Wednesday, February 8, 7 p.m.
Winner of three Best Documentary awards and the first film to explore the Rights of Nature movement, “Invisible Hand” focuses on one of the defining battles of our time — where Nature, democracy and capitalism face off – and asks: “Who will speak for Nature?”
In 2014, for the first time in United States history, an ecosystem filed to defend itself in a lawsuit claiming its ‘right to exist' in Grant Township, PA. The 700 inhabitants filed a suit to prevent a permit for a fracked waste water injection well that threatened their drinking water. Both the drilling corporation and the State counter-sued. “Invisible Hand” is a metaphor for how, in a free market economy, capitalists and other self-interested individuals operate to exploit nature for profit, and who loses along the way.
Executive produced by narrated by Mark Ruffalo. 85 minutes. A discussion follows.