The Ants and The Grasshopper

Director

Raj Patel and Zak Piper

Location

United States

Runtime

1 hour and 14 minutes

Genre

Documentary

Synopsis

Anita Chitaya has a gift; she can help bring abundant food from dead soil, she can make men fight for gender equality, and she can end child hunger in her village. Now, to save her home from extreme weather, she faces her greatest challenge: persuading Americans that climate change is real. Traveling from Malawi to California to the White House, she meets climate skeptics and despairing farmers. Her journey takes her across all the divisions shaping the US, from the rural-urban divide, to schisms of race, class and gender, to the thinking that allows Americans to believe we live on a different planet from everyone else. It will take all her skill and experience to persuade us that we’re all in this together.

Showtimes

  • Driftless Yoga Center, Saturday 1:00 pm -Global Perspectives on Climate Activism panel directly after