The activist and film-maker discusses his latest documentary, The Edge of Nature, which charts his months spent living in a forest, wrestling with the virus’s neurological symptoms
In the years following the release of his Oscar-nominated anti-fracking documentary“I was public enemy number one for five or six years,” he says. “They followed me all around the country. There were arson and constant death threats. There were huge PR campaigns against the film, very, very much targeted at me.”
The film begins with a rush of images and a startling monologue about the state of the world in 2019, before the “anthropause” of lockdowns: “2.09 billion birds mysteriously vanished, a third of all animals endangered, 17% of wildlife on the planet has disappeared, climate emissions through the roof.” As shocking as it was, the distress of the environmental crisis was soon to be compounded by the arrival of a deadly and disabling virus. “We did not know how good we had it,” he says.
He mulls over the violence of history . And then there is the death to come. “The genocide of climate change, this is the biggest one yet,” he says to me. “And not just us, it is every living thing on the planet. We are looking at an extinction event.” During his time in the forest, he came to understand humanity’s ultimate purpose as caretakers of the planet. “The forest needs us. We are the only species that understands how we can help biodiversity, how we can help ecosystems.”
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