Symbiotic Earth is a 🏷️#documentary film about 📝Lynn Margulis — a scientific rebel who challenged entrenched theories of 📝evolution to present a new narrative: life evolves through 📝collaboration.
The film explores Margulis' life and ideas as she pushed against a male-dominated scientific establishment. As a young scientist in the 1960s, she was ridiculed when she proposed that symbiosis — when organisms live and work together — was a key driver of evolution. She persisted, and through decades of collaborations, caused a seismic shift in the understanding of life.
Her symbiotic narrative offers an alternative to the destructive worldview that has produced climate crisis and extreme 📝capitalism. With James Lovelock, she developed the 📝Gaia Theory that all life is interconnected and interdependent. The film draws her vision forward into the present, applying it to ongoing environmental and social fractures.