The Ants and the Grasshopper

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2021 1 hr 14 min Documentary

Anita Chitaya has a gift: she can help bring abundant food from dead soil, she can make men fight for gender equality, and maybe she can end child hunger in her village. Now, to save her home in Malawi 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 sceptics and despairing farmers. Her journey takes her across all the divisions that shape the USA: from the rural-urban divide, to schisms of race, class and gender, and to the American exceptionalism that remains a part of the culture. It will take all her skill and experience to help Americans recognise, and free themselves from, a logic that is already destroying the Earth.

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Reviews

Console
2021/05/26

best movie i've ever seen.

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Baseshment
2021/05/27

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

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Chirphymium
2021/05/28

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

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Staci Frederick
2021/05/29

Blistering performances.

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