How To Poison a Planet (ATOM Study Guide)

With behind-the-scenes access to the largest litigation involving drinking water in American history, How to Poison a Planet investigates how the use of a product as seemingly harmless as firefighting foam has resulted in the contamination of communities all over the world. Spanning from the heart of New York City to a small First Nations community in Australia taking on its own David and Goliath battle, the film exposes one of the most widespread environmental disasters in human history.

The film features actor and activist Mark Ruffalo, environmental lawyers Rob Bilott and Ned McWilliams, trial lawyers Gary Douglas and Rebecca Newman, investigative journalist Carrie Fellner, and the people of the Wreck Bay Aboriginal Community.

Curriculum Links:

How to Poison a Planet is aimed at secondary school levels 7–10 and can be linked to the following subject areas within the Australian National Curriculum:

• Geography
• Civics and Citizenship
• Design and Technologies
• Health and Physical Education
• English
• Media

It is also relevant to the General Capabilities of

• Personal and Social Capability
• Critical and Creative Thinking
• Ethical Understanding

as well as the Cross-Curriculum Priority of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories Cultures.