Two Movies to Add to Your Binging List

Two Movies to Add to Your Binging List 

By Naomi Yaeger

Earthkeeper UMC

Two new movies premiered in April on Earth Day, April 22. One was

The Story of Plastic, which is now showing on the Discovery Network. The other film released on YouTube is Planet of the Humans.

My daughter, Rebecca Bischoff, made arrangements for members of the First United Methodist Church, AKA "Coppertop" to see a screening of The Story of Plastic. I sent a link out to about 35 people. 

One person replied, “I’ve already seen this, and I’m cutting back on my use of plastics.” 

The point of the movie wasn’t that you, the individual, need to quit using plastic, as much as it is about the plastics industry is planning to ramp up their production of plastic. It’s touted as the movie, “Big Plastic hopes you won’t see.”

the plastics industry is planning to ramp up their production of plastic. It’s touted as the movie, “Big Plastic hopes you won’t see.”

They’d rather blame you as a litterbug, then take responsibility for producing even more plastic and selling it to industry as the container of choice. The other film, Planet of the Humans, is free on YouTube. I found it very depressing, so make sure you have something uplifting to do after the movie. To me, the only answer to save our planet after watching this was to curtail our population severely; or our standard of living, or how we make, buy and package things.

Also, on March 18, 2020, right as many were being urged to stay-at-home. Big Plastics wrote to Alex Azar US Department of Health and Human Services, encouraging them to tout the glories of single-use plastic. (And there is a peer-reviewed study that says plastic isn’t any safer)

I know you’ve been watching a lot of TV or binge-watching, so I’m adding these two movies to your list:

The Story of Plastic

Planet of the Humans.