Edward Stanton is the author of eleven books and dozens of articles, essays, and translations published in newspapers, magazines and journals in the U.S., South America, and Europe. His most recent work is an environmental novel, Wide as the Wind (Open Books Press, 2016), for which he carried out ten years of research and travel to Polynesia. His website is here.
What the movie gets wrong is at the story’s heart: not the goddess Te Fiti’s, but the human heart. People, not gods, were the cause of environmental devastation on Pacific[…]