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Do something : an intimate look at the personal lives of climate activists | Documentary films

“It was so empowering,” Brockway told the Guardian of her hours perched high above the ground and the fleet of police officers who gathered to arrest her and four others for trespassing. The five aimed for a trial, seen in this year’s eco-documentary The Race to Save the World, which would highlight the urgency of curbing fossil fuel consumption at large, draw attention to the risk of oil train spills in their backyards, and test the “necessity defense” – the argument that civil disobedience was the only recourse for stopping fossil fuel’s harm to the planet – in court. For Brockway, the decision to climb the tripod was “a combination of just the literal safety immediately and also long-term safety of the way we’re addicted to oil”, she said. Months earlier, an oil train derailed just a mile from her then-teenage daughter’s school; for Brockway, her daughter’s future outweighed the risk of going to jail. “I had to

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