Canadian journalists Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis traveled the world filming This Changes Everything, (we’ve featured the trailer, below,) the film adaptation of Klein’s book of the same name. They visited the site of one of hundreds of coal power plants proposed for India, met with anti-austerity protesters in Greece, and captured a solar-power boom in China. But when the Straight asked Lewis for his favorite example of a hero in the fight against climate change, he suggested someone closer to home. “Crystal Lameman,” Lewis declared in a phone interview. “She is just one of this generation of kickass young indigenous leaders.” The film follows the member of the Beaver Lake Cree Nation as she contributes to a unique fight against the Alberta tar sands: a legal challenge arguing that developments, measured cumulatively, constitute an infringement on First Nations people’s constitutional guarantee to a traditional lifestyle. “She is on the front lines of the fossil-fuel frenzy,” Lewis said. In her narration of the film, Klein explains how those boundaries are shifting. “I remembered a phrase debated by the U.S. government in the 1970s,” she says. “It was suggested that some places may have to be ‘sacrifice areas’. If we’re going […]