‘Climate change is a form of oppression’: the voices affected most by environmental crisis

‘The opposition’s whole point is to make us depressed, fragmented, defeated – we have to draw on the power and the strength that we have’ … The Welcome Table. Photograph: HBO Max

In an age of division, director Josh Fox is hoping to bring people of all kinds together. Specifically, he wants them to share a table – to break bread for a meal, and come together in exuberant song.

In his new documentary film The Welcome Table, the director of the the Emmy-winning Gasland travels around the world to talk to people at the leading edge of global warming’s effects. The film is part stark warning of the climate crisis, part opportunity to enter into the experience of those living in the corners of the globe. It culminates with the sounds of these individuals together at an enormous table in New Orleans, eating and rejoicing.