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What You Won't Do For Love

A Conversation

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What if we could love the planet as much as we love one another?

"Warm, wise, and overflowing with generosity, this is a love story so epic it embraces all of creation. Yet another reminder of how blessed we are to be in the struggle with elders like David and Tara." – Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis

What You Won't Do for Love is an inspiring conversation about love and the environment. When artist Miriam Fernandes approaches the legendary eco-pioneer David Suzuki to create a theatre piece about climate change, she expects to write about David's perspective as a scientist. Instead, she discovers the boundless vision and efforts of Tara Cullis, a literature scholar, climate organizer, and David's life partner. Miriam realizes that David and Tara's decades-long love for each other, and for family and friends, has only clarified and strengthened their resolve to fight for the planet.

What You Won't Do for Love transforms real-life conversations between David, Tara, Miriam, and her husband Sturla into a charmingly novel and poetic work. Over one idyllic day in British Columbia, Miriam and Sturla take in a lifetime of David and Tara's adventures, inspiration, and love, and in turn reflect on their own relationships to each other and the planet. Revealing David Suzuki and Tara Cullis in an affable, conversational, and often comedic light, What You Won't Do For Love asks if we can love our planet the same way we love one another.

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      August 8, 2022
      Suzuki and Tara Cullis, married cofounders of the David Suzuki Foundation, join with directors Miriam Fernandes and Ravi Jain for this pensive exploration of the climate crisis. The authors frame the work as a play—one that prizes the contributors’ thoughts on the changing climate over plot. Recounting past activism in Brazil and elsewhere, the cast acknowledges that “thirty years ago we stopped some logging, stopped some oil wells, stopped some dams. And today we are fighting the very same battles we thought we had won.” They emphasize the importance of recognizing the interconnectedness of people and nature and embracing “what Indigenous people have known for thousands of years, which is that we have a spiritual connection, a sacred relationship” to the earth. Despite some cliches (“We forget how much power and influence we actually have... and the difference we can actually make”), this is admirable for its creative approach in a sea of books on the topic. Readers interested in the intersections of art and activism will want to give this a look.

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      September 1, 2022
      Contemplating the perilous state of the environment can stir up emotions, but love would not be the first to come to mind. Rage, yes, and frustration, certainly, yet for artist-actor-director Miriam Fernandes, love was precisely the feeling she hoped to capture when she envisioned writing and producing a play based on interviews with renowned environmentalist David Suzuki. What began as a one-on-one profile quickly morphed into a four-way conversation that included Suzuki's life partner, the literature scholar and activist Tara Cullis, and Fernandes' husband and fellow actor, Sturla. United by their concern for the environment and disappointed by the failure of the existential threat of climate change to galvanize the global imagination, the couples built upon this foundation by demonstrating how their activist commitment is fortified by their personal relationships with spouses, family, and friends. Given the COVID-19 pandemic, the medium shifted from stage to film, which allowed for a wide-ranging intimacy Fernandes hadn't anticipated, but which is delightfully transcribed in this crystalline gem that is enhanced by interludes of evocative poetry and serene nature photography.

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