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Duty of Care - The Climate Trails (2022)

Documentary | 57 minutes
3,00 2 votes

Genre: Documentary

Duration: 57 minuten

Alternative titles: Duty of Care: Pleiten voor de Planeet / Duty of Care

Country: Belgium

Directed by: Nic Balthazar

Starst: and Roger Cox

IMDb score: 7,1 (37)

Releasedate: 7 September 2022

Duty of Care - The Climate Trails plot

While the alarm bells are being sounded by climate activists and experts all over the world, polluting multinationals and neglectful governments are moving on. Until a Dutch lawyer writes world history with the law as a weapon. In this documentary, Roger Cox takes on Shell and other major players. He is paving the way for a new kind of climate activism.

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So I picked up this documentary as an amuse-bouche at the cinema as a combination with "Wil", the Vaamse WWII film. The interest was very lukewarm. And it also says something that they should promote this documentary by offering it for free as a support act for the main act. It gets annoying when they open the doors for the last fifteen minutes and the audience for the next film seeps in.

I found the documentary itself interesting, but also rather one-sided. There is a lot of attention for activist Roger Cox, the Dutchman who was the first to dare to call the Dutch state to account for the excessively high emissions. Later he does this again against Shell, the company of his parents-in-law, or at least its Dutch branch. What follows is a catalyst in other countries when it appears that the Dutch court considers the Dutch state (jointly) responsible.

That's all well and good, but Shell also had a point by stating that they simply produce what the customer asks for. This was not discussed further. The ordinary consumer is also responsible and must adapt. I also continue to find it unpleasant to what extent all this has a global impact. Green energy is a must, but if countries like China, India or Brazil (to name a few) ignore it, I wonder whether we/they are not too optimistic (which does not mean that we should do nothing).

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