Postlethwaite takes us through his collected evidence of people watching the drift towards societal collapse. Filmed over three years, these include an oil man who survives Hurricane Katrina, and has to reassess his values, and a mountaineer from the Alps who has watched the ice go and the traffic arrive over the last forty years.

More disturbing is a young Nigerian woman who has experienced Shell’s devastating interference in the Delta, and a UK onshore wind project manager who sees Nimbys stop his small scale projects.  

Bringing climate change back to the level of ordinary people, it stands in contrast to the high science and diplomatic gesture politics that one detects in the relatively worthy but dull Inconvenient Truth.  

I’m hoping to get the film screened at Green Party Conference this Autumn. I know a number of local parties did showings of Al Gore’s film. This is a much better film, in my view, a real solid reminder to us all why we’re in Green movement.

I’m sure part of the reason it’s better is because its production and funding are grassroots, bottom up, from people like you and me (Check out their site – they still need some funds). That means as a project it has tried to keep that people-focus, and demonstrate solutions as well as problems (including changing lifestyles, protesting and generally doing something about it).

That was completely absent from Gore’s film, which left you with the impression that if only Gore had been elected President, then he’d have saved the world. Which in the end is not only wrong, it’s the wrong message entirely.

Much as Gore needed to tell world leaders to do something, we need to empower ourselves. Gore had the opportunity to say that to us and neglected it, where this film makes you want to get out and do something. Go and see it, when you can.