Radio Curious visits with Mark Kitchell, producer of the new film, A Fierce Green Fire: The Battle For a Living Planet, which documents 50 years of the environmental movement.
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The movie A Fierce Green Fire: The Battle For a Living Planet, produced and directed by our guest, Mark Kitchell tells the story of environmental activism â people trying to save the planet, their homes, the future.  In a chronicle of five decades of grassroots and global environmental movements, Kitchell explores how we arrived at the present world-wide crisis.  While exploring broader ideas and deeper meanings, A Fierce Green Fire brings together eras in the past 50 years from conservation to climate change.  You may learn more at www.afiercegreenfire.com  Mark Kitchell and I visited by phone from his office in San Francisco, California, on October 26, 2012.
The film Mark Kitchell recommends is Green Fire: Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for Our Time. Â The book he recommends is The Shock Doctrine:Â The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, by Naomi Klein. Â
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A Fierce Green Fire: The Battle For a Living Planet