As Catching the Sun documentary opens Melbourne environmental film festival, its director calls solar ‘the foremost economic opportunity of our time’
There are many ways to frame a documentary about solar power; many ways to go about extolling the virtues of clean energy. The most obvious would be to pursue the following line: hit hard by the effects of climate change, the world can save itself by building a sustainable future in renewable technology.
It’s also a message that falls squarely in the tell-us-something-we-don’t-know box.
“You can’t talk in a neighbourhood like this about saving the polar bear. They’re not gonna feel ya.”
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