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Film-maker Damon Gameau's hard-hitting documentaries include That Sugar Film, exposing the impacts of sugar on the body and the role of Big Food in making us sick through junk food addiction, and 2040, exploring solutions to the ecological crisis. In this World Localization Day video-message, Gameau identifies a common thread running through his films, namely that the social and environmental problems we face today stem from the same dysfunctional economic system based on endless growth, extraction, competition and consumption. This model simultaneously ravages the global environment, and produces human misery. Therefore, Gameau shows that solving them requires tackling this root cause - changing the economy and its core values, from global profiteering to relocalized sufficiency, care and health. Finally, Gameau makes the important distinction between nationalism and localization, where the former can tend towards exclusion and chauvinism, and the latter is about contributing to a greater, solidaristic whole while returning power to the people and communities affected by political decisions.
For more information:
World Localization Day: worldlocalizationday.org
Film-maker Damon Gameau's hard-hitting documentaries include That Sugar Film, exposing the impacts of sugar on the body and the role of Big Food in making us sick through junk food addiction, and 2040, exploring solutions to the ecological crisis. In this World Localization Day video-message, Gameau identifies a common thread running through his films, namely that the social and environmental problems we face today stem from the same dysfunctional economic system based on endless growth, extraction, competition and consumption. This model simultaneously ravages the global environment, and produces human misery. Therefore, Gameau shows that solving them requires tackling this root cause - changing the economy and its core values, from global profiteering to relocalized sufficiency, care and health. Finally, Gameau makes the important distinction between nationalism and localization, where the former can tend towards exclusion and chauvinism, and the latter is about contributing to a greater, solidaristic whole while returning power to the people and communities affected by political decisions.
For more information:
World Localization Day: worldlocalizationday.org
