As 'This Changes Everything' Debuts in US, Leave Your Climate Despair at the Door

'I can make the case to you that we're fucked,' he says over the phone from New York as he spoke with Common Dreams about his new film, the perils of climate change, the inequities fostered by modern capitalism, and the prospects of humanity's current efforts to make a course correction away from planetary destruction. 'I could say that we should just turn on the TV, take our drug of choice, and just tune it out. I could make that case for you and it would be completely convincing.' But, he then adds, 'What on earth is the point of that?'