Two employees of an American company buy out underground gas rights from farmers

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Steve (John Krasinski) manages to convince the town to turn Global down. Steve, who hasn't really given the process any thought because he needs his job, starts asking himself questions, but not the ones one thinks...

With its plot about the industry lobbying against protecting the environment, this movie by Stephen Soderbergh), by dealing with potentials damages up front. The failure to inform, propaganda, the manipulation of poor people (they are told they'll be able to send their kids to college, saved their mortgaged farms, pay of the car, etc.): everything that can be denounced is covered. Perhaps the movie tries a bit too hard, but it's for a good cause: to stop the pollution of our earth, air and water.