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MARIA DUARTE recommends documentary How to Change the World on Greenpeace’s environmental activism

How to Change the World (15), directed by Jerry Rothwell

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FOR many it may be incredible fathoming how a group of young hippy activists in an old fishing boat in 1971 gave birth to a global environmental movement and its poster child Greenpeace.

Their mission, as they set sail from Vancouver, was to stop the US’s atomic bomb tests in Amchitka, a small island off the west coast of Alaska.

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