Film Discussion: “Juice: How Electricity Explains the World”

Sunday, May 23, noon

Join the Environmental Justice Team for a discussion of the film “Juice: How Electricity Explains the World” (2020) on Sunday, May 23, at noon. The film is 80 minutes long. You can watch a trailer of the film here.

Juice takes viewers to Beirut, Reykjavik, Kolkata, San Juan, Manhattan, and Boulder to tell the human story of electricity and to explain why power equals power.

The defining inequality in the world today is the disparity between the electricity rich and the electricity poor. In fact, there are more than 3 billion people on the planet today who are using less electricity than what’s used by an average American refrigerator.

Electricity is the world’s most important and fastest-growing form of energy. To illuminate its importance, the Juice team traveled 60,000 miles to gather 40 on-camera interviews with people from seven countries on five continents. Juice shows how electricity explains everything from women’s rights and climate change to Bitcoin mining and indoor marijuana production. The punchline of the film is simple: darkness kills human potential. Electricity nourishes it.

View film before May 23 with Youtube Movies for $3.99 (or for free if you have an Amazon Prime account. Register for the May 23 discussion here.