Seeking to understand attitudes of Ecuador's citizens toward the environment, Professor Todd Eisenstadt (SPA) and SUNY Geneseo Professor Karleen Jones West, pursued a three-year journey to finnd out how and why attitudes vary so greatly, especially among the people of the Amazon. Award-winning AU environmental filmmaker Associate Professor Larry Engel joined them in 2017, capturing part of the discussion on film. Join Eisenstadt and Engel for a

screening and discussion of the documentary about the new book, "Who Speaks for Nature? Indigenous Movements, Public Opinion, and the Petro-State in Ecuador" (forthcoming in 2019). The book finds that in areas of high environmental damage from oil spills, abstract citizen concern for the environment is superseded by immediate concerns like public health, subsistence, and migration. The book and documentary consider the implications of these Findings for

environmental activism. The event will also feature Luis Felipe Duchicela, consultant on indigenous peoples rights and sustainable development, former World Bank global adviser on indigenous peoples and former Minister of Indigenous Peoples’ Affairs, government of Ecuador.