s newsletter will be shorter than usual, consisting simply of the most powerful paragraph I’ve read recently, which is also the final paragraph of Nathaniel Rich’s new book, “Losing Earth”:
“Everything is changing about the natural world and everything must change about the way we conduct our lives. It is easy to complain that the problem is too vast, and each of us is too small. But there is one thing that each of us can do ourselves, in our homes, at our own pace — something easier than taking out the recycling or turning down the thermostat, and something more valuable. We can call the threats to our future what they are. We can call the villains villains, the heroes heroes, the victims victims and ourselves complicit. We can realize that all this talk about the fate of Earth has nothing to do with the planet’s tolerance for higher temperatures and everything to do with our species’ tolerance for self-delusion. And we can understand that when we speak about things like fuel-efficiency standards or gasoline taxes or methane flaring, we are speaking about nothing less than all we love and all we are.”