This was an excellent picture about the problems of sustainable development in a world filled with poverty and despair. Unlike many documentaries, it is filled with humor, drama and thought provoking vignettes. The movie is delivered in "Michael Moore" style as you follow the "Camera Guys" as they try to discover who the bad guys are that are destroying the Ecuadorian rain forests. But, unlike Michael Moore, the movie is not pompous, acidic, cruel or demeaning. By the end of the movie you have a very good understanding of why Northern (USA, Europe, etc) activists have such little luck in saving our planet. You also have a very good idea of where the biggest problem lies: our tremendous and un-satiated appetite for wealth and cheap oil.
Bill Day & Terry Schwartz are talented filmmakers who know how to tell a complicated story with simplicity and emotion. The rain forests won't be saved by some do-gooders putting a fence around it and keeping people out There are already millions of people living in the Amazon river shed and they need to survive. It is the horrendous poverty that drives them to cut and burn - for their mere survival- the rain forests that provide us with oxygen, and diversity, and a hope for human longevity on earth. Chris, Lucinda & Doug of the Ecological Trading Company provide a glimpse of real people who not only understand the dilemma, but are doing something about it. Producer Richard Hahnen brings a story we all need to know to life. This movie should be required watching for every high school or college student who says they want to do something to save the environment.