Environmental Change Workshop — Film Screening: The Final Straw by Patrick Lyndon and Suhee Kang

During the process of making this film, the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization released a report which made clear to the world that we only have 60 years of farming left if we continue our ecologically destructive ways of growing food. Issues of social and economic inequality, resource depletion, and a changing climate that threatens our very existence, and the path forward seems daunting at the least.

So where do we go from here? Solutions for our most pressing social and ecological issues come from unexpected places on a meditative and artfully-executed journey through Japan, South Korea, and the United States. Armed with a camera and determination, the film's directors turn our perceptions of food and life upside down in an amazingly simple and poetic way.

More info: https://www.finalstraw.org/the-documentary/

After the screening, we will have a casual discussion using the movie themes and the brief supplementary reading below (“Cheap Food” in A History of the World in 7 Cheap Things, Raj Patel and Jason Moore).