The Reluctant Radical | movie | 2018 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

A heartbreaking and heartwarming story of long-time environmentalist and activist Ken Ward. | dG1fSkx3dDg0ckE5N0k

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00:00I was going, hey, wait a minute, the world's in collapse here and we're not doing anything

00:08about it.

00:09And people are like, oh yeah, that's a problem.

00:15And there was a sense of utter disconnected in realities.

00:23Climate change is just dealt with as if it was any other discrete environmental issue.

00:31For years, we said we can solve this if everyone would just put the right light bulbs and buy

00:34a Prius.

00:35What we really needed to be doing was from the very beginning, raising hell.

00:44Eight hours of community service and then they'll dismiss as if they had never been

00:49filed the charges.

00:51In theory, I could just show up and do this every two weeks or so if I wanted.

00:55Go up at 2.30 in the morning thinking, why am I doing this?

01:01Nobody's going to care, nobody's going to notice.

01:06One, two, three, four, five postcard votes.

01:16If you've done all the legal available methods and they don't work, then the only thing that

01:21you have left is to put your body in the way.

01:25I feel a large amount of pride for the stuff my dad does because he saved the world and

01:30all that.

01:33The odds are vanishingly small and you really are basically fucked, but that's no excuse

01:40for not figuring out what to do next.

01:43One man can't do this.

01:47Life is hard for zealots.

01:48Some of my heroes in history were zealots, the suffragettes, the abolitionists.

01:55Makes him hard to love, but it also makes him worth loving, I guess.

02:04He's dedicated, he's articulate, he's passionate, and he's guilty.

02:09I'm now showing Exhibit 18 to the jury.

02:14We need moral clarity, we need sides to be drawn.

02:17Either you're for burning fossil fuels and ending the world, or you're against it.

02:22Which is it?