Trading on Hope

In Indonesia small farmers and plantation owners burn forests to clear land for cash crops—resulting in the highest rate of deforestation in the world. In the documentary The Burning Season, Australia-based filmmaker Cathy Henkel explores one controversial approach—a form of carbon trading—to saving these forests and slowing climate change. Becky Garrison, author of The New Atheist Crusaders and Their Unholy Grail, spoke with Henkel at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival in New York City.

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Sojourners Magazine April 2010
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