It is based on the book This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate by his wife, Naomi Klein.

[4] The film surveys a number of environmental activists around the world: The domestic box office total as of 2020 is $16,692.

It garnered a 56% rating at Rotten Tomatoes, based on 16 reviews.

[7] At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film has received a mixed or average score of 59, based on seven reviews.

[8] Writing for the Los Angeles Times, critic Michael Rechtshaffen wrote: "They may not do enough to alter the climate change film landscape, but Klein and those impassioned protesters provide something that has been in short supply in the predecessors — namely, a modicum of hope for the future.