An inconvenient husband – No Impact Man reviewed | Clipped Fresh

No Impact Man reviewed. – By Dana Stevens – Slate Magazine .

FROM THE ARTICLE: Colin Beavan’s self-important solemnity, and the passive-aggressive pleasure he seems to take in depriving others oftheir pleasure, makes reducing your environmental footprint look so unappealing that you want to drive straight to McDonald’s in a Humvee. And yet the film’s refusal to either idealize or ridicule its subject becomes, in the end, the virtue that makes it stick with you. You may find Colin Beavan unbearably smug, but at the heart of his mission lies an inconvenient truth: Our consumable, disposable, unsustainable culture is destroying the planet, and there’s no way to change that without making sacrifices. To prove that point, Beavan is prepared to endure something worse than composting his own waste: He’s willing to risk looking like an ass on-screen.

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