Earth Day 2018

“Hippie Food” tracks the story of the food revolution that accompanied the massive cultural shifts of the 1960s and 1970s.

When the films opt to showcase environmental issues without critiquing their root causes, the films become less impactful and more easy to ignore.

The rapid rise and fall of cetacean shows is a testament to film’s ability to popularize an industry and raise ethical questions to the public.

This, of course, begs the question — is it problematic and dangerous for the media to wield so much power over relief efforts?

When it comes to environmentalism, many UC Berkeley professors, students and staff members have reached a consensus: The green movement is too white.

“Hey hey, ho ho, fossil fuels have got to go!” These are the words that a group of roughly 20 student protesters chanted as they toted a makeshift pipeline and marched through campus March 12, advocating for the divestment of UC endowment funds from fossil fuel companies.

Human-caused climate change is a fact — sorry, fake news enthusiasts — and it is causing increasingly costly impacts on everything from human health to ecosystem health. It is increasing inequality, creating situations where the poor do not have the means to respond to higher food, energy or medical costs.

Very rarely do we hear the No. 1 thing that all of these efforts hinge upon, the action that will make or break the planet: building more housing.

Earth Day might have been on Sunday, but The Daily Californian’s Arts & Entertainment staff presents you with enough local events to make up an Earth Week.