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DVD

The ants and the grasshopper

Author

Zak Piper

Call Number

  • DVD 363.73874 A636 (CEN)

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Languages

Closed-captioned.

Publication Information

[Portland, OR : Collective Eye Films], 2023.

Physical Description

1 videodisc (74 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

Anita Chitaya has a gift; she can help bring abundant food from dead soil, she can make men fight for gender equality, and she can end child hunger in her village. Now, to save her home from extreme weather, she faces her greatest challenge: persuading Americans that climate change is real. Traveling from Malawi to California to the White House, she meets climate skeptics and despairing farmers. Her journey takes her across all the divisions shaping the US, from the rural-urban divide to schisms of race, class, and gender, to the thinking that allows Americans to believe they live on a different planet from everyone else. It will take all her skill and experience to help Americans recognize, and free themselves from, a logic that is already destroying the Earth.

Notes

Originally produced in 2021.

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