Finite: The Climate of Change (2022) User Reviews

trying to slow or stop the coal miners.

[ksf-2 · 8/10 · 4 February 2024]

A documentary showing the plight of people in both germany and england fighting to stop the coal mines from destroying forests, neighborhoods, and homes. Digging for coal has taken precedence over saving the remaining trees in hambach forest. Residents in england are losing their homes and community buildings to eminent domain by a private coal mining company. The first part is a display of the results of climate change around the world... storms, hurricanes, fires, flooding. Then we hear from the locals in both locations who are actually doing the fighting on the front lines. The residents in england on the edge of a coal mine, and the people in germany, living in the tree houses in the hambach forest. Which is now down to ten percent of its original area. One interesting dilemma... the protesters would have to admit to trapping a protected newt in order to show the court that the protected newt still existed there. Which they claim to have done. It's quite well done, and while we hear from the police, we hear little from the coal companies; were they not invited to the conversation, or did they refuse any invititations to speak? Inquiring minds want to know! Very effective last ten minutes, where statistics of fossil fuel use were shown. As well as the deaths of the humans watching over them. Directed by rich felgate.

An emotional rollercoaster

[kenjopolmontski · 10/10 · 19 February 2024]

This film had me sometimes in a rage, the next Minuit nearly in tears, hopefully we will get more films from this director, I watched through the eyes of not only a protestor or campaigner, but also through the eyes of the communities, thinking about who is the villains who's the good guys? What like would it be to be a policeman or a security guard paid to stop people protecting their future, I wonder what the prosecution and defence lawyers said in courts, in England and in Germany, I've driven past that massive hole in the ground for a coal mine in Germany! What a ghastly site, to see that churches and family homes were torn down to dig it is heartbreaking.