FOSSIL FUEL EXTRACTION:
INDIGENOUS RESISTANCE AND CLIMATE JUSTICE ACROSS THE AMERICAS
The extraction, transport, refinement, and burning of fossil fuels has extensive environmental costs, especially to marginalized communities. Petroleum pipelines inevitably leak and contaminate water and soils. The location of fossil fuel refineries in or near low income and disproportionately Black and Brown residential areas results in health effects ranging from childhood asthma to increased rates of cancer. And of course, the climate crisis has been precipitated by burning of fossil fuels for the sake of modern industry, electricity, and transportation. All of these issues come into play in the documentaries below, but the fight to protect water sources and seek climate justice is the common thread that ties together Indigenous communities and their allies across the Americas.