The Edmund Pettus Bridge to Climate Justice

Overview

Through firsthand participation and on the spot interviews at UN climate conferences in Durban, South Africa (2011), and then in Doha, Warsaw, Lima, Paris, Marrakech, Bonn, Katowice and Madrid (2012-2019), Richard Widick exposes the complex intersection of corporate power, international relations, and racialized US politics in the failure of UN climate policies to put the brakes on the unfolding climate crisis. Viewers will get an unvarnished, inside look at the people, places and powerful social forces currently at work preventing ambitious climate action — as well as the cacophony of mutinous, beautifully dangerous, and hope-driving faces of those who would put an end to the fossil fuel age, before it puts an end to all of us and all of our animal brothers and sisters, on whom we rely for so much and who now need us to succeed more than ever before.