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The Cost of Growth connects local struggles against extractivism in Serbia, Italy and Sapmi with broader debates on justice, democracy, and war. It shows how people across Europe are not only resisting false solutions, but also building alternatives - from grassroots organising to new forms of cooperation and solidarity.
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00:00We're making a documentary about our journeys as climate activists and the wider search also of the climate movement.
00:07What is your analysis about the current state of the climate crisis and the political reaction to it?
00:13Has anything happened? Have things improved? Where are we standing now?
00:17You can really take the time.
00:28The European Green Deal will be our growth strategy.
00:32We are basically begging institutions to do their work. This is forbidden to them.
00:37What can we expect from them when they're proposing to open a mine?
00:40One day we shut down the factory, but they have decided it years and years before.
00:45They used this loophole to start building turbines on Sami gracing areas. This is a huge land grab.
00:51You might as well bomb our islands instead of making us suffer only to witness our slow and fateful demise.
01:04People in the majority world go through genocide and the rest of the world doesn't care after a while.
01:17Who are we growing this economy for? And what is the cost for humanity?
01:30We live in a shadow of the world that we could have.
01:34Well, I mean, oh my god, where the fuck do I start?
01:37Well, I think of the fact that it will be grows is not everywhere.
01:45Like I said, Life of Dr. Libert will clearlyfit

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