Green Geezers' Just Watched the Documentary Film: "Youth Unstoppable"

 

Youth Unstoppable – Documentary Film

WaterBear | Youth Unstoppable 

https://www.waterbear.com/watch/feature/61409922252d3b1812d153b8 

Filmed, narrated, and produced by Slater Jewell-Kemker

Distributed by Waterbear.com

This Green Geezer highly recommends Youth Unstoppable, a 2021 documentary about the rise of the Global Youth Movement – which, incidentally, did not start with the adolescents in this film, but with adolescents already concerned decades earlier.

Slater Jewell-Kemker had, by the age of 14, seen so much more of the world than most adults at retirement age. And I'm not talking class trips to Paris to visit the Eiffel Tower.

I'm talking flooded villages near Kathmandu Nepal, caused by severe monsoon seasons. I'm talking Alberta plane rides over the Fort Chippewa tar sands the size of Florida. And yes, I'm talking Paris – but not the touristy side of Paris – the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conferences, during, incidentally, the year that Paris suffered multiple terrorist bombings.

Everywhere she goes, she films: She films environmental disasters; she films fellow environmentalist teens; she films the corporate rape of the soil, air, water, and people all victimized by corporate executives and their political enablers out to make a buck – or rather billions of bucks.

This Green Geezer urges you to view this film – it's free on Waterbear.com – and jot down the names of Slater Jewell-Kemker's environmentalist friends, many of whom have taken the initiative to do the serious work of drawing attention to and cleaning up the gigantic mess their parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents' generations have left for them. 

I hope you will watch the film, but if you won't, at least google some of the places I've mentioned. Take a gander at the names below – these are people, mostly in their twenties now, who have been activists since they were children. They could use some help.  Pick one (or better, several) and lend a hand – even just share their names and messages on your social pages. Follow them, follow their friends. Go to the events they attend – these young people need you to understand their efforts and to support them. 

Slater Jewell-Kemker – filmmaker, producer, environmentalist – Produced "Youth Unstoppable"

Waterbear.com (distributor of Slater's film, and many, many more documentaries that can help you understand what's really going on with all aspects of the environment and put you in touch with people who you can help make a difference.)

Severn Cullis Suzuki – EnvironmentalChildren.org

Lester Brown – Earth Policy Institute

Abrar Anwar – Bangladeshi Youth Delegate

Daniel T'Seleie – Canadian Youth Climate Coalition

Kyle Gracey – Sustainus Youth Delegation

Christopher Bean – World Student Community for Sustainable Development

Meagan McKeen – Canadian Youth Climate Coalition

Emily Hunter – journalist, climate activist, now working with GreenPeace, which her father co-founded.

Juan Carlos Soriano – Peruvian Youth Delegate

Jeremy Osborn – cofounder – 350.org

Danny Hutley – United Kingdom Youth Climate Coalition

Melina Laboucan – Massimo – Indigenous Environmental Network (Alberta Canada)

Anna Oposa – Youth Activist – Philippines (her village is already being displaced by rising ocean levels).

Kelly Blynn – co-founder – 350.org

Alyssa Medieres – Plant for the Planet

Alina Pokhrel – Nepalese Youth for Climate Action

Iain Keith – Global Campaigner – AVAAZ.org

Ethan Buckner – China – US Youth Climate Exchange

Kandi Mossett – Indigenous Environmental Network

Xab Diaz – 350.org Mexico

Yunesh Raj Shrestha – Lions Club of Biratnagar Young Heart

Julian Velez Alvarez – Earth in Brackets

Xiuhtezcatl Martinez – Youth Director Earth Guardians

Carrie Tebeau – Indigenous Activist (our lands are not for profit)

Jean Michel Cousteau – Channel Island National Marine Sanctuary (Son of Jacques Cousteau) – Slater Jewell-Kemker's inspiration who accepted her invitation to be interviewed (when Slater was 12). She later, as an adult, asked him why he let her, a 12-year-old interview him. He said he wants children to teach their parents about the environment, and that he felt he should 'pass the baton' to the next generation.

Katie Elder – Executive Director Future Coalition