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The gripping untold story of Greenpeace and eco-hero Robert Hunter who, alongside a group of idealistic activists, founded an organisation that would alter how we look at the world and our place within it.
★★★★ “An engrossing tale, told intelligently.” – Time Out London
“… a compelling story of one environmentalist’s remarkable combination of prescience, grit and timing.” – Globe and Mail
In 1971 a small group of young activists set sail from Vancouver, Canada in an old fishing boat. Their mission was to stop Nixon’s atomic bomb tests in Amchitka, a tiny island off the west coast of Alaska. It was from these humble but brave beginnings that Greenpeace was born.
Director Jerry Rothwell chronicles the gripping, untold story of eco-hero Robert Hunter and how he, alongside a group of idealistic activists, would be instrumental in altering the way we look at the world and our place within it. Unfolding like a hippie heist movie-turned-high sea adventure, How to Change the World remains an intimate portrait of the group’s original members and of activism itself. They agreed that a handful of people could change the world; they just couldn’t agree how to do it.