"How To Buy a Country" Film Screening + Discussion

​We talk about the climate crisis as a problem of emissions targets and individual choices. Less often, we ask who actually gets to make the decisions: who owns the resources, who writes the trade deals, and whose interests shape the policies meant to protect our future.

​How To Buy A Country is a four-part documentary series from re•generation, a Canadian nonprofit media organization that uses film and digital storytelling to show how corporate power shapes our economy, politics, and everyday lives. The series traces how Canada’s economic and political relationship with the United States was built, who benefits from it, and how that dependence limits our ability to set our own direction. That includes how we respond to a warming world.

​The Civic Circuit is a UBC student initiative that connects students from every discipline to policy and civic tech. We’re hosting this screening because climate action is a policy problem as much as a scientific one, and understanding where power sits is the first step to changing it.

​Join us for all four episodes (about 50 minutes), followed by a discussion on economic power, sovereignty, and climate. We’ll close with concrete ways to get involved. Open to all students, no background needed.