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By not identifying the primary structural source of contemporary environmental crises as capitalism, and by providing piecemeal, reform-oriented solutions, eco-opportunist documentaries such as Racing Extinction, This Changes Everything, Chasing Ice, and Chasing Coral might be more inviting to a broader audience and might even overcome some of the problems with films that preached catastrophism, but ultimately these eco-opportunist documentaries understate the crises and provide insufficient solutions to such an extent that they can be something worse than unproductive; they can be counterproductive.
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Truscello, M. (2018). Catastrophism and Its Critics: On the New Genre of Environmentalist Documentary Film. In: jagodzinski, j. (eds) Interrogating the Anthropocene. Palgrave Studies in Educational Futures. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78747-3_11
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