What does our energy really cost? Hollywood actor and activist Martin Sheen takes us on a global journey tying together stories of despair and hope. In this feature length documentary film we meet people from all over the world who pay the real price for our insatiable hunger for energy. At the same time we show that there are alternative, sustainable ways to produce the world’s energy needs without having to destroy the planet we walk on.
Five Protagonists from five places, as well as visionaries Kumi Naidoo, Bertrand Piccard, Daniel Nocera.
Scientists are warning us that the state of our planet is more urgent than we had previously thought. Why is it that large-scale catastrophes such as Hurricane Sandy, Fukushima, the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico, the Exxon Valdez and Prestige oil spills, and Chernobyl, provoke public outcry, yet we just as quickly return to business as usual? We have international climate conferences but nothing changes either.
When you come home after work and with on the lights and your TV, have you ever thought about where our electricity comes from? Have you ever stopped to think what is under our feet? Below the reach of our naked eyes lie the substances which power our civilization.
