Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret (2014)

Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret is a movie starring Lisa Agabian, Manucher Alemi, and Lindsey Allen. Follow the shocking, yet humorous, journey of an aspiring environmentalist, as he daringly seeks to find the real solution to the most pressing environmental issues and true path to sustainability.

Directors:

Kip Andersen (co-director), Keegan Kuhn (co-director)

Writers:

Kip Andersen (co-writer), Keegan Kuhn (co-writer)

Stars:

Lisa Agabian, Manucher Alemi, Lindsey Allen

Cast

Credited cast:
Lisa Agabian	...	Herself (Sea Shepherd Conservation Society)
Manucher Alemi	...	Himself (Department of Water Resources)
Lindsey Allen	...	Herself (Rainforest Action Network)
Kip Andersen	...	Himself (co-director)
Will Anderson	...	Himself (Greenpeace)
Deniz Bolbol	...	Herself (American Wild Horse)
Heather Cooley	...	Herself (Pacific Institute)
Kamyar Guivetchi	...	Himself (Department of Water Resources)
Bruce Hamilton	...	Himself (Sierra Club)
Susan Hartland	...	Herself (Sea Shepherd Conservation Society)
Michael Klaper	...	Himself (physician)
Howard Lyman	...	Himself
Demosthenes Maratos	...	Himself (Sustainability Institute)
Chad Nelsen	...	Himself (Surfrider Foundation)
Ann Notthoff	...	Herself (Natural Resources Defense Council)

Storyline

The World's largest environmental organizations are failing to address the single most destructive force facing the planet today. Follow the shocking, yet humorous, journey of an aspiring environmentalist, as he daringly seeks to find the real solution to the most pressing environmental issues and true path to sustainability.

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Plot Keywords:

world | water scarcity | forest | greenhouse gas | food | 

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Genres:

Documentary

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Details

Official Sites:

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Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

15 September 2015 (Netherlands)

Also Known As:

Cowspiracy

Company Credits

Technical Specs

Runtime:

85 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Co-director Kip Andersen became obsessed with (saving) the environment after seeing Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth (2006), eventually leading up to this documentary.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Himself (Sierra Club): The world's climate scientists tell us that the highest safe level of emissions would be around 350 ppm of CO2 in the atmosphere. We are already at 400. They tell us that the sort of savest we could hope to do without having perilous implications - as far as drought, famine, human conflict major, species extinction - would be about 2°C increase in temperature. We're rapidly approaching that, and with all the CO2 that's already in the atmosphere we're easily going exceed that. So, ...

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Connections

Featured in Days of Revolt: The Assault of the Animal Agriculture Industry (2016)

User Reviews

Pollution is not directly coming from Humans?

I will keep this comment very short. You Watch this documentary and you don't even have to get to its end, to notice your thoughts about Global Warming and Pollution flipped 180 degrees.

Is just amazing to see what this young man archived with his camera. I've been watching documentaries since the early 90's and i hardly remember something that shocked me so hard like this one. And we thought we knew it all. The Volkswagen Scandal is a baby compared to this one. If you want to see something that will take you out of box, then you definitely shouldn't miss this one.

A MASTER PIECE.

"We must change the world = don't be a COWard!"